I recall reading the book of Mormon, beginning in Nephi, I noticed that the book was telling the story from the time of Jeremiah from the perspective of a false prophet, the first inconsistency at that time was "all the prophets were preaching repentance" but according to Jeremiah the opposite was true. The inconsistencies were blatant to me so I read something else.
If "inconsistencies" are what you're going on, you better not read Atheistic & early anti-Christian writings, because they also discourage the reading of scriptures, the bible, etc., & love to point out the many contradictions & inconsistencies found there in too. How would you answer them? Ignore them? Place the Bible under a double standard? If you didn't get past the first alleged "inconsistency" in the Book of Mormon, then you missed out on the rest of the book. Looking for things to make issues over, or find fault with, isn't going to help when it comes to making a spiritual, prayful study too. Don't we ask Atheists the same types of things? Try to get them to study it out & live the good moral codes found in the bible, and try to make it a prayful study too, in addition to accepting the evidences found for the Bible by scholars, etc?
As for Jeremiah, his writings were written on a scroll or "roll" but were burned, then re-written & "there were added besides unto them many like words." (Jer. 36:28, 32). Was Jeremiah the only prophet who predicted the Babylonian captivity to come? No! Where there true prophets who also gave the same prophetic warnings? Yes. The true prophets tried to warn the people, while the false prophets tried to counter their warnings.
Micah (740-700 B.C.) also warned of the Assyrian and Babylonian invasions and predicted the fall of both Samaria and Jerusalem.
Was he one of the false prophets that Jeremiah mentioned? If not, then there were other prophets, true ones, that also warned prophetically too. Lehi being one of the true prophets. Besides, even the OT says that there were "prophets," more than one, that gave said warnings, (2 Kings 17:13-15; 2 Chr. 36:15-16). Even Jeremiah mentions how the Lord sent "prophets" (Jer. 7:25), Urijah, prophetically warned too, (Jer. 26:20). I bet you didn't pay attention to the Book of Mormon's foot notes for 1 Nephi 1:4, note d, mentions these Old Testament scriptures to consider about "many prophets."
Then, there's the Jewish historian, Josephus, like in the BOM, he talks of "the elders," (1 Nephi 4:22), some of these elders, perhaps some good, others not so much. At any rate, he pointed out how that some of the "Elders" pointed out how Jeremiah shouldn't be punished for predicting what Micah had warned, before Jeremiah had, for: "...Micah signified the same before him,
as well as many others, none of whom suffered anything of the kings that then reigned, but
were honoured as the prophets of God. . . ." (
Josephus Complete Works, p. 217, Antiquities of the Jews, Book X, Chapter VI:2).
What's the source for your Jeremiah claim anyways? It's always nice when people leave a source to track down, rather than just quick stabs at others' faiths, like a hit & run tactic.
Inconsistancies & Contradictions -- an old tactic: The early anti-Christian Celsus, (2nd cent. AD), like modern anti-Mormon “Christians,” also attempted to show contradictions between leaders. Celsus, for example, “
attempted to show that Jesus contradicted Moses”. (Joseph Wilson Trigg,
Origen (The Bible and Philosophy in the Third-century Church), (Atlanta: 1946, 1952, 1971, 1973, & John Knox Press, 1983), p. 230).
Like the early anti-Christians, many modern atheists have rejected the Bible because of similar reasons that the [AM] "Christians" reject things in Mormonism. So the [AM] "Christians" would not be able to pass their own test, & tactics, & test for truth, when others challenge them with the same tactics, etc., that they attack others with. The Atheist, M.M. O'Hair, July 27 1970, said for example, that one of the reasons why Atheists reject God was because that
the gospels contradict each other. (
The American Atheist Sept. 1977, p.23-5, July 27, 1970, Fanciful Facts About Jesus, by M.M. O'Hair, from the A.A. Radio Series, No.107). How would Christians answer the Atheists? Wouldn't that answer, answer the same issues Christians have with the BOM?
CAN THE BIBLE PASS THE SAME TESTS?
1. Was man or beast created first? Gen. 1:25-28 vrs. Gen. 2:18-20.
2. Were the moving creatures & fowl created out of the earth or out of the water? Gen.1:20 vrs. 2:19-21.
3. Were Adam & Eve created separately or together? Gen.l:26-8 vrs. 2:18, 20-3
4. Was Arphaxad the father or grandfather of Sala? Gen.11:12 vrs. Luke 3:35-36.
5. From who did Abraham buy the land for the sepulchre? Gen.23:17-19 vrs. Acts 7:16.
6-8. How old was Terah & Abraham? In Gen.11:26-32 was 70 when he begat Abraham and it adds that he, Terah died in Haran at the age of 205-135 years later. In Gen.12:4 Abraham was 70 when left Haram. Yet Acts 7:4 tells us his father was dead when he left Haran.
