@ldsfair: Joseph Smith May Have Believed Abraham Penned the Papyri, but is that a Problem? Full Video: https://youtu.be/qJZ29jltarU Clipped from "Book of Abraham 201" by Michael Ash 2006

Madeline Terry :

You’re only explaining the dating of the papyri here. The bigger issue is that the surviving papyri don’t match the Book of Abraham. They’re Egyptian funerary texts, including the Book of Breathings, with nothing to do with Abraham. Then you’ll probably move to the missing-scroll theory, but the facsimiles remain, are referenced in the text, and Joseph’s explanations of them don’t match Egyptology. So then comes the catalyst theory, which essentially turns a claimed translation into revelation triggered by the papyri. But that requires us to disregard Joseph’s own claims that he was translating. At some point, the simplest and most obvious conclusion is that Joseph Smith created the Book of Abraham himself. The other theories feel like attempts to preserve the book after the original translation claim fell apart.

user9027530082421 :

So you're saying that prophets can be absolutely completely wrong on things including doctine. So what's the value od having a prophet if you don't know what they are saying is even right?

Alex Mahnk :

still doesn't explain why Joseph Smith's "translation" of it was complete horseshit 😂

cheeseburgerinparadise99 :

rdroke :

Thnx