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A portion of the papyri used by joseph smith as the source of the book of abraham. Mormon and non mormon egyptologists agree that the characters on the fragments do not match the translation given in the book of abraham. Mormons call their church the church of jesus christ of latter day saints. 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. It is difficult to deal seriously with joseph smiths impudent fraud. The papyri which joseph smith said he translated the. In addition, there is ample evidence that he did not. The book of abraham is a book of lds scripture that joseph smith translated from a collection of ancient egyptian papyri the. So even if an actual book of abraham were among the papyri in smiths possession, he demonstrated that he would not be able to identify or translate it. This makes the primary defense of mormon apologists, that the book of abraham may have been in the now missing papyri, irrelevant.

Second, the critics do not deal with the issues arising from the book of abraham that latterday saints care about. This book, a record of the biblical prophet and patriarch abraham. The book of abraham is a work produced between 1835 and 1842 by joseph smith based. If the book of abraham was a fraud, is the book of mormon fake also. Im not sure, its unsigned, but what lds scholar claimed this idea first. How the book of abraham exposes the false nature of mormonism. Otherwise, how can we condemn joseph smith for fraud. If joseph smith was a prophet, then the church of jesus christ of latter day saints is the same church that christ established while he was on the earth. The book of mormon if the book of abraham was a fraud, is the.

Mormon and non mormon egyptologists agree that the characters on the fragments do not match the translation. 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. The book contains several doctrines that are unique to mormonism such as. Turning to the book of abraham itself, lds historian, general authority and scholar b. The book of abraham is an 1835 work produced by latter day saints lds movement. None of the characters on the papyrus fragments mentioned abraham s name or any of the events recorded in the book of abraham. There is no evidence that joseph smith ever translated anything, including the golden plates into the book of mormon. The man who wrote the lds essay on the book of abraham was. 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. Why doesnt the translation of the egyptian papyri found in 1967. Thousands of mormons left the church as the result of this discovery, while thousands more are completely unaware of this important piece of evidence. 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.