A rare copy of Joseph Smith's Egyptology 101 Final Examination.

None of the characters on the papyrus fragments mentioned Abraham's name

[1] lds.org/topics/translation-and-historicity-of-the-book-of-abraham

[2] lds.org/scriptures/pgp/abr/fac-3

[3] bookofabraham.com/boamathie/BOA_6.html

See also:

	Facsimile #3 Examined

Stargate SG-1; More True Than the Book of Abraham

This scene from Stargate SG-1 Season 4 Episode 13, "The Curse"
http://stargate.mgm.com/view/episode/2502/index.html

Synopsis of "The Curse"

Figure #2, Facsimile #3, Book of Abraham, Pearl of Great Price
http://www.lds.org/scriptures/pgp/abr/fac-3

The complete Facsimile #3 Examination
http://www.mormoninfographics.com/2012/08/book-of-abraham-facsimile-3-examined.html

Honest Mormonism in a Parallel Universe

 
Top Left Photo
This is a current display at the LDS Conference Center depicting the Book of Mormon translation process.

Top Right Photo
This is a current display at the LDS Salt Lake Temple Square North Visitor Center depicting the Book of Mormon translation process.

Bottom Photos
Based on the actual historical record.  As reported by witnesses and documented by scholars and historians.  And acknowledged in obscurity by the LDS church.

"Joseph Smith would put the seer stone into a hat and put his face in the hat"
'A Treasured Testament' - Ensign July 1, 1993; Elder Russel M. Nelson
https://www.lds.org/ensign/1993/07/a-treasured-testament

Bottom Statement
This is a reference to the standard of honesty taught by the LDS church in Chapter 31 of the Gospel Principles Manual.



"To become completely honest, we must look carefully at our lives. If there are ways in which we are being even the least bit dishonest, we should repent of them immediately."

Credit idea for panel to the author of A Letter to a CES Director

The Mormon God Doesn't Need Plates

References

1 Nephi 4:10-13

10 And it came to pass that I was constrained by the Spirit that I should kill Laban; but I said in my heart: Never at any time have I shed the blood of man. And I shrunk and would that I might not slay him.

 11 And the Spirit said unto me again: Behold the Lord hath delivered him into thy hands. Yea, and I also knew that he had sought to take away mine own life; yea, and he would not hearken unto the commandments of the Lord; and he also had taken away our property.

 12 And it came to pass that the Spirit said unto me again: Slay him, for the Lord hath delivered him into thy hands;

 13 Behold the Lord slayeth the wicked to bring forth his righteous purposes. It is better that one man should perish than that a nation should dwindle and perish in unbelief.

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"Joseph Smith would put the seer stone into a hat and put his face in the hat"
'A Treasured Testament' - Ensign July 1, 1993; Elder Russel M. Nelson
https://www.lds.org/ensign/1993/07/a-treasured-testament

10 Questions to ask a Mormon Guaranteed to get less than the truth

References		Link
1	Polygamy Doctrine is in D&C 132	http://www.lds.org/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/132
2	2013 Lorenzo Snow Manual Ch 5	http://www.lds.org/manual/teachings-of-presidents-of-the-church-lorenzo-snow/chapter-5-the-grand-destiny-of-the-faithful
3	Wives of Joseph Smith Pedigree Chart	http://www.mormoninfographics.com/2012/09/the-many-wives-of-joseph-smith.html
4	Law of Consecration	http://lds4u.com/lesson5/templecovenants.htm
5	Translation Method	http://www.mormonthink.com/img/trans5.jpg
6	"creeds were an abomination"	http://www.lds.org/scriptures/pgp/js-h/1.19#18
7	Blacks and the Priesthood	http://www.mormonsandnegroes.org/
8	Joseph Smith @ Carthage Jail	http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/carthage/expositororder.html
9	Pre-1990 Temple Blood Oaths	http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jyU97I12AQ
10	Polygamy: It's not about the widows	http://www.i4m.com/think/polygamy/polygamy_widows.htm

The Mormon God Sitting On His Throne

The Mormon God Sitting On His Throne is 'Min' the Phallic God.

