Comments about ‘Challenging Issues, Keeping the Faith: Cumorah claims can't sustain Great Lakes model’

Ash confuses the "few plates" Moroni kept to be the entire BoM. The plates were safely secured prior to going to battle because both Mormon and Moroni knew that their people would be destroyed. And because both Mormon and Moroni were "at the head" of their 10k, it would not have been prudent to take into battle the BoM gold plates. Those "few plates" were more than likely 2 or 3 blank sheets.

Joseph did refer to the hill as Cumorah in the first official church history (Messenger & Advocate vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 157-158) and Oliver confirmed it. (History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day saints, 1805-1890, Volume 1, ed. Heman Conoman Smith, p. 181)

More important are the prophecies regarding where the record would come forth and to whom. It could only come forth on BoM land, where a white Gentile would have been led. Ash repeatedly ignores fulfilled land prophecies.