{"id":1548,"date":"2008-09-23T18:00:42","date_gmt":"2008-09-24T01:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ourthoughts.ca\/?p=1548"},"modified":"2008-09-23T18:00:42","modified_gmt":"2008-09-24T01:00:42","slug":"horses-and-elephants-in-the-book-of-mormon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ourthoughts.ca\/2008\/09\/23\/horses-and-elephants-in-the-book-of-mormon\/","title":{"rendered":"Horses and Elephants in the Book of Mormon"},"content":{"rendered":"
It doesn’t take long for someone researching Mormonism online to come across websites run by Christians making all sorts of claims to discredit the Book of Mormon. A popular claim is that the Book of Mormon is not true because it mentions such animals as horses and elephants, which is unsupported by concrete archaeological evidence.<\/p>\n
I find it odd that Christians would make such claim. Consider Isa. 34:7<\/p>\n
>the unicorns shall come down with them, and the bullocks with the bulls; and their land shall be soaked with blood, and their dust made fat with fatness.<\/p>\n
So if these Christians can (presumably) support the biblical idea of unicorns ?\u00a2\u201a\u00c7\u00a8\u201a\u00c4\u00f9 despite the lack of archaeological evidence of their existence ?\u00a2\u201a\u00c7\u00a8\u201a\u00c4\u00f9 how can they reject a similar claim of actual (if not anachronistic) animals by the Book of Mormon?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
It doesn’t take long for someone researching Mormonism online to come across websites run by Christians making all sorts of … Continue reading Horses and Elephants in the Book of Mormon<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n