"Mormonism has much in common with the naturalistic position of the Greeks. It holds, in the first place, that although the structure and configurations of the world are the product of God’s creative act, that anything at all should exist is not due to God but is simply a given

Thoughtful-Faith Would recommend reading Samuel Brown's paper called "Mormons Probably Aren't Materialists."

I have so many questions about LDS theology now that I’m understanding the BoM and their view more. The more I understand it, the more I see how Christianity and Mormonism are nothing alike. They’re very close on the surface, same names, same sounding things.. but WOW! It’s

Ward Radio “I believe that until recently almost all Mormons believed that Joseph Smith taught that God progressed to become fully divine from a lower state of non-divinity. Thus, it was believed that God the Father became God; before that, he was something less than God. During the eternal

Sally Chase was a young woman living near the Smith family in New York, who served as a village “glass-looker” or seer using a green glass stone. mrm.org/sally-chase

Wilford Woodruff: "President Young also said that the seer stone which Joseph Smith first obtained He got in an Iron kettle 15 feet under ground He saw it while looking in another seers stone which a person had He went right to the spot & dug & found it." catalog.churchofjesuschrist.org/assets/ed47e44…

LDS historian and BYU professor Steven C. Harper: “There is no reason to reject the basic assertion that Joseph searched for buried treasure using a marvelous stone, even though the claim is made by some of his antagonists. Joseph did not dispute that claim, and people who

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If you are a woman who willfully had an abortion, you are a murderer, not a victim. But there is a God who sent his Son to die so that murderers like you can be forgiven.

“Sally Chase was probably the one who taught Joseph Smith how to use a seer stone.” – LDS apologist Stan Spencer interpreterfoundation.org/journal/seers-…

CowJoshBebop🇺🇸 Thoughtful-Faith Thanks for asking. See the conclusion: mrm.org/sally-chase#:~… Articles like this function long-term for more informed subsequent discussion on evaluation and implications. Important to get the history right before discussing the consequences. Groundwork for better dialog.

CowJoshBebop🇺🇸 Thoughtful-Faith Thanks for the dialog. RE: “What your alleging is that someone else had possession of his first seer stone before he did.” That is not the claim. Look again. The claim is that Smith found his first stone by looking through Sally’s stone. “Joseph first used a neighbor’s seer

Lots of people allege Christian doctrine is hellenized, by which they mean that pagan Greek philosophical ideas distorted biblical truth. Plato much blamed. But here's a test you can run for yourself. Read a bit of Plato's most influential book & compare it to trinitarianism.

So, I was looking at bookofmormon.com from Mormonism Research Ministry and noticed that while they use the 1830 edition of the Book of Mormon text and likely the current text we use in the Church, they skip over a number of revisions along the way while claiming to show how the Book of

Bruce R. McConkie: Jesus Advanced to Godhood Source: “The Seven Christs,” General Conference, October 1982, churchofjesuschrist.org/study/general-…