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Originally Posted by Mormon Red Death
what would it take for you to accept the Book of Mormon on the same level you accept the bible?
a carving like your avatar with the detail of Lehi's dream?
How about fair skin indigineous people?
Some ancient hebrew inscribed on a wall?
you seeing the golden plates?
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Comparing the Book of Mormon and the Bible is completely inapt. It's like saying what will it take to convince yoi that the lady Utes basketball team should play in the NFL Super Bowl. The Bible is a chronicle with a paper trail going back thousands of years. Its protagonists are the lineal and culteral ancestors of the people who wrote and edited the book and and still compromize a people sufficiently monolithic to havw established their own nation state through warfare. The Bible was the means by which not only Hebrews but also numerous Mediterranean and European peoples acquired a sophisticated written language.I think an apples to apples comparison would be comparing the Mormon chronicles of Nauvoo, the westward trek, this is the place, etc to the Bible, even then it's like comparing a redwood to a little green shoot.
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Last edited by SeattleUte; 06-05-2008 at 03:49 PM.
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