★ Mormons & Latter-Day Saints (V): Plagiarisms, Oddisms & Anachronisms
- Mosiah 9:11 Therefore it came to pass, that after we had dwelt in the land for the space of twelve years that king Laman began to grow uneasy, lest by any means my people should wax strong in the land, and that they could not overpower them and bring them into bondage.
How can a people devastated by famine wax strong after only twelve years and then be numerous enough to fight battles?!
- Mosiah 10:20 And it came to pass that we did drive them again out of our land; and we slew them with a great slaughter, even so many that we did not number them.
Silly hyperbole!
- Mosiah 11:3 And he laid a tax of one fifth part of all they possessed, a fifth part of their gold and of their silver, and a fifth part of their ziff, and of their copper, and of their brass and their iron; and a fifth part of their fatlings; and also a fifth part of all their grain.
Zeniff taxes his people of their ziff!
- Mosiah 13:34 Have they not said that God himself should come down among the children of men, and take upon him the form of man, and go forth in mighty power upon the face of the earth?
The old Catholic doctrine of three-in-one Trinity!
- Mosiah 15:1 And now Abinadi said unto them: I would that ye should understand that God himself shall come down among the children of men, and shall redeem his people.
- And because he dwelleth in flesh he shall be called the Son of God, and having subjected the flesh to the will of the Father, being the Father and the Son –
- The Father, because he was conceived by the power of God; and the Son, because of the flesh; thus becoming the Father and Son
- And they are one God, yea, the very Eternal Father of heaven and of earth.
The old Catholic doctrine of three-in-one Trinity!
- Mosiah 18:24 And he also commanded them that the priests whom he had ordained should labor with their own hands for their support.
Mormon Big Knobs receive a generous monthly allowance!
- Mosiah 18:30 And now it came to pass that all this was done in Mormon, yea, by the waters of Mormon, in the forest that was near the waters of Mormon; yea, the place of Mormon, the waters of Mormon, the forest of Mormon, how beautiful are they to the eyes of them who there came to the knowledge of their Redeemer; yea, and how blessed are they, for they shall sing to his praise forever.
System of naming places lacking imagination!
- Mosiah 22:7 And I will go according to thy command and pay the last tribute of wine to the Lamanites, and they will be drunken; and we will pass through the secret pass on the left of their camp when they are drunken and asleep.
How could they guarantee all will be blind drunk and asleep!
- Mosiah 27:6 And there began to be much peace again in the land; and the people began to be very numerous, and began to scatter abroad upon the face of the earth, yea, on the north and on the south, on the east and on the west, building large cities and villages in all quarters of the land.
No evidence of these cities and villages!
- Mosiah 27:12 And so great was their astonishment, that they fell to the earth, and understood not the words which he spake unto them.
- Nevertheless he cried again, saying: Alma, arise and stand forth, for why persecutest thou the church of God? For the Lord hath said: This is my church, and I will establish it; and nothing shall overthrow it, save it is the transgression of my people.
viz Paul’s persecution of Saints and subsequent vision!
- Mosiah 28:13 And now he translated them by the means of those two stones which were fastened into the two rims of a bow.
Mosiah adopts Joseph Smith’s stones-in-a-hat method of translation!
- Alma 1:32 For those who did not belong to their church did indulge themselves in sorceries, and in idolatry or idleness, and in babblings, and in envyings and strife; wearing costly apparel; being lifted up in the pride of their own eyes; persecuting, lying, thieving, robbing, committing whoredoms, and murdering, and all manner of wickedness; nevertheless, the law was put in force upon all those who did transgress it, inasmuch as it was possible.
The impossibly good against the impossibly bad!
- Alma 2:12 Therefore the people of the Nephites were aware of the intent of the Amlicites, and therefore they did prepare to meet them; yea, they did arm themselves with swords, and with cimeters, and with bows, and with arrows, and with stones, and with slings, and with all manner of weapons of war, of every kind.
No evidence found of any weapons!
- Alma 3:1 And it came to pass that the Nephites who were not slain by the weapons of war, after having buried those who had been slain – now the number of the slain were not numbered, because of the greatness of their number – after they had finished burying their dead they all returned to their lands, and to their houses, and their wives, and their children.
Yet another cop-out and the numbers are not counted, yet the population rises miraculously to fuel another war!
- Alma 3:6 And the skins of the Lamanites were dark, according to the mark which was set upon their fathers, which was a curse upon them because of their transgression and their rebellion against their brethren, who consisted of Nephi, Jacob, and Joseph, and Sam, who were just and holy men.
- 3:7 And their brethren sought to destroy them, therefore they were cursed; and the Lord God set a mark upon them, yea, upon Laman and Lemuel, and also the sons of Ishmael, and Ishmaelitish women.
More racist nonsense with sin = black skin!
- Alma 7:10 And behold, he shall be born of Mary, at Jerusalem which is the land of our forefathers, she being a virgin, a precious and chosen vessel, who shall be overshadowed and conceive by the power of the Holy Ghost, and bring forth a son, yea, even the Son of God.
So Jesus was born at Jerusalem? … erm …
- Alma 8:26 And now, Amulek, because thou hast fed me and taken me in, thou art blessed; for I was an hungered, for I had fasted many days.
What on Earth is ‘blessed’?
- Alma 8:28 And it came to pass that the people did wax more gross in their iniquities.
How is it possible to measure the grossness of the people’s iniquities?
- Alma 11:4 Now these are the names of the different pieces of their gold, and of their silver, according to their value. And the names are given by the Nephites, for they did not reckon after the manner of the Jews who were at Jerusalem; neither did they measure after the manner of the Jews; but they altered their reckoning and their measure, according to the minds and the circumstances of the people, in every generation, until the reign of the judges, they having been established by king Mosiah.
No evidence found of the coinage!
- Alma 11:38 Now Zeezrom saith again unto him: Is the Son of God the very Eternal Father
- And Amulek said unto him: Yea, he is the very Eternal Father of heaven and of earth, and all things which in them are; he is the beginning and the end, the first and the last;
The Son of God is the Eternal Father! Before Joseph had developed his trinity
- Alma 13:11 Therefore they were called after this holy order, and were sanctified, and their garments were washed white through the blood of the Lamb.
What on Earth is ‘sanctified’? Can sins by forgiven by the bestowal of the priesthood?
- Alma 17:7 Nevertheless they departed out of the land of Zarahemla, and took their swords, and their spears, and their bows, and their arrows, and their slings; and this they did that they might provide food for themselves while in the wilderness.
No evidence found for these weapons of war!
- Alma 17:24 And it came to pass that king Lamoni was much pleased with Ammon, and caused that his bands should be loosed; and he would that Ammon should take one of his daughters to wife.
Taking the king’s daughter to wife is a terrible cliché!
- Alma 17:28 Now the servants of the king began to murmur, saying: Now the king will slay us, as he has our brethren because their flocks were scattered by the wickedness of these men. And they began to weep exceedingly, saying: Behold, our flocks are scattered already.
Scattering the king’s flocks is a terrible cliché!
- Alma 18:2 And when they had all testified to the things which they had seen, and he had learned of the faithfulness of Ammon in preserving his flocks, and also of his great power in contending against those who sought to slay him, he was astonished exceedingly, and said: Surely, this is more than a man. Behold, is not this the Great Spirit who doth send such ...