“If this seems incompatible with the Jesus you read about in the new testament, I submit that the prophecies of how Jesus will behave toward the wicked in the last day will also be incompatible with your image of Jesus.”
I interpret “is not come to destroy men’s lives” to mean that Jesus did not come the first time to destroy men’s lives. Including men in the Americas. I welcome your arguments otherwise.
So, I believe Luke and Nephi are inconsistent. As noted before, for that and other reasons I do not think the Book of Mormon is true. Again I welcome your arguments otherwise.
You then appear to assume that I think that Jesus will not pass judgement during his second coming. That assumption would be a false assumption.
Frankly I don’t know when, how, or to what extent judgement will come during His second coming, but my limited mind doesn’t exclude some “Old Testament” type conduct. So don’t worry about me being surprised too much on that account.
Take care
FL
Good points. I’d like to add, there is clearly a prophesied Second Coming, but no Third Coming, or First and 1/2 coming. At the Second Coming, the Kingdom is instituted forever and ever, so that’s that. He’s not going anywhere from whence He might need to return again.
So, if the Jesus who came to America, in the Book of Mormon, were the glorified Jesus, returning in vengeance, then that must have been the Second Coming, and we have already missed it. Where is the Kingdom, ruling in glory over all the Earth? Where are the glorified saints, sitting on thrones around the judgement seat of the Lord? Where is the New Jerusalem, from whence the Glory of God emanates to light the whole Earth? Why do we still need the sun and moon and stars in the sky to light our way?