Mittens wrote:Joseph Smith said the Trinity is three gods.
Brackite wrote:The Book of Mormon teaches the Doctrine of the Trinity.
There is nothing stopping both of those statements being true at the same time.
One of the strangest things in the early history of Mormonism is the almost complete failure of Joseph Smith to make use of the Book of Mormon in his preaching and teaching.
Mittens wrote:
Actually you are wrong since the Trinity says there's only ONE GOD
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Sorry, you have missed my point entirely. I was not concerned with whether or not the doctrine of the Trinity is true or not.
I was pointing out that on Trinitarian matters it is quite possible to find that the Book of Mormon asserts a doctrine close to that of mainstream Christianity (as Brackite states), while Joseph Smith himself asserted a contradictory doctrine in his public teaching and preaching (as you state).
You are both right.
Zadok: I did not have a faith crisis. I discovered that the Church was having a truth crisis. Maksutov: That's the problem with this supernatural stuff, it doesn't really solve anything. It's a placeholder for ignorance.
- Whenever a poet or preacher, chief or wizard spouts gibberish, the human race spends centuries deciphering the message. - Umberto Eco - To assert that the earth revolves around the sun is as erroneous as to claim that Jesus was not born of a virgin. - Cardinal Bellarmine at the trial of Galilei
