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Thank you for that example of circular logic.

There's nothing circular about it. What you're looking for is "appeal to authority".

the implication of your post to which I responded is that if someone makes some very powerful and authoritative statement, that proves it to be true?

I didn't say anything about proving truth, that's something you made up and added to it. I said authoritative and definitive. The last time that kind of language was used is in the New Testament and the Book of Mormon and is evident in the every section of the Doctrine and Covenants.

However, now that you've mentioned it, it is true. 100%.

There's nothing circular about it. What you're looking for is "appeal to authority".

Like THESE guys??

Salt Lake City claims that one of these is GOD the Father, and that the other is Christ.

Read it for yourself:

http://scriptures.lds.org/en/js_h/1/17#17

17 It no sooner appeared than I found myself delivered from the enemy which held me bound. When the light rested upon me I saw two Personages, whose brightness and glory defy all description, standing above me in the air. One of them spake unto me, calling me by name and said, pointing to the other—This is My Beloved Son. Hear Him!
18 My object in going to inquire of the Lord was to know which of all the sects was right, that I might know which to join. No sooner, therefore, did I get possession of myself, so as to be able to speak, than I asked the Personages who stood above me in the light, which of all the sects was right (for at this time it had never entered into my heart that all were wrong)—and which I should join.
19 I was answered that I must join none of them, for they were all wrong; and the Personage who addressed me said that all their creeds were an abomination in his sight; that those professors were all corrupt; that: “they draw near to me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me, they teach for doctrines the commandments of men, having a form of godliness, but they deny the power thereof.”
20 He again forbade me to join with any of them; and many other things did he say unto me, which I cannot write at this time. When I came to myself again, I found myself lying on my back, looking up into heaven.

Question: Why didn't this 'christ' speak??

Well, enjoy your delusions. No amount of “testimony” in your bosom is going to suddenly make Joseph Smith’s (or those of any subsequent LDS prophet) false prophecies be true, or make the Book of Abraham something other than an Egyptian Book of Breathings. It won’t make the Book of Mormon or Joseph Smith the fulfillment of Biblical prophecies, such as your church teaches in spite of overwhelming scriptural evidence and scholarship to the contrary, it won’t produce archeological evidence of a fictional civilization, and it won’t make Smith’s blatant and demonstrable plagiarism of the King James text go away. But have fun pretending it does.