[Colofornian]

But some people think they have some golden plates miraculously translated by someone with their head in their hat. Or was that ‘talking out of his hat’? I forget which...

Hmm...that does ring a bell.

(I think that's the same religion whereby those 'miraculously' unveiled golden plates were guided by a ghost named Moroni...for ONLY in that religion do you have the tenet that a resurrected man can advance to angel status...)

That's the irony. That religion pits the Bible vs. its other standard works...reducing it to a council of men who decided which books would be included...all while its main standard work for which they are nicknamed has even by their own admission LOTS of books left out...others "abridged"...and which books to be included on the "golden plates" was apparently decided by just one man about sixteen hundred years ago...IF we are to believe what they say)

[StormPrepper]

all while its main standard work for which they are nicknamed has even by their own admission LOTS of books left out...others "abridged"...and which books to be included on the "golden plates" was apparently decided by just one man about sixteen hundred years ago...IF we are to believe what they say)

Except the fact that, that man was a prophet of God and under the direction of Jesus Christ.

This is perfectly inline with what the prophet Amos declared:

Amos 3:
7 Surely the Lord God will do nothing, but he revealeth his secret unto his servants the prophets.

This is how God does it when He wants to give us a volume of scripture. He instructs a prophet, the prophet completes the task and passes it along to us.

Deciding on scripture without a prophet is unthinkable...I mean, doing something like that and you could spend the next 2000 years trying to decide if you should baptize babies or not...oh wait...

[NoCmpromiz]

Hmm...that does ring a bell.

It is my personal opinion that one that comes on a Christian thread and uses a characteristic cult buzz phrase (e.g. "premortal existence") is telegraphing the fact that thy are no more Christian than Barack Obama...

My personal opinion as I said. Your (and possibly other's) mileage, of course, may vary...