Good link. The reference is also one that the Church recognizes as "official." You have to be careful of that. They must be "official sources."
It is strage however, that they keep referring us to www.fairlds.org and farms.byu.edu when it plainly states on those websites that these two sources are not "officially" recognized as representative of LDS beliefs.
I have a question: THere is the book of Mormon, D&C......and what else is considered set in stone? Because so much of what Mormon's believe is NOT in the BOM, does it come from subsequent revelations of J.Smith? ie) God was once a man.
>>You have to be careful of that. They must be "official sources."
This is why I try to stay with the LDS.org site as I have been called on the carpet by other Mormons (who'd a thunk) for using "UnOfficial" sources.
Anything a General Authority (GA) says that is printed in a church publication (books, Magazines, pamphlets) is considered "Revelation". The I heard that someone over heard somebody say that his brother's uncles cousin heard... some GA’s name said “something” is sometimes heard in meetings.
My personal feeling is, if you weren’t either a first person, or have it in writing, don’t bring it up, look it up.
My $.02
There is a great different when the many anti LDS site love to distort and mislead so it is so convoluted no one can untangle or make heads or tails of it!
These sites FAIR and FARMS are Scholars who have studies and debated with other apologist and in their rebuttal even as here the rebuttals that you think we can give, many of their sources are more accurate and fair and let the chips fall where they may that is more than I can say for the opposite sources who try to fuddge!
I think the reason many don't like FAIR and FARMS because in their summary is also inclued facts or accurate circumstances to back it up!
They take the Sting out of Shock Jock methods!
UG see post 218