References:

[1] Facsimile 2, BoA, lds.org/scriptures/pgp/abr/fac-2
Joseph Smith Translation:
"God sitting on his throne, revealing through the heavens the grand Key-words of the priesthood"

[2] Min; http://www.bookofabraham.com/boamathie/BOA_7.html
(Scroll down to Figure 7)

Joseph Smith said that figure 7, "Represents God sitting upon his throne, revealing through the heavens the grand Key-words of the Priesthood; as also, the sign of the Holy Ghost unto Abraham, in the form of a dove."
This figure is clearly the ithyphallic god Min. Next to Min ... is the ithyphallic snake which represents Atum, whose power of creation was often represented in the form of a snake. The ithlyphallic pose underlines this creative aspect. I suspect that the unfinished representation of Atum in Facsimile 2 (due probably to damage in the original) was interpreted by Joseph to be a figure "in the form of a dove", rather than that of a snake.
Overall, this entire lower register describes the deceased's entry into the divine realm of the afterlife and the beginning of his/her transformation — his/her re-birth to that realm, as represented by these ithyphallic figures.

LDS Apologists Agree that Figure 7 is Min the ithyphallic God

Note, even LDS apologists admit that this figure, with the erect penis, is the god Min. (page 11, last paragraph of the above link). "7. A seated ithyphallic god with a hawk's tail, holding aloft a flail. This is a form of Min"

(Quoted from mormonthink.com)

See also:

Facsimile #2 Examined

Kinderhook Plates; Hoax or History?

References:

[1]  Letter from the Chicago Historical Society, 5/23/2005
[2]  Joseph Smith the Prophet, His Family and His Friends, Volume 1, 1886, Affidavit, pp 207-8
[3] As recorded by his scribe William Clayton in History of the Church, v. 5, p. 372
[4] Ensign Magazine, August 1981, "Kinderhook Plates Brought to Joseph Smith Appear to Be a Nineteenth-Century Hoax", Stanley B. Kimball

More Resources:

BYU's FAIR group has a Kinderhook apology
Mormon Expression did a detailed podcast analysis.

Book of Abraham; Facsimile #3 Examined

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See also:

Facsimile #1 Examination	Facsimile #2 Examined

References:

Joseph Smith's Interpretation
http://www.lds.org/scriptures/pgp/abr/fac-3

Modern Eqyptological Interpretation
http://www.bookofabraham.com/boamathie/BOA_6.html

FAIR LDS explanation
http://en.fairmormon.org/Book_of_Abraham/Joseph_Smith_Papyri

Joseph Smith's Interpretation	Figure	Modern Egyptological Interpretation
Abraham sitting upon Pharaoh’s throne, by the politeness of the king, with a crown upon his head, representing the Priesthood, as emblematical of the grand Presidency in Heaven; with the scepter of justice and judgment in his hand.	1	This is Osiris Writing above figure:  "Recitation by Osiris, Foremost of the Westerners" The "atef" crown also identifies him as Osiris
King Pharaoh, whose name is given in the characters above his head.	2	This figure is female not male. Writing above figure:  "Isis the great, the god's mother"
Signifies Abraham in Egypt as given also in Figure 10 of Facsimile No. 1.	3	This is a libation table (wine, oils, etc.)
Prince of Pharaoh, King of Egypt, as written above the hand.	4	This figure is female not male. Writing above figure:  "Maat, mistress of the gods."
Shulem, one of the king’s principal waiters, as represented by the characters above his hand.	5	This is the deceased individual wearing the traditional cone of perfumed grease and lotus flower on his head. Writing above figure:  "The Osiris Hôr, justified forever"
Olimlah, a slave belonging to the prince.	6	Not a slave, this is Anubis, guide of the dead, who is there to support the deceased. Writing above figure:  "Recitation by Anubis, who makes protection(?), foremost of the embalming booth,…"

Book of Abraham; Facsimile #2 Examined

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See also:

