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Originally Posted by Rathji
That is something that really can't be interpreted any other way. I don't know how I could explain it so that you could understand without giving you a Book of Mormon and saying "here, read this" and get back to me with any questions you have.
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What do you mean, the part about the ancestry of people on this hemisphere can't be interpreted any other way, or the part about adhering to scripture even if something contradicts it?
If it's the first, sure it could be interpreted other ways.. interpret it as a myth; a story told to make a point rather than something that's literal truth.
Saying read the Book of Mormon doesn't help much, I'm trying to get a sense of how the current religion views the world, not how the scripture is written. Scripture doesn't exist without interpretation, so you have to find out how scripture is interpreted to learn anything. Reading it on my own isn't going to tell me much on how the current church operates.
So I still have the question; if evidence made it 100% clear that it is impossible that the ancestry story of the Book of Mormon were as written, how would the religion respond?