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To: Normandy
Regarding the Book of Mormon, I have read it and in prayer asked God for a confirmation of its truthfulness. I have received that confirmation through the power of the Holy Ghost.

There in lies the problem Normandy.

God gave us minds as well as spirits in order to give us the ability to test the answers we receive in prayer to know their source. You follow the Bible, you know that the Evil One can take on the guise of an Angel of Light, indeed he is as convincing as the Lord himself in that regard. We use reason to test that which is testable within what he tells us to divine between God and those posing as God.

To not use the mind and reason to test if the spirit that spoke to you is truly God does both a disservice to you and the the Almighty.

If the BOM were true there would be no need for God to hide the DNA that even BYU professors now admit they can't find. There would be no need for God to allow his followers to have to "have faith" in that which should be tangible such as Nephite ruins and such. He would not give half a revelation to one of his true prophets and leave him hanging, he would have been specific on such things as peoples and locations.

God has no need for myths and no need for such games.

Since these are all issues that cause the BOM and other LDS doctrine and scripture to fail the test of reason, then it cannot be of God, the creator of all things including reason and faith.

78 posted on 04/26/2010 2:42:53 PM PDT by ejonesie22 ( Tagline being renovated under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act...)
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To: ejonesie22
If the BOM were true there would be no need for God to hide the DNA that even BYU professors now admit they can't find. There would be no need for God to allow his followers to have to "have faith" in that which should be tangible such as Nephite ruins and such. He would not give half a revelation to one of his true prophets and leave him hanging, he would have been specific on such things as peoples and locations.

HE certainly would not have "taken back" the very, very important golden plates from which the very, very important "history" was translated. The REAL God is not the "Q" of Star Trek fame.

vulcan joseph

88 posted on 04/26/2010 4:23:30 PM PDT by greyfoxx39 (You have body and you have fat, your ratio 1 to 1, two bodies, your ratio 2 to 2. See?)
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