In the 1980s a Berkeley group, including agnostic and Jewish scientists, spent about 10,000 hours testing the Book of Mormon’s wordprints. They checked the method on Twain, Heinlein, and a translator first. Their verdict on Joseph Smith, Oliver Cowdery, or Solomon Spaulding as author of Nephi and Alma: “statistically indefensible.” Part 2 of 10.
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On Mars’ Hill, Paul quoted the poet Aratus, “For we are also his offspring,” and built an argument on it. The Greek word is genos: kin, family, stock. Here’s what it means, why “offspring just means creatures” breaks Paul’s logic, and how Hebrews 12:9, Malachi 2:10, and Romans 8:16-17 call God the Father of our spirits.
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Genesis defines its own words. The same two Hebrew words for “image” and “likeness” that describe man made by God describe Seth, born “in his own likeness, after his image” to Adam. Here’s what tselem and demut mean across the Bible, what scholars like Benjamin Sommer say, and how the Restoration read it first.
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“God is a Spirit” is the go-to proof that the Father has no body. Read John 4 in context, check the Greek, and set it beside Luke 24:39, the seventy elders who “saw the God of Israel,” Daniel’s two figures, Stephen’s vision, and Origen’s own admission that “incorporeal” isn’t a Bible word.
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BYU’s John Hilton III and his colleagues tagged the speaker of every verse in the Book of Mormon. They found 149 voices, more than 1,700 speaker changes, and verbal fingerprints that hold up: Nephi’s “my soul delighteth,” Jacob’s “God,” and the Savior’s “baptize.” Part 1 of 10.
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