My friend Tarik LaCour has started a response to Jeremy Runnells' "Letter to a CES Director." I will be updating this page as he posts new installments:
Answering Letter To A CES Director- # 1 (response to claim one: What are 1769 King James Version edition errors doing in the Book of Mormon? An ancient text? Errors which are unique to the 1769 edition that Joseph Smith owned?)
Answering Letter to A CES Director- #2 (DNA studies and the Book of Mormon)
Answering Letter to A CES Director- #3 (Arabian Peninsula/Mesoamerican geography of the Book of Mormon)
Answering Letter to A CES Director #4 (response to pp. 7-19 of the letter: 1) The names and geography of the Book of Mormon are too close to what was around Joseph Smith to be considered coincidental 2)The text of the Book of Mormon is identical to that of Ethan Smith's View of the Hebrews 3) B.H. Roberts came to believe, after serious study, that Joseph Smith could have likely created the Book of Mormon himself 4) There are notions of Trinitarian theology in the Book of Mormon)
Answering Letter to a CES Director # 5 (Joseph Smith's use of a seer stone to translate the Book of Mormon)
Answering Letter to a CES Director #6 (The accounts of the First Vision)
Answering Letter to a CES Director #7 (guest post by Stephen Smoot on the Book of Abraham)
Answering Letter to A CES Director # 8 (guest post by Brian Hales on the topic of Joseph Smith's Polygamy)
Answering Letter to A CES Director #9 (questions relating to the fallibility of LDS leaders [e.g., Mark Hoffman forgeries])
Answering the CES Letter # 10 guest post by Neal Rappleye on the Kinderhook Plates
Answering Letter to a CES Director # 11 guest post by Jaxon Washburn on spiritual testimony/witness
Answering Letter To A CES Director- # 1 (response to claim one: What are 1769 King James Version edition errors doing in the Book of Mormon? An ancient text? Errors which are unique to the 1769 edition that Joseph Smith owned?)
Answering Letter to A CES Director- #2 (DNA studies and the Book of Mormon)
Answering Letter to A CES Director- #3 (Arabian Peninsula/Mesoamerican geography of the Book of Mormon)
Answering Letter to A CES Director #4 (response to pp. 7-19 of the letter: 1) The names and geography of the Book of Mormon are too close to what was around Joseph Smith to be considered coincidental 2)The text of the Book of Mormon is identical to that of Ethan Smith's View of the Hebrews 3) B.H. Roberts came to believe, after serious study, that Joseph Smith could have likely created the Book of Mormon himself 4) There are notions of Trinitarian theology in the Book of Mormon)
Answering Letter to a CES Director # 5 (Joseph Smith's use of a seer stone to translate the Book of Mormon)
Answering Letter to a CES Director #6 (The accounts of the First Vision)
Answering Letter to a CES Director #7 (guest post by Stephen Smoot on the Book of Abraham)
Answering Letter to A CES Director # 8 (guest post by Brian Hales on the topic of Joseph Smith's Polygamy)
Answering Letter to A CES Director #9 (questions relating to the fallibility of LDS leaders [e.g., Mark Hoffman forgeries])
Answering the CES Letter # 10 guest post by Neal Rappleye on the Kinderhook Plates
Answering Letter to a CES Director # 11 guest post by Jaxon Washburn on spiritual testimony/witness
