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> Well when you consider Mormon history in the matter a different
> viewpoint is needed to clear away the obscurity that "Mormonism" hides
> behind. John Smith supposedly found golden tablets(guided by an
> angel by the name of moroni) written in an ancient language.
> According to these tablets after the Ressurection of Christ, he(Jesus)
> appeared in the Americas outlaying his teachings to to the native
> peoples who lived in Great Cities at that time. Ad nauseum- Yeah I
> would say pretty friggin weird-
>
> Bob
Of course if you told someone that you were visited by an angel, directed to
some golden plates written in a strange language, and directed by God to
translate them then yes that sounds weird...and JOSEPH Smith was murdered
by an angry mob for sticking to his story. But the fact that it REALLY
happened
is what Mormons base their entire lives on. Are ten million people insane?
If you open up a Book of Mormon there is page after page of EYE WITNESSES
to the plates and even to the angel visitations. Many years after the death
of
JOSEPH Smith there have been discoveries of ancient buried civilizations
that
exactly coincide with locations outlined in the Book of Mormon. Is it so
crazy that
Joseph Smith found ancient records of a civilization? Is it crazy that these
records
are of a people who witnesses the visitation of Christ? When Christ was
resurrected
after his crucifixion he stated that he had "other sheep, not of this fold"
to tend to.
Could this be the ancient americans???
Why just today I found in Doctrine & Covenants 130:12-13 that Joseph Smith
(through revelation) predicted the civil war (and where it would start and
what it would be fought over)
in 1843....17 years before the war began!