long ago ideas

“When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago." - Friedrich Nietzsche. Long ago, Joseph Smith and Oliver Cowdery conquered false claims that the Book of Mormon was fiction or that it came through a stone in a hat. But these old claims have resurfaced in recent years. To conquer them again, we have to return to what Joseph and Oliver taught.

Wednesday, September 28, 2016

Letter VII memes

I showed these at the conference 10 days ago and a lot of people want to have them to repost on Instagram, Twitter, etc.

I keep hearing reports that more and more people are reading and discussing Letter VII. We're still a long way from having every member of the Church read it during 2016, but we're getting closer all the time. Sharing these memes is one way to help.

You can share the link to Letter VII in the Joseph Smith Papers so people can read Letter VII right out of Joseph's own history, here.

You can share the link to the original publication in the Messenger and Advocate here.

You can share the link to the Second Edition on Amazon here.

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Here's the meme to help people remember which of Oliver Cowdery's letters explains the Hill Cumorah is in New York:


These are some of the other Letter VII memes. I'll post Mesomania, two-Cumorah, and other memes in the next few days.






You can also find links to Letter VII in the Times and Seasons and the Gospel Reflector.

Or, people can read the first edition of my little book at Book of Mormon Central here. (Note: if you refer people to that site, be sure to warn them that Book of Mormon Central (BOMC) promotes Central America exclusively. BOMC still refuses to remain neutral on Book of Mormon geography or to even inform members of the Church that there are alternatives to Mesoamerica. A perfect example is how they keep insisting the 3 Nephi destruction was caused by volcanoes, even though the text never once mentions a volcano.)

3 comments:

  1. After having lived through the Mt. Saint Helens eruption in 1980, I have always thought that the 3 Nephi destructions sounded very much like volcanic ashfall. I wouldn't say it's quite a slam-dunk case, but it seems pretty obvious to me. My grandparents were over 100 miles from the volcano, and still got a bunch of ashfall. They didn't see or hear any eruption. I assume the ancients would not have immediately attributed ashfall to a volcanic eruption unless they had fairly recent records correlating the two. Not sure why this should be controversial.

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  2. I lived in Salt Lake City and we had at least an inch of gray/brown ashfall, from Mt. St. Helens, we made world news showing a city caked with ash and poor visibility and it was from St Helens over a thousand miles away!

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  3. I lived in Salt Lake City and we had at least an inch of gray/brown ashfall, from Mt. St. Helens, we made world news showing a city caked with ash and poor visibility and it was from St Helens over a thousand miles away!

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