Tag: Book of Mormon
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Public Speaking
I could never be a public speaker. I drink too much and I pee too much. I have my greatest thoughts in front of the toilet. For instance today I thought, “I stand with the proclamation by Joseph Smith Jr. that ‘The Book of Mormon is the most correct of any book and a man…
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Good Friday 26
It is Good Friday so my anti Lent vow to not quote the Bible is over. I have quoted the Bible today, but I have also quoted the Book of Mormon and the Quran. “Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted.” Matthew 5:4 KJV “Behold, they will crucify him; and after he…
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Not a Saint
I am not a Latter Day Saint. I am a Latter Day Sinner who declares his unworthiness before God.
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Theopneustia
Some say the Book of Mormon was plagiarized. The Church insists that it was translated. Both those explanations fail to compel me. I do not know another book in the world like the Book of Mormon except maybe the Quran. I will get to that in a second. I have an intimate knowledge of what…
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Words and The Word
I got in a short argument with my homeless friend Raven. We were talking about The Book of Mormon, the Bible, and the Quran. He said there is only one word. He wasn’t completely clear but I think he meant that Jesus was The Word. Could have been the Bible since The Word is obfuscating…
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The Works
It can be successfully argued that the Christian Bible (as opposed to the Hebrew Bible) preaches a religion based on grace not works. Since at least the Reformation there has been a tension among Christians between faith and works. The Book of Mormon clearly teaches the importance of good works. Mormonism leaves me with little…
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Calling Myself a Mormon
I have been called a Christian several times in the past few days. I usually don’t argue about that because I am at the very least a “cultural Christian.” If I’m arguing with an atheist it’s not worth the trouble to correct him that I’m a Mormon not a Christian. But I make the distinction…
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Baptized Twice
When I was a few months old I was baptized as an Episcopalian. It’s pretty easy to be Christlike as a little kid. I was thirteen before I learned the Ten Commandments. That was right around the time that I was confirmed as a member of the Episcopal Church. The bishop had powder on his…
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The Bible is Sometimes Wrong
I reject infallibility and inerrancy. I reject it for the Bible and I reject it for the Quran. The Book of Mormon acknowledges the faults of men in it. That is how I can hold all three books in my head at one time. There is only one good, one pure, and one perfect and…
Latter Day Sinner 