Alma 36 runs its ideas forward, reaches Jesus Christ at the exact center, then runs them back in reverse. Two physicists tested whether that could be chance, and how it compares with the Bible, a computer manual, and Joseph Smith’s later revelations. Part 7 of 10.
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Critics say one mistake would prove the Book of Mormon false. But the Bible tells the story of David’s census twice, and the accounts differ on who moved David (the LORD or Satan), how many men were counted, how long the famine would last, and what David paid. Here is how evangelical scholars harmonize them, what those answers concede, and why “the mistakes of men” was never a problem for Latter-day Saints.
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“If any man shall add unto these things…” Critics quote Revelation 22:18 to prove nothing can be added to the Bible. But “this book” is John’s own prophecy, Moses gave the same warning in Deuteronomy 4:2 before God sent Joshua, Isaiah, Jeremiah, and the whole New Testament, and the warning binds men who tamper with God’s word, not God.
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Much of the Book of Mormon’s odd grammar isn’t King James English. It’s older, and the 1800s writers who imitated scripture almost never produced it. What Stanford Carmack found in 1.4 billion words of early English. Part 6 of 10.
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Psalm 145 walks through the Hebrew alphabet one verse at a time, but the King James Bible has 21 verses for 22 letters. The missing nun line survives in the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Septuagint, and modern Bibles disagree about it. Here is what that means for inerrancy and for Article of Faith 8.
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