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.

Monday, January 27, 2025

The narrow neck of land found!

Yesterday I visited an actual narrow neck of land that connects a land northward and a land southward that are surrounded by water in an island of the sea.

Looking southward:

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A wide-angle shot shows how narrow the neck is. It could be described as a narrow neck, a narrow passage, or even a small neck of land.


Looking northward, the neck expands into a large island.


On the map it's easy to see the land northward and southward connected by the narrow neck.


To get to Bruny Island we took a ferry from Kettering, Tasmania.

Obviously I don't think this is the land of the Book of Mormon, but it makes the point that once people reject the teachings of the prophets, the way the management and scholars at Scripture Central do, there is no principled limit on the possible settings of the Book of Mormon.

There are hundreds, if not thousands, of locations around the world that could fit the description in the Book of Mormon.

That's why it is essential for Latter-day Saints to start by accepting the teachings of the prophets about the New York Cumorah/Ramah. Even when we have the Cumorah pin in the map, there are numerous plausible scenarios, but at least they corroborate the teachings of the prophets.

Bruny Island, south of Hobart






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