“I would be a Mormon even if I believed that Joseph Smith was not a prophet,”
You’d be surprised how many Mormons there are who don’t believe in Joseph Smith, but still remain a part of their religion. It’s hard to believe in a bigamist and pedophile, but it’s harder to be cut off from your family and community.
“God is the literal Father of Jesus Christ .... not the 1st face of a god with a three-way personality disorder!”
Says the silly polytheist who thinks there are three gods, and that, if he is good enough, he will also become a god of his own planet:
“Is there a God beside me? yea, there is no God; I know not any” (Isaiah 44:8)
“before me there was no God formed, neither shall there be after me.” (Isaiah 43:10)
I guess you should amend your statement “Even if I believed Joseph Smith was not a prophet, and believed in the Bible, I would still remain a Mormon despite them.”
Well SOMEbody sure believed he was a PROPHET - and even MORE!!!
They succeeded in killing Joseph, but he had finished his work.He was a servant of God, and gave us the Book of Mormon.He said the Bible was right in the main, but, through the translators and others, many precious portions were suppressed, and several other portions were wrongly translated; and now his testimony is in force, for he has sealed it with his blood.As I have frequently told them, no man in this dispensation will enter the courts of heaven, without the approbation of the Prophet Joseph Smith, Jun.Who has made this so?Have I?Have this people?Have the world?No; but the Lord Jehovah has decreed it.If I ever pass into the heavenly courts, it will be by the consent of the Prophet Joseph.If you ever pass through the gates into the Holy City, you will do so upon his certificate that you are worthy to pass.Can you pass without his inspection?No; neither can any person in this dispensation, which is the dispensation of the fulness of times.In this generation, and in all the generations that are to come, everyone will have to undergo the scrutiny of this Prophet.They say that they killed Joseph, and they will yet come with their hats under their arms and bend to him; but what good will it do them, unless they repent?They can come in a certain way and find favor, but will they?
--JOURNAL OF DISCOURSES, vol. 8, p. 224
Ironic, is it not? That's what deception will do to you. Completely short circuit your ability to reason.
Teppe you do not need to wrestle with lambs who insist they have no blemishes.