Have you noticed they never embrace their prophets? They always run from their statements, or pretend they never made those statements. If it is really bad, they claim that the scribe must have made an error in transcription. One apologist had the nerve to ask someone if the picture of the page from the Journal of Discourses was from their own copy, as if to imply that the picture of the page does not represent the actual words in the JoD. Well the JoD is online for anyone to peruse. Talk about disingenuousnesses!
They embrace their current prophet, but they basically pretend that all the prophets who went before this one were engaged in personal speculation when they declared their unique doctrines, even when they declared from the pulpit "Thus saith the Lord!"
It is a hard job being a Mormon apologist in light of all the "unusual" statements of their prophets and apostles.
Other then missing some pages, and only having the first page of a discource, making it dificule to pinpoint the location of a line in the middle, it looks prity good.
Unless you notice that on the contence pages the title of the books is mis named.
But, if you folkes really study from it, you might not follow blindly things like this:
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When anyone uses the JoD, or any other source, as a resource to prove something against our church, their understanding of the document they use is open for question. to repeat how bad XXXXXX did;
from post number 82
To: XXXXXX
John Taylor (Mormonism’s 3rd President)
“We talk about Christianity, but it is a perfect pack of nonsense ...the devil could not invent a better engine to spread his work than the Christianity of the nineteenth century” (Journal of Discourses 6:167).
Maybe it’s just me, but that tends to sound a bit arrogant.....un-Christian.
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After going to the source materal and reading what went before, what went after, and what went in the middle, I find that just taking these few words out of the whole, leads one to think it is saying something it is not saying. Did you know that ‘nonsense’ is the end of a sentence? Did you know ‘the devil’ is in the middle of the third sentence after ‘nonsense’.
Did you also know that President Taylor was talking about how THE MEMBERS OF THIS CHURCH, along with the rest of the world, were not being good Christians {But how can we teach others a lesson which we have not learned ourselves?
(Journal of Discourses, 26 vols. [London: Latter-day Saints’ Book Depot, 1854-1886], 6: 167.)}
Did you read the source materal, or did you just copy and past someone else’s misleading half truth?
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I really do not think many of you will take th time to learn, it might just lead to your conversion.