Does the Bible mentions America?

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Could be a moral reason to explain why God deprive the original american civilizations of the influence of the Abrahamic Religions?

Is this question just beyond human reason?

Is any reference to the history of America mentioned in the Bible? Do you think there is not enough archaeological and historiographical evidence against the Book of Mormon?

In a passage from the New Testament I read that Paul answers the question: Why should we preach the gospel to all the peoples of the world if the knowledge of the gospel has already reached the ends of the earth?..

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A critical analysis of a topic related to this question was published in the site Christian Courier, titled Was the Gospel preached throughout the whole world in the first century?
 
UrimandTumim said:
Could be a moral reason to explain why God deprive the original american civilizations of the influence of the Abrahamic Religions?

Is this question just beyond human reason?

Is any reference to the history of America mentioned in the Bible? Do you think there is not enough archaeological and historiographical evidence against the Book of Mormon?

In a passage from the New Testament I read that Paul answers the question: Why should we preach the gospel to all the peoples of the world if the knowledge of the gospel has already reached the ends of the earth?..

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You will find that the only countries noted in the bible were only those that people knew about. There’s a saying that you shouldn’t treat the bible as a scientific text book. Neither should you treat it as an atlas. The bible was written only with the knowledge of the day.

If you ask why God wouldn’t have passed on knowledge that would add to man’s understanding of the world…then maybe someone else would have an answer for that.
 
The expression “the ends of the earth” occurs about twenty times in the Bible. Even Moses, back in the second millennium BC, uses the expression just one time (Deut 33:17). It just means the whole of the known world. In Paul’s day, as in Moses’ day more than a thousand years earlier, America was still unknown to the peoples of the Mediterranean world.
 
I agree with the posters above who say that the lands mentioned in the Bible refer to those that were known to the people of the time.
Some of the Protestant prophecy specialists that I used to follow also say that there are no specific prophetic passages that can be interpreted as referring to America. They see these apparent omissions as meaning that by the “end of the last days”, America will have deteriorated to the point that it won’t even be considered a player.

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Bradskii said:
There’s a saying that you shouldn’t treat the bible as a scientific text book.
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I didn’t.
I am just saying I think there are disturbing questions about theological morality that are beyond human understanding.
 
DaveBj said:
Some of the Protestant prophecy specialists that I used to follow also say that there are no specific prophetic passages that can be interpreted as referring to America. They see these apparent omissions as meaning that by the “end of the last days”, America will have deteriorated to the point that it won’t even be considered a player.
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Is not that a racist interpretation?
 
The Bible does mention the underworld, and things under the earth.

Could that be Australia?

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The Book of Mormon teaches that two israelite families came to America in 587 BC.
If they are not mentioned in the Bible, how do mormons explain the omission of such an extraordinary event as the discovery of a new continent in the ancient manuscripts of Israel?
 
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Is not that a racist interpretation?
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I don’t see anything racist about it, but then I’m not one who sees racists under every bed and behind every tree. In any case, you’d have to ask the ones who held that interpretation.

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The Book of Mormon teaches that two israelite families came to America in 587 BC.
If they are not mentioned in the Bible, how do mormons explain the omission of such an extraordinary event as the discovery of a new continent in the ancient manuscripts of Israel?
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They don’t. The book of Mormon was made up. A fiction.
 
Bradskii said:
They don’t. The book of Mormon was made up. A fiction.
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They could say that you are disrespecting the only religion born in America and that you have no christian values neither intellectual honesty.
 
UrimandTumim said:
The Book of Mormon teaches that two israelite families came to America in 587 BC.
If they are not mentioned in the Bible, how do mormons explain the omission of such an extraordinary event as the discovery of a new continent in the ancient manuscripts of Israel?
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According to the Book of Mormon, did anyone from those two families make the return journey back to Judea? If nobody did, then that answers your question. The two families who sailed beyond the western horizon were never heard of again. The people who wrote the Bible never heard the news about the discovery of America.
 
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They could say that you are disrespecting the only religion born in America and that you have no christian values neither intellectual honesty.
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As it happens, I agree with Bradskii, but as to your comment, “they” could say that, but “they” would be wrong on several counts. 1) Just because “they” say something does not make it true. 2) Mormonism is not the only religion born in America; only the biggest and most successful. 3) Christianity was born in the Middle East, and if one believes that Christianity is the true religion, then that automatically makes Mormonism . . . I’ll let you finish that statement. 4) “They” can say that a critic has “no christian values neither intellectual honesty”, but that says more about “their” own lack of Christian values and intellectual honesty than it does about the critic’s.

And this whole discussion is completely off the topic, which is whether or not the Bible mentions America.

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What authentic moral lesson can we draw from the enigma of the amerindian’s (Adam descendants too) inaccesibility to the “living water” (monoteism and christianism) to inmunize their souls against demonism and witchcraft?

That God approves ecumenism, even sincretism?
That God want us to formulate very dificult philosophical questions to deepen our understanding of the nature of morality?

I say it without irony or intention to mortify you.
 
UrimandTumim said:
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Bradskii:
They don’t. The book of Mormon was made up. A fiction.
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They could say that you are disrespecting the only religion born in America and that you have no christian values neither intellectual honesty.
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Indeed they could.
 
The Bible does not mention China either. In fact, of the countries that exist today, the majority are not mentioned in the Bible.
 
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