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JAMIE - I find irony keeps life interesting... We see it in every good story ever told.And "Truth is stranger than fiction"Snow is not often seen in Israel, but it has snowed there, maybe Nephi had also journeyed to Iran or other high mountain ranges where he could have witnessed "driven" snow. 1 Nephi 11:8I have to say or wonder that if the Nephites were up in the Great Lakes area, that snow would have been a cumbersome challenge and could have easily been mentioned by the writers, especially during the wars and battles, something like "The army of Antipus being weary, because of their long march in the freshly fallen snow, many lost their limbs to the extreme cold"On the other hand, we don't hear a lot about extreme heat.
JOEL - Right. It does snow in Israel, especially up on the Mount Hermon range where the snow remains for most of the year, so Nephi certainly could have known and experienced that type of weather.
Of course we don't know for sure where the history of The Book of Mormon took place on the western continent, but it can and does snow in many parts of north, south, and middle America. The Book of Mormon was never meant to be a weather report and even if the Nephites did record the presence of snow among all their records, such entries may have been left out when Mormon compiled all the records and condensed them down, choosing the most important information, into the single Book of Mormom we have now.
Nephi also had access to the brass plates that contained Old Testament scriptures that also mentioned snow and from them he may have learned of this poetic figurative language to describe something that is white as he did in the verse you referred to:"and the whiteness thereof did exceed the whiteness of the driven snow." (1 Nephi 11:8)
Compare to Isaiah 1: 18:
"Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow".
DAVID - Another thought has come to mind, as a chemistry major we had to study particle duality, which leads to Erwin Schrödinger's cat, the cat is both alive and dead!
Which leads to the parallel universe theory and where some scientists speculate we have lived out every single possible choice we could have ever made all the way out to infinity... who is to say that is not how Christ changed water to wine, simply blending a parallel universe where in the wine was already made.
Who is to say the Book of Mormon people were from another parallel universe. When considering Erwin Schrödinger's theories and everything that branches from that.. it is not at all hard for me to accept that possibility.
I know that is a major stretch for most everyone else on the planet!
JOEL - That is a stretch....unless you are in a Star Trek movie :-)
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