(July 14, 2014 at 10:38 pm)Clueless Morgan Wrote: Perhaps I'm miss understanding the article but this doesn't seem to be a huge deviation from what higher-ups and scholars have already been saying: that joe was just using the Egyptian scrolls as a vehicle for channeling completely unrelated revelations. At least I've heard some Mormons spout this off as a way to deflect the fact that the BoA is utter bullshit when compared with actual Egyptian scholars' translations/interpretations.
The problem is Smith's own diaries, his home made hieroglyphics dictionary which is totally wrong, and other records at the time make it crystal clear that he said he was actually translating and that's what his followers believed.
For a long time the Pearl of Great Price printed a facsimile of the Papyrus with the book. That's how it was identified when found and translated by Egyptologists. After that they stopped printing the facsimile. Go figure.
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.
