I am not preaching Mormonism. I'm a Protestant Christian, not a Mormon. But obviously, you are preaching Mormonism like you had some bad experience with them or something, and have a personal vendetta.
Mmm.....no. I think Mormons are some of the nicest people around.....I simply disagree with their doctrine.....but you obviously know all about their doctrine..
I see you changed your supposed time for the idea of the ten lost tribes to 19th century instead 18th century myth like you said previously. Kind of shooting from the hip, aren't you? Shows you don't know what you're talking about. You're 18th century timing was more correct, but it goes even back farther than the 18th century with the Scots.
Actually, it shows that I misspoke. Mormonism started in the 1820s. The tone of your post make you sound all riled up.....did I strike a nerve?
The Message about the ten lost tribes of Israel is not an idea that originated with Mormonism, nor did it even begin with them.
Scottish Declaration Of Arbroath - 1320 A.D.
Most Holy Father and Lord, we know and from the chronicles and books of the ancients we find that among other famous nations our own, the Scots, has been graced with widespread renown. They journeyed from Greater Scythia by way of the Tyrrhenian Sea and the Pillars of Hercules, and dwelt for a long course of time in Spain among the most savage tribes, but nowhere could they be subdued by any race, however barbarous. Thence they came, twelve hundred years after the people of Israel crossed the Red Sea, to their home in the west where they still live today. The Britons they first drove out, the Picts they utterly destroyed, and, even though very often assailed by the Norwegians, the Danes and the English, they took possession of that home with many victories and untold efforts; and, as the historians of old time bear witness, they have held it free of all bondage ever since. In their kingdom there have reigned one hundred and thirteen kings of their own royal stock, the line unbroken a single foreigner. The high qualities and deserts of these people, were they not otherwise manifest, gain glory enough from this: that the King of kings and Lord of lords, our Lord Jesus Christ, after His Passion and Resurrection, called them, even though settled in the uttermost parts of the earth, almost the first to His most holy faith.
I never said Mormons made up the idea. Unfortunately, for them, the idea is a cornerstone of their belief system and it sure seems important to you as well.