PIMO Mormon navigating faith, family, and the in-between. Husband & father, open to new perspectives, and still figuring it out. Big Oxford Comma proponent.
@planetJoseph@stargirl752 I was the same way, walked away from the book for a while but just picked it back up. Through 80% and I can’t put it down. Keep pushing through!
@ShaunMcKnight@stackerco@jonathanplumb Mormonism is an appeal to possibility, not probability. Sure, it’s possible that an angel appeared to Joseph and told him to practice polygamy with teenage girls…but it’s not probable.
@Sloanius@stackerco I think the depressing thing was thinking that Nihilism was the final stage. So glad I came out the other side. I think most members think non-believers have to be Nihilists, but that is far from the truth.
@JackPaladin72@upliftandlift Divine command theory. Thanks for letting me know your morals and ethics are ever changing, much like the church’s own doctrines. If you believe God sanctioned how Joseph practice polygamy, you need a new God.
@pimomormon If only there was someone on the earth so close to God that they could clarify all these questions. It really is funny how the prophets/apostles can’t give us any evidence. Just tell us where Zarahemla is dammit!
@antiantimormon Whoa, did you pray to know that Sam Bateman wasn’t a true prophet? If you didn’t get a confirmation that he was, you need to pray again with real intent. Those girls sure thought he was. They put all their trust in God, or at least enough trust to marry someone 2-3x their age.
@antiantimormon I encourage you to watch “Trust Me: The False Prophet” on Netflix. Weren’t those women/girls “trusting God”? They actually believed they were doing His will by marrying Sam Bateman. They all had testimonies of it “from God”. What’s the difference between Sam Bateman and JS or BY?
@BigWhale777777@RandomLDS The actual funny thing is that the Book of Mormon teaches a different God than what the church actually believes today. Joseph’s early theology of God was modalistic. They changed parts of the BOM later as the theology shifted. Mosiah 15 still shines as a prime example though.