EverChanging
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I'm looking for apologetic material from the LDS viewpoint that addresses the problem of the Asian descent of the Native Americans. If anyone has any links, that would be great.
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Native Americans and Jewish Descent
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Katzpur
Not your average Mormon
Here are a few:
DNA and the Book of Mormon
DNA and the Book of Mormon (a different article, different author, just the same title)
The Book of Mormon and the Origin of Native Americans...
DeepShadow
White Crow
Hugh Nibley was making claims in the 1950's that we would find out the Jaredites were Asian. See "World of the Jaredites/There Were Jaredites."
Flat Earth Kyle
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[youtube]NgnRN-GOLLI[/youtube]
Native Americans Wrote in Ancient Hebrew - YouTube
Native Americans Wrote in Ancient Hebrew - YouTube
What is this?
silvermoon383
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It is a digital data stream that tells your computer to turn on a series of pixels in certain colors multiple times a second, and is accompanied by a companion signal that tells your computer to vibrate the speakers in a particular manner. But that's not important right now.
Flat Earth Kyle
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a Fox News news report where Glen Beck explains how there has been an astounding archeological discovery of some ancient American ruins with Hebrew incriptions.
Flat Earth Kyle
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Fox News
Flat Earth Kyle
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It is also interesting to read about the mound builder people on Wikipedia,
as well as the supposed Egyptian Heiroglyphs and artifacts in the forbidden zone in the grand canyon.
as well as the supposed Egyptian Heiroglyphs and artifacts in the forbidden zone in the grand canyon.
Flat Earth Kyle
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And even more interesting to read a bunch of Native American origin stories and legends and compare them with the Old Testament Creation/ Adam and Eve story. There are a ton of similarities.
Flat Earth Kyle
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Well I would be a little worried if you were gullible enough to believe me about anything right off the bat.
Flat Earth Kyle
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I go more into details on stuff like that on some of my other threads, this thread however I'm more interested in finding out other similarities out there and what different people think about them. (though inwardly I get all giddy and love it when people ask questions about my beliefs and opinions, so if you have any questions feel free to ask.)
Flat Earth Kyle
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oops for a second I thought this was my Creation Stories similarities thread, scratch a bunch of what I just said.
It's not about what you posted. I was born and raised LDS and simply don't believe it.
Flat Earth Kyle
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So what do you believe?
Are you atheist, agnostic, Jehovah's Wittness, Catholic, Jewish, Muslim, Hindu, non-denominational?
Not super long ago I went over to the Baptist Church around the corner from where I live and interviewed the pastor there trying to find out what he believed in. Do you want to know what he told me?
The head pastor there loaded me up with a ton of anti-Mormon literature and didn't say a thing about his own religion. That was a big turn off for me. I go with the parable of the lamps where you can clearly see which lamp is the better lamp by which lamp shines the brightest. So far I have never seen any church shine brighter than the LDS church, and you can't tell me that it is only because I have only seen the one lamp my entire life, for I certainly go go out of my way to talk to people from other churches, learn what it is that they believe in, and even interview the church leaders at those churches. If you ever find a church that you feel shines brighter, let me know because I would like to take a look.
I'm LDS.
Flat Earth Kyle
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Don't you have to believe in the LDS church in order to be LDS?
It is kind of hard to pass your baptismal interview questions if you don't believe in it, unless you lie your way through them.
For other people reading this conversation the baptismal interview questions are as follows:
-Do you believe that God is our Eternal Father?
-Do you believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God, the Savior and Redeemer of the world?
-Do you believe that the Church and the gospel of Jesus Christ have been restored through the prophet Joseph Smith?
- Do you believe that the current prophet (President Thomas S. Monson) is a prophet of God? What does that mean to you?
Yahsaves01
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Sure there is........my family was/is Jewish and mingled with the Native Americans....Osage Indian tribe to be exact. But i think the question by a lot of people is did certain tribes actually migrate from Israel. i saw on some science channel show that the Cherokee tribe did not have any DNA pointers indicating a migration from there....
Katzpur
Not your average Mormon
People really ought to take the time to do some research before trying to argue for either side of this issue. It's just not as simple as 99% of people (Mormon and non-Mormon alike) would like to make it. What follows is the entire four-part aticle which appeared in a Salt Lake City daily newspaper some months ago. It references work done by a man by the name of Ugo Perego. Perego is a Senior Researcher at the Sorenson Molecuar Genealogy Foundation. He received his PhD from the University of Pavia (Pavia, Italy) under the mentorship of Professor Antonio Torroni. Ugo has lectured extensively internationally, authoring and co-authoring numerous articles on the use of DNA to research ancient population migrations, and genealogies. This article is not particularly difficult to understand. I'll post it in 3 separate posts. (I'm not providing a link because I could no longer find it online. At the time I first read it, I copied in in its entirety, because I had a hunch that there would come a time when I could no longer find it.)
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