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Ten
questions for Latter-Day Saints (Mormons)
We would be interested in a response to
these questions from any member of the "Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter-Day Saints" (commonly known as Mormons).
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- Why does the Book of Mormon say
Jesus would be born in Jerusalem (Alma 7:10) when the Bible says
he was born in Bethlehem (Matthew 2:1)?
- Why does the Book or Mormon copy
sections from the King James Version of the Bible including
translation errors? For example, 2 Nephi 13:17-26 is identical
with Isaiah 3:17-26 (except for the italicized words). Yet, recent
Hebrew scholarship has shown that the KJV is defective in these
verses.
- How can the Book of Mormon be dated
before AD 421, yet contain extensive quotations from the King
James Version of the Bible (including translation errors) which
was not produced until AD 1611?
- How is it that modern Egyptologists
have discovered copies of the Book of Abraham (in 1966) and have
identified it as coming from ancient pagan funerary texts like the
Book of the Dead? Furthermore, why does not one of Joseph Smith's
"translations" comes even close to being right?
- How do you explain the claims of
Solomon Spaulding, who says he wrote a fictional novel called
Manuscript Lost about the early history of America, and that the
novel was stolen, adapted, and later published as the Book of
Mormon? Furthermore, seven witnesses produced signed statements
claiming they had seen drafts of Spaulding's novel before the Book
of Mormon was first published.
- Why are there no non-Mormon
archaeologists who accept the migration from Israel to America, or
the large-scale wars such as that alleged near Hill Cumorah in AD
385 (Mormon 6:9-15)?
- Why is there so much archaeological
evidence for the Bible, yet none for historical accounts in the
Book of Mormon?
- How could Joseph Smith be a true
prophet when he prophesied that the United States government would
be overthrown in the 1800s? (History of the Church of Jesus Christ
of Latter-Day Saints, Deseret Book Company: Salt Lake City, Utah,
1973. 5:394.)
- How could Brigham Young be a true
prophet when he said that the moon and the sun were both
inhabited? (Journal of Discourses, 24 July 1870.)
- Why were Mormon males of African
descent not allowed in the priesthood up until 1978?
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