He offered the follow Bible passages, which he then mischaracterized ... I've seen Delph do this same deceit/trick, so this is going to be easy this second time dealing with it:
Acts 9: 7 And the men which journeyed with him stood speechless, hearing a voice, but seeing no man.
Acts 22: 9 And they that were with me saw indeed the light, and were afraid; but they heard not the voice of him that spake to me.
Acts 26: 13 - 14 At midday, O king, I saw in the way a light from heaven, above the brightness of the sun, shining round about me and them which journeyed with me.
14 And when we were all fallen to the earth, I heard a voice speaking unto me, and saying in the Hebrew tongue,
First, note the nasty 'in your Bible' approach of the Mormon, seeking to make the Bible a not credible source so his cultish fictions can be given 'credulity'. Then notice whom is relating the event and to whom. Lastly, there is no reason to believe that Jesus speaking directly to Saul would be understood by those to whom Jesus was not speaking.
In the first passage, Luke is relating the story. In the second passage, it is Paul relating the story from his perspective, speaking to fellow Christians/Jews. In the third passage, Paul is relating his experience to a non-Christian, and his relating the story does not contradict what he told the fellow Christians in the second passage.
It is interesting that Mormons, when cornered, do not answer questions which expose the polytheism of their religion (notice the apologist ignores the eternal progression questions, too much exposure of their heresies there), but go to extraordinary lengths to try, try mind you, to discredit the Bible!
Mormonism is a cult started by a sexual predator who played his version of divination using a peepstone to con farmers over imagined buried treasure, and who claimed to have translated an Egypotian papri, but his 'translation' has been proven completely fraudulent.
This same conman, Joseph Smith, supposedly translated the King James Bible, back into King James English; with no texts from the Greek or Hebrew to consult, adding and changing thousands of words; at the end of the Book of Genesis fabricated eight hundred plus words to manufacture a prophecy of his coming in these latter days! He even added to the Book of the Revelation, in complete contradiction to the warniung therein. He didn't live much longer after that demonic ploy, BTW.
Yet Mormons even today try to make the Abraham fiction, from the Egyptian dealing with the dead papri, credible.
It is sad that these poor souls are so deeply blinded in this cult that they sacrifice their credibility to defend the heresies and false doctrines (like eternal progression where man becomes god and God The Father Almighty was once a mere mortal), and stoop so low as to attack the Bible if it seems they can score some point that their fictional novel from Smith might address differently.
Meant to include you in the ping line.
Recalling not so long ago when I first came to this thread...learned allot..becomming more astounded as I went that people actually believed Joseph Smith. Then reading of their rituals and teachings....such blasphemy against God...I was truly shocked...and even now hard to understand how these people can even remotely believe what they are being indoctrinated in. But it is typical of cults and their followers likewise follow the standard profile of those who have been deceived. Ironic because they think they are “special” when in fact they are the norm for those who follow cults and their leaders...You are right it is very sad...but I am not so sad that I will not stand against the teachings they attempt to spill out here on Fr.
Thanks for this interesting post MHGinTM...it is revealing.
That one simple statement right there speaks volumes to me.
The KJV Bible is a Mormon “sacred text” just as it is to the actual Christian world. We have just been yet again regaled from Mormon command central baout how they are “Christians” just like everyone else. We have been and continue to be presented that same argument here day after day.
That they would throw it under the bus to make their case...
Well, “Christians” just like us?
Try not even remotely Christian...