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That’s why apologists fall back on textual analysis.

DCP claims the Book of Mormon and Abraham texts “feel ancient.”

msnobody wrote: ↑

Fri Sep 29, 2023 10:54 am

Res Ipsa wrote: ↑

Fri Sep 29, 2023 6:14 am

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/danpeterson/

Enjoy!

If Autumnal Thoughts is what I was suppose to read, that was just weird. Started out okay, but seemed to go down a vortex the further along I read.

His blog has become pretty bitter, the bottom part is all sarcasm.

I think there are better ways to worship God, Mormonism is up there with 7th day Adventist and Jehovas Witness. Way too far off the mainstream. I find it interesting that you, Res Ipsa and other ex members or lapsed Mormons keep coming back here of all places rather than simply finding that “better...

The question I would like answered is how much have DCP and the Mopologists cost the Church. With friends like DCP, the Church doesn't need enemies. DCP has done so much damage to the Church I think you would be hard-pressed to put a figure on it. For just a few examples (out of thousands) that hav...

At this point please keep the conversation/discussion pointed towards the plates delivered by the angel Moroni. Otherwise, this thread is going to go on FOREVER. I have other things to do besides going off on side roads and rabbit trails. Maybe it would be well if I exited and let others go down th...

Mormons can really rationalize anything. You start with the assumption the church is true and do whatever mental gymnastics are necessary to support it. A number of years ago I chose to believe in a personal creator God. For me, I look to find those things in the world that point towards that God. ...

Mormons can really rationalize anything.

You start with the assumption the church is true and do whatever mental gymnastics are necessary to support it.

If the church stops growing is that evidence to the contrary? There is not, and cannot be, evidence to the contrary. Failure to grow would only show that something else (that also meant that the church was true) was at play. The church shrank in the 1850s, but was probably just getting rid of apost...

That you and Res Ipsa would even entertain that the Book of Mormon is the product of the father of lies and misery is not sustainable as one observes the growth of the church and the impact for good it has had in the lives of millions of souls. If the church stops growing is that evidence to the co...

For me, it’s the teaching that the starving mom should pay her tithing before buying food for her family that is truly evil. If the church has more money than it can keep track of, so much that it just heaps it into a big useless pile, that means the church is asking that starving mom to sacrifice e...