That doesn't disprove the book of Mormon, but it sure challenges it.
Dr. Ashworth, you must have lost faith in our Heavenly Father and the Book of Mormon. You seem to have been religious before, since, didn't you say you were some kind of a professor at BYU (expecting you are/were Mormon since BYU's majority of students consist of mostly LDS)? Let me know what you think of the truth in this verse from the Book of Mormon:
Quoted from:
http://scriptures.lds.org/en/alma/30
Quote:
- 40 And now what evidence have ye that there is no God, or that Christ cometh not? I say unto you that ye have none, save it be your word only.
- 41 But, behold, I have all things as a testimony that these things are true; and ye also have all things as a testimony unto you that they are true; and will ye deny them? Believest thou that these things are true?
- 42 Behold, I know that thou believest, but thou art possessed with a lying spirit, and ye have put off the Spirit of God that it may have no place in you; but the devil has power over you, and he doth carry you about, working devices that he may destroy the children of God.
- 43 And now Korihor said unto Alma: If thou wilt show me a sign, that I may be convinced that there is a God, yea, show unto me that he hath power, and then will I be convinced of the truth of thy words.
- 44 But Alma said unto him: Thou hast had signs enough; will ye tempt your God? Will ye say, Show unto me a sign, when ye have the testimony of all these thy brethren, and also all the holy prophets? The scriptures are laid before thee, yea, and all things denote there is a God; yea, even the earth, and call things that are upon the face of it, yea, and its motion, yea, and also all the planets which move in their regular form do witness that there is a Supreme Creator.
- 45 And yet do ye go about, leading away the hearts of this people, testifying unto them there is no God? And yet will ye deny against all these witnesses? And he said: Yea, I will deny, except ye shall show me a sign.
- 46 And now it came to pass that Alma said unto him: Behold, I am grieved because of the hardness of your heart, yea, that ye will still resist the spirit of the truth, that thy soul may be destroyed.
- 47 But behold, it is better that thy soul should be lost than that thou shouldst be the means of bringing many souls down to destruction, by thy lying and by thy flattering words; therefore if thou shalt deny again, behold God shall smite thee, that thou shalt become dumb, that thou shalt never open thy mouth any more, that thou shalt not deceive this people any more.
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I'm asking Anti- Mormons this who were Mormons before (and possible high priests or bishops or a higher authority) they left the church completely just to do what they please after falling away from a serious sin they committed that made them feel unworthy to do work in the Temples:
Are you guilty of something you have done in the past? Does the religion sound too good to be the actual truth?
Do you really feel so unworthy that you must try to find faults in the truth you already know about and disprove it?
So, being good is too much for you, to go off and act like you don't know that God exists thinking you can do what you want, and saying that we evolved from hydrogen?
When I fell away from the church for a while, I looked into the evolution theory and many other religions. If we Humans, really evolved from Monkey's, don't you think Monkey's wouldn't exist at all?
Truth is, our mind cannot comprehend the infinite, so we have to think that there is a start and an end. Did the Egg come before the Hen? The chicken obviously...because if the egg came before the chicken, then there is no way for it to reproduce by itself on earth. So both the genders must have been created! The Holy Bible talks of Adam and Eve clearly in the beginning...
Life goes on forever and infinitely. We do become like our supreme creator, our heavenly father, and we are given perfect bodies at the last day if we are completely worthy in the eyes of the Lord. God will come when he sees there is no hope to bring the wicked back, because Satan has a grasp on their hearts. I believe everything just is and that everything was built off light through our creator, our Heavenly Father. I do believe in the LDS Temples because they let us, if we are worthy and clean(which we should be, we could still go in and feel guilty, but that's just not right at all and dishonest) , do sacred temple works for the Lord. Remember, you can repent but you need to show complete and utter sincere of heart and promise you won't do it again. This, being, created all. Which means, he knows all. And if we have faith in him, we can do anything on this imperfect earth, if he thinks he should allow it to happen for the best of mankind.
There's a saying called out with the old, in with the new, we all gotta die sometime right? Live life good, and to it's fullest of goodness and joy. We are always pursuing happiness, and it's not something we can always have. Life is to have joy. There are lots of people who don't know any of the Gospel truth of the LDS church, they still will get the chance to learn about the gospel and be brought back to heaven after Christ comes again. But like me, I already know the Gospel, so if I go off the deep end acting like I don't think God exists, then i'm surely not going to get a second chance.
