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a stone so heavy that when dropped into a still pond creates no ripple.

Of course people can continue to be LDS while personally believing the Book of Mormon to be fiction. It is better to keep the view to oneself I suspect. I am put in mind of a comment I heard long ago from an older Mormon long active in the church. He liked going to church because he could always fal...

Taking a quick review of Community of Christ official comments on line I find no actual statement that the Book of Mormon is fiction. The book is carefully subservient to the Bible for authority. There is a statement about scripture authority in general which rejects historical inerrancy in favor of...

Here is an article done by the young apologist and former couch meister Smoot in response to more evidence provided by Ms. Montez that shows that B.H. Roberts was at least considering the non-historical perspective: https://www.plonialmonimormon.com/2020/08/b-h-roberts-and-the-book-of-mormon-an-add...

61 pages on some Midget guy and now counting repeat articles by DCP. Is this terminal boredom or just a lull before someone thinks of a new topic?

Why do people care about Peterson?

future voices:_"You know the real Book of Mormon, the one Joseph Smith presented, said this and this about dark skin. The church wanted to hide this embarrassment so removed the real statements and substituted fake coverups."

Physics guy, "any more entries?" Perhaps people find inspiration that they really desire. Consider the Illiad. Though there may have been, or perhaps not so much have been, a Trojan war it is the actual story which has had mythic power for people. People can care about the themes of courage and resp...

This is sad news. I can only say with the rest of you, sorry and he will be missed. I hope his work will not be lost or ended by his premature passing.

Shades or other moderator, I thought this thread was related to Mormon discussion by way of considering what disadvantage or advantage could attend to the degree that people are understood as visitors to this planet in Mormonism. This subject is also related to the question of how to relate a religi...

https://www.pbs.org/video/oregon-art-beat-james-lavadour-update/?continuousplayautoplay=true Philo's utube I was referring to( he has now posted for a thread ) had some focus on the idea that it is important that people come from the land and remain in the land. Humans are not visitors from afar. Th...