Part 1 Affirming the Book of Mormon Narrative

Discussing the Book of Mormon as narrative is a most rewarding way to read it!

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Book of Mormon
• narrative
• Nephi
• Mormon
• Mormons
• Mormonism
• Moroni
• history
• scriptures

[paulandlesson]

Today I found your videos on chess. As I looked further I obviously found your LDS views. Growing up I had 2 close friends. One was a Mormon, so I have always followed research in that field. I am am a 44 year old retired professor. I say this because things I research I do according to what academics would call rational. I have a solid base in Judeo-Christian, beliefs/history etc. The past several years, I have focused on the 2 American religions. Mormonism and Scientology

[TheBackyardProfessor]

@paulandlesson

Ah, I would enjoy very much having some discussions and learning with you....... I haven't given up on Chess, I just find so darn much I want to explore in so many other areas also....ayiyi...... I can't specialize in anything, and I can't learn as much as I want to about everything that interests me..... talk about a dilemma for life - GRIN!

[clearpathtofollw]

@TheSkepticChristian No offense dude, because I'm a mormon too, but you argue and debate way too much. No one is going to be right or wrong, and no one's mind is getting changes. Let it go.

[TheSkepticChristian]

@IExposeMormonism What a straw man, but I will give you the definition of a coin -

"a flat disc or piece of metal with an official stamp, used as money" (Oxford Dictionaries)

BofM does not mention flat disc or a stamp metal, therefore it's not a coin. By your logic, every piece of metal is a coin. The definition says nothing about wages, ect.

Can't pieces of metal be used as money?? Or have value??

Anyways, of course we have found pieces of metal near Cumorah, in MesoAmerica.

You failed

[IExposeMormonism]

@TheSkepticChristian Oh, so now Cumorah is somewhere is SA? Why are the city name is the Eastern USA and not SA? No money, or whatever you wish to obfuscate the definition of "coin" with, will be found in Cumorah NY nor SA. Just dig up the First Cumorah. I have 6 editions of the BofM and 4 show coins and money in index, chapter. All the definitions of what money is and how it was used then and now are defined in Alma:: Wights, money, value, ratios of values between metals.

[Dalessiokiller]

@TheSkepticChristian You have patience my friend.

[TheSkepticChristian]

@TheBackyardProfessor Wow, I can't believe some people can't understand anything I tell them.

[TheSkepticChristian]

and not a flat disc

[TheSkepticChristian]

@IExposeMormonism Do research in any academic source.

BofM is consistent with the MesoAmerican proto-currency sytem, during that time period. BofM never mentions coins, they were pieces of metal, which is the equivalent to a coin, but without a stamp. IT'S JUST THAT SIMPLE.

"From Primitive and Ancient Money to the Invention of Coinage 3,000-600 BC"

Davies, Glyn. A History of money from ancient times to the present day, 3rd. ed. Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2002

[IExposeMormonism]

@TheSkepticChristian So, basically, the BofM is incorrect when it uses all the words I quoted. And all those many years of BofM describing money, wages, etc all were in error. I then must be wrong..I was quoting BofM and those Mormons, part of the True Restoration, who sought diligently to prove all in the BofM true. You seem to be saying the BofM isn't true! You must be a New Age Mormon!

[TheSkepticChristian]

@IExposeMormonism

People used pieces of metal of given weights as a kind of proto-currency. I cited a Paper from Guatemala university, to prove that the there was proto-monetary system in MesoAmerica, during BofM times.

Another Example:

" people of Mesopotamia began using ingots of precious metals in exchange for goods...people called the uniform weights of gold and silver minas, shekels"

The history of money: from sandstone to cyberspace By J. McIver Weatherford