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Originally Posted by ChinoCoug
Here you go Tex, here's an anti-Mormon argument. Let's see how well your theory answers. Best wishes.
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I don't want to be dragged into this particular argument. I will say though that I actually heard one of the hardest of the hardcore apologists at FARMS say in response to this point, "Well, I think Joseph probably had the Isaiah passages memorized and that could explain the verbatim agreements." I'm not arguing against that [though IMO it can't explain the departures from KJV *only* at italicized places], but I'm just pointing out that there is really no response from the apologists other than to say that Joseph's copying was from memory, and therefore more involuntary than voluntary. That brings Joseph through the issue looking the best, anyway.