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LDS filmmaker says Book of Mormon set in North America   Message List  
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LDS filmmaker Kieth Merrill says he picked the background for "The Testaments" by default, and if he had it to do over, he would have sought locations in North America rather than Central and South America.
Speaking Friday at the Book of Mormon Prophecies Conference at the Zermatt resort, Merrill said he believes evidence supports a North American backdrop in the "promised land" for the Book of Mormon stories, wars and visits from Jesus Christ.
"I know that the Book of Mormon is true. I can't say I know where it all took place," Merrill said as he addressed a packed house as the conference's keynote speaker. "I'm the guy who made the biggest, most expensive film (The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) has ever made, and I put it in the wrong place."

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http://mormontimes.com/studies_doctrine/research_discoveries/?id=11023

. . . ronn!  :)

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FYI: LDS filmmaker Kieth Merrill says he picked the background for "The Testaments" by default, and if he had it to do over, he would have sought locations in...
Ronn! Blankenship
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Oct 23, 2009
6:02 pm

Merrill has been influenced by the problematic theories being promoted by Rod Meldrum, a thorough analysis of which is available here: ...
Trevor Holyoak
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Oct 23, 2009
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The other book, 'An Ancient American Setting for the Book of Mormon' is FARMS' contribution to the discussion of Book of Mormon geography and ranks as one of...
James W Anderson
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Oct 23, 2009
8:52 pm

Merrill is pretty much embracing what the general understanding of BofM locations were in Joseph's day. Can you say "HIll Cumorah?" Or Zeniff, the Lamanite...
Thom Duncan
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Oct 25, 2009
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I don't think Merril would have been allowed to select Northern American locations, since that is not the Church's current position (to the degree that they...
Thom Duncan
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Oct 25, 2009
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