drumdude wrote: ↑Wed Mar 30, 2022 11:11 pm
I’m convinced no sane god would communicate the most important ideas in human history to a charlatan through a rock placed in a hat.
It’s prima facie absurd.
Yes, if Joseph Smith was a charlatan then what you say is true. And there have been plenty of charlatans.
Back in the early 19th century how would you suggest God should have straightened out the Christian world with the hope of getting everyone on the same page, etc.?
And if those ideas included correct doctrines and practices that are “the most important ideas in human history” what would you suggest might have been a step by step plan He should/could have gone with?
After all is said and done things turned out pretty well for the restoration, that is if you think temples, authority, correct understanding of God and what He requires (commandments, ordinances, repentance, etc.), have any bearing on human progression.
There are plenty of armchair critics that have their opinions on how it shouldn’t have been done.
My question is the opposite of that.
Regards,
MG