Re: [TruthTalk] A 'prooftexter' vs a 'contexter'

[Blainerb473]

In a message dated 7/26/2005 8:47:54 P.M. Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Blaine, I had posed a few questions to you regarding the bom, and I fear you got sidetracked by Kevin's posts...lets try again, if you will... Most books, fiction and non-fiction, have internal consistency. But, they are typically written by a single author, so internal consistency is not remarkable in such books. The Bible was written by many authors over thousands of years, and shows internal consistency across author as well as time periods. 1. How many authors wrote the bom over how many years? 2. Is there consistency between the various authors of the bom? The Bible has hundreds if not thousands of external consitencies. 3. What external consistencies does the bom show? Perry Perry, Sorry, yes, you are right, I got sidetracked by Kevin's antiquated anti-Mormon perspective stuff which for the most part, nobody in the Mormon Church believes or worries about.   Oh, yeah, your questions--well, the BoM first of all is a very complex book.  It is a  translation of a set of plates written by two men--Mormon, and his son, Moroni.  This set of plates, referred to as the Gold Plates, is a digest of other plates which these two men had access to, called the Large Plates of Nephi and the Small Plates of Nephi, plus other plates that showed up along the time period the BoM covers, which basically began when the Jaredites left the Tower of Babel, crossed the ocean in barges, and arrived in the Americas.  Much later, around 600 BC, another group led by Lehi and his son Nephi left Jerusalem and disembarked off the coast of Arabia in a ship, and arrived somewhere off the coast of Middle America.    About the same time, the Jaredites for the most part succeeded in wiping themselves off the face of the land.  Uh, sorry perry, I have to go now, but will post this and get back to it later.  Meantime, stay tuned.  Thanks for you civil questions. Blainerb