(July 14, 2014 at 4:20 pm)Faith No More Wrote: What is the book of Abraham? Is that part of the Book of Mormon?
It's not exactly part of the Book of Mormon. Supposedly Joseph Smith translated the Book of Mormon from gold tablets he dug up. The last author of the tablets, Moroni (you just can't make this stuff up) was the last son of the last son of the lost tribe of Israel who came to America in a boat. The tribe split into two groups almost immediately. The Laminites were the bad guys and they ultimately won but not until Jesus showed up in North America. The American Indians are the descendants of the Laminites. ---- There are an enormous number of impossibilities with this besides the obvious much more ancient Asian descent of Native Americans including horses, the wheel, steel etc, none of which were here in North America before the Europeans.
Later, after he already had a cult following, an Egyptian archeological show came through and the Mormons raised the money to buy a papyrus, which Smith claimed he could translate. He said it was written by Abraham himself. Thus the Book of Abraham. He wrote an a fictional dictionary of some of the hieroglyphs too. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Abraham
It's been a known fraud for a long time. It's just the church is now admitting it kinda sorta.
If there is a god, I want to believe that there is a god. If there is not a god, I want to believe that there is no god.
