Where did the mist of darkness come from? | Book of Mormon Evidence

“And it came to pass that there was thick darkness upon all the face of the land, insomuch that the inhabitants…could feel the vapor of darkness… And there was not any light seen… for so great were the mists of darkness which were upon the face of the land.”
3 Nephi 8:20, 22.
Many have wondered while reading about the destruction after Christ's death in the Book of Mormon. How three days of darkness was possible, how could it possibly happen?
How could several cities catch fire and burn down? What could have caused it?
Join us for part 2 as we finish talking about the parallels between the heartland and the destruction that took place in 3rd Nephi.
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[@riannelson67]

Rod'sdepth of spirit and knowledge are amazing. He has studied and learned from so many sources and he always puts the importance of the Spirit in all of his conversations.

[@rock5948]

Heartland for sure is the place, the land of liberty, the land choice above all other lands. The land of the New Jerusalem which is the same and of the Jaredites, Nephites and Lamanites.🙏🏽

[@bartonbagnes4605]

Now take everything described in the New Madrid earthquakes and multiply them by one hundred, and you get what is actually described in The Book Of Mormon. Oh and move it one hundred miles to the North, where instead of getting more and stronger earthquakes, there's almost no earthquakes, and all small. The exact opposite of The Book Of Mormon. EPIC FAIL.

[@Eluzian86]

Your average ancient city like the city of David are around 40 acres in size. The largest sand boil was from the New Madrid Earthquake zone was 1.4 miles long, probably upto 30 feet deep, covering 136 acres. Just that one sand boil could cover three ancient cities. The New Madrid Earthquake zone is the easiest place to have cities buried quickly from sand boils compared to any other place in the world.
Most cities are built by rivers. Sand boils are most common near rivers. The Hopewell Interaction Sphere is concentrated over the Mississippi River drainage basin. It wouldn't be surprising to have whole villages of the Hopewell get buried under sand or get drowned in the sea like what happened to the indians when Reelfoot Lake was formed in the 1811 earthquake.

[@bartonbagnes4605]

@@Eluzian86 As usual you are overlooking the qualifiers. It wasn't a sandhill the buried Moronihah, or even a mountain, which has to be 1,000 feet or higher, not 30 feet, it was a Great Mountain that formed in an hour, from cast up earth, not boiled up sand. Making a mountain out of a mole hill, or in this case, a great mountain out of a small sand hill. And it wasn't flooded by a shallow pond, it was Drowned in the Depths of the Sea. It wasn't ground that had a few cracks in a few places, it was the rocks that were broken up and found inseams and in cracks across the Whole face of the earth. And of course it wasn't in only the land of the Lamanites, it was worse in the North in the land of the Nephites. Around the Great Lakes area there has only ever been small earthquakes and few of those. Plus even the Great Lakes are only lakes, and aren't deep enough to have depths. It takes extreme exaggerations to declare the Heartland as matching The Book Of Mormon.

[@Eluzian86]

@@bartonbagnes4605 The 1,000 feet or higher to qualify as a mountain is what we say in the modern day, doesn't mean that is the same qualifier definition was used by the people in ancient times. People can often describe things in relative terms. I grew up in Salt Lake City surrounded by mountains. I moved to West Virginia and saw the Appalachian that are called mountains, but to me they were hills. If I lived in a flat plain area and sand blew out of the ground and covered my village under a 30 foot tall mound, I might consider it to be, or at least call it, a great mountain. Why wouldn't a person call something a mountain that just buried all of what they would call a city?
Also, if water floods in and drowns your village, you can't see the tops of your homes, you can't see the bottom of the water and the water may have flooded farther than you can swim or possibly farther than you could see such as with the formation of Reelfoot Lake, why would it be ridiculous to say your village was drowned in the depths of the sea?
We call the Great Lakes lakes, but in the ancient Middle East and actually, even today, basically every body of water of significance is called a sea, so being drowned in fresh water could easily be termed "drowning in the depths of the sea".
I think you are considering things to much through a modern lense and your subjective experience.

[@Eluzian86]

@@bartonbagnes4605 ...and how does a sand boil blowing earth upto 100 feet in the air and forming a mound that covers an entire ancient city not count as casting up earth to form a great mountain?

[@bartonbagnes4605]

@@Eluzian86 Because a MOUNTAIN has to be at least 1,000 feet, NOT 30 feet. And a GREAT MOUNTAIN has to be much taller than that. 30 feet is a tiny HILL. You get taller hills than that in the middle of MANY cities. Besides I made a mistake, it was carried up, not cast up. That would be more like the earth tilting or folding, or perhaps lava flowing out of the earth piling up on top of itself, though that is the least likely. Whichever it is is irrelevant anyways, because you don't even have the sand boils where the Nephites were, so no Nephite city could have been buried under sand.🤦🏻‍♂️