Responding to Job Bautista: Copycat Story of LDS Church

Seem Job Bautista ignorantly misunderstood what the Book of Mormon quote about Isaiah's words meant. And here he makes a commentary about it, thinking it is a fallacy or plagiarism of Isaiah's words or the bible itself. Never thinking about how it was quoted. Let's try to see how he simply misunderstood the Book of Mormon by just thinking of it as a copy of Isaiah's words. -

Copy cat story of Lds church:

Mababasa natin sa aklat nila na ang Dios daw nagtanong kay Nephi kung sino ang kanyang isusugo ? Ganito ang kuwento sa huwad na aklat ;

2 Nephi 16:9 At sinabi niya: Humayo at sabihin sa mga taong ito—Inyo ngang naririnig, subalit hindi ninyo nauunawaan; at inyo ngang nakikita, subalit hindi ninyo namamalas.

10 Patigasin mo ang mga puso ng mga taong ito, at takpan mo ang kanilang mga tainga, at ipinid ang kanilang mga mata—na baka makita ng kanilang mga mata, at marinig ng kanilang mga tainga, at makaunawa sa kanilang mga puso, at magbalik-loob at magsigaling.

Okay, so you think it is wrong to quote a scripture or a word of a prophet? Below is an example of a quote from the Old Testament -

18 The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised,

19 To preach the acceptable year of the Lord.

Luke 4:18-19

So, tell me where you think this scripture is from? Christ read these words from Isaiah 61:1-2, then what are you gonna do about that? Did the writer plagiarize Isaiah's words just because Christ quoted it?

There are other references to quoting the words from other books in the bible, and I will add some of it here after my Commentary.

Natitiyak natin na ang pangyayari na ito ay kinopya ni Joseph Smith sa katauhan ni Nephi , ang aklat ni Isaias na ganito ang ating mababasa;

Isaiwas 6:8 At narinig ko ang tinig ni Yahweh na nagsasabi, “Sino ang aking ipadadala? Sino ang magpapahayag para sa atin?” Sumagot ako, “Narito po ako; ako ang inyong isugo!”WR,

Isaias 6:9 At sinabi niya, “Humayo ka at sabihin mo sa mga tao: ‘Makinig man kayo nang makinig ay hindi kayo makakaunawa; tumingin man kayo nang tumingin ay hindi kayo makakakita.’

Isaias 6:10 Papurulin mo ang kanilang kaisipan, kanilang pandinig iyo ring takpan, bulagin mo sila upang hindi makakita, upang sila'y hindi makarinig, hindi makakita, at hindi makaunawa. Kundi'y baka magbalik-loob sila at sila'y pagalingin ko pa.”

To know why the words of Isaiah were quoted in that Chapter and beyond that, and some other Chapters, even in the First Book of Nephi, where he explains more of the words of Isaiah to his Eldest Brothers, Laman and Lemuel (I'm thinking of making a blog post about this topic.). See this part here before reading 2 Nephi 12, Job Bautista. So you'll know why it was -

2 Nephi 11:8 And now I write some of the words of Isaiah, that whoso of my people shall see these words may lift up their hearts and rejoice for all men. Now these are the words, and ye may liken them unto you and unto all men.

And for sure, you never think of it. The reason why you misquote the scripture is that of too many cherry-picked verses, and you simply love the part where it says good, but never understood how and for what it was all about.

Samakatuwid, walang originality itong kuwento ang aklat ng mga Mormon isang copy cat na naman ang ating napapatunayan sa pagkakataon na ito.

Or more accurately, you don't know how to comprehend a text. Simple as it is. Which mean you need more time to study more about the scriptural context rather the textual criticism. What a failure?