John 19:31-36 “The Jews therefore, because it was the preparation, that the bodies should not remain upon the cross on the sabbath day, (for that sabbath day was an high day,) besought Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away. 32 Then came the soldiers, and brake the legs of the first, and of the other which was crucified with him. 33 But when they came to Jesus, and saw that he was dead already, they brake not his legs: 34 But one of the soldiers with a spear pierced his side, and forthwith came there out blood and water. 35 And he that saw it bare record, and his record is true: and he knoweth that he saith true, that ye might believe. 36 For these things were done, that the scripture should be fulfilled, A bone of him shall not be broken.”
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Not a bone of the Lamb to be broken … Mormons believe John 19:30 was translated incorrectly and it holds true their mistrust in the rest of the Bible rides the wave of blasphemy for this passage too.
The title of our post today is a paraphrase from what Alexander Campbell said about the Book of Mormon. He once commented that ‘their ‘inspired’ prophet Nephi refuses to shed a tear for Jerusalem, but prided himself in trading the tabernacle for a wigwam’.
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Journal of Discourses 7:29 “The Book of Mormon professes to be translated not from manuscripts containing 130,000 different readings, nor by the learning of men who can render a translation as they please; neither does it profess to be translated from altered, mutilated manuscripts manufactured by monks or impostors upon Mount Athos to impose upon Christian credulity; but it was translated from the original plates themselves—the very plates on which the inspired writers themselves wrote: and they were also translated, not by the learning of men, but by the power of God and the inspiration of the Almighty.” – Orson Pratt, Salt Lake City, January 2, 1859