Historicity Matters By Paul Nurnberg And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. —Matthew 22:37, ESV On a hot summer day in 1998 I was a Mormon missionary knocking doors in Szeged, a...
Recently the LDS Church has changed chapter headings in its online Book of Mormon (a revised print edition isn't currently scheduled.) But, given the burgeoning number of people who read primarily online, these changes are significant. They reflect the way the...
My atheist friend, Richard Packham, has an excellent online article that shows the shallowness of LDS arguments to support the Book of Mormon. Below, mostly in Packham's words, are some of the arguments he makes in his article: Most Mormon defenses of the authenticity...
Does the Book of Mormon itself restore—or even mention—doctrines missing from the Bible? No, in fact, the theology of the Book of Mormon isn’t Mormon – at least, not twenty-first century Mormonism. Latter-day Saints quote Doctrine and Covenants 20:9,...
The dust is finally settling in yet another effort by the LDS Church to bury its past. Recently the church-owned Deseret Book publishers announced that, due to lack of sales, the classic Mormon Doctrine by the late LDS apostle Bruce R. McConkie. (There's considerable...
