According to the Book of Mormon a family of Jews left Israel around 400 B.C. They built a ship and sailed for a new land. God guided the ship to South America.
Their families then flourished and became the tribes of the Americas according to the B of M. However DNA evidance proves that the indigenous people from North to South America came from Siberia. There is no Jewish DNA in them.
So my question for today's mormons is How can you keep believing in something that is impossible?
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20071127/ts_alt_afp/usamericasrussiaanthropologymigration
2007-11-27 03:28:19 · 12 answers · asked by KC 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Wow some of u mormons are delusional. You just change ur beliefs to fit the new evidence. The problem with that is that supposedly God is perfect and if he told Joe Smith something, then that would be perfect and unchangable. The church use to teach that brown skined people are those colors because God cursed them that way. But that's not politically correct anymore so the chruch changes how they teach you. Does that mean God made a mistake and is no longer racist?
2007-11-27 13:13:42 · update #1
And by the way drumming up a couple mormon "scientists" does not discount all the real scientists. Ask every archeologist in the world about Jew's coming over to populate the Americas 600 years ago and 99% of them will say it's BS.
2007-11-27 13:17:30 · update #2
As far as believing impossible things, this particular belief isn't nearly as impossible as the entire book of Genesis, from the Garden of Eden to Noah's Ark - the whole thing is patently absurd, and violates any number of physical laws.
That apparently doesn't stop many Christians from believing in it, though.
So why single out Mormons for their impossible beliefs? Theirs still makes more sense than Xenu and the Thetan volcano.
2007-11-27 03:42:20 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 9⤊ 0⤋
First of all the guy who did the dna study said at the beginning when he started the study, that he was setting out to try to prove the lds church wrong. That's the incorrect attitude to have when trying a scientific study. Any true scientist will tell you you go in with an open mind, able to accept all outcomes, and not trying to predict a paticular outcome. It wouldn't be hard for someone who was anti-mormon, who was trying to disprove the church to lie about his findings, or intentionally come up with something to prove his preconcieved notions.
So that's the first thing to look at.
2nd, There has been a tremendous intermingeling of blood since the time columbus found america. And it is almost impossible to find a 100% pure blood indian anymore.
It is possible that, that alone affected the outcome of the reasearch.
3-many of the indians are decendants of manassa, and ephriam, not jews. That they were living in jerusalem was true,
but they were not jews, it says in the book of mormon it'self that they were from ephriam.
the book of mormon is true, it is the work of god, and if you will but read the book, and pray about it god will answer you.
and he will tell you it is true. As he has for me.
2007-11-27 04:20:38 · answer #2 · answered by squishy 6 · 5⤊ 0⤋
The Book of Mormon accounts for the story of only three small groups of people who navigated to the Americas - never has it claimed to be an account of all peoples to populate two continents.
Further, the Book of Ether in the Book of Mormon tells us that many thousands of years ago, a party of nomad hunters/stockmen from west central Asia crossed the water--probably the North Pacific--to the New World, where they preserved the ways of their ancestors, and carried on open type of warfare with cruelty and ferocity.
A careful study of the motions of the Jaredites, Mulekites, Nephites, and Lamanites should correct the absurd oversimplification by which the Book of Mormon as a history is almost always judged. It shows plainly that the Book of Mormon itself first suggests the Asiatic origin of at least some elements of the Native Americans race and culture--- and long before the anthropologists got around to it.
Scientists no longer hold that one migration and one route can explain everything about the Indians.
The Book of Mormon never did.
2007-11-27 04:22:04 · answer #3 · answered by phrog 7 · 7⤊ 0⤋
That was 600 B.C, Only DNA was taken from certain tribes not all tribes of Natives in the americas. We believe that only a tribe of people came to the americas or a group that lasted in the americas for around 1000 years and disappeared. Just like tribes in the Mayan area have disappeared.
There were people in the Americas for 10,000 to 100,000 or more years before Lehi & his group reached the americas.
So DNA doesn't bother me that came from the Asian continent. The remaining Lamanites were either wiped out or assimilated in the neighboring populations.
2007-11-27 06:25:24 · answer #4 · answered by Brother G 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
How do we know where Lehi's family is from? They could from Mongolia or Siberia (I have heard both) for all we know. I keep believing because I need some proof that I can see and touch, not some words that someone types out. We don't know enough to prove it for certain. After all, only 20% or so of the South/Central American jungle has been searched and a satellite scan done showed many places that we didn't know about before, some that we can't get to because the jungle is too dense.
If you (or someone else) searches the whole of South and Central America and finds nothing, then I will believe. Not until.
2007-11-27 03:53:47 · answer #5 · answered by Dublin Ducky 5 · 5⤊ 0⤋
Okay, first it was 600 B.C. not 400. Second, of all the space that the "America's" inhabits, very little has truly been explored. Once someone truly explores all of the tropical forests and empirically proves that there isn't a single bone in there that has even a trace of middle-eastern DNA, I will decide then if I can continue to believe in it.
2007-11-27 04:09:14 · answer #6 · answered by Storm Duck 3 · 4⤊ 0⤋
You don't even have your facts straight. And if you knew enough about the book of Mormon then you would know why there is a difference. And the people of the book of Mormon were not from the tribe of Judah. They are from the tribe of Joseph. So tell me, where are the other tribes of Israel located? Could be somewhere in Asia me thinks.
2007-11-27 04:02:10 · answer #7 · answered by plastik punk -Bottom Contributor 6 · 9⤊ 0⤋
Jacob D, very well summarized.
KC, if you want to play with the big boys you're going to have to do some homework first.
But I hope you don't become offended as many people would. Rather, show yourself a true man and accept, with gratitude, that you can learn from your mistakes. Then I think we'll all have some respect for you.
God bless,
Ivan
2007-11-27 08:05:03 · answer #8 · answered by Ivan 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
In order for them to PROVE that Native Americans did not descend from ancient Hebrews, they would need the DNA from those same ancient Hebrews. There are several Mormons who are respected experts in DNA, and they say, you can't prove OR DISprove the Book of Mormon that way.
2007-11-27 04:11:53 · answer #9 · answered by mormon_4_jesus 7 · 7⤊ 0⤋
My question to you is: how can you not? I do not put all of my trust into "scientific" studies that can manipulate the statistical results with a slight tweak here or a change there. Until a study can be repeatedly replicated and made authentic, it is not statistically reliable.
2007-11-27 05:16:17 · answer #10 · answered by Kerry 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