We do have more than one chance to repent and become optimistic about being just like our creator! Through the plan of Salvation and the power of the keys of the priesthood, which just is and always will be there, we are able to be with families forever, and life goes on forever. Remember, we have our free agency. God gave it to us to test us and to find out for ourselves about our creator as we go through our life.
All we are doing is truly looking good and truly doing good in the eyes of our creator. You must have faith in our creator to guide us in the right direction to our Divine life purpose! Which is partly to have faith and be a good example to others and learn the true teachings of the Gospel so that we can all be worthy to come back to our heavenly Father, who created each individual on this earth so complex, balanced, strategic, and personal. He loves us each individually (not to mention Heavenly Mother). He gave us talents to use for our divine life purpose. To find out our divine life purpose we must search, ponder, and pray for the truth first. He really wants us to believe in him and become like him so that we will be able to create life ourselves in the next life. We can't be helped if we don't have faith. Only Satan, which is the bitterness in everybody's heart, will be in us if we don't ask the Lord to strengthen our faith and read the Holy Bible and the Book of Mormon.
Also, I know you all will like this one too, and i'm sure you will find signs through these...They are called Angel Numbers...Look them up online. I see them all the time and get answers from our creator all the time. There is even a book on the number 0-999, by Doreen Virtue called "Angel Numbers 101". Call me crazy all you want, but I know these numbers don't come at random, cause I tried many times changing the clock to something else making the time way off, and I still saw the same number I saw the day before, without even trying. When you see these numbers, you must think about the current situation that is going through your life. Each number specifically means something.
Before my last girlfriend and I broke up, who I thought was the one for me cause we were so much alike (except in our views, I learned she was very narrow minded with), I got her into angel numbers and she started seeing certain personal number sequences also. We both kept seeing 911 on the clock. You guys are thinking i'm crazy stupid or something, I know you are. I admit I have made a big mistake to have pre-marital sex with her a couple times, but, we have our free agency to do what we want, and we cannot blame God for anything. Only ourselves. Be knowledgeable, because knowledge is power.
Nobody is meant for us. We can only ask God to guide us to where we need to go and bring a match that would fit us to our personal likings, which God knows, because he created us. Just let go and have faith (but be smart). We all have the gift of discernment. Being baptized through the priesthood power of God, strengthens that discernment so that we have the Holy Ghost always with us.
I care about all of you non-believers so much. Even though you are all filled with negativity towards the world's faithful beliefs to life. Search, ponder, and pray. Cast out Satan and find the true Discernment through prayer and find God for yourself. We do have a purpose to life, and we can't make it alone.
We can't exactly argue about religion, because it always gets nowhere. We have to find out for ourselves on both sides, like Slade said.
And Slade, i'm not one of those people who thinks gays are abominations of God. Arrogant jerks do that. God will judge the truthfulness of their hearts. People that think they are gay are most of the time are born more feminine or masculine than others to teach us to accept one another for who they are. My Mom tells me things and she has gone to school for therapy stress release, and actually turned a Lesbian's feelings back to normal. Satan can cause confusion in people's thoughts and orientation. And most people become gay because they had traumatic and abusive experiences in their past. Just saying to gay people in General. Deep down inside, you know you are not gay. It's just not natural, and you know it. Satan is trying to make you think this way, trust me, I have felt Satan myself and have had to cast him out by prayer because I have been so angry for no reason at times.
Lust is another problem in this world. We can't have too much of anything. God wants us to let those times be special through marriage, so that we can make and create seed of our own family and create a genealogy. We must use every element and seed bearing plant God has put on this Earth skillfully. We must know right from wrong. To be knowledgeable and find the determine the right discernment. There's a reason why the LDS church paid so much to not let gay people get married, cause that would let anybody that somehow thinks they were born loving the same gender in the church to get married as a gay couple in the Temple. Which will never ever happen because we believe in having straight marriage and producing seed. I'm tolerant with Gays, because I have cousins who are gay, but I pray the best for them to find their true selves and see what the problem is deep down inside of them to see what they have done and to see why they are like this.
I testify that The Book of Mormon is true and that it teaches the answer and meaning to life. That Joseph Smith really did see a God and, his son Jesus Christ, to help him restore the Gospel truth to the Earth. If you all search ponder and pray you will find the truth to life, which I personally know through my time searching for the knowledge and my discernment, that it is the answer to life. Give it a chance, pray about it, and read it.
P.S. Why won't you take a look at this site. It counters all the anti-mormonism very well:
http://www.jefflindsay.com/LDSFAQ/DNA.shtml
http://www.jefflindsay.com/BMEvidences.shtml