Only the primary questions matter. Stay in the boat.

[_Fence Sitter]

If only those four questions matter, why are they excommunicating people for raising the secondary ones?

[_Mormonicious]

Ask any Military Personnel and they will tell the REAL Primary questions are:

What time is breakfast

What time is lunch

What time is dinner

And What time is bed time.

[_Uther]

Is there a God who is our Father?

Is Jesus Christ the Son of God, the Savior of the world?

Was Joseph Smith a prophet?

Is The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints the kingdom of God on the earth?

Are we the multigenerational result of the greatest hoax of the 19th Century?

[_krose]

The guy has a point.

His first question is the most important. I know that after I came to doubt that one and then eventually decided the answer is “probably not,” none of the other questions mattered at all.

I sort of disagree. You have to keep in mind who his audience is - People who already likely will answer “yes” to the first two questions without even blinking. He’s not interested in converting people to a belief in God, he’s attempting to innoculate young people who are already conditioned to believe in God (and Jesus) that all those other questions about Church History and the like are best left on the shelf because all that matters is that Joseph was a Prophet and therefore the Church is what it claims to be.

He is attempting to wrap all of the questions and doubts and concerns about the Church that members have into a Yes/No challenge about Joseph.

It’s a blatant example of flawed logic and reasoning. Even if the first 3 questions were beyond doubt a “Yes” to each, it doesn’t follow that the Church today is what it claims to be. He’s selling snake oil to people who already have been conditioned since birth to consume it, in an effort to stop them thinking about how it tastes.

Of course. I understand what he’s up to.

I’m just pointing out that his list works well for disbelief. An apologetic argument about “Lehite” DNA or some missing scroll theory is never going to gain any traction with someone who has already concluded there is nothing/nobody listening to prayers.