How True do you think the Book of Mormon is?
 

Begs the question. I wonder what the general makeup of CG board members is.

The spiritual doctrine is perfect, the basic historical outline is true, the more detailed historical items' veracity (eg. number of dead at Cumorah) are unknown.

I agree with this statement.

P.S. As far as I can tell, "most correct" does not equate to "flawless" or "errorless".

And the emphasis of "following its precepts" is where I come down.

The text "could correlate to a plausible series" statement doesn't make logical sense to me. Either is entirely false, or has some truth, but correlating to a plausible series of events? Huh?

Meaning, it could have a (possibly coincidental) relationship to actual events. A group of immigrants may have sailed to America, and significant portions of their descendants may have died off in warfare, and that may have led to a highly extrapolated version of the tale we now have in the Book of Mormon.

IMO the historical accounts of the BofM are just as subjective as any other historical record. It relies on the perspective of the author. So I don't see why it would have to be right or wrong, just perhaps different then how someone else may have perceived the events.

This is the goofiest "poll" I've ever seen. What does "true" mean here? True in a metaphysical/allegorical sense, like a parable? True in the sense that the stories really happened once upon a time in a place far away? If the latter, how in the sam hill could anyone know, since there's not a scintilla of evidence there were such thing as Nephites, etc.? I mean, at least with the Old Testament we know there were Egyptians, and can trace what befell the Hebrews/Jews as a people up to today (excluding the "Lost Tribes"). Okay, some of you may have a "testimony," the poll is still silly because it suggests there's some empirical basis, e.g., "the events are more or less true, but reported with an extreme historical bias." Does one get a "spiritual witness" of this nature? Somebody's not thinking too clearly here. LOL.

Then mark the last option and move along, instead of being an asswipe.

I'm simply trying to find out how many people on this board think that the the names and characters spoken of in the Book of Mormon correspond to actual historical figures. As ridiculous as you believe such a prospect may be, at least two thirds of the people that responded to the question feel otherwise.

Personally, I prefer he stay an asswipe. The world needs a few good asswipes and by golly, he is one of my favorites.

Personally, I think I agree with Indy.