tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5948352943362975805.post128301096507194076..comments2023-11-02T03:08:07.417-07:00Comments on NephiCode: How Theories Get Started – Part IIDelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08982095508142923740noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5948352943362975805.post-66988691625283664552017-07-24T09:31:42.406-07:002017-07-24T09:31:42.406-07:00David: Thanks for the headsup, I need to fire my p...David: Thanks for the headsup, I need to fire my proof-reader (me). And thanks for the info on the mountains. I never lived in that area, but have been there enough to know of your comments--whenver I travel in the U.S. I look at the terrain with the Book of Mormon in mind, so far, nothing east of the Rocky Mountains can be said to fit or even come close.Delhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08982095508142923740noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5948352943362975805.post-15529676822564610382017-07-24T09:08:07.207-07:002017-07-24T09:08:07.207-07:00I was born in upstate New York 30 minutes from the...I was born in upstate New York 30 minutes from the Hill Cumorah and grew up in Michigan. I never saw a mountain until I was 19 and entered the Provo Utah MTC. <br /><br />I went skiing 5 times growing up (or at least thought it was skiing until I actually went skiing in Utah after my mission) at a place called Mt. Brighton. Here's what Wikipedia has to say about Mt. Brighton: Mt. Brighton is a ski and snowboard area in Brighton, Michigan, that opened in 1960. As no hills large enough for commercial skiing or snowboarding exist naturally in Brighton, Mt. Brighton's slopes are man-made and reach a maximum height of 230 vertical feet.<br /><br />There are areas of higher elevation in Michigan but nothing that fits the Book of Mormon description in my opinion. <br /><br />There are several other references to Mountains in the Book of Mormon as well- referencing the gadianton robbers living in the mountains etc. any location being claimed as the Book of Mormon lands needs to have mountains if it is to match the scriptures. <br /><br />3 Nephi 8 talks about a great mountain coming up and the whole face of the land changing. It is interesting to look up the location of the Andes mountain range and see that it covers pretty much "the whole face of the land" of the proposed promised land- from Chile through Peru and on up through Ecuador. <br /><br />Other models need to ask themselves- where are the mountains? Where is evidence of the cities broken up, burned, or buried in water? Where is evidence of many level highways which were broken up? All are In the Book of Mormon: all are found in Peru. <br /><br />DavidKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17746832520246273307noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5948352943362975805.post-43512705371792430332017-07-24T08:36:35.344-07:002017-07-24T08:36:35.344-07:00Del- I think you are missing a word in your senten...Del- I think you are missing a word in your sentence that starts "in fact, according to Tyler..."DavidKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17746832520246273307noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5948352943362975805.post-26927655944503208702017-07-24T07:42:01.902-07:002017-07-24T07:42:01.902-07:00In fact, the ice age occurred after Noah's flo...In fact, the ice age occurred after Noah's flood. To put a date on the thing it happened just after the time of the flood of 2344bc to about 1000bc. Records in Europe date the time that the ice finally melted off of Ireland. the reason this is critical to understand is because the Jaredites could not live in North America at that time. Instead the Lord brought the Jaredites to Ecuador which just happens to be on the equator. <br /><br />Since most members don't believe in Noah's flood along with the profs at BYU of course believing such a thing to them would be nonsense. The lack of mountains in the area of where the plates were found is a much better criticism of the North American model that members can understand. iterryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14836783863542965577noreply@blogger.com