how do Mormons feel about the papyrus that Joseph Smith translated from "reformed Egyptian." Egyptologists have identified it as an ordinary funerary document. how do you feel about this?
please note: this is not a criticism, i am curious about Mormon opinions, so don't take it the wrong way.
2007-06-28 02:22:41 · 6 answers · asked by KellyKapowski 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Here is a good source of information about this:
http://fairwiki.org/index.php/Book_of_Abraham_papyri
and
http://maxwellinstitute.byu.edu/publications/bookofabraham.php?selection=abr&cat=boa
2007-06-28 04:00:03 · answer #1 · answered by je_apostrophe 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It does appear that there are some of the original papyri missing from the set rediscovered in 1967. The 'facsimiles' printed in the Pearl of Great Price are just that: Crude woodcuts of re-drawings of the original but partial texts. It has been proposed but the illuminati at BYU (Michael Rhodes) that Smith did not make a 'literal' translation of the papyri (or the gold plates either), but received an inspired revelation that has nothing to do with the characters.
Yeah. That's the ticket. You betcha. He obviously could read Time Magazine and divine how to change the Masonic Rite to the New Inspired Version.
Except his Alphabet and Grammar uses characters found on the actual papyri, and Smith announced to the world that "Enish-go-on-Dosh" is the ancient Egyptian name for the Sun God (He missed: 'Ra'), and his explanations how Egyptian grammar was constructed from a single character is totally absurd.
This is another piece of hard evidence the church is founded on washed away by simple truth.
2007-06-29 11:53:26 · answer #2 · answered by Dances with Poultry 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
From descriptions by Joseph Smith, and others, of what te payri looked like tells me that we don't have all of the papry, and wat dwe do have isn't what he used to transltae the Book of Abraham. Tere are several points hat he made about the papyri, that are not included in the payrri have today, including the size and amount.
2007-06-28 18:58:16 · answer #3 · answered by mormon_4_jesus 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They still think it is the book of Abraham and that there God Elohim lives on a planet next to a star called Kolob.
2007-06-28 10:35:08 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
could you provide a link or something. I'm not sure what you're talking about.
2007-06-29 01:53:17 · answer #5 · answered by Ender 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
stop spelling it m-o-r-m-o-n-s its m-a-m-m-a-l-s.
2007-06-28 02:25:44 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