Yeah sure, just as soon as mormon apologetics admit that the book of abraham is a fraud your getting close to doing sobut come on just come clean and admit it. The book of abraham is a book of lds scripture that joseph smith translated from a collection of ancient egyptian papyri the. It is difficult to deal seriously with joseph smiths impudent fraud. Mormon and non mormon egyptologists agree that the characters on the fragments do not match the translation. A portion of the papyri used by joseph smith as the source of the book of abraham. There is no evidence that joseph smith ever translated anything, including the golden plates into the book of mormon. The mormon church hoped the book of abraham would vindicate joseph smith as a true prophet of god. The lds church admits on their website that the book of abraham is not a translation of the papyri joseph claimed it was a translation of.
If the book of abraham was a fraud, is the book of mormon fake also. The book of mormon if the book of abraham was a fraud, is the. The book of abraham is a work produced between 1835 and 1842 by the latter day saints. Im not sure, its unsigned, but what lds scholar claimed this idea first. This book, a record of the biblical prophet and patriarch abraham. The book of abraham has been a continuous problem for the veracity of joseph smiths claims which led to the formation of the mormon church.
None of the characters on the papyrus fragments mentioned abraham s name or any of the events recorded in the book of abraham. Thousands of mormons left the church as the result of this discovery, while thousands more are completely unaware of this important piece of evidence. The book of abraham is an 1835 work produced by latter day saints lds movement. The facts are that he mistranslated portions of the bible, as well as the book of abraham, the kinderhook plates, and a greek psalter. Second, the critics do not deal with the issues arising from the book of abraham that latterday saints care about. The man who wrote the lds essay on the book of abraham was. Turning to the book of abraham itself, lds historian, general authority and scholar b. Critical appraisal of the book of abraham wikipedia. This makes the primary defense of mormon apologists, that the book of abraham may have been in the now missing papyri, irrelevant. The book of abraham is a work produced between 1835 and 1842 by joseph smith based. Abraham refers to a picture in the text of the book of abraham abr.
How the book of abraham exposes the false nature of mormonism. Otherwise, how can we condemn joseph smith for fraud. To answer that we need to travel back to 1968 when the lds church leadership asked hugh nibley to publish a set of articles in the new era on the joseph smith papyri, the book of abraham, and what it means. The false translation of the book of abraham, therefore, casts serious doubt on the book of mormon as well, forever debilitating josephs claim he was a true, inspired prophet of god. The papyri which joseph smith said he translated the book of abraham from have been exposed to be nothing more than funeral texts from ancient egypt at least eight egyptologists and semitists have studied the papyri and. If the book of mormon is true, then joseph smith was a prophet. The book of abraham is part of the pearl of great price, which mormons consider scripture.
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