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Book of Mormon anachronisms/Temple in New World
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Criticism
Critics attack the presence of an Israelite temple built by the Nephites. They do so on one or more of the following grounds:
- they claim that Israelites considered the Jerusalem temple the sole legitimate site of worship, and so would not have reproduced it.
- they claim that the Nephite population would have been too small to match the work required to built a temple "like unto Solomon's temple" (2 Nephi 5:16).
Source(s) of the Criticism
No temple besides Jerusalem:
Not enough people:
- John Ankerberg and John Weldon, Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Mormonism (Eugene, OR: Harvest House, 1992), 322.
- Latayne Colvett Scott, The Mormon mirage : a former Mormon tells why she left the church (Grand Rapids : Zondervan Pub. House, 1979), 83.
Response
Only one temple?
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Book of Mormon anachronisms/Temple in New World
Not enough people?
Conclusion
A summary of the argument against the criticism.
Further reading
FAIR wiki articles
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FAIR web site
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External links
- Links to external web pages
Printed material
- Daniel C. Peterson, “Is the Book of Mormon True? Notes on the Debate,” in Book of Mormon Authorship Revisited: The Evidence for Ancient Origins, edited by Noel B. Reynolds, (Provo, Utah : Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 1997), Chapter 6.
- John L. Sorenson, "Kingship and Temple in 2 Nephi 5-10," in John W. Welch, Reexploring the Book of Mormon (Salt Lake City, Utah : Deseret Book Co. ; Provo, Utah : Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 1992), 66–68. ISBN 0875796001.[1]