Elsie: Just what did Joseph ‘learn’ to be UNTRUE about PRESBYTERIANism?”
wildlybamboozled: The Lord and Heavenly Father told him it wasn’t,
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Dear wildlybamboozled (and you are certainly that)
DUH...
no they didnt...
Joey Smith never identified the “two personages” as any such thing..
He just said one of the guys pointed to the other and said Yo this is my kid...Listen to him...
1. Who was the first “personage” ??? He is not identified...
2. So the second “personage” although supposedly a son of the first “personage” is not proven to be Jesus and is not named as such...
3. Listen to what ??? The kid played some cool Jazz or sumping ???
4. When people have a real visitation from God, they change their ways 180 degrees and dont go back to sheep stealing and womaning for the next few years like Joey Smith did..
5. God should have struck Joey Smith down for disobeying Him when Joey went straight out and joined one of the very churches that the “personage” had commanded him not to...
Dont both trying to reason away this logic...
Its for free...
Just take a deep breathe, a good swallow of coffee and for once in your life
THINK
AHEM? He never identified them? Yeah, he did. Who would the Son be with a capital letter? And anyway, he did say, I’m not sure where, that Heavenly Father and his Son came to him. I don’t see any reason to doubt this- and Joseph Smith knew things he shouldn’t know. He predicted when and where the Civil War would start. And he knew the Jews were forced out of Jerusalem before that was discovered! He was even right about the time it happened!
And you know how rude it is to diss the Lord by asking if he played some Jazz? He says that JESUS told him that the absolute full gospel was missing!
I agree with you that Joseph Smith shouldn’t have had a second wife. But Emma Smith knew and didn’t mind too much, at least. And now our church denounces polygamy.
And number five never happened. He created his own church, after getting enough people that it would be legal.
By the way, you are kind of contradicting yourself. First it’s that God was never identified as God, then it’s “God told him not to.”
And I don’t drink coffee. For one thing, I have it on good authority it tastes like stale water without a ton of creamer.
And my username doesn’t come from my state of mind- it comes from the state of mind of liberals. I hope we can agree on politics, if not religion?
Indeed.
The FIRST on says, "Listen to him."
and the SECOND one (according to published LDS data) never said ANYTHING.