Book Of Mormon Evidences In America

Anthropological/archaeological/genetic/historical/lingual/Biblical/evidences of the Book of Mormon. Randy Nyborg. Nevertheless, faith precedes the miracle.

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30(!) facts that identify W NY/PA as Bom setting:

1. JS said Jaredites "landed" in "Lake Country" (Great Lakes)

2. Moroni said to JS in W NY that BoM setting was "this nation"

3. D&C 128:20 identifies Susq River & Fayette County NY in BoM setting

4. Jewish DNA in some Nat

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ever since. The Jaredites arrived abt 2500 BC, and the Nephites, much later-590 BC. The lake existed, tho likely receding for the Jaredites, but scattered lakes/ marshes for the Nephites. 1850 survey of W NY showed a still very large marsh. Less today, but vestiges remain.

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BoM geog gets it right. The Jaredites invoked "Sea That Divides The Land", implying a major feature. The Nephites never mention STDTL, even tho they lived just south of Jaredites! STDTL was Lake Tonawanda. Vestiges remain today. It was formed 10k years ago and has been receding

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The narrow neck of land was between the west ending of the Onandanga escarpment and Lak Erie/Niagara River. The right pic shows the Onandanga escarpment. This was the pass to the Land Northward.

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Alma 52. Lam king, Ammoron, warring against Moroni & Teancum led Nephs. Teancum defending land northward by ONLY blocking narrow neck.While Moroni stuck defending West Sea,bc Ammoran tries to draw Nephs away from East Sea cities he seized.

Overall sense is BoM setting is small!

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This integrates seamlessly with Alma 22 in which he says a day and a half journey from east sea to west sea for All of BoM setting, inc Lamanites. Estimated at 60 miles.

If you get the location right, everything meshes flawlessly.

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See prev posts. D&C128:20. Explicitly mentions Cumorah, while Moroni/Michael/P, J,&J celebrate BoM from Susquehanna river in Seneca County, W NY. The hill Cumorah is in adjacent Ontario County.

Bad news for 2 Cumorahs folks.

BTW, the BoM setting was largely the tan counties.

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See prev post. D&C 128:20. Unique scripture, celebrates the coming forth of BoM. On the banks of the
Susquehanna River! A common water corridor for both Jaredites & the Nephites.

If BoM setting were in Guadalupe or Rio de Janero, why would Moroni/Michael celebrate on Susq R?

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allowed to fit together.

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D&C 128:20 (below) celebrates BoM. It invokes the Susquehanna River, Seneca County (W NY) & Fayette, NY. And Peter, James & John.

It's one of our most ignored verses.

it's not just an ornamental scrip. It provides important clues to the newly arrived Jaredites and Nephites.

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Alma’s geography - a day & a half journey wide-abt 60 miles! The most ignored scrip in BoM.

Seneca County

Moroni’s “this nation”

and JS’s Jaredite statements.

No stretched maps. No ignored verses. No reversing river flows. The geography works naturally when all the clues are

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of Erie ( West sea) including the original land of Nephi. The text implies their initial location was more east, but splitting up, they traveled for the space of many days and stopped at Lake Erie. | would've stopped there too.

Get the right location-everything falls into place

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Nephi 4:5. Nephi says they traveled for the space of many days, finally stopped. Called it the Land of Nephi. My INTERNAL map of BoM had them at the South Eastern shores of lake Erie. All subsequent immigrations were to the north. Lamanites eventually took over those shores

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and herds."

Connect the dots. The instant farm animals were escapees from the concurrent Jaredites to the north and were confined by the geography, i.e, the Genesse R, Lakes Ontario and Erie.

Same geog that trapped the Nephs & resulted in their eventual annihilation.

Obvious.

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Last week, my neighbor's cows pushed thru his fence & came onto my acreage. They'd eaten his grass to the dirt. Nephites, same. They arrive to promised land & magically there's domestic animals waiting for them! Nephs didn't bring any but concurrent Jaredites did. Five passages:

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Ether 6:4 — animals brought into the promised land
Alma 22: 27 — land nearly surrounded by water
Alma: 22: entirety of nation was a day & a half's journey- about 60 miles wide!
1 Nephi 18: 25 — Nephites later “find” animals already there
2 Nephi 5: 11 — and quickly have “flocks