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View Poll Results: If you found out that the Golden Plates never existed, would you still be a Mormon? | |||
Yes, the literalness of Joseph Smith's claims don't matter to me. | 4 | 14.29% | |
Yes, but it would change the way I view the Church. | 9 | 32.14% | |
No, I couldn't accept the Church as true in such a scenario. | 10 | 35.71% | |
I'm not a Mormon. | 5 | 17.86% | |
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09-14-2007, 08:13 PM | #51 |
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Was Christ simply a great teacher and a glorified martyr? Personally, I think that if Christ had lived and died in the 19th century, then Christianity would never have come into existence.
The more modern a religion is, the more it has to stand up to scrutiny. The origin of the Quran and the Old Testament certainly don't stand up to scrutiny either. By and large, the Book of Mormon does pretty well. A heck of a lot better than Dianetics--that's for sure. |
09-14-2007, 08:15 PM | #52 | |
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09-14-2007, 08:17 PM | #54 | |
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I've heard that Joseph's brother was institutionalized for mental illness, but I'm not 100% sure on that. Certainly, the entire family had a history of visions. My way of assuming isn't very different from your way of assuming things like Reformed Egyptian was a real language, etc. I assume that Joseph Smith was sincere and honest. I'm open to possibilities. That's all I'm saying. One of those possibilities is that visions came to his mind, rather than physical beings appearing before him. |
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09-14-2007, 08:19 PM | #55 | |
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09-14-2007, 08:21 PM | #56 |
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09-14-2007, 08:24 PM | #58 | |
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One might as well argue that Joseph himself was just a mythical creation of the church.
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09-14-2007, 08:24 PM | #59 |
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Has anyone here read the book "View of the Hebrew" by Ethan Smith. I haven't read it yet and would like to hear what someone who has read it thinks. For more info search "View of the Hebrews" on wikipedia.org.
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09-14-2007, 08:25 PM | #60 |
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We're not going back to this conversation, are we? Was the Lord declaring the truth of a reuben sandwich in D&C 1?
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