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by Lee B. Baker (Author)
The very simple, if somewhat ridiculous position of the Mormon Church is that Abraham, the Patriarch of Judaism, Islam and Christianity actually did the Covenant of Circumcision completely wrong. Even more ridiculous, is the inconceivable supposition that Jesus Christ, the Son of the living God, also completed the Covenant totally wrong under the watchful eye of God, the Father of all Creation and the author of the Covenant that no one had yet done right! From the very beginning the Jewish People were bound to God by a distinctive and sacred Covenant (B'rit) . As Norman F. Cantor explains it, "The covenant was not a negotiated contract - the Jews had not entered voluntarily into a compact with Yahweh, nor could they withdraw from their obligations to God. Of his own inscrutable will, Yahweh had chosen this obscure people as his own. The B'rit is not the outcome of a deal between two free parties. It is an act of providence unilaterally imposed by divine majesty upon the Jews. The Jews had no choice but to maintain God's covenant - this was their burden and their glory." The Joseph Smith Translation of the Bible is rejected or abandoned by the general membership of the Mormon Church only when and if the "Mormon Translation" is clearly un-Christian or unreasonable in both context or application. The probability that Jesus Christ, in addition to every Major prophet of God, was incorrectly circumcised because a simple clerical error in the ancient region of Canaan about 2000 B.C that fortunately for the Jewish Faith, was fixed by Joseph Smith Jr. in A. D. 1832, in upper New York State is absolutely the most revealing and ridiculous claim of Mormonism.
