NOM

For Come Follow Me, Lesson 39, Sep 28 - Oct 11, 2020, 3 Ne 17-19

If I wanted to encourage thought and try to understand devout believers better, I might ask:
“Does Jesus refer to what would be anachronisms?”

See the Things to consider for this lesson.

And, here’s a list of some other observations about this lesson’s reading.

Enjoy!
A-Bom

Another great one - the anachronisms within Jesus' visit are things I never would've known as a member, but make so much sense now.

jfro18 wrote: ↑Sun Sep 27, 2020 10:36 am the anachronisms within Jesus' visit are things I never would've known as a member, but make so much sense now.

This. And, I have to remind myself all the time that I didn’t know this stuff as a believer and probably would have dismissed it with a shallow apologetic, because I “knew” the gospel was true, so why give any alleged problem a serious critical examination?

If only Joseph had access to Google and Jeremy Runnells' CES Letter.

https://cesletter.org/CES-Letter.pdf

Two words: loose translation. As a believer, every mental defense I employed against anachronisms came down to this.

And I mean really, really loose, to the point where Joseph is swapping whole paragraphs and parables with wild abandon. Beyond loose. A slutty old bimbo of a translation.