“Mormons are weird and different”. Translation: Latter-day Saints are exemplifying my faith and values with slightly different terminology

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“Stop quoting Tertullian! We hadn’t worked out all the kinks yet…”

“The Bible doesn’t prohibit abortion”. Because people weren’t even considering it. As soon as Greco-Roman society started doing it both Jews and ✝️ quickly condemned it. This is from 1st century church manual (Didache):

For a deeper dive: start at 18:00. Highly recommend.

Isn’t it interesting that the Romans killed Jesus & then he became the mascot of their empire? . So did Jesus win in the end?. Or is there a twist: it’s a common authoritarian tactic to co-opt a revolutionary movement and channel its power to serve the state instead.

classic BYU…my wife gets a kick out of this

If sola scriptura & closed canon are both true, why was there no period like that in the OT?. ✝️ will say it’s bc we have the Holy Spirit to guide now but why would Holy Spirit be telling people totally different things and no unity in the body of Christ?

“There’s actually a surprising amount of overlap between Tabor’s reconstruction of Paul’s “cosmic birth” theology and core LDS eschatology, especially in elements that mainstream Christianity either dropped, delayed, or spiritualized.”

Start listening 8:20 to 9:24.

Famous scholar of the New Testament admits that Paul’s vision of the afterlife “sounds like Mormonism” . Link ⬇️

It has nothing to do with being true / false or transparent/ evasive. The limited time we have in church activities needs to be faith-promoting, not doubt-promoting. This is exactly how a true ⛪️ would operate.

“😭😭 why wasn’t I taught about the Salamander Letter forgeries in sunbeams?”. Folks this is not how any church operates—or any secular org that wants to motivate and inspire people to do hard things & accomplish great things.

Grok will sometimes default to a creedal apologetics framework when you ask it questions and then rigorously hold to that bias if you try to argue with it. This is how to wake it up from its trance…

Deeper dive into the parallels. This is just scratching the surface with AI but there are some pretty powerful ones…

So this is my LDS apologetic strategy: . 1. if you come at my faith as a ✝️ I will show how your methods undermine ✝️. 2. if you come at my faith as an atheist I will hand you off to the creedal ✝️ apologetics dept because your core issue is not LDS-specific.

Here’s a more modern and impactful CES Letter. (Of course these are actual scholarly works, actual CES letter was laughably un-scholarly)

The techniques & narratives used to discredit Joseph Smith and the restoration are similar to those critical scholars have been using to discredit ✝️ itself for 200+ years. Here is a “CES letter” from 1835. If you can “deconstruct” Mormonism you can deconstruct faith in general