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View Poll Results: How True do you think the Book of Mormon is? | |||
Every word of it is true. | 8 | 22.86% | |
It's mostly true, but with a couple of errors. | 11 | 31.43% | |
The events are more or less true, but reported with an extreme historical bias. | 6 | 17.14% | |
The text could very roughly correlate to a plausible series of events. | 3 | 8.57% | |
Some Joe pulled the thing out of his hat. It's false. | 7 | 20.00% | |
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04-27-2007, 11:47 PM | #11 |
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Not enough variation in the poll answers.
Mostly true, I dunno what that is supposed to mean. "Extreme" bias. Nothing in between. I am reminded how Church members will refer to an event, in religious, good versus evil terms when contrasted with how nonChurch members perceived events and there can be a vast difference in the accounts, even if both are well-meaning. Assume for arguments sake as most believe, Nephite society existed. Would a "Lamanite" describe himself in the terms as the Nephite records? Do Iranian records record world events in the same manner as CNN? Well, okay bad example, but as Fox News?
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04-28-2007, 12:04 AM | #12 | |
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04-28-2007, 03:11 AM | #15 | |
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Go ahead and call me Korihor. But you're the one who made the outlandish, made up and wholly unsupported claim that it's a "basic hisorical outline" of something (what?).
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04-28-2007, 05:06 AM | #17 |
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I thought these maps were interesting.....
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04-28-2007, 05:25 AM | #18 | |
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Then again, perhaps you have the faith that it's a load of crap, as you have no proof that the "historical outline" doesn't exist.
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04-28-2007, 05:41 AM | #19 |
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What are you saying fus?
I think I need to change me vote.
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04-28-2007, 06:18 AM | #20 | |
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If you say that there is no sensible reason for anybody to believe as you do regarding the book of Mormon, I see only two reasons why. Either none of those who believe in the Book of Mormon are capable of reasonable thought and are wholly unable to discern truth from error (and I would love to see you crucify yourself on that gold cross), or there may be something you're not considering which others accept as valid and valuable evidence. If the second scenario is true, why on Earth should we waste the time giving you our reasons for believing the Book of Mormon? You are acquainted with Mormonism; you know why we believe it is true. You've rejected those reasons as insufficient, as is your perogative. Why, then, do you insist that we try to prove it to you and win you back? The fact that you consider yourself an enlightened thinker and nevertheless cannot understand how others can think differently than you do is a bitter irony, to say the least.
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