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Welcome back MG. I hope you and yours are well. I’ll keep things rather limited so that I don’t get things too riled up! In the past I’ve spread myself a bit thin by trying to put myself into too many conversations at once. And also feeling as though I needed to ‘be there’ to the end. No more. Here...

You really need to ponder what I highlighted above and then ponder it again and then try and look objectively at Joseph Smith and what he did and the scholarship that has come out as to his sources, like http://jur.byu.edu/?p=21296 Thomas Wayment: I tend to agree that the command to “translate” the...

Repeating a quote I posted earlier: There are two layers of reality. There is the objective reality of what happens, and there is the subjective reality of how what happened is seen, interpreted, made meaningful. That second subjective layer can sometimes be the more important layer. As the Yale psy...

The quote is predictable and it is not news to anybody. I felt that the quote was quite profound. Still do. And that it has application to what we all perceive as reality. We’re each unique in our interpretive lenses. “People don’t see the world with their eyes; they see it with their entire life.”...

By the way, I don’t know if you all have either seen, read, or discussed Hardy’s “Annotated Book of Mormon”. It’s worth spending time with. Hey, MG. I hope you're well. I believe that there are more than a few here who will have read the book. Maybe you should start a thread and lead a discussion o...

It may be true, sadly, that being open to the possibility that there is something profound in a book may cause one to be more likely to find profundity, but it is certainly not a logical way to think. Suppose you are testing for A versus not-A. Simply acknowledging the possibility of A as a result ...

Because it's interesting to find out where he got his ideas. If God can just wave his magic wand, why ask how something was done? We’re human. We’re curious. If God did wave his magic wand, so to speak, He’s done a masterful job of covering up any obvious brushstrokes. Any clues one way or the othe...

After a recent conversation or two on this board I’ve been considering whether or not to continue participating on this board. I think I ought to manage my time more wisely and find some other things to do at this point in my life. I do believe that it’s been mostly a rewarding experience for me to ...

I would imagine that at the end of the day you would also chuckle under your breath at those that believe Jesus died but then lives again in the heavens. You miss the point for at least the second time this morning. I don't chuckle under my breath at resurrection myths or plates myths. I chuckle ou...

I wasn’t aware that he was a believer in the resurrection of Jesus Christ. You are aware, are you not, that a person can be a theist and NOT believe in Jesus? Yes, but germane to Mormonism and the restoration narrative it all comes down to Jesus and His resurrection. If one does not believe in the ...