Show Your Shelf https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html Home Privacy What is a good alternative explanation for the Book of Mormon that accounts for all the evidence? Why are there Hebraic conditionals (if/and) in the Book of Mormon? Where would Joseph Smith find time to maintain a chronological order of events in different parts of the book, such as Mormon’s letter to Moroni? How would Joseph Smith not make the mistake of saying the priests fasted on the day that Alma was struck dumb? Would we expect Joseph Smith to maintain a mathematically consistent chronology throughout the Book of Mormon? How do we account for all the other attested names in the Book of Mormon (which are not found in the Bible)? If Joseph Smith wrote the Book of Mormon himself, why would he make it so structurally complex? How could Joseph Smith have quoted each of the farewell speeches from the small plates in Moroni’s “verbal curtain call”? How could Joseph Smith correctly give the meaning of “Shinehah” in Abraham 3:13 (a word that applied during a narrow span of about 6 centuries comprising the likely time of Abraham’s life)? How do we account for the miracles experienced or performed by the early Saints Where would Joseph Smith have learned about the god Korash? How would Joseph Smith know that Abraham experienced two famines during his life and not just one? If Joseph Smith had gotten names in the Book of Abraham from his environment, then why would he choose the name Shulem rather than Shillem? Where would Joseph Smith have found out that the book Enoch kept put fear into the people? Wouldn’t Joseph Smith bolster his case for the authenticity of the book of Moses by including the relevant verses about Enoch from Jude (which quote from 1 Enoch)? How could Joseph Smith manage to write the fourth most influential book in America? Why would Joseph Smith take a chance on mentioning the “great spirit” if it was believed to be anachronistic? Wouldn’t Joseph Smith mistakenly mention diamonds, rubies, and pearls when referring to “precious stones”? Why does the Book of Mormon pay attention to small details such as descriptions of highways being “cast up”? How could Joseph Smith guess that covenants between God and man existed among ancient Mesoamerican Indians when in the conventional Christianity of Joseph’s day, the importance of covenants was very much downplayed if not absent altogether? How could Joseph Smith manage to hit the bullseye with the city of “Lamanai”? If Joseph Smith took the time to deliberately include potentially over 430 instances of chiasmus in the Book of Mormon (30 of which are at least 6 levels deep), why wouldn’t he ensure that someone noticed them? How could Joseph Smith manage to dictate chiasmus as part of a historical summary? How would Joseph Smith know about alternate parallelisms? How could Joseph Smith dictate regular repetition throughout the Book of Mormon? How could Joseph Smith manage to dictate contrasting ideas parallelisms in the Book of Mormon? How come the Book of Mormon doesn’t commit a blunder when referring to thieves and robbers? How could Joseph Smith manage to use biblical content with such sophistication such as Isaiah and Micah in 3 Nephi? How would Joseph Smith manage to only speak of the Lord’s “arm(s)” of mercy? How could Joseph Smith manage to seamlessly use the symbolic number 10 while dictating? How could Joseph Smith manage to avoid creating a name phonoprint, yet J.R.R. Tolkien couldn’t? How would Joseph Smith know about the phrase “for the multitude”? If Joseph Smith wrote the Book of Mormon himself, why would he use the “plural was”? Why doesn’t the Book of Mormon include “Ariel” when quoting Isaiah 29:7? How could Joseph Smith consistently describe going “up” while moving toward Jerusalem, and going “down” while moving away from Jerusalem (exactly as the Hebrews and Egyptians did)? How could Joseph Smith appropriately make use of the phrase “and behold” in the Book of Mormon? Where would Joseph Smith learn how to create a wordplay on the name “Shilom”? How could Joseph Smith manage to create a wordplay on the word “law”? Where would Joseph Smith learn how to create a wordplay on the words “joy” and “boasting”? Why would Joseph Smith use “Alma” as a male name in the Book of Mormon when it is traditionally female? Unless Joseph Smith was a “religious genius”, how could he include attested Egyptian names in the Book of Mormon? If Joseph Smith wrote the Book of Mormon, wouldn’t we expect some characters to have surnames? How would Joseph Smith know there were many prophets in Jerusalem when Lehi was preaching? Where would Joseph Smith have learned about the names, relative amounts and functions of ancient weights and measurements? How could Joseph Smith subtly use white/light so consistently and in line with ancient tradition? How could Joseph Smith get the types of ancient Israelite sacrifice and offerings correct? How could Joseph Smith manage to create three accounts of Alma’s conversion which are consistent with their having been written by a single individual, but in different settings and at different stages of his life? How could Joseph Smith maintain consistency while dictating the Book of Mormon when using multiple calendar systems?