RE: [ZION] LDS Writer Expects to Be Excommunicated

[John W. Redelfs]

After much pondering, Jim Cobabe favored us with:

Not really anything new here.  Just more evil detractors continuing the
attempt to dilute and de-emphasise sacred doctrines of the Church, so
that it becomes indistinguishable from other corrupt sects.  It is
becoming quite respectable in the intellectual crowd to maintain that
the Book of Mormon has origins in the 19th century, was somehow composed
and fabricated by Joseph Smith, and is not the historical record it
claims to be.  This particular school of self-appointed apologists argue
that it doesn't make any difference to their religious understanding,
since, like the Bible, the story is simply figurative.

If the Book of Mormon is not historical, then the Church is false, and Joseph Smith was no prophet. Knowing this, Satan and his mortal followers make their most sophisticated attacks upon mankind by attacking the historicity of the Book of Mormon.

John W. Redelfs [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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At present, the Book of Mormon is studied in our Sunday
School and seminary classes every fourth year. This
four-year pattern, however, must not be followed by
Church members in their personal and family study. We
need to read daily from the pages of the book that will get
a man "nearer to God by abiding by its precepts, than by
any other book." (Ezra Taft Benson, October 1988)
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All my opinions are tentative pending further data. --JWR

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