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Let’s talk about Enoch: Biblical, Extra Biblical & Joseph Smith’s Account.
Apocrypha & Ancient TextsAbout 1,500 words · 7-minute read Let’s talk about the Biblical...
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What Was on the Brass Plates? Jonah Barnes’s “The Key to the Keystone”
Lehi's family carried a scripture record out of Jerusalem that held more than our Old Testament does. Jonah R. Barnes's 2024 book asks what was on it, using texts that surfaced after 1830. Here's the question, the scriptural groundwork, and why it matters.
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Joseph Told It Four Times, Paul Told It Three: The First Vision Accounts and the Damascus Road
Critics say Joseph Smith's First Vision accounts don't match, so he made it up. Acts tells Paul's Damascus road vision three times, and those accounts differ on who heard the voice, who fell, and who gave Paul his calling. Here's the side-by-side, and why the standard has to cut both ways.
Joseph Told It Four Times, Paul Told It Three: The First Vision Accounts and the Damascus Road
Critics say Joseph Smith’s First Vision accounts don’t match, so he made it up. Acts tells Paul’s Damascus road vision three times, and those accounts differ on who heard the voice, who fell, and who gave Paul his calling. Here’s the side-by-side, and why the standard has to cut both ways.
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“As Far As It Is Translated Correctly”: What the Bible’s Own Manuscripts Say About Textual Variants
“The Book of Mormon has been changed thousands of times!” So has the Bible. Goliath’s height, the longer ending of Mark, the Comma Johanneum, a missing paragraph in 1 Samuel: here is what the Bible’s own manuscripts show, and why Latter-day Saints were never surprised.
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The Hypocritical Book of Mormon Denier: Every Argument That Hits the Bible Harder
No archaeology, no originals, anonymous authors, missing artifacts, a changing text. Critics fire all of it at the Book of Mormon. Every one of those arguments hits the Bible just as hard or harder. Then look at what the Book of Mormon has that the Bible doesn’t.
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“Your Church Changes”… So Does the Bible. The Double Standard That Falls Apart
Christians and atheists love to say ‘your church changes, so it can’t be true.’ But God changed His commands in the Bible, prophets made mistakes, and the creeds came from councils. Hold everything to the standard you hold us to, and it ALL falls apart. With what measure ye mete…
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Moses Broke the Tablets: The Double Standard on Missing Plates
Critics say no plates, no proof. But Moses broke the tablets God wrote, the Ark vanished, and no original page of the Bible survives. Same standard for both, or none.
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Deuteronomy 32:8-9 and the Dead Sea Scrolls: Monotheism Isn’t in the Old Testament
The oldest Hebrew copy of Deuteronomy 32:8 says the Most High divided the nations ‘according to the number of the sons of God,’ and YHWH RECEIVED Israel. So who was the Most High handing nations out to?
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