
Now, I like the Book of Mormon, and you will like it, because it is a great American Book. It was written in America, by Americans, for Americans. It has peculiar application to America. It is not full of foreign ideologies and uninspired interpretations of men.+
In the wake of non-confirming evidence for the premise "All Native Americans descended from Lehi," the field of Book of Mormon geography was turned on its head, and in its place came a variety of models.
Behold, there are many spirits, which are false spirits, which have gone forth deceiving the world. (D&C 50:2)
Nothinig is a greater injury to the children of men than to be under the influence of a false spirit when they think they have the Spirit of God.
Long pilgrimages have been undertaken, penances endured, and pain, misery and ruin have followed in their terrain. (TPJS, 1977, p. 205)
The reason the geography is important is because of the promises - which is the Spiritual Geography™.
The Internal Geography is what the text alone describes.
By combining the Spiritual and Internal Geographies the true Physical Geography can be found.