Sunday, April 7, 2019

Is there really no reference to Jesus' Suffering in Gethsemane in the Book of Mormon?

A friend of mine shared with me the following from self-professed “Mormon Studies Scholar” Fred Anson:




The reality is that Jesus’ suffering in Gethsemane is mentioned in the Book of Mormon. In King Benjamin’s Speech, speaking of the then-future sacrifice of Christ, we read:

And lo, he shall suffer temptations, and pain of body, hunger, thirst, and fatigue, even more than man can suffer, except it be unto death; for behold, blood cometh from every pore, so great shall be his anguish for the wickedness and the abominations of his people. (Mosiah 3:7; cf. Luke 22:43-44; D&C 19:18)


More scholarly research from one of the contributors of the Beggars Bread blog, one that reveals he has never read the Book of Mormon and/or is dissembling when he pretends this is a "vexing question" he has. Even for Fred, this is embarrassing, and that says a lot.

If Fred and others wish to know how to mount a cogent critique of opposing theologies (one that shows one had read the relevant texts from the other side--intellectual integrity and all that), here are two examples aimed at his flavour of Protestantism: