sock puppet wrote:Nevo is a big boy. He's the only TBM/mopologist to have ventured in this thread what he considers to be factually untrue statements in the Nauvoo Expositor. Others cower where Nevo has dared to tread.
Please don't call Nevo a Mopologist. He has earned better than that.
"I am also open to the notion that he in his weakness felt justified for doing it for some of the reasons you mention along with many others." ****************************
This is the justification members of a lynch mob use.
"This is how INGORNAT these fools are!" - darricktevenson
Bow your head and mutter, what in hell am I doing here?
infaymos wrote: "Peterson is the defacto king ping of the Mormon Apologetic world."
sock puppet wrote: Someone who genuinely believes what he is doing is 'righteous' does not feel the need to lie about it.
Does this include Peter? After knowing Christ and seeing his miracles he could not tell the truth about being his follower. He lied three times and this is all we know. He could have lied a few more times.
We all can lie.
I intend to lay a foundation that will revolutionize the whole world. Joseph Smith We are “to feed the hungry, to clothe the naked, to provide for the widow, to dry up the tear of the orphan, to comfort the afflicted, whether in this church, or in any other, or in no church at all…” Joseph Smith
sock puppet wrote: Someone who genuinely believes what he is doing is 'righteous' does not feel the need to lie about it.
Does this include Peter? After knowing Christ and seeing his miracles he could not tell the truth about being his follower. He lied three times and this is all we know. He could have lied a few more times.
We all can lie.
Go tell someone who believes in Christ. For me, Peter--well, just a man like you, why me. Why wouldn't he lie?
sock puppet wrote: Someone who genuinely believes what he is doing is 'righteous' does not feel the need to lie about it.
Does this include Peter? After knowing Christ and seeing his miracles he could not tell the truth about being his follower. He lied three times and this is all we know. He could have lied a few more times.
We all can lie.
I'm not sure it's fair to compare a single instance of lying with a whole career of lying.
Parley P. Pratt wrote:We must lie to support brother Joseph, it is our duty to do so.
