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Looks like these are back on the agenda!

It is interesting that you "appeal to authority" as a means to discredit testimony, something that a court would not admit. I find the witnesses' testimony to be of decent credit. Is that comment addressed to DCP, who appeals to the authority of LDS lawyer Richard Lloyd Anderson (he went to Harvard...

The only thing I know about this is what I read in this NY Times article and the accompanying Twitter thread of Avishay Ben Sasson-Gordis. My understanding from that article is that Dershowitz isn't making the affirmative claim that the Shapira texts are definitely genuine but rather that we cannot ...

And no, I don’t think the church ‘expects’ one thing or the other in regards to what we do with the stimulus. In fact, I would think that ‘the church’ is not too keen on taking government money through the skimming of tithing while we are running up a national debt leading to catastrophe. Philosoph...

So is the message of this thread that there actually is only ONE falsifiable claim?

I just went to lds.org (churchofjesuschrist.org) and clicked through the Gospel Library to the old Ensigns and they are all still named Ensign, and the conference editions are there. Maybe it was a glitch?

https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/stu ... n?lang=eng

David Whitmer and the mob seems to be a product of mopologetic license. Also, Joseph is still shown to be running with 50 lbs plates as if they weighed only 5 lbs. Given how this is supposed to be about a "truthful" event, one would think that more attention would be paid to detail, but the church ...

The Church has been working hard on updating its handbook of instructions. One of the sections that has been refreshed is the section covering the word of wisdom - “ Word of Wisdom and Healthy Practices” is its new name. It seems to say, without being explicit, that obesity as a result of over eati...