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Originally Posted by Solon
I share this with the board not to build or destroy faith - faith is for the other category IMO - but to show that apologists have a long way to go before they'll convince me of BoM historicity with anachronistic arguments that cite Greco-Roman heritage as evidence of BoM practices. Testimonies of the book based on faith, spiritual witness, etc. are outside of this discussion; Archaeology and ancient comparanda . . . not so much.
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It's obvious that God didn't want people to be able to verify the historicity of the Book of Mormon.
He took the plates back from Joseph Smith when the translation was done. Very few people saw the plates.
He sealed up the plates from translation that contained more of the history (wars, kings, affairs of the people etc.) of the Nephites/Lamanites which might be used to correlate with the New World.
And so on and so forth.
So I agree that it's a useless task trying to authenticate the historicity of the Book of Mormon. God rigged it.