All The Reasons We Won't Return to Mormonism
Reason #138–Seer Stone Questions
The seer stone narrative has troubles. An important part of Joseph Smith's early life was a seer stone by which he claimed to be able to find hidden treasure. (Here is some information from the official LDS Web site about his practices and the existence of the...
Testimonies from Ex-Mormon Scholars Offered by New Site
A new site, ExMormonScholarsTestify.org, gives reasons why thinking people made the decision to leave the LDS Church. My testimony is the first on the site. Do you know other ex-Mormon scholars whose stories should be told as well? For more information, see The...
Reason #137: The Nahom Controversy
Some LDs writers have said that a settlement in southern Arabia named NHM is the Nahom of the Book of Mormon. In Hebrew (and I'm just a student, not an expert), vowels are not written out in most cases. Thus NHM, whose root means "mourning" could be Naham (1 Chron....
Reason #136: God was once a man; man can become a god
Quotes from Current LDS Manuals on Nature of God Christians have long opposed the LDS teaching about the nature of God and man. The Bible consistently affirms that there is only one God, who has always existed as God. Yet Joseph Smith instituted the doctrine that God...
Reason #135: Two questions for Temple-Endowed Mormons
In the LDS temple endowment ceremony, there are two issues that a faithful Mormon must deal with. First, why is the order of creation unlike that depicted in LDS Standard Works? In the temple, the creation of plants comes BEFORE light and darkness.* Secondly,...
Reason #134: The Logic Required to Affirm LDS history
This article claims to have pinned down the date of Joseph Smith's supposed First Vision. It hinges on the account of an axe stuck in a stump. Read it and ask the same question I did: Is there any other reason for chopping wood in 1820 in March in upper New York...