Hi Jeanie

Maybe we’d better just settle for agreeing to disagree. I don’t want to upset anyone. If you don’t want to read my thoughts on the book of Mormon please just skip to the next post Jeanie.

Before you go Ozzy Osborne is British despite the name.

Now on to the book of Mormon.

I have read some of the book of Mormon, it’s available on line from the LDS website, and it reads to me much as the bible does. It quotes from books that were written long after it is claimed that it’s original was penned (Chiselled or however you mark gold plates), it is claimed that it was written in reformed Egyptian which is an unlikely language for an Israelite living around 600BCE, it talks of a steel bow long before the technology existed to make such implements, it describes a journey of 250 miles completed on foot in just three days by Nephi and his whole family , Nephi instructs his followers to work in Iron, copper, brass, steel, sliver and gold while the technology to do so was unknown to the Isrelites of 600BCE. It goes on to talk of cockatrice’s, dragons, satyrs, fiery flying serpents and that’s just in the first two chapters. Somewhere in there you lost me. I’m sorry but I find it hard to take such a work seriously and it certainly does not come across as a book for our time. In short it contains many of the same sorts of errors and problems that convinced me that the bible was fiction.

If you wish to follow up any of the info I have posted it’s up to you. That I’ve already read some of the book of Mormon probably shouldn’t count as I did it before you suggested the offer, but it’s up to you.

All the best Jeanie

Russell