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I am not attacking Ford. I don’t even really care about him. Why should I read his book?

You obviously care about us since you are one of the attackers. You ought to read the standard works as a whole if you are going to spend your life telling me what is wrong with my Church.

Otherwise, you might check out the beam in thine own eye.

You ought to read the standard works as a whole if you are going to spend your life telling me what is wrong with my Church.

You ought to read the BIBLE if you are going to try to tell us what is RIGHT about the LDS organization!

NIV Acts 17:16-23
16. While Paul was waiting for them in Athens, he was greatly distressed to see that the city was full of idols.
17. So he reasoned in the synagogue with the Jews and the God-fearing Greeks, as well as in the marketplace day by day with those who happened to be there.
18. A group of Epicurean and Stoic philosophers began to dispute with him. Some of them asked, "What is this babbler trying to say?" Others remarked, "He seems to be advocating foreign gods." They said this because Paul was preaching the good news about Jesus and the resurrection.
19. Then they took him and brought him to a meeting of the Areopagus, where they said to him, "May we know what this new teaching is that you are presenting?
20. You are bringing some strange ideas to our ears, and we want to know what they mean."
21. (All the Athenians and the foreigners who lived there spent their time doing nothing but talking about and listening to the latest ideas.)
22. Paul then stood up in the meeting of the Areopagus and said: "Men of Athens! I see that in every way you are very religious.

NIV Acts 18:11
So Paul stayed for a year and a half, teaching them the word of God.

NIV 1 Corinthians 4:17
For this reason I am sending to you Timothy, my son whom I love, who is faithful in the Lord. He will remind you of my way of life in Christ Jesus, which agrees with what I teach everywhere in every church.

NIV 1 Corinthians 11:2-3
I praise you for remembering me in everything and for holding to the teachings, just as I passed them on to you.

NIV 2 Thessalonians 2:15-16
So then, brothers, stand firm and hold to the teachings we passed on to you, whether by word of mouth or by letter.

NIV 2 Timothy 1:13
What you heard from me, keep as the pattern of sound teaching, with faith and love in Christ Jesus.

NIV 2 Timothy 3:14-15
14. But as for you, continue in what you have learned and have become convinced of, because you know those from whom you learned it,
15. and how from infancy you have known the holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.

“I am not attacking Ford. I don’t even really care about him. Why should I read his book?”

Ignint, and PROUD OF IT!

“You obviously care about us since you are one of the attackers. You ought to read the standard works as a whole if you are going to spend your life telling me what is wrong with my Church.”

I should read the “standard works”? ? ? I actually have read tons of the Mormon “standard works” and have quoted from them.

“Otherwise, you might check out the beam in thine own eye.”

No beam here, I research both sides of the issue and have read Joseph Smith’s babblings extensively.