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Originally Posted by All-American
You can make the argument that the church ought to clarify its retraction of the Adam-God theory. On points 1 and 3, you've made some real stretches to depict these topics as "doctrines later retracted."
What's more, I don't think that any of these points ultimately matter to you. I think that your beef with the church lies elsewhere and these issues are merely convenient points of attack for you to target.
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Does it matter what people in Joseph Smith's day understood to be the meaning of the word 'translation' and such? If people had completely wrong understandings of what Joseph was doing, and Joseph was aware of these misunderstandings, but let them stand, would that matter?