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Old 09-13-2010, 02:18 AM
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Originally Posted by Heavydrop [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]
For every bit of anti-mormon comment I've ever read I've read even more
compelling evidence supporting what I already know to be true.
The video is amusing.
It is not right from the Mormons but from what I gather it was instead made by some anti-Mormon entity.
It blends actual Mormon doctrine with some things that are not doctrine, and like the South Park episode quoted earlier is meant to cast us in an unfavorable light and not to be objectionable or considerate at all.
One critical indication of this to me is when they refer to Jesus as "The Mormon Jesus"
There is only one Jesus.
Again I say, as an adult are you going to formulate your opinion about
someone's faith and beliefs from watching a cartoon or animated show?
Aren't you in turn being manipulated by someone else into thinking or
believing a certain way about something?
The video is childish and again I say it is intended to harm, and not to
instruct or enlighten.

As for your comments against Joseph Smith and the Book of Mormon I have
read far more compelling acheological evidence of it than I ever have that
speaks against it.
http://newsnet.byu.edu/story.cfm/50535
What you have presented is one side of the story, and you do not even
provide a reference.
Ultimately nothing dealing with the Spirit of God can be definatively proven by science. It is not meant to be that way. It must remain a matter of faith thereby providing and protecting something very precious to us all.
Free agency.
With that in mind I have prayed and consulted with the highest, more reputable source possible, that of God Himself. I have recieved confirmation
of the truth through His spirit, there is no greater witness, and I will not turn aside from it or deny it.
Nor will I seek to impose it on any of you. You've made statements about
my faith, and I am defending it.
Mock me and all of religion if you wish, but for me it changes nothing.
My faith is secure.
First I want to say that I applaud your conclusion about free agency and faith. If there were a God who placed a value in free will, I could see this being sufficient reason for him to make the answer to the ultimate origin question unknowable. If it's black and white true for one religion, there's really little free will about it.

Myself, I'm not religious, but I was raised Christian, and that reasoning makes huge sense to me.

But mormonism doesn't. Lets put aside the implausible origin story.

What I'm confused about is why god needed an addendum to the Bible 1900 years later. Did he get it wrong?

And if it really coincides with the Bible, which just from the little bit of doctrine I vaguely remember, I believe there were some contradictions, then why is god being redundant? So wrong or redundant, and why?

Really curious about the mormon answer to the question.
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