Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1903-12-05

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refer TO the King James English 'ei
sion of the Bible which was l.rst pup
lishad in 1911. A. ID. Now perhaps El'
der Roberts can tell us how lhis req, W
Nephi. pretending to write iu th' sIAth
century before Christ could quote nun
dreda Of passages about 300, IRON 'i''
| New Testament alone. and whole Chdp-
tiers from our English version OF the
Bible, which did not come into existence
for more than 1900 years after ne
| Wrotel
This stuffed prophet Ncphi gives him
self completely away In the very nIsl
chapter, and shows that he Is very
modern writer by using such WrH-
known expressions as these from our
| English Bible; pillar Of ilre' EN"
1874 "Filled with the spirit Eph'-
SLAMS, j:l8; Great and marvellous are
Thy works, o Lord God Almighty
Rev. lj.3. These hundred of nass1s +.
and these whole chapters In ~ NephI
and elsewhere from our English blp.e'
be II observed, are quoted not from tle
| original. which would not help the mat
ter. for the original Of the New Iesto :
ment did not exist; but they are quotea
from the English translation OF wi
mistakes and all, even TO the illllhs III
OF the peculiar gaps I'm the way sng-
gested by the English translators
| Now, these hundreds Of verbatim quo
tations, aud these whole chapters from
our English Bible, which clam 10 ~
| quoted over 1000 years before ll was
written, should make II quite cleah
even to the average mind, mat ths pre-
tended Nephi instead Of being an am
| Client prophet was very modern one,
| pious decever and falsiher llvins
| nf IL
| der Roberts can explain IL all ana show
us how this modern deceIyer in the
| nineteenth century was ON ancient
| prophet OF God GOO b. G.
GIVES HIMSELF AWAY.
4-Thls alleged prophet Nephi gives
| himself away even worse In the 3lst
| chapter OF the second book by forget
| ting that he was pretending 10 write IN
| the sixth century before Christ as ac-
| tual history, which II really was. He
| not only refers TO It I'm the past tense,
| but actually INDUCES in regular
| campmeeting exhortatlon 10 the 'brelh-
rem exhortlng them, IN accordance
| with the revival style OF 1893, TO re
| pent Of their sins" ana follow their
| Lord and Savior down into the water, u,
| promising that after that they shan
| have the baptism Of fire and OF the
| Holy Ghost
This is deception No. 4 and shows
| that Sidney Rigdon Nephi In 1928. fol-
getting that he was an ancient prophet
living six centuries before Christ, broke
loose in his regular old camp-meetins
style, and Just "whooped up the breth-
rem, without his deceiver's mask. Merrill
a dlvinely Inspired prophet Of Goo,
Holy Moses, preserve us! II Nephi,
with the above record or the goddess
fellow who personated him, deserves
honor as to prophet then great injus-
tice was done to Boss Tweed I'm not
electing him president Of the American
Bible society For clearly he had more
religion than this alleged prophet Nephi
with his constituencies deception in
connection with sacred things.
Come, Brother Roberts, If you can't
back up that other alleged prophet, Jo-
seph Smith, with Something more sub
stantlal something less imaginary and
fictitious than these pretended prophe-
tic writings Of Nephi, from which we
have been quoting, then yon better drop
Nephi as a prophet and fall back on
Coriantumr Shiz and Robinson Crusoe.
WHAT is NEW IN 1T?
SIT the Book Of Mormon, as Elder
Roberts claims, rs a revelation from
God, what moral or religious truth does
II reveal which we did not know before
Not one item If Elder Roberts win
point me to one solitary Item Of moral
| or spiritual truth IN the whole Book Of
| Mormon which 1t did not take, directly
or indirectly, from the Bible, / will pre-
sent him with a 81 Stetson hat. | know
| Il IL. foo . hau "a
| tempted in vain again and again. What
sense is there I'm calling the Book Of
! Mormon revelation from God, when II
| took from the Bible the only moral
truth It contains, and is shown on it's
| face to be a counterfeit book?
THE PRETENDED PROPHECIES
Now few words about the pretend
| ed prophecies of the wonderful Me-
| phi, which Elder Roberts claims have
| been fulfilled. Here Is the way In
! which prophecies are made and fulfill
ed in the Book OF Mormon. II either
| takes the historic record In the New
| Testament, using the very words of
| Scripture tries to push this history
| back hundreds Of years and then false
| ~ claims 1t to be prophetic, or else it
/ deliberately appropriates the genuine
prophecies Of the old Testament Then,
after mutiating these prophecies more
or less, with It's peculiar Sidney Rigdon
phraseology and most abominable
grammar, It attempts to palm off these
prophecies as original The prophecy
about the restoration Of the Jews to
their own land, which Elder Roberts
quotes from second Nephi and thinks
Is so wonderful Is simply a case of
lnNVnTIUht d oh
of the Jews and their restoration to
their own land tx repeatedly foretold
by the Old Testament prophets, In such
passages as Jeremiah 1913; Eek, 81 2i
Amos 9.l5, and others Yet the writer
OF this book Of Nephi does not hesitate
TO take these prophecies from the BIZ
bic, modify their language, and then
try to palm them off as his own.
As for the two pretended prophecies
referred to by Mr. Roberts, in ! l. Neph
$685. that Many shall believe the
words which are written and that
"rhey shall carry them forth to the
remnant of our Seed the first Is not
prohecy az all but the simple state
mont OF a Well known historical fact,
yet perverted by the attempt to make
1t bolster W. this modern book. In
saying that 10 is the statement Of a
historical fact we mean this The
Book Of Mormon. as shown above Is
made up of hundreds upon hundreds Of
Bible phrases and verses. and many
whole chapters taken from our Eng
llsh Bible. As a matter OF course. these
Bible quotations which form such a
large per cent NJ the Book Of Mormon.
are accepted and believed by the 400
millions who make up Christendom
The other passage MI Roberts mis-
reads and misinterprets bv making
the remn.u nj Of our seed" refer To the
Lamanites. Then ho assumes. without
one item of proof that the Lamanites
are the same as our Indians. Accord
ing In Nephi the Lamanites were the
descendants 90 his brother Lamar, and
Nern consnuunntlv Howe for Inn,nn