{"id":30961,"date":"2016-02-15T03:09:37","date_gmt":"2016-02-15T10:09:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=30961"},"modified":"2016-02-15T03:09:37","modified_gmt":"2016-02-15T10:09:37","slug":"for-what-crime-was-nehor-executed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2016\/02\/for-what-crime-was-nehor-executed.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;For What Crime Was Nehor Executed?&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_30962\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-30962\" style=\"width: 417px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2016\/02\/417px-Mormon-book.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-30962\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2016\/02\/417px-Mormon-book.jpg\" alt=\"The Book of Mormon, standard issue\" width=\"417\" height=\"600\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-30962\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A typical copy<br>(Wikimedia Commons public domain)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Matt Roper calls attention to an interesting discussion by Jack Welch that demonstrates an area of remarkable sophistication and complexity in the Book of Mormon \u2014 which, we\u2019re often told, was created on the fly by a virtually uneducated chucklehead with an undisciplined but unscrupulous imagination:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/etherscave.blogspot.com\/2016\/01\/for-what-crime-was-nehor-executed.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/etherscave.blogspot.com\/2016\/01\/for-what-crime-was-nehor-executed.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And this is just the tip of the iceberg.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Posted from Kaanapali, Maui, Hawaii<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">(where there are very few icebergs)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">\n<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 Matt Roper calls attention to an interesting discussion by Jack Welch that demonstrates an area of remarkable sophistication and complexity in the Book of Mormon \u2014 which, we\u2019re often told, was created on the fly by a virtually uneducated chucklehead with an undisciplined but unscrupulous imagination: \u00a0 http:\/\/etherscave.blogspot.com\/2016\/01\/for-what-crime-was-nehor-executed.html \u00a0 And this is just [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>&quot;For What Crime Was Nehor Executed?&quot;<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"&nbsp; 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