The phrase “and it came to pass” appears 1,404 times in the Book of Mormon which means that it comprises about 2.5% of the entire text.
Joseph Smith was vainly attempting, and badly, to mimic the tone of the King James version of the bible because he felt that this would somehow lend an air of legitimacy to his nonsense. Never you mind that he was tried and convicted in 1826 of running a divination/dowsing scam involving “seeing stones” with a modus operandi that is nearly verbatim the same cockamamie grift he used to claim how the Book of Mormon was “revealed” to him… some four years later. It’s painfully obvious that Smith not only made the whole thing up (aside from the gospel of Mark which he cut-and-pasted more or less directly from the KJV) but he also should have hired a more competent author to ghostwrite the damn thing for him.
The phrase “and it came to pass” appears 1,404 times in the Book of Mormon which means that it comprises about 2.5% of the entire text.
Joseph Smith was vainly attempting, and badly, to mimic the tone of the King James version of the bible because he felt that this would somehow lend an air of legitimacy to his nonsense. Never you mind that he was tried and convicted in 1826 of running a divination/dowsing scam involving “seeing stones” with a modus operandi that is nearly verbatim the same cockamamie grift he used to claim how the Book of Mormon was “revealed” to him… some four years later. It’s painfully obvious that Smith not only made the whole thing up (aside from the gospel of Mark which he cut-and-pasted more or less directly from the KJV) but he also should have hired a more competent author to ghostwrite the damn thing for him.
Verily, verily.