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 | Thursday, Aug 27, 2009, at 07:51 AM Utah Republican Senator Bob Bennett's New Book "Leap Of Faith" And Book Of Mormon Forgery Tests Posted By JW the Inquizzinator BOB BENNETT -Guid- | ↑ |
| http://www.sltrib.com/news/ci_1320111...
Snippets: "Sen. Bob Bennett knows The Book of Mormon is true, and in a new book he tells others how he came to that conclusion." "The book, published by LDS Church-owned Deseret Book, comes as the Utah Republican faces a tough re-election challenge from within his own party ranks. In fact, Deseret Book's news release was issued the same day the conservative group Club for Growth launched a blistering attack on Bennett's bipartisan health-care-reform bill co-sponsored by Oregon Democratic Sen. Ron Wyden. " "Bennett's campaign says the timing of the book's release has nothing to do with politics, resting entirely in the hands of the publisher...." "....In the book, Leap of Faith , Bennett applies four forgery tests to determine whether the book is a fake, according to the news release...." " Bennett acknowledges that the book "requires a leap of faith" to believe. "I offer it in the hope it will convince all who have an interest in The Book of Mormon, be they believers or skeptics, that any decision with respect to its origins requires a leap of faith," Bennett wrote in the preface to his 318-page book. ..." ""This book is in the works for something around seven years," Jim Bennett said. "This has been going through the editing process at Deseret Book for quite some time. No one anticipated one way or another what the political climate would be when this was released." "Bennett, according to the news release, honed his skills in applying forgery tests while working as public-relations director for the late billionaire Howard Hughes. Bennett previously applied similar tests to disprove Clifford Irving's supposedly authorized Hughes biography, which infamously turned out to be a hoax, and later the fake Hughes' will purporting to leave a big part of his fortune to Utah gas-station owner Melvin Dummar. " "Bennett's book applies four approaches: Is the book consistent within itself? Is there evidence to back up the book's claims? Would someone have a motive to fake the book? Is there a revelation in the book that someone faking the text would not have known at the time? " "His findings? Bennett says that there are legitimate issues with the book and that he fairly addresses those rather than hide them. Deseret Book calls it a "remarkably balanced approach." " "In the end, the book's conclusion is that it takes faith to believe the origins of The Book of Mormon." "No one should make that leap without having heard all sides of the argument," Bennett writes in the preface...." "Bennett's book applies four approaches: Is the book consistent within itself? Is there evidence to back up the book's claims? Would someone have a motive to fake the book? Is there a revelation in the book that someone faking the text would not have known at the time? " Well, to answer his questions. NO. NO. YES. NO. Shoring up the Mormon vote, Bob? |