The post that was quoted here has been removedThe girls you saw in ad will not be knocked up by you nor will they knock on your door.
What the Mormons believe is roughly this:
1. There were not 12 tribes, as the Hebrews (mistakenly) claim, but 13. The ‘lost’ tribe navigated the Atlantic and settled the New World long before Columbus arrived.
2. During the three or so days btw the death and resurrection of Jesus, he appeared to peoples in the New World and preached much the same Gospel as the Christian NT, but with a few variations.
3. Joe Smith found golden tablets under a rock in NY state, inscribed with indecipherable symbols. An angel named Mormoni appeared to him and helped him translate the tablets; this became The Book of Mormon. Then the angel disappeared taking the tablets with him.
Please note that the bit about multiple wives is not recognized by civil authorities.
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@Full saidI read it; it's tedious. It's a pastiche of the OT. Quite obviously invented by Joe Smith himself. Any sane person would have demanded to see the evidence, so Joe got some witnesses to handle some heavy metal plates inside a bag, but they weren't allowed to look at them. Any sane person would have figured out they were lead, not gold.
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Interesting, thanks.
I had no idea.
I've read the Bible and the Quran just for curiosity sake so I might just read the book of Mormon too.
@moonbus saidOne point, if I may.
The girls you saw in ad will not be knocked up by you nor will they knock on your door.
What the Mormons believe is roughly this:
1. There were not 12 tribes, as the Hebrews (mistakenly) claim, but 13. The ‘lost’ tribe navigated the Atlantic and settled the New World long before Columbus arrived.
2. During the three or so days btw the death and resurrection of Jesu ...[text shortened]... ith him.
Please note that the bit about multiple wives is not recognized by civil authorities.
You speak of the angel Moroni. Different guy from Mormon. Mormon was Moroni's father. Moroni was a warrior who is supposed to be the last person who wrote on the plates. Then he hid them before he died and God made him an angel.
(Hey, it's their book, not mine.)
@moonbus saidI consider the Jehovah's Witnesses to fall in that camp as well.
Mormonism has the distinction of being one of the few invented religions, along with Scientology ( or, as I call it, ScienceFiction-tology) which managed to carry on after the death of the founder.
Their 'translation' of the Bible magically agreed with their already-formed dogma. Their dogma existed, even though the Bible they were using at the time, the King James Version, disagreed with it, before they came up with their 'new translation'.
They have fundamentally added to and even changed parts of the protestant Bibles already available, which is expressly forbidden in Revelation 22:18-19.
@moonbus saidAt least L. Ron Hubbard was honest enough to describe his new religion as "just a tax dodge". I have no idea why so many rich people have gone "all in" since then. Maybe they're "tax-dodging" too.
Mormonism has the distinction of being one of the few invented religions, along with Scientology ( or, as I call it, ScienceFiction-tology) which managed to carry on after the death of the founder.
"It's a charitable donation! Really!"