Question: Are the Book of Mormon's and the Late War's descriptions of travel to "faraway lands" similar enough to suggest an authorial relationship? in the New Testament , the ones who imitation apostles in the latter days attempt to mimic . FairMormon™ is controlled and operated by the Foundation for Apologetic Information and Research (FAIR), Chris Johnson, Duane Johnson, ""A Comparison of The Book of Mormon and The Late War Between the United States and Great Britain," http://wordtreefoundation.github.io/thelatewar/, Question: Did Joseph Smith plagiarize passages from Gilbert Hunt's book, An assumption is being made that Joseph Smith must have read Gilbert Hunt's, Seventy-five of the parallels identified as significant between the two texts came from the Copyright statements of the two books, Most of the similarities occur simply because both, The authors employ a fallacy that is called the Texas Marksman (or the Texas Bulls Eye), Question: Does the Book of Mormon phrase "curious workmanship" originate from Gilbert Hunt's, Critics' comparison: It is claimed that both books mention weapons of war of “curious workmanship”, And ... weapons of war ... of exceedingly curious workmanship, And ... weapons of war were of curious workmanship, Full context comparison: The Book of Mormon does not talk of weapons of war of curious workmanship, weapons of war were of curious workmanship, The Bible speaks of "curious works" and describes "curious" objects, Critics' comparison: It is noted that both books talk of two thousand young men who went to war. A large number of collectively common phrases – all coming from the same ultimate source – might have virtually no impact on the weighted score if their frequencies in the baseline data were high enough. Here are some examples: The biblical text creates language in the environment (or represents that language) in an incredible density. I can help get the raw data to you, although it is quite large (somewhere between 1/2TB and 1TB I think). rather than some other book? multitudes of Gods and Goddesses ! And because of the strictness of the word of God, which cometh down against you, many hearts died, pierced with deep wounds. It does not have to be that Joseph is “influenced” by both the Bible and the Late War. In the Johnsons’ video presentation, an awareness of this need is discussed. ” It’s the doctrinal wild west . To resolve the third, all of the four-word sequences that could be constructed from the KJV or Douay-Rheims Bibles were excised from the data set. 19 And now behold, as they never had hitherto been a disadvantage to the Nephites, they became now at this period of time also a great support; for they took their weapons of war, and they would that Helaman should be their leader. It also explains why parts appear in so many other volumes [Page 335](as indicated by the low weights) ((From the chart on the blog, simple math can be performed to discover the frequency of occurrences in the baseline data set. Because almost every book in the world contains the 2-gram (bigram) “it is” but only a select few have “Millennium Falcon”. The English translation of the Book of Mormon contains more of these prepositional phrases in place of adverbs than we would expect if the book had been written in English originally—another Hebraism. Behold, now it came to pass in the sixty and ninth year of the reign of the Judges over the people of the Nephites ... Now on the twenty-sixth day of the ninth month, being in the thirty and ninth year of Columbian Independence, It came to pass, that a certain ... And it came to pass that in the eightieth year of the reign of the Judges over the people of Nephi, there was a certain ... Now the name of this man was Robert, sur-named Fulton; ... like other men of genius, in these days, he was spoken of but slightly at first; for the people said, And it came to pass that the Lord spake unto me, saying: Thou shalt construct a, Now these wonderful torpedoes were made partly of, And it came to pass that as my father arose in the morning, and went forth to the tent door, to his great astonishment he beheld upon the ground a, But the imaginary evils which the children of men commit are oftentimes, 3 Nephi 10:17, 1 Nephi 19:1, Mosiah 21:27, Now when Alma had said these words, Korihor was, Now, there was a certain hypocrite whose name was Elijah, and he was a, Now it happened about this time that there were numbers of the inhabitants of the country of Columbia whose, And it came to pass that those who were desirous that Pahoran should be dethroned from the judgment seat, were called, And those who were desirous that Pahoran should remain Chief Judge over the land, took upon them the name of, And it came to pass that those who tarried with their wives and their children caused that their, And if, peradventure, the people of Columbia go out not to battle against the king, then will the manifold wrongs committed against them be increased tenfold, and they shall be as, And because they turned their hearts aside, saith the prophet, and have despised the Holy one of Israel, they shall wander in the flesh, and perish, and become, Now the smooth words of Satan tickled Caleb mightily, and, Laman was angry with me, and also with my father; and also was Lemuel, for.