Touche’ .... Elsie, actually that was a pretty good reply.
But, once again, the term ‘one’ is being used for ‘unity’ as Christ said in John 17:21 That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.
If I can be ‘One’ with God and Christ .... just as Christ and God are ‘One’ ....
....then the Doctrine of the Trinity is ‘Mother of all Fake News!’
....then the Doctrine of the Trinity is ‘Mother of all Fake News!’Tell this to the Three witnesses.
I wonder what level THEY ended up on?
Seems as there was a bit of controversy about them.
Paul Harvey would say; "The REST of the story" of the three witnesses:
- Most of the witnesses are related by blood. https://www.mormonstories.org/truth-claims/the-books/the-book-of-mormon/book-of-mormon-witnesses/
- The three witnesses were all of questionable character
- Joseph Smith said Dec 16, 1838, "Such characters as McLellin, John Witmer, David Witmer, Oliver Cowdry, and Martin Harris are too mean to mention; and we had liked to have forgotten them." History of the Church, Vol 3, p232
- Brigham Young said, "Some of the Witnesses of the Book of Mormon, who handled the plates and conversed with the angels of God, were afterwards left to doubt and to disbelieve that they had ever seen an angel." (Journal of Discourses, Vol 7, page 164, 1859, Brigham Young.)
- All three witnesses were eventually excommunicated from the Mormon church.
- Two of the three witnesses who were excommunicated from the Mormon church later returned to the church after denying their testimony. Imagine if any one of the apostles denied their witness that Jesus rose from the dead, were kicked out of the early church, then returned again. Their testimony would be of no value. Remember that all three denied the Mormon faith at one point, and one never came back to the Mormon church going to his grave denying his testimony, yet Mormons still use his testimony for the book of Mormon. In fact, David Whitmer never returned to the LDS church that he was a witness for, but joined splinter groups that denied the original LDS church he was first a member of.