Free Republic
Browse · Search
Religion
Topics · Post Article

To: Utah Girl; colorcountry; Utah Binger; Colofornian; SENTINEL; FastCoyote
LOL, this one statement in your post is mormonism in a nutshell.

"Leaving out some details while emphasizing others at different times does not make him a liar."

Brother Millet must have written that!

131 posted on 05/28/2008 6:48:48 AM PDT by greyfoxx39 (Protected species legislation enacted May 2008.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 127 | View Replies ]


To: greyfoxx39
How about Paul's account of his conversion on the road to Damascus? I believe his story, even though there are 3 accounts in the New Testament. I've also studied the New Testament side by side with the gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. Again, from the same source in my answer above
f we reject Joseph Smith for offering various accounts that emphasize or exclude different details of the same experience, then by that standard we would also have to reject the Bible. For example, Luke 24:4 says that two angels appeared at the empty tomb to several women, while Matthew 28:2 mentions just one angel. Anti-Mormon writers would have riotous fun with this "contradiction" if it occurred in the Book of Mormon. However, we can give the Bible the benefit of a doubt by suggesting that both Matthew and Luke were describing the same event, but that Matthew overlooked the second angel in his account.
I still believe in the resurrection of Jesus Christ, even though Matthew wrote there was only one angel at the tomb, and Luke said there were 2 angels at the tomb when they went to see if Christ's body was still there. Did they go at separate times? The same time?
154 posted on 05/28/2008 4:10:02 PM PDT by Utah Girl (John 15:12, Matthew 5:44)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 131 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
Religion
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson