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helemon
14th August 2005, 09:50 AM
http://www.newutah.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=62067&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
"Journey of Faith," completed over a five-year period in Israel, Jordan, Yemen, Oman and Guatemala, is being presented to audiences for the first time on all five nights of Brigham Young University's Campus Education Week, which begins today.

The documentary's estimation of the course traveled by the Book of Mormon prophet Lehi and his kin is based on the best research available, said S. Kent Brown, a BYU professor of ancient scripture who is featured in the film and will present it to Education Week attendees.

Brown said the film -- to be marketed on DVD in Utah and elsewhere later this year by Covenant Communications -- was made primarily for Latter-day Saints, but that he believes it might be of interest even to viewers with no connection to Mormonism. "We think we've done our homework well enough," he said, "that anyone could watch it and find the account to be believable, or at least credible." :duh

why me
14th August 2005, 12:36 PM
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It will be interesting to see what it has to say. I think that the LDS church will begin an offensive on the validity of the Book of Mormon. Every member now is being encouraged to read the book before christimas and the august ensign is mostly about the BoM. I am sure that this dvd will be free for every member who wants to view it. Thanks for the information. Has the 'war' begun?

peter_mary
16th August 2005, 11:57 AM
http://www.newutah.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=62067&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
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The documentary's estimation of the course traveled by the Book of Mormon prophet Lehi and his kin is based on the best research available...


That line is laughable...what he MEANS to say is, "...the best research available conducted by people who are guided by an unwaivering faith that the Book of Mormon is a true account. Everyone else in the academic world thinks the whole notion of Lehi's journey to be so ludicrous that they won't spend any time, money or effort even conducting such research," says S. Kent Brown, a BYU professor of ancient scripture who is featured in the film and will present it to Education Week attendees, or what he WOULD have said if he had any cajones.

Peter_Mary