Facsimile #1 Examination	Facsimile #3 Examined

References:

Joseph Smith's Interpretation available at: http://www.lds.org/scriptures/pgp/abr/fac-2
Modern Eqyptological Interpretation at:  http://www.bookofabraham.com/boamathie/BOA_7.html
FAIR LDS explanation at http://en.fairmormon.org/Book_of_Abraham/Joseph_Smith_Papyri

Joseph Smith's Interpretation	Figure	Modern Egyptological Interpretation
Kolob, The residence of God	1	The god Khnumu.
Stands next to Kolob	2	"Amun-Re", god with two faces representing rising & setting sun.
God sitting on his throne, clothed with power and authority	3	"Horus-Re" riding in his boat
Raukeeyang; also the number 1,000; The measuring of time of Oliblish	4	Represents Sokar, not a number
Enish-go-on-dosh; a governing planet	5	Cow of Hathor, behind which stands a uzat-headed goddes holding a sacred tree.
Represents this earth in it's four quarters	6	The four (4) sons of Horus, they can represent the four cardinal points of earth
God sitting on his throne, revealing through the heavens the grand Key-words of the Priesthood	7	The god "Min", an ithyphallic god; that is, a sexually aroused male deity.
Contains writings that can only be revealed in the temple.	8	"grant that the soul of Osiris Shechonk may live."
Ought not to be revealed at the present time.	9	"the netherworld (below the earth) and his great waters"
	10	"O might god, lord of heaven and earth"
	11	"O god of the sleeping ones from the time of creation" (Read in order 11, 10, 9, 8)
Will be given in the own due time of the Lord	12	"near" and "wrap"
	13	"which made by"
	14	"breathings"
	15	"this book"
	16	"and may this soul and its possessor never be desecrated in the netherworld"
	17	"May this tomb never be desecrated"
	18	"I am Djabty in the house of Benben in Heliopolis, so exalted and glorious.  [I am] copulating bull without equal.  [I am] that mighty god in the house of Benben of Heliopolis… that might god…"
	19	"You shall be as that god, the Busirian"
	20
	21
No Annotation Given	22	Writing: "The name of this mighty god"
	23	Figures 22,23; Baboons are adoring souls of that realm

Book of Abraham; Facsimile #1 Examined

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See also:

Facsimile #2 Examined	Facsimile #3 Examined

References:

Joseph Smith's Interpretation available at: http://www.lds.org/scriptures/pgp/abr/fac-1

Modern Eqyptological Interpretation compiled at:  http://www.bookofabraham.com/boamathie/BOA_6.html

FAIR LDS explanation at http://en.fairmormon.org/Book_of_Abraham/Joseph_Smith_Papyri/Facsimiles/Facsimile_1

Joseph Smith's Interpretation	Figure	Modern Egyptological Interpretation
The Angel of the Lord.	1	The spirit or "ba" of Hôr (The deceased fellow)
Abraham fastened upon an altar	2	The deceased:  His name was "Hôr"
The idolatrous priest of Elkenah	3	Anubis (see original image not facsimile, this figure was originally portrayed with the head of a Jackal)
The altar for sacrifice by the idolatrous priests, standing before the gods of Elkenah, Libnah, Mahmackrah, Korash, and Pharaoh.	4	A common funerial bier or "lion couch"
The idolatrous god of Elkenah.	5	Canopic jars containing the deceased's internal organs.
The idolatrous god of Libnah.	6
The idolatrous god of Mahmackrah.	7
The idolatrous god of Korash.	8
The idolatrous god of Pharaoh.	9	This is the god "Horus"
Abraham in Egypt	10	A libation table bearing wines, oils, etc. Common in Egypt.
Designed to represent the pillars of heaven, as understood by the Egyptians.	11	A palace façade, called a "serekh"
Raukeeyang, signifying expanse, or the firmament over our heads; but in this case, in relation to this subject, the Egyptians meant it to signify Shaumau, to be hig, or the heavens, answering to the Hebrew word, Shaumahyeen.	12	This is just the water that the crocodile swims in.