New Project

2009 - 2010  

Whilst researching and writing The Mormon Delusion, many aspects which Joseph Smith referenced and that the Mormon Church today relies upon from the Bible came into serious question. After the devastating discovery that Smith was a fraud and that Mormonism was a hoax, it was equally distressing to discover that many aspects which are contained in Mormonism, which stem from the Bible, are also provably false claims. Whilst there may be an element of truth regarding some of the people and events, the Bible is filled with mythology, fabrications and exaggerations.  

This led me to decide that it would be worth writing about some Biblical accounts which the Mormon Church relies on and which are in fact demonstrably not true and can be proven to be fables or borrowed legends, constructed to create an historical account of the Hebrew tribes which set them apart from and above other nations.  

The resulting work will be for general readership. Many accounts, stories and legends of the Old Testament affect Judaism, Islam and Christianity alike, which all trace beliefs back to Abraham. If some aspects of the Bible are provably fiction, then some of Joseph Smith's claims are even more fundamentally flawed than is covered in TMD Volumes 1-3. 

I have visited the Holy Land and many of the Biblical sites. It was perfectly clear; despite what some Christian web sites may claim about their own 'Christian' archeological research; that things are not all as they are claimed in scripture. For example, I visited Jericho and looked at the digs and archeological evidence regarding the early walls of the city. Firstly, it was more of a village than a city in Biblical times. It is no more than a small town even today, with a population of a little over twenty thousand. Secondly, the original walls were some of the oldest in the world, dating back some fourteen thousand years, several thousands of years prior to the Biblically claimed date of the creation and of Adam and Eve. The original walls were not 'high' - two stories at most; and they eventually just crumbled, in a time frame several centuries different to the claimed event where Joshua supposedly had the Lord make them miraculously ‘tumble’ so they could take the city with ease.  

The events that preceded this fictitious event include the Israelites being in Egypt, various plagues and between a million and two million people crossing the Red Sea and then living and travelling in the Sinai for forty years. Most Christian Churches; including the Mormon Church; are quiet about the fact that Egyptian history, which is detailed and extensive, has no account of the Israelites ever being there in any significant numbers and only mentions small encampments on occasion outside city walls. Two million people in the Sinai for forty years would have left some evidence of their existence. Despite extensive archeological research, none has ever been found.  

I hardly need to mention a global flood, the concept of which the Mormon Church clings to regarding the earth requiring a literal baptism. The fact that there are billions of species which could not have evolved in the short time span after that period; and that there is conclusive geological evidence from across the globe that no such thing happened on that scale ever, let alone in that time frame, is ignored in favour of faith in the fanciful. Evidence, again from many locations across the globe, of the continuous existence of animals and humans over tens, if not hundreds of thousands of years, again refutes such nonsense. The Egyptian history and the genealogy of their Kings and Pharaohs spans many thousands of years without a ‘flood’ gap – something Smith has a major problem with in terms of his Book of Abraham. In that book, following the flood, Egyptus, daughter of Ham and Egyptus (son and daughter-in-law of Noah) discovers Egypt after the flood. The Mormon Church is quiet about the fact this is both historically impossible and that the word 'Egypt’ didn’t even exist until the Greeks couldn’t pronounce the actual name of the country - many centuries later. See TMD Volume 2, Chapter 14 for full details of this nonsense.  

The New Testament includes books ascribed to people who did not write them; the books being written and rewritten, decades to even centuries after the supposed time of Christ, by people who never knew or even met him. The Gospel of John, which is relied upon heavily in Mormonism, is accepted by many theologians as an unhistorical document, written to describe what they would have liked the Saviour to have been like, rather than a remotely true or reliable account of an individual who actually lived. The questions go on and on and I can't resist digging deeper until I find the truth behind the fiction. At present, I am leaning towards the 'general readership' idea with an 'Especially for Mormons' section at the end, which will reference aspects I have written about in a 'Mormon' context. I expect the research to take at least a year plus the time it takes to assimilate and write the information; so the book may not be be available until late 2010 or early 2011. I will update this page again when there is something worth saying.

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