“If you are looking at the Book of Mormon from an analytical and philosophical approach you might as well quit reading it because you are just wasting your time.”

You’re saying it doesn’t stand up to analysis? That it is something not to be read with the intellect?

“Try reading it with a spiritual approach. You seem to have already made up your mind that ‘this book’ is a work of fiction, so quit reading it and slandering it’s history and contents.”

It’s true that I approach this from a skeptical position, as I do the Bible, the Koran, the Vedas, and any other book claiming (or claimed to have) spiritual value. But I’d love to take your advice about the “spiritual approach” if you’d explain what that means. I’m afraid, based on the earlier portions of your comment, that that would mean a non-analytical approach. Perhaps I’m wrong. Can you enlighten me?

Are you looking for the things that are “pleasing unto the world?”

Nephi had limited room to write on the plates, he wasn’t going to waste it with stuff that was already written on other plates (”kept by my father”).

If you are looking at the Book of Mormon from an analytical and philosophical approach you might as well quit reading it because you are just wasting your time.

Try reading it with a spiritual approach. You seem to have already made up your mind that “this book” is a work of fiction, so quit reading it and slandering it’s history and contents.