When you are reduced to printing man made falsehoods in search of a reaction you show yourself to have little credibility other than with those you are wishing to impress.
It literally begins with the first bullet point and continues. For example Joseph Smith did not claim to start a new religion nor create his own scripture. After all he was as the paragraph stated truthfully, at the time relatively uneducated.
I speak only for Joseph not for the other individual being compared to Joseph.
Same problems with bullet point 2. I quote: Joseph Smith was told that all of Christianity had become corrupt, and that consequently the Bible itself was no longer reliable. Joseph was told no such thing. Their creeds were an abomination and their professors were all corrupt. The visitation by God the Father and Son Jesus Christ made no mention of scripture and answered the question he asked of them with the following answer:
18 My object in going to inquire of the Lord was to know which of all the sects was right, that I might know which to join. No sooner, therefore, did I get possession of myself, so as to be able to speak, than I asked the Personages who stood above me in the light, which of all the sects was right (for at this time it had never entered into my heart that all were wrong)—and which I should join.
19 I was answered that I must join none of them, for they were all wrong; and the Personage who addressed me said that all their creeds were an abomination in his sight; that those professors were all corrupt; that: “they draw near to me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me, they teach for doctrines the commandments of men, having a form of godliness, but they deny the power thereof.”
20 He again forbade me to join with any of them; and many other things did he say unto me, which I cannot write at this time. When I came to myself again, I found myself lying on my back, looking up into heaven.
And the falsehoods continue. Josephs word against the “world” when the truth is plain as day. Now if all Christianity was united in their doctrine belief and interpretation of scripture maybe we would be having a different conversation. Alas...it appears there will remain a large unbridgeable gulf.
Both founded new religions by creating their own scriptures. It literally begins with the first bullet point and continues. For example Joseph Smith did not claim to start a new religion nor create his own scripture. I speak only for Joseph not for the other individual being compared to Joseph. As one can plainly see, the first bullet point was NOT a quote from JS, but an accurate picture of what History has passed down to us. In like manner, Joseph Smith was told that all of Christianity had become corrupt, and that consequently the Bible itself was no longer reliable. Same problems with bullet point 2. I quote: Joseph Smith was told that all of Christianity had become corrupt, and that consequently the Bible itself was no longer reliable. Joseph was told no such thing. So, JS just came up with this on his own? And the falsehoods continue. Show them.
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