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BKP said about those Mormons that might be so bold as to look into 19th Century Mormon history, "let it alone." Don't go there, just stay with the correlated 'message' to pay, pray and obey. The Brethren proclaim, the Church is true.

If you have too furtive a mind and have begun looking, then there are the Mopologists to try to pry the door back open, even if just a smidgen for the possibility it could yet be true. In the face of the damning historical facts and scorching critiques based on those facts, the Mopologists will admit to some embarrassing things. All effort is made to veer attention away from the Book of Abraham, particularly the Facsimiles and their Explanations, the papyri found and the KEP. Brother Brigham is routinely tossed under the proverbial bus. A number of things affirmatively stated in the correlated materials quietly conceded as not correct (e.g., the worldwide flood, the age of the earth being 6,000-7,000 years). The Mopologists proclaim, the Church might yet be true.

If your mind weighs the extremely improbabilities that the Mopologists try to stake out among reasonable, informed thinking, then you dispose of it altogether--the Brethren and the Mopologists, notwithstanding.

Actually, LDS doctrine states that the Church has no position on the age of the earth in one place and it also states that the dispenastions don't define the age of the earth in another.

bcspace wrote:Actually, LDS doctrine states that the Church has no position on the age of the earth in one place and it also states that the dispenastions don't define the age of the earth in another.

The Church does take a position on the age of humanity.
The Church promotes a literal belief in the global flood that wiped out all the inhabitants of the earth except Noah and his family (8 people?).
The Church promotes the timing of this event at circa 3,000 - 2,000 bc.
(see LDS Bible chronology in LDS scriptures)

Ergo the Church's doctrinal published position is that all human life stems from the people on the Ark and is therefore less than 6,000 years old. Fact.

Drifting wrote:

bcspace wrote:Actually, LDS doctrine states that the Church has no position on the age of the earth in one place and it also states that the dispenastions don't define the age of the earth in another.

The Church does take a position on the age of humanity.
The Church promotes a literal belief in the global flood that wiped out all the inhabitants of the earth except Noah and his family (8 people?).
The Church promotes the timing of this event at circa 3,000 - 2,000 bc.
(see LDS Bible chronology in LDS scriptures)

Ergo the Church's doctrinal published position is that all human life stems from the people on the Ark and is therefore less than 6,000 years old. Fact.

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