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32: Book of Abraham, Part 3: A look at the text itself

LDS Discussions - Mormon Truth Claims Examined

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The Pharaoh Point

The pharaoh point, the pharaoh point is what gets me every time. It's just shows such a basic misunderstanding of ancient Egypt by Joseph Smith. And again, if it was the catalyst theory, and it was a revelation, then God apparently doesn't know that Pharaoh is a title either. That makes no sense from my perspective. If God is going to reveal something through the Yerim and Thummim, he would do it in one of two ways. Either he would use the perspective that Abraham already held, which is going to be much more reflective of the cosmology that appears in Genesis chapter one or the book of Abraham chapter four. Kerry Milstein: What I'm

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