Why would God choose as his prophet the adopted son of a pagan princess, a man who killed another man and tried to cover it up?
Why would God choose as an apostle a zealous bigot who persecuted innocent Christians and assented in their deaths?
Why would God choose any of us for any purpose, miserable sinners that we are?
Whatever his faults, Joseph Smith was chosen by God to be his prophet. I am not inclined to question God's choices.
(You need not respond to the latter point: I will take it as given that you do not believe that Joseph Smith was a prophet. We will simply have to agree to disagree.)
By the way, your logic is still faulty. If God chooses to reveal anything to us by whatever means, we can rest assured that it will give no advantage to Satan.
Why would God choose any of us for any purpose, miserable sinners that we are?
The mormon god makes conditions...the Christian God loves us unconditionally and chooses us..sins and all. Do you not know that there was only ONE perfect Man?
"Jesus Comforts His Disciples 1"Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God; trust also in me. In my Father's house are many rooms; if it were not so, I would have told you. I am going there to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am. John 14;1-3
He doesn't say I will come back and take you to be with me...IF....
He doesn't set little chores for us to do, nor set mortal men to judge our "worthiness" as does the mormon god.
"That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved." Rom 10:9
There has been no "restoration". Christ died that we may live.
But we KNOW he was a prophet!
A prophet who was FALSE many, many times.
Would you DISAGREE that the Holy Bible is WRONG where it says that if a what a 'prophet' prophecies does NOT come true; that shows he's a FALSE prophet?
If God chooses to reveal anything to us by whatever means, we can rest assured that it will give no advantage to Satan.
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Your logic is faulty, since you assume it comes from God. If it doesn’t come from God, it can give an advantage to Satan.
There is no proof that what Smith brought forth is from God and plenty of evidence that it did not.