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I'm sure he did. The reasonable thing to do when you notice something odd in the Bible, or at least what a believer does, is wonder what GOOD reason God had for doing it instead of assuming your own first impression is the correct one. It's called humility in some circles. It is generally understood by Bible believers that what God gave in the Mosaic Law was simply explicit statements of what had been known intuitively to humanity already, in the first generations after Adam and Eve, before the Fall had blurred their thinking beyond recovery. Given as explicit law to counter continued corruption and to fix it in the form of written commandments.Or possibly not simply intuitively known previously as it's highly likely that God and Adam communicated more than is reported in the Bible. The skills of growing crops are somewhere later said to have been learned from God as I recall, implying that all kinds of necessary knowledge was learned directly from Him.Edited by Faith, : No reason given.Edited by Faith, : No reason given.Edited by Faith, : No reason given.

God's written word is given with power. It doesn't get lost "for later generations to find." Not to mention that there was no reason for Jesus to give a special gospel to the Americas any more than, say, to Mongolia or Australia. The idea is completely at odds with the Biblical revelation. And so is everything else about the BoM.