How Do Apoolgists Address This One?

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The claim that the ten tribes will return from the North Country is also a head-scratcher. Back in my Seminary days there was still some question about whether an unknown civilization in Siberia might coming marching back to Israel, as Joseph Smith foretold.
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Once the ice caps melt the Arctic hole to the hollow earth will open and the 10 tribes will emerge from their under ground lairs.

Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn.
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In the face of madness, rationality has no power - Xiao Wang, US historiographer, 2287 AD.

Every record...falsified, every book rewritten...every statue...has been renamed or torn down, every date...altered...the process is continuing...minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Ideology is always right.
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I remembered a blog post in 2005 from J. Stapley, who used to run a blog called Splendid Sun way back when. Looks like the blog is gone but the wayback machine has it cached. Check it out here:
https://web.archive.org/web/20110719122442/http://www.splendidsun.com/wp/proclamation/
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1828 Webster's Dictionary,
ABORIG'INAL, adjective an original, or primitive inhabitant. The first settlers in a country are called aboriginals; as the Celts in Europe, and Indians in America.
Riding on a speeding train; trapped inside a revolving door;
Lost in the riddle of a quatrain; Stuck in an elevator between floors.
One focal point in a random world can change your direction:
One step where events converge may alter your perception.
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From the same Proclamation,

We also bear testimony that the "Indians" (so called) of North and South America are a remnant of the tribes of Israel; as is now made manifest by the discovery and revelation of their ancient oracles and records.


That would be the Book of Mormon.
Let the Government of the United States also continue to gather together, and to colonize the tribes and remnants of Israel (the Indians), and also to feed, clothe, succor, and protect them, and endeavor to civilize and unite; and also to bring them to the knowledge of their Israelitish origin, and of the fulness of the gospel which was revealed to, and written by, their forefathers on this land; the record of which has now come to light.

It is these records, together with the other scriptures, and the priesthood and authority now conferred upon the Saints, that will effect their final conversion and salvation; while the creeds of man, and the powerless forms and dogmas of sectarianism will still remain powerless and inefficient.


They made this CRYSTAL CLEAR. And the 12 was the ruling body of the Church in 1845, therefore they were equal in power and authority to any First Presidency. This is all old hat though and Mormon Apologists have been aware of it. They choose to ignore it, because they cannot rebut it. There is nothing that can explain it away. Mormon "Apoolgists" have been wrong for years with their limited geography and other silly and desperate explanations and they know it. All they do is lie. It's all they can do.
Riding on a speeding train; trapped inside a revolving door;
Lost in the riddle of a quatrain; Stuck in an elevator between floors.
One focal point in a random world can change your direction:
One step where events converge may alter your perception.
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