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Benjamin Brooks
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Oh boy (there’s only 6 verses in this chapter, making 66% of this chapter erroneous)
Yellow: vv 1, 3, 6
Red: v 2
— Aug 09, 2025 11:33AM
Yellow: vv 1, 3, 6
Red: v 2
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Benjamin Brooks
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There’s literally too much wrong with this book to write it all down every chapter. I get frustrated reading this. And then I get really sad. Pray for the lost.
Nephi’s been having this vision of the “promised land” and “heaven” and the tree of life that’s definitely not the tree of life. Smith quotes and obscures a lot of NT and is vague in all the important parts and specific when he has the info.
— Aug 12, 2025 03:14PM
Nephi’s been having this vision of the “promised land” and “heaven” and the tree of life that’s definitely not the tree of life. Smith quotes and obscures a lot of NT and is vague in all the important parts and specific when he has the info.
Benjamin Brooks
is on page 11 of 531
New color! Amazingly I am now also highlighting in blue, which is something that’s actually true.
1 Nephi 5
Blue: v 2
Yellow: vv 6, 9, 12-13
Red: vv 19-20
— Aug 09, 2025 08:26AM
1 Nephi 5
Blue: v 2
Yellow: vv 6, 9, 12-13
Red: vv 19-20
Benjamin Brooks
is on page 10 of 531
1Ne4
This one has a few theological uh oh’s so let’s break it down. I’ll start using yellow and red to organize. Yellow is anything that’s weird, suspicious, or interesting enough to mention. Red is anything theologically, historically, or narratively incorrect outright.
Yellow: vv 11-12, 14
Red: vv 2,16, 18-21
— Aug 08, 2025 09:08AM
This one has a few theological uh oh’s so let’s break it down. I’ll start using yellow and red to organize. Yellow is anything that’s weird, suspicious, or interesting enough to mention. Red is anything theologically, historically, or narratively incorrect outright.
Yellow: vv 11-12, 14
Red: vv 2,16, 18-21
Benjamin Brooks
is on page 7 of 531
1Ne.3
Not much here, but it is interesting that a genealogy would be recorded on brass plates instead of passed down orally or written down with a paper equivalent. I’m curious why brass?
v17 “he knew that Jerusalem must be destroyed” Jeremiah is the contemporary prophet to 1 Nephi so people would certainly be hearing his prophesies of Babylon.
— Aug 07, 2025 01:32PM
Not much here, but it is interesting that a genealogy would be recorded on brass plates instead of passed down orally or written down with a paper equivalent. I’m curious why brass?
v17 “he knew that Jerusalem must be destroyed” Jeremiah is the contemporary prophet to 1 Nephi so people would certainly be hearing his prophesies of Babylon.
Benjamin Brooks
is on page 5 of 531
1Ne.2
“now this he speak because of the stiffneckedness… for behold, they did murmur and many things against their father”
Interesting how the second chapter of the whole book introduces that there is doubt for this religion, and that there is severe punishment for doubting this religion. Almost as if that is a manipulation tactic that cult leaders will use to bolster fake authenticity.
— Aug 07, 2025 01:05PM
“now this he speak because of the stiffneckedness… for behold, they did murmur and many things against their father”
Interesting how the second chapter of the whole book introduces that there is doubt for this religion, and that there is severe punishment for doubting this religion. Almost as if that is a manipulation tactic that cult leaders will use to bolster fake authenticity.
Benjamin Brooks
is on page 3 of 531
1 Ne. 1
v2 “in the language of my father, which consists of the learning of the Jews and the language of the Egyptians.”
What I was able to find was that this is called reformed Egyptian. What I wasn’t able to find was any other source using this language besides something Joseph Smith wrote down, which is not even enough to be able to decipher an entire language. This book isn’t verifiable.
— Aug 07, 2025 01:02PM
v2 “in the language of my father, which consists of the learning of the Jews and the language of the Egyptians.”
What I was able to find was that this is called reformed Egyptian. What I wasn’t able to find was any other source using this language besides something Joseph Smith wrote down, which is not even enough to be able to decipher an entire language. This book isn’t verifiable.
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Brief explanation:
“abridgment by Mormon… with many commentaries.”
“abridged by Moroni, who inserted comments of his own…”
Again, this book is just admitting that it is full of idiosyncrasies that you must believe blindly. It is a poor source academically, and spiritually. I’m not even on page one yet.
— Aug 07, 2025 12:53PM
“abridgment by Mormon… with many commentaries.”
“abridged by Moroni, who inserted comments of his own…”
Again, this book is just admitting that it is full of idiosyncrasies that you must believe blindly. It is a poor source academically, and spiritually. I’m not even on page one yet.
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Smith’s testimony:
“But his whole person was glorious beyond description” nothing in the entirety of the Bible has been beyond description, including God (Dan. 7:9-10; Rev. 4:2-6) but ok.
Really interested to see how the Urim and Thummim get to America, and how it can be concluded they were used for translating anything (Ex. 28:30; Lev. 8:8 being the only mentions of it in the Bible).
— Aug 07, 2025 12:26PM
“But his whole person was glorious beyond description” nothing in the entirety of the Bible has been beyond description, including God (Dan. 7:9-10; Rev. 4:2-6) but ok.
Really interested to see how the Urim and Thummim get to America, and how it can be concluded they were used for translating anything (Ex. 28:30; Lev. 8:8 being the only mentions of it in the Bible).
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This is for 1 Nephi 6 btw
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Yellow:v1 “And now I, Nephi, do not give the genealogy of my fathers in this part of my record; neither at any time shall I give it after upon these plate which I am writing; for it is given in the record which has been kept by my father; wherefore, I do not write it in this work.”
But why not? Nephi went through all the trouble and killed a man to obtain the only copy of his genealogy. One would think it might be prudent to write just one other copy, but no.
v3: “for I desire the room that I may write things of God.”
Genealogies are things of God. That’s why they’re ALL over the Bible (buckle up: Gen 4:17-22; 5:1-32; 10:1-32; 11:10-32; 25:1-6, 12-17; 36:1-30; 46:8-25; Ex. 1:1-5; 6:14-25; Num. 1:1-46; 3:1-3, 14-51; 26:1-51; 27:1; Ruth 4:18-22; 1 Sam. 1:1-2; 9:1-2; 1Chron. 1:1 - 8:40; 9:35-44; 14:3-7; Matt. 1:1-17; Luke 3:23-38). It is asinine to say in “scripture” that genealogies are a waste of space and not from God and unworthy of being written down. The only thing Nephi is doing by saying this is that we should just trust what he says without verification, something Joseph Smith has also revealed about himself in the intro.
v6: “that they shall not occupy these plates with things which are not worth unto the children of men.”
And now he’s saying he’s going to teach his children this same thing. Verifiable information to solidify authenticity are not worthy of people, they shouldn’t have to know.
Red:v2: “For it sufficeth me to say that we are descendants of Joseph.”
As bad as the yellows are, this is the only red highlight because it’s outright incorrect. It doesn’t suffice to say that you are related to someone several generations back without showing a link to them. I’m apparently a direct descendant of Pocahontas but I can’t tell you the people past my great-grandparents in that succession so it’s a broad and outlandish claim to make. Nephi (Joseph Smith) is only hurting his case by not providing crucial information.
