pt 1, New World evidence for The Book of Mormon

Book of Mormon and Mesoamerican scholar Brant Gardner, discusses New World evidences for The Book of Mormon. There are several convergences of evidence which point to the authenticity of The Book of Mormon

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[spidermaniam]

I'm excited to hear the rest of the parts of this. I find mesoamerican archeology very interesting, and am excited to hear about Book of Mormon evidences you have found or verified.

[fairldsorg]

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[explorelds]

To shut the critics up, FAIR should look to collaborate more with scholars outside the faith, and extend it's peer review to them as much as possible.

[leeuniverse]

I never have agreed with his view on Quetzalcoatl. Reason being is because no one is saying that he "is" the BOM great white god, only that there are corollaries, that the BOM story & the Quetzalcoatl story have mixed together through cultures, history, etc. Same why the existence of Creation Myths before Genesis was written doesn't mean the Genesis story is actually made up, false, or a repeating of the other myths. The story existed from the beginning, just changed over time & culture.

[Zeno1217]

@macaghobhain Indeed, your correct. Location and Geography, as I understand it now, is merely a pixel on the entire picture of a religion and it's scriptures. Thanks to my understanding of that (And the logic of a divine being in general), I'm now an athiest.

[Zeno1217]

@macaghobhain Since my last commit, I have lost my religious faith. But as I said, the Bible's locations are accurate. The Book of Mormon's events may have indeed happened. Joseph Smith may have been a prophet. Logically, it's unlikely that either is true, and to assume on faith alone or geography alone is rather silly. There is a base on "Area 51", but I doubt aliens visit it. I'd love to believe in both or either texts...but to do so on faith alone, I'm afraid, seems ridiculous to me.

[macaghobhain]

@davidmcaba That's kind of my point. People (read @Zeno1217) try to claim that the fact we know a few locations where Bible events took place proves the Bible is true, then try to condemn the Book of Mormon because we don't have any definite New World locations. I am trying to demonstrate that knowing a location is poor evidence that a given event occurred there as well as exposing the double standard.

[davidmcaba]

@macaghobhain I can show you many locations where people claim to have been abducted by UFOs and bodily probed. Should I believe them?

[macaghobhain]

@Zeno1217 I can show you where Joseph Smith received his first vision, where the Angel Moroni visited him in his parents' home, the place in the Kirtland temple where he and Sidney Rigdon saw the vision that led to D&C 76, the cell in Liberty Jail where he received several revelations, etc. Do you find that of evidential value concerning the reality of those visions?

[satyrisisxxx]

i was always interested in the history of the americas .a long time ago i was watching a very old documentary about some explorers traveling deep in the peruvian jungle, and they found this tribe practicly isolated from the modern world and one of the explorers asked the chief of the tribe, a very old man,"in what do you believe, what is your religion"and his aswer was"our god once came to visit us ,did wonderful things then he went back to heaven and promised us that 1 day he will return"

[theonlyEYEBROWKING]

I only believe in reading the Bible and so should you. i use to be mormon they are good people but according to Galations chapter 1 God revealed to me it was time to go. Mormonism is another Gospel not the One preached. Joseph Smith at the church i was going to got all the Glory instead of Jesus. No Church is perfect but with them they want you to study the Book of Mormon,Doctrine and Covenant and the Pearly Gates. At that church the Bible was bearly spoked about.

[pilottim79]

Well, that being said no one can prove that Christ even lived of existed. The Bible and BoM both need faith to really believe in them. Neither will ever be "prooven" as this is God's design. Otherwise we wouldn't need faith.

[Zeno1217]

On the Book of Mormon, the miracles, the appearance of Christ, and some other things MUST be based on faith, just like in the Bible. However, we at least know that in the Bible, there is a Megido, or a River Jordan, or a City of David. I read the BoM, and really want to believe in it, and wish there was physical evidence to prove it, but as of now, theres barely a shred compared to the Bible (Physical Evidence speaking).