Originally posted by Bill the Cat
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Originally posted by Bill the Cat
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When the Book of Mormon was translated by Joseph Smith, nobody even knew that ancient people in the Americas used cement at all. Then it turned out that they did. And the reason why we must use a looser term for "cement" is because we have to use the term as used and understood in the early 1800s, when Joseph Smith was using the term. In fact, in his description of how he found the plates, his term for "cement" was obviously not a 20th or 21st century technical term, "The box in which they lay was formed by laying stones together in some kind of cement. In the bottom of the box were laid two stones crossways of the box, and on these stones lay the plates."
Originally posted by Bill the Cat
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