Blixa wrote:Boy that was a terrible article. Thanks for alerting me to it, Mike. Good to see the discussion it's generating on your Facebook page. Facile apologia is no help at all to the Mormon church.
My Facebook thread is getting even better. Still waiting for John Hamer, but John Hajicek just joined in. LOL!
I wish I was your Facebook friend. *sigh*
(Nevo, Jan 23) And the Melchizedek Priesthood may not have been restored until the summer of 1830, several months after the organization of the Church.
In the MT article, DCP wrote:That some Book of Mormon witnesses credited Strang argues for their sincerity, incidentally: Had they been knowing perpetrators of a fraud with Joseph Smith, they would likely have been far more skeptical of Strang.
Come again, Dan. I think it more logically reads:
"That some Book of Mormon witnesses credited Strange argues for their naïvété and ease of being duped, incidentally: That they later were duped by Strang suggests their naïvété and how easy it was for Joseph Smith Jr to use them earlier as tools of his deceptions."