[sevenbak]

This argument is a real piece of work! It's no mystery that Joseph was attending the Methodist church as a boy before the First Vision, so that was part of his background. When he joined the class at the methodist church in 1828, he was newly married to Emma ( a Methodist from her youth), The LDS church had not yet been organized, and the book of Mormon had not even been translated yet. He was a God-fearing man the same as his wife. Give it a rest! You make so many distortions trying to manipulate the facts to readers who hold their faith as sacred, that I have to wonder if you really do "lie in wait to deceive" as Ephesians 4:14 speaks of.

[sevenbak]

I would add to this the fact that I have attended quite a few different churches as a missionary for my church. Learning and teaching is what happens inside churches. Joseph Smith interacting with peoples of a different faith, or even a "former" faith is supposed to shock?

[Pan_Yans Wife]

You project and see duplicity where none exists.Using quotations from different sources seems to upset you.

How about some logic?

Jesus tells the disciples to spread his gospel, but... they waver and retreat to the synagogue and commune with those who killed Jesus. Are they following God's orders? Would a LOGICAL God accept such wavering and not notice it?

Smith fumbled and fumbled and fumbled. And rightly so. It is hard to make up a religion out of whole cloth, esecially given his ignorance of all things that are holy in the eyes of God.