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| | #REDIRECT [[Question: Is it possible that Joseph Smith simply added the Book of Ether to the Book of Mormon as an "afterthought" in order to explain the variety of animals in the New World?]] |
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| ==Criticism==
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| *Critics charge the the story of the Jaredites, as described in the Book of Ether, was added by Joseph Smith as an "afterthought" in order to account for the variety of animals present in the New World at the time of arrival of Lehi's group.
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| ===Source(s) of the criticism===
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| *{{AntiBook:Brodie:No Man Knows|pages=70–71}}
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| *{{AntiBook:Southerton:Losing|pages=30}}
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| ==Response==
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| The verse used by critics to support this assertion is Ether 2:1-3:
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| :1 And it came to pass that Jared and his brother, and their families, and also the friends of Jared and his brother and their families, went down into the valley which was northward, (and the name of the valley was Nimrod, being called after the mighty hunter) with their flocks which they had gathered together, male and female, of every kind.
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| :2 And they did also lay snares and catch fowls of the air; and they did also prepare a vessel, in which they did carry with them the fish of the waters.
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| :3 And they did also carry with them deseret, which, by interpretation, is a honey bee; and thus they did carry with them swarms of bees, and all manner of that which was upon the face of the land, seeds of every kind. ({{s||Ether|2|1-3}})
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| ==Conclusion==
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| {{nw}}
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| ==Endnotes==
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| ''None''
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| ==Further reading==
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| ===FAIR wiki articles===
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| ===FAIR web site===
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| *FAIR Topical Guide:
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