I have several blogs about LDS Church history and Book of Mormon geography/historicity. They’re useful for me as notes and references. Apparently other people find them useful because people from around the world read the posts. People have asked for a printed version of the blog. It would be over 1600 pages, so I can’t print the whole thing. I decided to limit the book version to 100,000 words, so I stopped when I reached that number, going backward from March 2017 to July 24, 2016. My editorial I take the view that the Mesoamerican theory was based on a historical mistake; i.e., the mistaken attribution to Joseph Smith of anonymous articles he had nothing to do with. In my view, there is one Cumorah and it is in New York. Any model or theory of Book of Mormon geography that doesn't at least put Cumorah in New York cannot be correct in terms of historicity. Such models and theories may serve a useful purpose for people who want to compare the text to their own situations in Mexico, Guatemala, Peru, Chile, Eritrea, Malaysia, Baja, etc., but they do not and cannot help understand the text for what it claims to i.e., a history of a family line who lived in the promised land of North America. Of course, anyone can go online and read the blog, but for various reasons, the blog may disappear or be edited down the road. Printed copies of this book may prove useful. I know I want a copy, at least. Enjoy.
I have several blogs about LDS Church history and Book of Mormon geography/historicity. They’re useful for me as notes and references. Apparently other people find them useful because people from around the world read the posts. People have asked for a printed version of the blog. It would be over 1600 pages, so I can’t print the whole thing. I decided to limit the book version to 100,000 words, so I stopped when I reached that number, going backward from March 2017 to July 24, 2016. My editorial I take the view that the Mesoamerican theory was based on a historical mistake; i.e., the mistaken attribution to Joseph Smith of anonymous articles he had nothing to do with. In my view, there is one Cumorah and it is in New York. Any model or theory of Book of Mormon geography that doesn't at least put Cumorah in New York cannot be correct in terms of historicity. Such models and theories may serve a useful purpose for people who want to compare the text to their own situations in Mexico, Guatemala, Peru, Chile, Eritrea, Malaysia, Baja, etc., but they do not and cannot help understand the text for what it claims to i.e., a history of a family line who lived in the promised land of North America. Of course, anyone can go online and read the blog, but for various reasons, the blog may disappear or be edited down the road. Printed copies of this book may prove useful. I know I want a copy, at least. Enjoy.