Well then, just for fun, here is the Moron FAQ page for Kolob.
http://lds.about.com/library/bl/faq/blkolob.htm
Ah....A "Pearl of Great Price" eh?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Abraham
The 1835 date is interesting given that Jean Francois Champollion only published his Précis du système hiéroglyphique in 1824 which means that in a mere 11 years it had penetrated to the wilds of Missouri in time for this douchebag to "translate" hieroglyphs!
However, as further noted....(humorously)
Feel free to take this info and shove it up your mormon pal's ass.
http://lds.about.com/library/bl/faq/blkolob.htm
Quote:We learn of Kolob from Abraham's account found in The Pearl of Great Price, one of the Standard Works of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Ah....A "Pearl of Great Price" eh?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Abraham
Quote:The Book of Abraham is an 1835 work produced by Joseph Smith[1] that he said was based on Egyptian papyri purchased from a traveling mummy exhibition. According to Smith, the book was "a translation of some ancient records ... purporting to be the writings of Abraham, while he was in Egypt, called the Book of Abraham, written by his own hand, upon papyrus".[2] Smith's translation of the papyri describes a story of Abraham's early life, including a vision of the cosmos.
The work was canonized in 1880 by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) as part of its Pearl of Great Price.
The 1835 date is interesting given that Jean Francois Champollion only published his Précis du système hiéroglyphique in 1824 which means that in a mere 11 years it had penetrated to the wilds of Missouri in time for this douchebag to "translate" hieroglyphs!
However, as further noted....(humorously)
Quote:The Book of Abraham papyri were thought lost in the 1871 Great Chicago Fire. However, in 1966 several fragments of the papyri were found in the archives of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and in the LDS Church archives. They are now referred to as the Joseph Smith Papyri. Upon examination by professional Mormon and non-Mormon Egyptologists, the papyri were found to bear no resemblance to Joseph Smith's interpretation, and were common Egyptian funerary texts, dating to about the first century BC. As a result, the Book of Abraham has been the source of significant controversy, with Mormon apologists offering a variety of explanations as to the reason for the differences.
Feel free to take this info and shove it up your mormon pal's ass.
