This is how lame apologetics can get
Posted: Thu Mar 26, 2020 7:39 am
https://knowhy.bookofmormoncentral.org/ ... noahs-name
This article from Book of Mormon Central reveals another amazing detail of ancient Hebrew that Joseph Smith could have only known through revelation.
The name Noah in the Old Testament means "rest" in Hebrew. The BoM turns this into a pun because King Noah made his people work harder, rather than giving them rest as his name implies. At the same time, and this is supposedly also a pun, he built breastworks in his court for his priests "that they might rest their bodies and their arms upon."
Two observations:
First, to suggest that Joseph Smith intentionally used this pun in the BoM would mean that Joseph made up the King Noah character!
Second, if you do a Google search for interior breastwork, one of the prime examples are the breastworks provided for the priesthood leaders in the Kirtland temple, so they can provide rest in exactly the same way as King Noah's priests. Incidentally, this is the same breastwork upon which Jesus appeared in a crowded temple but no one else realized it because he was behind a curtain (as he probably will be for the 2020 April conference).
This article from Book of Mormon Central reveals another amazing detail of ancient Hebrew that Joseph Smith could have only known through revelation.
The name Noah in the Old Testament means "rest" in Hebrew. The BoM turns this into a pun because King Noah made his people work harder, rather than giving them rest as his name implies. At the same time, and this is supposedly also a pun, he built breastworks in his court for his priests "that they might rest their bodies and their arms upon."
Two observations:
First, to suggest that Joseph Smith intentionally used this pun in the BoM would mean that Joseph made up the King Noah character!
Second, if you do a Google search for interior breastwork, one of the prime examples are the breastworks provided for the priesthood leaders in the Kirtland temple, so they can provide rest in exactly the same way as King Noah's priests. Incidentally, this is the same breastwork upon which Jesus appeared in a crowded temple but no one else realized it because he was behind a curtain (as he probably will be for the 2020 April conference).
You need to learn to have more double standards. That's all.