Book of Mormon/Anachronisms/River runs into fountain

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Questions

== Critics claims that description of "a river’s running into a fountain" in 1 Nephi is absurd.^[1]

To see citations to the critical sources for these claims, click here

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Answer

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The criticism is based on a shallow reading of the text.

All instances of "fountain" in 1 Nephi describe either:

• the Red Sea (rivers surely run to the sea)
• the fountain near the Tree of Life in Lehi's dream, from which the river flows.

== Notes ==

1. [note]  Origen Bachelor, Mormonism Exposed Internally and Externally (New York: Privately Published, 1838), 9. off-site