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Author: James McReardon
Comment:
If you're going with the Prophets, why then did you remove Joseph Smith from the very beginning of your discussion and made him a hostile witness to your arguments about the location of Cumorah?
Yet you use a European map of the Western Hemisphere - an anachronism - to identify Central America as the narrow neck. The only conclusion by doing so is that the Nephites, Mulekites and Jaredites knew the extent of the entire Western Hemisphere - from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
Yet you talk about directions.
Do you have any evidence that Nephi knew the extent of the Western Hemisphere to be able to identify Central America as a limited area in which to dwell from 600 B.C. to 420 A.D?
Or are you merely imposing your viewpoint onto the text abridged by a Prophet of God and the other Prophet of God who translated it and who are supposed to contradict each other?
Mormon's Map vs "Joseph Smith the ignorant" on the location of the Hill Cumorah.
You claim Joseph Smith lost the location of the Hill Cumorah. But you lost it yourself.
That has vibes of D&C 121.
The Mesoamericanites lost the Hill Cumorah and are still wandering around trying to locate it.
Have you located the Hill that you lost?
When do you plan on doing so? In this life or the next?
President Joseph Fielding Smith rejected this theory in 1938. That can be found on FAIR's website. This theory then obviously existed before 1938.
Then he rejected it again in 1954 for the next generation:
https://newspapers.lib.utah.edu/details?id=25569779
But here we are in 2025. 71 years later.
But you claim that you will go with the Prophets.
If so, then why are you promoting this week after week and have written and sold volumes of books about it?
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