Is it true that Mormons believe that the Mayan pyramids were built by the descendants of the lost tribe?

Question

I have been to both the Mayan ruins and the pyramids of Egypt. The Egyptian pyramids look nothing like the Mayan pyramids nor does Mayan art look anything like Egyption art, and the decendants of the Mayan do not look arab? How could they posssibly be from the lost tribe. (Ethiopia is thought to also be where the lost tribe went)

It is true...you can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink.
Read "Under The Banner Of Heaven", eye opener.

Answer 1

I thought the Mormons were a CULT. / That they required 10% of your money to get to heaven / look up "mountain meadows massacre"/ look up "kolob" / Did I mention CULT. I think they are trying to find something in central america to work with their book of fiction.

Answer 2

Like maximum questions approximately faith there is a few actuality and a few deceptive statements. specific, Mormons have self assurance that there became into some migration of historic Israelities to the Americas. This migration became into constrained to an fairly small style of people in each occasion. what's greater significant is what's left unsaid, the e book of Mormon would not state, that they have been the only people emigrate to the Americas nor does it deny that people migrated around the Bering Strait. It would not say that there have been no longer already inhabitants residing there. As for DNA evidence and so on, the incontrovertible fact that a set around 20 migrated, intermixed with community people, possible actual think of why DNA attempting out right this moment would not p.c.. up something conclusive. technology isn't the enemy of Mormons, neither is technology very final or fixed. technology evolves, variations over the years as new technologies, theories emerge. what's greater significant to faith is faith.

Answer 3

No. This is a mistaken version of what we believe.

The Book of Mormon does describe a civilization that lived on the American continent during ancient times. The people who originally founded this civilization came from Jerusalem and were therefore children of Israel, more related to Jews than Arabs or Egyptians. A little after 600 B.C., these people traveled to the American continent and established a civilization on the American continent.

The Book of Mormon covers the doings of this people from about 600 B.C. to a little while after 400 A.D. As this civilization grew, it split into two groups who were basically split along religious lines -- those who believed in Christ and those who did not believe in Christ. Around 400 A.D., there was a great war between these two groups, and almost all of the believers were killed. Since the believers in Christ were also the ones who kept the sacred records, the record ends after that. The last prophet to write in the Book of Mormon, Moroni, buried the book in the ground, where it stayed until the 1820s when Moroni, now an angel, instructed Joseph Smith where to find the book. Joseph Smith translated the Book of Mormon by the power of God, and that's how we have the book now.

As mentioned, the Book of Mormon was written by the people who believed in Christ, and that group was wiped out a little after 400 A.D. The non-believers (the group that won the war) continued, and that group is ancestors of the native peoples of the Americas. My understanding is that the Mayan civilization started after that, so it's more likely that the Mayan ruins were built by the descendants of the Book of Mormon people.

The Book of Mormon is very clear that it is not intended to be a history book, but rather a spiritual book that contains information that is of benefit to people's salvation. The prophets who wrote the contents of the Book of Mormon only put things that they thought were the most important, in a spiritual sense. Therefore, there isn't too much information in the Book of Mormon about the exact locations of places and groups referred to in the book. We know that the civilization was on the American continent, but not exactly where.

Many members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints like to speculate about where the cities and places talked about in the Book of Mormon are, but nobody knows for sure at this time. Any opinions you hear about the locations of most events in the Book of Mormon are speculations on the part of the individual involved, not established fact. In my personal opinion, there's nothing wrong with having a guess, as long as nobody makes it seem like his/her guess is the official truth.

Answer 4

Sorry, I still stick to Hugh Nibley, W. Cleon Skousen, and Joshua Moses Bennet. Isn't genetics amazing, that so many people in the world don't look exactly like each other? I see you do not have a reference for Ethiopia. Have a happy day.

Answer 5

Unlike Christianity- which the Mormons certainly shouldn't be called till they drop Joseph Smith's lies- Mormons have no archaeological evidence to prove anything. The book of Mormon speaks of chariots-which there is no evidence of any wheeled structure near to the time they recite. It also speaks of horses and elephants that we KNOW weren't here. It speaks of brass and copper armor- when metal working of that portion was no used. And the kicker...if it was the lost tribe of Israel..they'd be Jewish- don't know bout you-but I see no Jewish native Americans-Joseph Smith said they became dark when they sinned and that the "dark" sinners killed the innocent "white" God fearing folk. Now that a messed up Cult.

Answer 6

The Mormons say that the Israelites traveled to America and Jesus appeared to the Indians. There is no archaeological evidence for the Israelites being in America and there never will be. The Mormons are a cult. Don't waste your time.

Answer 7

Ethopia

Answer 8

The ten lost tribes of Israel have spread out all over the world.

Answer 9

you need to go further back to Atlantis there you will see the similarities of both. They are like separate dialects until you see the root.