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Heartland vs Mesoamerica

Isn’t the Book of Mormon in New York / the Midwest? Why do scholars say Mesoamerica? Doesn’t that mean nobody knows, so it is fake?

Bible

The Bible answers

Bible · John 21:25

KJV + NRSVUE

The world itself could not contain the books. Missing GPS is not missing people.

King James Version
And there are also many other things which Jesus did, the which, if they should be written every one, I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books.

NRSVUE
But there are also many other things that Jesus did; if every one of them were written down, I suppose that the world itself could not contain the books that would be written.

Book of Mormon

The Book of Mormon answers

Introduction to the Book of Mormon
Ancient inhabitants of the Americas. The Church did not canonize a tourist map.
It is a record of God’s dealings with ancient inhabitants of the Americas… The crowning event recorded is the personal ministry of the Lord Jesus Christ among the Nephites soon after His resurrection.

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Scripture Central

Book of Mormon Geography

Book of Mormon Central / Scripture Central

Heartland models and Mesoamerican models are both member hypotheses. Neither is a temple recommend question. Cumorah in New York can be the deposit site of a record that traveled. Internal geography — narrow necks, seas, distances of days — fits a limited region far better than ‘the whole hemisphere.’ Disagreement among believers is not a confession of fraud. It is what a real ancient book looks like when the GPS is missing.

No official map is not the same as no ancient people.

The Church will not canonize a pin on a tourist map. That is wisdom, not a dodge.
A New York hill can hold plates without being the only hill in the text.
If two Christians can fight about where Sinai is and still keep Exodus, we can do the same with Zarahemla.

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