Friday, November 4, 2016

Is the Book of Mormon too wordy?

In his review of Marian Bodine's tract, Book of Mormon vs. The Bible (or common sense), D. Charles Pyle addressed the following argument against the Book of Mormon, “43. IV Nephi 6, 57 words are used to say 59 years had passed away” thusly:

Reply to Bodine's Forty-third (43rd) Reason for Rejecting the Book of Mormon.

One last straw to pull from Ms. Bodine's clutching hand, readers may find the following quotation of interest:

One final characteristic, reflecting a tempo of life style perhaps forever gone, is the Hebrew lack of urgency to get a thing said. Any modern editor would feel duty-bound to blue-pencil out much of the Old Testament. (Edward W. Goodrick, Do It Yourself Hebrew And Greek, (1980, Zondervan Publishing/Multnomah Press), p. 15:6)

Rather than being a fault that proves that the Book of Mormon cannot be true, this criticism turns out to be a good evidence of its truthfulness! Too bad for CRI that someone did not blue-pencil out all of Ms. Bodine's paper.

For further reading on the “wordiness of the Book of Mormon,” see Jeff Lindsay, Is the Book of Mormon too wordy to be true?



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