08-05-2009, 03:54 PM | #11 |
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It's not been proven that modern Native Americans have no Israelite blood.
On the other hand, there is absolutely not a shred of evidence that they have any Israelite blood. In other words, the sum archaeological and genetic evidence do not provide much support for the Book of Mormon as history. The evidence, as it were, for the historicity of the BoM is in the margins. The church really could use some good news on this front, just to keep in the game. |
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you could say that about anything that ever could be found. You can't use history to back up any religious beliefs or miracles from the Bible either. There are plenty of skeptics, atheists and agnostics willing to back me up on that statement. It will always come back to faith. Maybe you can show some of the places mentioned in the Bible existed, but not much more than that. And you can't even show that for many or most of them. Heck, there is no mention of Moses anywhere in Egypt. Seems a little odd you can't prove the central character in all of Jewish history even existed, much less was actually ever in the vicinity of the location where the central event for that major ancient religion and culture was established (Sinai and the giving of the Law). So whatever does come out in Arabia or on this continent, how would you really ever be able to prove anything about the BofM anyway? You can't even prove the Bible by the standard the skeptics want.
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BoM is much more contemporary than Moses. Is there a controversy over whether David existed or Isaiah existed?
Is there a debate over whether the OT origins are at least 2000 years? The BoM predicts large civilizations, but the civilizations to date do not demonstrate Christian worship. Now maybe there will be discoveries in the Amazon basin that will change everything... |
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But that was a McConkie addition in the early eighties, not in the original IIRC.
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