Translation
-
Series: Leaving the Church - Eric NelsonLeaving the Church, Part 2 — Book of Abraham
1. Background Perhaps the most problematic issue undermining the Church is the Book of Abraham. In July of 1835, a traveling showman named Michael Chandler brought an exhibit consisting of four Egyptian…
-
Unexpected Results
Three weeks ago, I was a true believer. I wasn’t the best at church attendance, but I would look forward to the days I could go and I would sit, rapt and…
-
Factual Claims
The Church makes many specific claims about matters of history (both its own, and that of other peoples), the migration of people from one continent to another, the translation of ancient documents,…
-
Series: My Search for Truth - Wes TOther translations by Joseph Smith, Jr
I had previously been able to convince myself that the reason we don’t have the gold plates is because Joseph Smith, Jr would have been hunted to an even earlier death if…
-
Series: My Search for Truth - Wes TBook of Abraham: Facsimile 3
Facsimile 3 is described by Joseph Smith as “Abraham sitting upon Pharaoh’s throne, by the politeness of the king, with a crown upon his head, representing the Priesthood, as emblematical of the grand…
-
Series: My Search for Truth - Wes TBook of Abraham: Facsimile 2
Facsimile 2 is actually a representation of a “hypocephalus”. Egyptians would put these under the head of mummies, like a pillow. Here are lots of real hypocephali as they are in abundance:…
-
Series: My Search for Truth - Wes TBook of Abraham: Facsimile 1
This is Facsimile 1, located at the front of the Book of Abraham in the Pearl of Great Price. Joseph Smith described this scene as “The idolatrous priest of Elkenah attempting to…
-
Series: My Search for Truth - Wes TBook of Abraham
The majority of members don’t know where the Book of Abraham (found in the Pearl of Great Price) comes from. Here is a brief history from Wikipedia: Several papyri and eleven mummies…
-
Series: My Search for Truth - Wes TBook of Mormon Issue 6+: Everything else
Quoted Isaiah Scriptures Scholars divide the book of Isaiah into three parts. There is very little disagreement about this fact. Here are the three parts and when they were written: Chapters 1…
-
Series: My Search for Truth - Wes TBook of Mormon Issue 5: Hebrew DNA
I will go into this in more depth at some time, but until just recently (2006), the introduction page in the Book of Mormon said all of the people chronicled in the…
-
Series: My Search for Truth - Wes TBook of Mormon Issue 4: Language
The text of the Book of Mormon indicates that the peoples within the narrative took great care to preserve their language from evolving or fracturing into different dialects. They wrote in Reformed…
-
Series: My Search for Truth - Wes TBook of Mormon Issue 3: Technology
We already discussed the chariots which I think is a huge problem. Several additional technology advances are completely out of place. I’ll go through these more briefly than the previous sections, but…