Are you saying that Joseph Smith over the pulpit taught false doctrine? I will apologize if you can tell me that Smith lied about there being 3 Gods. I will apologize if you tell me, and the world that he was teaching false doctrine when he said that there are three Gods. That you are one of those that can contradict his insistence that there are three. Admit that he lied about being a polygamist insisting that he only had one wife.. That he lied about never telling the story of the first vision any other way than how it is recorded in the PofGP.. In short admit that he was as big of a liar as you believe I am.. Oh and you have to tell your bishop these thing the next time you need to go in for a annual temple recommend interview. If you can get to the stake president after that interview tell him too.. I am sure your temple attendance days will be over..[BigJulie;156460]In other words, you can't. Are you going to apologize now? You attributed things to me I never "confessed"---not only do you bear false witness against my religion, you bear false witness against me personally. You can't find that I "confessed" to believe in "three Gods". The burden of proof lies with you. You made the accusations. Prove it. You can't and you know it.
If Smith was a false prophet then the BofM is just as much part of his lie as anything else he said.. If he lied to the church about his polygamy, about who God is then how can you trust the BofM or any of the unique mormon scripture? You can't, because a liar wrote them!In fact, you even allude to our scriptures with this: ...and then you go on trying to spin your spin to make your point as if the Book of Mormon testimony that I believe does not stand today.
The scripture in the Book of Mormon reads So, as I stated, as this is the scripture I confess to believe----one you know I believe and you dismiss it--well, you know you are bearing false witness. You can't find that I "confess" to what you say, you are aware of what the Book of Mormon states, and then you try to shift the burden to me.
By insisting that the founder of the LDS church didn't teach that there are three Gods, even after being shown where that is stated in your own church history. You are the one that needs to take care of falling into condemnation of 2 Nephi 9:34. I ask you to either believe what Smith taught each and every time he stood up to teach the church whether that be in the LDS scripture he wrote or in his recorded sermons. I am not asking that every word he ever spoke to be used as scripture, Not at all just those he spoke when teaching and preaching to the church. If you can't do that I say that you are in denial, You deny that he was a prophet and that anything he said is subject to being as false as the story of his first vision.. After all the official version is much different to that which was recorded in his own handwriting.. You aren't s t u p i d. You know that these things are there for all to see and read. You know that Smith taught such things.. It's all right there.. If he is a prophet then he wouldn't teach error as basic as to what the nature of God is and yet there it is.. He did just that..
This is your burden.. You have to either show that Smith didn't say these things or you have to reject him, that is if you are willing to agree with him that there are three Gods. That it is right to live in polygamy, and to try to keep that SIN secret from the church and even his own wife. Remember that the 132nd section of the D&C that the first wife must be asked to accept that kind of marriage and a man isn't free to do so until she is given the opportunity to accept it as God's form of marriage (D&C 132:65). All LDS that claim Smith to be a prophet of God must deal with these issues.. YOU HAVEN'T DONE SO.. You want it both ways, he is a prophet but he is just a man too so that he can live in sin, and lie while he is teaching the church and still be a man of God.. Guess what NO ONE CAN DO THAT , NO ONE! IHS jim




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