KorbenDallas Posted March 29, 2012 Posted March 29, 2012 Ironically, the lack of academic validation is what legitimizes it as a sacred work and gives it the power to increase the faith of the follower. God intends us to walk by faith, and to use our free agency to decide what to believe. If the termporal evidence were enough to convince in and of itself, then it would no longer serve God's puroposes. If it was overwhelmingly lacking in temporal evidence, it could be easily discarded."Wherefore, the Lord God gave unto man that he should aact for himself. Wherefore, man could not bact for himself save it should be that he was centiced by the one or the other."I could honestly say that I am equally enticed both negatively and positively by the historcity of the Book of Mormon. There is plenty that discredits it, such as the apparent anachronisms, But I find it equally difficult to attribute it to an act of fraud, due to it's internal coherence, the lack of perceived ability that I have in Joseph Smith to perpetuate such a fraud, and the improbabale number of correlations to ancient american archaeology and geography.I do have the hope that one day it will be academically vindicated, but I believe that, to fit God's purposes, it will probably come at a time when it will make an irrelevant impact on the faith of the general population.
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