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Sunday Jan 18, 2026 meetup is 2:30 PM at Smiths Marketplace, 1370 W 200 N, Kaysville, UT 84037. Entering Smith's turn right, take the up staircase on the right side of Starbucks, turn right on the 2nd floor at the top of the stairs, take 10 strides passing the lockers to the conference room entrance on the right.

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2026-01-18 Invitation: Rebuttal: Chiasmus Is Not Evidence of Ancient Hebrew Authorship Gary Harris Request
Chris Johnson's presentation, "How the Book of Mormon Destroyed Mormonism," ⌂ (24min:30sec)

Scholars affiliated with the BYU Religious Studies Center, notably Noel B. Reynolds and John W. Welch, argue that the presence of chiasmus in the Book of Mormon indicates ancient Hebrew literary origins and therefore supports divine translation rather than 19th-century authorship.
This argument fails on methodological, historical, textual, and ethical grounds.

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