Item Detail
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18086
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5
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42
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English
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Sin, Skin, and Seed : Mistakes of Men in the Book of Mormon
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John Whitmer Historical Association Journal
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2005
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25
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36-51
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Murphy suggests using anthropology to remove the mistakes of men from the Book of Mormon, namely: 1) People's skin color reflects states of righteousness or wickedness. 2) Male patriarchs provide the creative contribution, the seed, to the process of human reproduction, and 3) American Indians must turn to restoration scriptures to know their own history. In expanding upon these ideas, he states that the Book of Mormon attribution of "moral and social conditions" is made up of strands from colonial history, and that the history of the Lamanites as recorded in the Book of Mormon is no more than a rewriting of the Indian past. Murphy briefly touches on "overwhelming genetic evidence" that Native Americans came from northeast Asia with no evidence in current Native American populations of Middle East ancestry. This research, in his view, makes the Book of Mormon claim that the Lamanites are "the principal ancestors of the Native Americans" untenable. He also discusses the concept of seed at length as used in the Book of Mormon and the Bible.
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