{"id":33519,"date":"2016-05-16T20:15:57","date_gmt":"2016-05-17T02:15:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=33519"},"modified":"2016-05-17T07:23:41","modified_gmt":"2016-05-17T13:23:41","slug":"bruce-mcconkie-on-the-fallibility-of-the-chapter-headings-in-the-book-of-mormon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2016\/05\/bruce-mcconkie-on-the-fallibility-of-the-chapter-headings-in-the-book-of-mormon.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Bruce McConkie on the Fallibility of the Chapter Headings [in the Book of Mormon]&#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_33520\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-33520\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2016\/05\/600px-2006_Benjamin_Franklin_Silver_Dollar_Obverse.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-33520\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-33520\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2016\/05\/600px-2006_Benjamin_Franklin_Silver_Dollar_Obverse.png\" alt=\"Nephite coinage not set forth.\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-33520\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Not actually a Nephite coin. \u00a0(Wikimedia Commons)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In most modern LDS editions of the Book of Mormon (until quite recently), the chapter heading to Alma 11 talks about Nephite coinage. \u00a0Does this commit us to the view that the Nephites had minted coins?<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>No, it doesn\u2019t. \u00a0The chapter doesn\u2019t describe minted coins; that chapter heading is incorrect.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>So far as we know, minted coinage originated in 7th-6th BC century Anatolia. \u00a0The Nephites probably didn\u2019t have coins, and the Book of Mormon itself doesn\u2019t actually claim that they did. \u00a0Hence, our failure to find Mesoamerican coins (let alone Nephite coins) is of no relevance to the question of the authenticity of the Book of Mormon.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But, some critics respond, the modern chapter headings were created under the supervision of (if not altogether by) Elder Bruce R. McConkie, then a member of the Council\u00a0of the Twelve. \u00a0So aren\u2019t they error-free scripture?<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Not according to Elder McConkie:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/scripturalmormonism.blogspot.com\/2016\/05\/bruce-mcconkie-on-fallibility-of.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/scripturalmormonism.blogspot.com\/2016\/05\/bruce-mcconkie-on-fallibility-of.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Posted from Richmond, Virginia<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 In most modern LDS editions of the Book of Mormon (until quite recently), the chapter heading to Alma 11 talks about Nephite coinage. \u00a0Does this commit us to the view that the Nephites had minted coins? \u00a0 No, it doesn\u2019t. \u00a0The chapter doesn\u2019t describe minted coins; that chapter heading is incorrect. \u00a0 So [&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-33519","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;Bruce McConkie on the Fallibility of the Chapter Headings [in the Book of Mormon]&quot;<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"&nbsp; 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