The 1830 Book of Mormon is fraught with error as we all know. Not only are there chronological issues to deal with, but we have grammatical ones as well. The following examples are here to give the reader an idea of its contents –
The Book of Alma, p.406; “They were drowned up in the depths of the sea.”
Question:
How is someone ‘drowned up’?
First Book of Nephi, p.15; “… also Adam and Eve which was our first parents…”
Question:
Shouldn’t this say ‘…who were our first parents…’?
Book of Mosiah, Chapter XIII, p.217; “…and destroyed the souls of much people.”
Question:
Is this how our Lord speaks in His word?
Book of Alma, p. 351; “And when Moroni had said these words he went forth among the people, waving the rent of his garment in the air that all might see the writing which he had wrote upon the rent.”
Question:
A rent is a tear in a garment. How does someone wave a tear in a garment?
Book of Mosiah, p.161; “…there shall be no other name given nor no other ways nor means.”
Question:
Why did Mosiah try to plagiarize Luke and if he was inspired by God to do so, what’s up with the faulty vocab?
Acts 4:12; “Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.”
So, who isn’t well spoken? Is it Joe Smith, with his 3rd grade education or God?
Whom do you believe?
I don’t know. I think God wrote these sacred words.