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[calmoriah]

Also this one:  http://deseretbook.com/Prophecies-Promises-Book-Mormon-United-States-America-Bruce-H-Porter/i/5038426

[Tepui]

Cold Steel, on 03 May 2012 - 08:11 PM, said:

See Sidney B. Sperry's article on whether there are two Cumorahs.


Again, I direct you to Larry Poulson's address cited above. Cheers!

I'll refer you to one better by the late Dr. Sperry: http://maxwellinstit...l=4&num=1&id=97 - Entitled: Moroni the Lonely....etc.

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“Having finished the first paragraph of the title page, it is not unreasonable to presume that Moroni hid up the plates entrusted to him in the side of the Hill Cumorah, in the stone box built for the purpose. He then departed, feeling that his work was finished, his father's commands having been carried out. How long Moroni wandered over the face of the land—whether to be reckoned in years, months, or days—we do not know. But sometime between the years AD 401 and 421, he again saw fit to come back to the Hill Cumorah. (Mormon 8:6; cf. Moroni 10:1). Taking up the sacred record from its resting place in the stone box, he began to write at the point he had formally left off.”

Sperry then quotes the Prophet Moroni, (which should have given him a clue, but it didn’t):

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“Now I, Moroni, after having made an end of abridging the account of the people of Jared, I had supposed not to have written more, but I have not as yet perished; and I make not myself known to the Lamanites lest they should destroy me. (Moroni 1:1)”

According to Sperry/F.A.R.M.S., the Lamanites chased Moroni all the way to New York from Mesoamerica. This is because, according to Sidney B. Sperry above, Moroni felt his work was finished the first time he buried the plates, but he later returned to the same hill to add more to the record – because he had not yet perished at the hand of the Lamanites - who had followed him - all the way to New York? (Moroni 1:1) So much for Moroni being lonely on a trek to New York.

Sorry. Sperry contradicted himself with the scriptures. And he didn't even know it. There was only one Hill Cumorah.

Have a nice weekend, everybody.

[cdowis]

Tepui, on 04 May 2012 - 11:05 PM, said:

I'll refer you to one better by the late Dr. Sperry: http://maxwellinstit...l=4&num=1&id=97 - Entitled: Moroni the Lonely....etc.

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Sorry. Sperry contradicted himself with the scriptures. And he didn't even know it. There was only one Hill Cumorah.

OK, are you willing to discuss this based on the evidence?  Can we now look at the text of the BOM and see what it says about the location of the war of extinction.

Edited by cdowis, 05 May 2012 - 08:28 AM.