bcspace wrote:I think this assessment is spot on. If bcspace is not accepting the emails as genuine, then he is asking the wrong questions.
Can you point to the post in which Scratchy converts his description from alleged to verified?
If we had any real proof of anything, then it would take away our free agency. But because the evidence is equally balanced for and against the authenticity of the emails, we can rely on faith.
And I don't need Scratch or anyone else to confirm anything. I have the witness of the Spirit, so I know that the emails are true. No facts or evidence can gainsay a true testimony.
The Maxwell Institute might leak like a sieve, but a testimony from the Spirit is tight like unto a dish.
bcspace wrote: I'm not asking about the reality of DCP having resigned. I'm asking about the reality of the emails. Are they historical fiction from which anti-Mormon spin is being created?
It is an easy thing for a man with extensive academic training to measure anti-Mormonism using the principles he has been taught in his professional training as his standard. In my mind it ought to be the other way around. An anti-Mormon ought always, particularly if he is pursuing extensive academic studies, to judge the professions of man against the revealed word of the Lord.