Is the "Nahom" really Bountiful?

Question

Fertile, producing fruit and other crops
There is nothing but sand and very rocky hills that are mostly overgrown with scrub. The few MODERN agricultural plots there by the coast are obviously artificially executed with modern irrigation systems. Now I do not claim to be a farmer, but this does not look like any kind of actual cropland that I have ever seen. Maybe some fruit trees have lived there at some point in the past. That's as good as it gets. But fertile, crop land? Not hardly. Smith got this one WRONG.
Suitable for construction and launching of ships
What does that supposedly, mean? Suitable for building and launching ships? This is TOTAL nonsense. While I am not much of a farmer, I AM a pretty darn good sailor - been sailing for 12 years. And there is nothing there for ship building. NOTHING suitable in this geography for building and launching ships.. It doesn't fit.. IHS Jim

And this area in the garden spot of the southern coast of the Arabian Peninsula.. LDS scientists have known "for 50 years" about DNA evidence linking American Indians to Asian ancestry rather than Hebrew blood. "For some reason, these two men think this shocked us. It's been something we've been dealing with for a very, very long time." Does that kill the whole story line on the BofM? IHS Jim

Answer 1

Since the actual location of Nahom has not been established beyond any doubt, it would be difficult to asses its value for any crop or industry. Its general location being in the probable location of Yemen, it could have limited crop value.

Answer 2

Nahom isn't Bountiful. That is very clear. Read the Book of Mormon. Nahom is where Ishmael is buried in the wilderness (1 Nephi 16.34) . Then, they travel in the wilderness for quite some time, in fact several years as their wives have children and in all it has been 8 years from the time they left Jerusalem by the time they reach Bountiful. The whole time between Nahom and Bountiful they are traveling easterly (1 Nephi 17). Knowing this I would like you to argue that the orient does not have a land of many rivers.
Wait... did I just say that they passed through the orient? No way!!! And the seed of Laman and Lemuel had dark skin, because they were being disobedient and not following the law of Moses (i.e. committing ery, marrying outside of the covenant and such). I don't know; that is way too rational. Hey, maybe there were even other people in America when the Nephites arrived in America (We know at least one other group had been to America).

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