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  1. KingM

    Sister Beck's Talk

    Wow, I'm a man and far from the target of your screed, but even I start to bristle when I read this kind of garbage. Oh, and some of us don't want to be married to a "queen" or a "princess." We don't want royalty and we don't to put our wives on a pedestal. We want a partner and an equal.
  2. KingM

    Do You Know Why You Don't Believe?

    And only you are wise enough to put all the pieces together. :)
  3. KingM

    Do You Know Why You Don't Believe?

    Sounds like a "just so" story. I mean, maybe it works this way, but I doubt it. And I don't see any evidence to suggest this is the way the universe works.
  4. KingM

    Do You Know Why You Don't Believe?

    Amazing how many people can look at the thousands of faiths/sects/beliefs and somehow believe that they are the ones privy to the secret knowledge about how the universe works. And yet they always say that agnostics and atheists are arrogant.
  5. KingM

    Joseph Smith - Prophet of God

    This highlights the difference between science and apologetics. Science looks at the information and sees what answers can be drawn from it. Apologetics starts with the answer and looks for information to support that answer. Hugh Nibley was an apologist for the church. He knew the church was...
  6. KingM

    Blasphemy

    We have our own, modern blasphemies, as well. James Watson is under condemnation for improper thinking about race and has been suspended from his job. Personally, I think his words were bone-headed and inflamatory, but his only real crime is speaking out of turn about something the modern world...
  7. KingM

    Where are the Gold Plates?

    You might look at this article for an alternate view as to chiasmus in the Book of Mormon.
  8. KingM

    Where are the Gold Plates?

    Or he was a prophet but people called him divine. Or he was a teacher who was misquoted, or he never existed, or... It has been proven by apologists at BYU. You really can't see why other people have a hard time believing this? Again, I just don't understand this complaint. We didn't step...
  9. KingM

    Where are the Gold Plates?

    And Joseph Smith didn't write Hamlet, either. I don't understand how writing a pro-Bible book makes a difference to the argument. It doesn't answer the questions about either the truthfulness of its claims or the quality of its thinking. I'm not talking about proving it or disproving it. You...
  10. KingM

    Joseph Smith - Prophet of God

    You're right. I apologize for harping on it.
  11. KingM

    Where are the Gold Plates?

    How about that big warehouse in Indiana Jones, right next to the Arc of the Covenant?
  12. KingM

    Joseph Smith - Prophet of God

    Still. Someone said the introduction to the Book of Mormon used the phrase "principal ancestors" and you said it didn't. I found that link in two seconds with Google. There may be other views, but that is the official view of the LDS church as published in the book itself. You can see why people...
  13. KingM

    Joseph Smith - Prophet of God

    Sorry, here is the link. But you could open up your Book of Mormon and take a look, right? Did you really not know this was the introduction to the Book of Mormon?
  14. KingM

    Where are the Gold Plates?

    Let me get this straight. You can't disprove the Book of Mormon through archeology, but you can prove it by a computer program written by someone at BYU? I don't get the education thing. What was Shakespeare's formal education? How many years of college did Jane Austen attend? Is Stephen King a...
  15. KingM

    Joseph Smith - Prophet of God

    She didn't say the "title page" said that. She said the "introduction" said that. This is from the introduction to the Book of Mormon on The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: The Book of Mormon is a volume of holy scripture comparable to the Bible. It is a record of God’s...
  16. KingM

    Joseph Smith - Prophet of God

    That's terrible, and I'm sorry. But what does that have to do with your willingly coming to a religious debate board and then being offended when people disagree with your religion and tell you it's wrong?
  17. KingM

    Where are the Gold Plates?

    I can't speak for Melissa, but again, why are you surprised that people on a board titled "religious debate" want to disagree with your beliefs? Seriously.
  18. KingM

    Joseph Smith - Prophet of God

    Beckysoup, I don't understand this post. You've come to a religious debate forum. It's for people who like to discuss, and yes, disagree with other people about religious subjects. That doesn't give people carte blanche to be rude, but you have to expect that people are going to come right out...
  19. KingM

    Where are the Gold Plates?

    Because she's doing the bidding of her master, Satan. :fork: Seriously, you don't know the answer to this? Religion and politics. Those are the two subjects that really get people riled up. There doesn't have to be any reason beyond that.
  20. KingM

    What Is the Role of the Prophet?

    To go into the wilderness and call the people to repentance. To prophesy about the future.
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