Gadianton wrote:Spektical is dead on. In the highly imaginary world where the New Jeruselem comes out of the sky and parks and this event correlates with massive changes in geography, then atheists will be open to explanations they don't take seriously today. Though, that doesn't mean they'd attribute it to "God" if other simpler explanations are available.
Lamen and Lemuel of old didn't believe even when they saw angels, so don't expect God to send an angel since it won't work. If you're a con pretending to write a book of scripture like Joseph Smith or SR, then you can expect the book to contain justifications to avoid ever having to pony up evidence.
See there, Bud, the Book of Mormon is chuck full of precise and perfect evidences. So exquisite that they defy explanation other than that the text is of God. No other possibility exists for the events that are accounted of in the Book of Mormon.
You see, it is on this wise. Four hundred years of knowing for themselves what the Bible taught and more perfectly what Jesus commanded and what the record showed as to what IS the real gospel and what its evidences are there was still not a single solitary man standing upon the earth in the day of Joseph Smith who got it RIGHT! Because all they could do is guess at it and they of course, did not realize that Jesus was serious about what he was saying and that you actually MUST do according to that which is written to get it RIGHT. The Baptist, Methodist, Catholics and all the rest were selling snake oil instead.
Joseph Smith nailed the perfect and precise gospel of Jesus Christ in the Book of Mormon. You will say, no! People in his day understood the REAL gospel. Bull Pucky! It is ssooooooooo vague to the understanding of the natural man that even WITH the Book of Mormon THE damn Mormons refuse to see it and for ten generations have trampled it under foot the same as their Protestant forefathers did after the Bible was printed for all to read it for themselves.
Which do you suppose that the Maker of all men and the Very God of Heaven is interested in man discovering? Archeological evidence? Horses? Metals? DNA? Towns named Zarahemla or to work out their salvation with fear and trembling before the Lord. All the explanations will be covered with sublime satisfaction in it time. What is needful today is that somebody cares enough to see the gospel and power of Zion before it is everlastingly too late and the earth is wasted at his coming.
Trample again and again upon that which counts while you revile the lack of carnal evidences when the greater and everlasting evidence goes unnoticed. So God has hidden what would overrun the essence of the purpose of salvation and the entire cause that brought Jesus Christ into the world so one man here and there would be humble enough to enter in at the straight gate and get the door open to stand upon the rock.
What if all the world became Mormon because of proofs abounding. It would ruin the truth all the more and the fashion would cry down and persecute the real gospel against the weight of all evidences justifying the enormity of hypocrisy that the hypocrite nation would invest in justifying great big self. You think LDS GAs are an abomination? Imagine if all the world panted after the proofs of Mormonism discoveries of carnal evidences.
I think God wiser than all that. Nobody would be humble sufficiently after all the evidence you crave existed.
I have explained this in great detail already. You are dull of hearing it no doubt.