9. And where was the land located? Same Scripture.
10. The Location of the land & the settlers correspond between Gen.33:18-19 & Acts 7:16 but in Gen. 33 the buyer is Jacob. Not Abraham.
11. At what age is life fixed? Gen.6:3 vrs. Ps. 90:10.
12. How did Bethel get its name? Gen. 28:10-22 vrs. Gen. 35:10-15.
13. Was Abraham familiar with the name Jehovah? Ex.6:3 vrs. Gen 22:14.
14. Who was Laban's father? Gen. 28:5 vrs. Gen. 29:5
15. Who sold Joseph to Potiphar? Gen. 37:36 vrs. 39:1.
16-17. How many went down into Egypt? Gen.46:26 vrs. Deut.10:22 & Acts 7:14
18. How many years were the Israelites in Egypt? Gen.15:13, Acts 7:6 vrs. Ex.12:40, Gal.3:17.
19. Can man see the face of God? Ex.33:11 vrs. 33:20-23.
20. Were the staves of the Ark to remain in place? Ex.25:15 vrs. Num. 4:5-6.
21. Could Israel see of not? Gen. 48:10 vrs. 48:8, 11.
22. Which is the correct translation, staff (matteh) or bed (mittah)? Gen. 47:31 vrs. Heb. 11:21.
23. Did all the water turn to blood? Ex 7:19 vrs. 7:22, 24.
24. Who taught Moses to delegate? Ex. Ex. 18:13-23 vrs. Deut. 1:9-18.
25. Did all the Egyptian cattle die? Ex.9:6 vrs. 9:20.
26. Were all horses killed? Ex. 9:3 vrs. Ex. 14:9.
27. Was Moses mighty in words? Ex. 4:10 vrs. Acts 7:22.
28. Was Moses meek? Num.12:3 vrs 31.
29. When & where did Aaron die? Num.20:23-28 & Num.33:38.
30. And: Deut. 10:6.
31. Where did Eleazer replace Aaron? Num.20:23-29; 33:37-8; Deut.10:6-7.
32. Had Midran been destroyed or not? Num.31:7-17 vrs. Jud. 6:1.
33. Was Eleazer, son of Aaron allowed to enter the promised land? Num.14:30 vrs. Josh. 14:1.
34. How many Benjamites were killed? Judges 20:35 vrs. Jud. 20:46.
35. How many died in the plague? Num. 25:9 vrs. 1 Cor.10:8.
36. Had the Amalekites been destroyed or not? 1 Sam. 15:6-8 vrs. 30:1:2.
37. Did God give the land of Canaan to Israel as an Inheritance? Ex.12:37 vrs. Acts 7:5.
38. Did God want the people to offer sacrifices? Lev.27:28; Judg.11:34; l Sam. 25:33 vrs. Isa.66:3.
39. Does God punish children for the sins of their parents? Ex.20:5 vrs. Ez.18:20.
40. Did God want Balaam to go? Num.22:20 vrs. Num.22:21.
41. Who was Samuel's firstborn? 1 Sam.8:2 vrs. 1 Chron.6:28.
42. Who were Saul's sons? 1 Sam.14:49 vrs. 1 Sam. 14:49 vrs. 1 Sam.31:2
43. And: 1 Chron. 8:33.
44. Did Saul inquire of the Lord? 1 Sam.28:6 vrs. 1 Chorn. 10:13-14.
45. Was David a youth or an adult when he first met Saul? 1 Sam.16:18 vrs. 1 Sam. 17:33.
46. How Many Sons did Jessee have? 1 Chron. 2:13-15 vrs. 1 Sam. 16:10-11.
47. What was David's first public appearance? 1 Sam.16:18 vrs. 1 Sam.17
48. Was Goliath's death, David's first military exploit? 1 Sam.16:18 vrs. 1 Sam. 17:33.
49. Did Michael have children? 2 Sam.6:23 vrs. 2 Sam.21:8.
50. Was it Merab or Michal whom Saul gave to Adriel? 1 Sam.18:19 vrs. 2 Sam.21:8.