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Misdirection? You asked about missing sripture and I pointed you to a link that explains where the Mormons get the idea of missing scripture. I don't know how I could have been more plain than that. If you aren't willing to debate what is on that page then you aren't willing to "take it to the next level" as you said.

I'm sorry, but I'm going to call it like I see it. You don't appear to have any interest in "discovering" the truth. If you did you would have responded in any other way than you did.

As I said before, these threads never lead to anyone changing his or her mind because no one who participates in these threads is interested in truth. I'll be honest, you're not going to change what I know to be true through personal prayer. If you won't accept a Book of Mormon,read it, and pray about it, then you could at least accept my offer to meet you half way and answer your intellectual questions about my church. When you dismiss my honest answer and call it misdirection, you reveal the true nature of your position. You are as convinced as I am of your position. Can we agree now this is pointless, and it isn't all because of me?

I won't be posting or checking this thread anymore. I'll just leave this last link. Any questions you have about the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (the Mormons) can be answered at this search page. Everything is there. You can search the scriptures we use, our teaching manuals, and decades of speeches by church authorities. I don't know how the church could make it easier than that.

http://www.lds.org/search/0,5523,165,00.html

You can search the scriptures we use, our teaching manuals, and decades of speeches by church authorities. I don't know how the church could make it easier than that.

But of course when those things are used, the typical mormon response is that its all taken out of context....

Misdirection? You asked about missing sripture and I pointed you to a link that explains where the Mormons get the idea of missing scripture.

Actually you pointed me to a link that discussed references to books not found in the Bible but you can't demonstrate those books were anything other than extra biblical references. Just because the Bible references some text doesn't mean the reference should be included as God's word. That's the misdirection that you don't understand.

Mormonism teaches some biblical manuscripts were at times edited/deleted to conform to a specific theology, yet Mormonism has no physical evidence the text in question existed in the first place. That's where we differ. The missing text isn't a referenced work, it's the same text that's been altered. Where's the evidence the text existed in the first place? Maybe you just didn't understand what I was saying, maybe I could have made it more clear, but your post was misdirection, intentional or not.

As I see it, it's incredible you want to believe that. Anybody can fall for anything with that kind of thinking.

When you dismiss my honest answer and call it misdirection, you reveal the true nature of your position.

I called your post misdirection because that's what it was and for no other reason. It's never because of you. It's because of what Mormonism teaches.