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Sir
So for you, there is nothing else that keeps you from aligning with the LDS church but your belief that the Book of Mormon isn't what it purports to be. Everything else is okay. Is this your position?
No because Smith lied about the BofM he lied about many others things as well.. Here is an example of his lies from the History of the Church Vol 6:
What a thing it is for a man to be accused of committing adultery, and having seven wives, when I can only find one.
Is that speaking in the name of God? He was speaking to the Church over the pulpit when he gave those remarks. How can we trust a spiritual leader when he lies so easily about his own actions in his life?
Sorry but one realization of Smith lying has brought everything else he taught into question. He has proven himself time and again to be a false prophet and a false teacher. Look at D&C 87 and tell me that the Civil War was the beginning of all other Wars.. Tell me that England got involved and called on other nations until the whole world was involved in a war that started in South Carolina.. It was a false prophecy.. Smith got it all wrong.. Remember what Sir Winston Churchill said about fighting WW2? He said "Give us the tools and we will finish the ***".. That doesn't sound like England was calling the US into the war.. Japan did that om Dec 7 1941, not England.. And that great war had nothing to do with the US Civil war.. Smith prophecy was FALSE, he stand condemned by the doctrine Moses was given to identify a true prophet given in:
Deut 18:20-22
But the prophet, which shall presume to speak a word in my name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or that shall speak in the name of other gods, even that prophet shall die.
And if thou say in thine heart, How shall we know the word which the LORD hath not spoken?
When a prophet speaketh in the name of the LORD, if the thing follow not, nor come to p***, that is the thing which the LORD hath not spoken, but the prophet hath spoken it presumptuously: thou shalt not be afraid of him.
There are others, in fact the only one he came close to being right about is the prophecy about his death.. Nothing else when looked at in the light it was given was true prophecy.. Sorry but Smith did it to himself. If anyone would look at his works with open eyes they would see his fraud and his lies.. I will pray that your eyes open to truth.. IHS jim