Blue:
“If Joseph Smith taught a number of esoteric doctrines that were unknown to have existed in the early church during his time, but which research and uncovered documents (during the 1950 to 1970 period) now show were part of early Christianity, one has to conclude that he was inspired of God.”
Early heresy. Not early Christianity. Satan has a fashion show with a limited number of styles to recycle each century. There are only a couple things he must distort: the gospel of grace & the person and nature of God. In mormonism, satan manages to do both.
“Yale literary scholar Harold Bloom, wrote a book called The American Religion, in which he writes of Joseph Smith: “I can only attribute to his genius or heavenly intervention his uncanny recovery of many elements in ancient Jewish theurgy [xxvi]”
1. Bloom isn’t a Christian and is no authority on Christianity.
2. Do you even know what Theurgy is, BlueMoose??? It ain’t Christian. Please Google it.
Sorry, old friend.
ampu
If Bloom believes his own words, he either has to be a Mormon or be spiritual suicidal OR as the other side of his arguments states Smith was a genius and made the whole thing up.
The only other argument is that Bloom is a whack job.
So...