How could a few working women cause the fall of Israel?
There is a story behind this question that illustrates the importance of reading and thinking about the Book of Mormon carefully before we reject it. One genuinely intelligent person received his free copy of the Book of Mormon, flipped it open and was immediately appalled at the text. He found it ridiculous compared to the Bible. His first question to me was how I could believe in a book that teaches about (1) “the fall of Israel due to women who were not homemakers and strayed outside the family?” and (2) ” the resurrection of Israel by only seven of those women coming back to the word?” My initial response: “Where did you get this???? This is all new to me. I think it might be in the God Makers or some other anti-Mormon book, but after many readings, I’ve never noticed anything like this in the Book of Mormon. Maybe I’ve missed something. AH, maybe something from Isaiah? ” It turns out that he had been reading a chapter from the Biblical book of Isaiah (Is. 4), which had been quoted
