Gazelam wrote:I think it was Moroni who said "if miracles have ceased, it is because of unbelief."
Just want to add, I thought it was wild when in "Rough Stone Rolling" there was a girl using a seerstone to follow Joseph trying to get the plates. She used the seerstone to find the box he had been hiding the plates in under the floor, but Joseph had moved the plates to a different location in a diferent container.
Heh. Not much of a seer stone then, eh?
Funny how all these stories end the same..."just missed 'em".
WK: "Joseph Smith asserted that the Book of Mormon peoples were the original inhabitants of the americas"
Will Schryver: "No, he didn’t." 3/19/08
Still waiting for Will to back this up...
At least one of the seerstones is in the First Presidency's vault. I want a seerstone but so far God says no.......
"Surely he knows that DCP, The Nehor, Lamanite, and other key apologists..." -Scratch clarifying my status in apologetics "I admit it; I'm a petty, petty man." -Some Schmo
The Nehor wrote:At least one of the seerstones is in the First Presidency's vault. I want a seerstone but so far God says no.......
Why should god care if you have a seer stone? Your stones are your business.
"We of this Church do not rely on any man-made statement concerning the nature of Deity. Our knowledge comes directly from the personal experience of Joseph Smith." - Gordon B. Hinckley
"It's wrong to criticize leaders of the Mormon Church even if the criticism is true." - Dallin H. Oaks
The Nehor wrote:At least one of the seerstones is in the First Presidency's vault. I want a seerstone but so far God says no.......
Why should god care if you have a seer stone? Your stones are your business.
Well, when he's the only one that can make them work.....okay, I'm going to stop before your metaphor takes over. ;)
"Surely he knows that DCP, The Nehor, Lamanite, and other key apologists..." -Scratch clarifying my status in apologetics "I admit it; I'm a petty, petty man." -Some Schmo
For the answer to this question Runtu you'll have to see the new National Treasure movie.
(Alright...the Freemasons did it)
"Whatever appears to be against the Book of Mormon is going to be overturned at some time in the future. So we can be pretty open minded."-charity 3/7/07
It is dangerous to use the seer stones. They are not all accounted for, the lost seeing stones. We do not know who else may be watching.
Mormonism ceased being a compelling topic for me when I finally came to terms with its transformation from a personality cult into a combination of a real estate company, a SuperPac, and Westboro Baptist Church. - Kishkumen
Urim and Thummim one day and seer stone the next and no stone the next. The answer of we just don't know the exact way doesn't fly - it's musical instruments. The glasses type object is the basic story and again (like some have said of a New York Cumorah) they need to stick with it.
On the other board, more than one person is saying that seer stones were just a local phenomenon and that we have no use for such "worthless" relics of a more superstitious age. I can't figure out how anyone could square this attitude with D&C scriptures that clearly tell us that seer stones will play a prominent role in our individual destinies.
Runtu wrote:On the other board, more than one person is saying that seer stones were just a local phenomenon and that we have no use for such "worthless" relics of a more superstitious age. I can't figure out how anyone could square this attitude with D&C scriptures that clearly tell us that seer stones will play a prominent role in our individual destinies.
I think they're just too lazy to use one if they did have it.
"Surely he knows that DCP, The Nehor, Lamanite, and other key apologists..." -Scratch clarifying my status in apologetics "I admit it; I'm a petty, petty man." -Some Schmo