Posted on 08/04/2015 3:31:18 PM PDT by GoneSalt
So, it really was a “Peepstone in a hat!”
I found a similar rock out west not long ago! Wonder if it will work for me!
YES! It says for you to send $20 dollars for my little voodoo doll! Hang the doll in your house and pin a $20 dollar bill to it each week!
Then after a week, send the $20 dollars to me, and as that $20 dollars goes through the mail, all the curses, hoodoos, voodoos on you will flow out of your house giving you real good luck!
But if you ever stop sending the $20 dollars, all the curses, voodoos, and hoodoos will return to you!
So that we can discern what is truly of God and what is just attractive window dressing.
Yes, there were golden plates, but they weren’t written in English, so Smith said he had to “translate” them, with heavenly assistance, by looking at a stone he dropped in a hat.
Well, obviously rocks have no “powers”, and any silly rituals people do with them have no “power”, in themselves. However, if you believe in the notion that there are demonic forces, then they do have power, and they certainly could make it seem like some of these “powerless”, superstitious practices actually did something.
For example, say a demon, a disembodied spirit with a bad agenda was just hanging around on earth for thousands of years, watching us. It might very well be able to whisper into Joey Smith’s ear where someone misplaced a wedding ring, just because it might have witnessed that. Then, Joey Smith believes his little rock has powers, the person who lost the wedding ring believes Joey Smith has powers, and the demon has laid the groundwork for futher spiritually compromising Joey Smith in the future.
The seer stone enabled JS to see as through a looking glass the `reformed Egyptian’ characters one phrase at a time, with the translation in English appearing just beneath.
Most residents of Utah actually believe this POPPYCOCK!
This is NOT that
Looks like a polished walnut.
This is akin to divination, which the Bible strictly forbids. But forget this stone, show me the plates.
Me either. I had a Mormon boss once. Nicest man you could ever meet and did quite a bit of charity in the community.
Mormon to Orthodox is a very big improvement, that is to say,a step from belief in ... what? ... to belief in the Triune God, Creator, Redeemer, and Sanctifier, the only true God.
says who?
that’s because members of the church actually understand the story, not just accept what anti Mormons conjure up. Maybe you should study Mormonism somewhere else besides anti sights. Get your facts straight.
Oh, SHIZ!!! And there really was a Mahonri Morioncumr! And the Catholic Church is in fact “the great and abominable church”! And the Mountain Meadows Massacre of 1857 never happened! And holy undergarmies & secret handshakes are essential to entering the Celestial Kingdom! I get it now!
;^)
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