In my book "Editorial Promises" I had AI identify different authors who had written outstanding and complicated works and compare them with what Joseph Smith achieved in writing the Book of Mormon (my PDF document entitled "Editorial Promises" is available for free on this website under the "Downloads" tab).
Feel free to share it with others.
The main thing AI could not reconcile was how Joseph wrote the BOM in around 65 days. This equates to approximately 8 pages per day, this does not consider the 116 pages that were lost and may have been written outside the 65 day period.
Tolstoy, Dostoevsky and others took years and even decades, with many revisions to complete their renowned works. Joseph Smith used minimal if any revisions, and no notes.
For 200 years now, enemies of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day-Saints better known as anti-Mormons have wrestled with this anomaly and no-one has been able to explain it.
Well here, I believe, is the simple explanation. Joseph Smith did not write the Book of Mormon. Neither did he translate it. How could he? It was written in a language he did not know (reformed Egyptian). That is like asking the most educated of foreign language translators to translate a book into a language they did not understand, or in other words, Like asking a German who only spoke German to translate a book, written in ancient Egyptian into German.
A translator has to be conversant with both languages in order to translate from one language into another. In 1829 Joseph and Oliver spoke only English.
The fact is, Joseph never claimed to write the BOM, nor did he claim to translate it.
The ancient record thus brought forth from the earth as the voice of a people speaking from the dust, and translated into modern speech by the gift and power of God as attested by Divine affirmation, was first published to the world in the year 1830 as The Book of Mormon. (from the testimony of Joseph Smith at the beginning of the Book of Mormon). It came forth by the power of God, or in other words, God translated it, using Joseph Smith and Oliver Cowdery as His instruments.
Amos 3:7 Surely the Lord God will do nothing, but he revealeth his secret unto his servants the prophets.
All Joseph did was to read the text as it was revealed to him.
On occasion, there were names not recognized in English, and Joseph would have to spell the word or name out so Oliver could write it down as in "Coriantumr).
Joseph was simply reading the words - that's all! He wasn't writing a book.
That is how the BOM was translated in around 65 days. Puzzle solved!
Does this explanation not answer the 200 year conundrum?
Yes it does, and it also confirms what Joseph had claimed all along.
In other words, he was simply telling the truth. William of Ockham was a smart cookie - and he gave great shaves! (look it up)
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In my book "Editorial Promises" I had AI identify different authors who had written outstanding and complicated works and compare them with what Joseph Smith achieved in writing the Book of Mormon (my PDF document entitled "Editorial Promises" is available for free on this website under the "Downloads" tab).
Feel free to share it with others.
The main thing AI could not reconcile was how Joseph wrote the BOM in around 65 days. This equates to approximately 8 pages per day, this does not consider the 116 pages that were lost and may have been written outside the 65 day period.
Tolstoy, Dostoevsky and others took years and even decades, with many revisions to complete their renowned works. Joseph Smith used minimal if any revisions, and no notes.
For 200 years now, enemies of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day-Saints better known as anti-Mormons have wrestled with this anomaly and no-one has been able to explain it.
Well here, I believe, is the simple explanation. Joseph Smith did not write the Book of Mormon. Neither did he translate it. How could he? It was written in a language he did not know (reformed Egyptian). That is like asking the most educated of foreign language translators to translate a book into a language they did not understand, or in other words, Like asking a German who only spoke German to translate a book, written in ancient Egyptian into German.
A translator has to be conversant with both languages in order to translate from one language into another. In 1829 Joseph and Oliver spoke only English.
The fact is, Joseph never claimed to write the BOM, nor did he claim to translate it.
The ancient record thus brought forth from the earth as the voice of a people speaking from the dust, and translated into modern speech by the gift and power of God as attested by Divine affirmation, was first published to the world in the year 1830 as The Book of Mormon. (from the testimony of Joseph Smith at the beginning of the Book of Mormon). It came forth by the power of God, or in other words, God translated it, using Joseph Smith and Oliver Cowdery as His instruments.
Amos 3:7 Surely the Lord God will do nothing, but he revealeth his secret unto his servants the prophets.
All Joseph did was to read the text as it was revealed to him.
On occasion, there were names not recognized in English, and Joseph would have to spell the word or name out so Oliver could write it down as in "Coriantumr).
Joseph was simply reading the words - that's all! He wasn't writing a book.
That is how the BOM was translated in around 65 days. Puzzle solved!
Does this explanation not answer the 200 year conundrum?
Yes it does, and it also confirms what Joseph had claimed all along.
In other words, he was simply telling the truth. William of Ockham was a smart cookie - and he gave great shaves! (look it up)