BOM Defenses
Tracy Armstrong · Jan 25 Oh bless your heart. It’s always a source of mixed pity and amusement to me when people who know little or nothing about our church or its history assume that THEIR mighty intellect has somehow discovered some dirty little secret that no faithful member of the church in the past 200 years of weathering attacks and false accusations, has ever bothered to research. Our ranks include world class scientists, historians, judges, Biblical scholars, educators, giants of industry - yet folks like you assume we’re a bunch of backwater, uneducated hicks who’ve never cracked a book. It’s the opposite - we’ve researched every inch of our history, questioned every piece of doctrine, studied every verse of the Bible in an attempt to better understand the Book of Mormon (and vice-versa) because they each testify of the other (and you would know that if you’d ever researched it yourself.) Just for fun, let me share with you exactly what Joseph Smith would hav...