Cougarbear
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Again, just your idea about the level of the language should give you a key that it is a true translation of people a couple of thousand years ago. What do you think their level of language was back then? Did they have colleges of higher learning learning Calculus and on and on and on....It makes sense it would be easy to read. In fact, while at BYU, in a class, we took the Book of Mormon and other writings in the Bible to test the level. It's quite easy to do. The Book of Mormon is written in about 2nd grade level in our days. In their days, it would be their college level. But, the OT and NT aren't that much better. Those writings are anywhere from 5th to 7th grade level. So, you say a boy of 14, right on.It means Joseph Smith was a con artist. Listen, I am not the person with whom to discuss your religion. Without knowing what it was, when I was fourteen, I came across The Book of Mormon on a library table I began reading. My first thought (again not knowing a thing about it) was, "This sounds like it was written by a fourteen-year-old boy."
I went back to the forward or introduction, and it suggested sincere prayer. I am very much in favor of sincere prayer and in listening to the Holy Spirit. And I in my mind/soul I clearly heard, "This is not for you."
Note, I did not hear, "This is not for anyone." The exact words were, "This is not for you."
I suspect you are going to insist being Catholic I was being controlled by the devil and it was Satan telling me the LDS faith was not for me. Not so, but you believe as you wish. As I said last night, this is not a discussion the two of us need to have. I recommend, Let it be.
If you know con-artists, they don't like to die, do they? Yet, he died for the cause. So did many others over the years. Tarred and feathered as well. And, the witnesses of the Book of Mormon and the Plates, most of them left the Church. But, they never denied what they saw and heard even on their deathbeds. Go figure. It's time to find out what God wants and not tell him what you want from Him.