What does this have to do with anything I wrote?
Oh, well...he said it/wrote it, so I guess it must be true, huh? Is that the standard we're going with (by fiat, essentially)? Because in that case, not only is Joseph Smith a prophet, but so is Muhammad, so is Felix Manalo, so was Jeffrey Lundgren, so was David Koresh, etc. After all, he/they said so, and that's the standard you're going by by simply pasting this up here as though it speaks for itself/is its own argument. What a bunch of baloney.
Blahblahblah, more declarative statements that mean nothing to people outside of Mormonism. This really proves what I have been saying here (literally for years now) that the vast majority of Mormon apologists -- or at least the ones we meet here -- do not seem to understand the difference between making a statement and making an argument. They're not the same thing. Statements may be used to bolster arguments, and arguments are certainly composed of statements (in a way), but simply stating something and arguing why it should/shouldn't or is/isn't so are not the same thing.
Neither I nor any other non-Mormon gives two figs about these statements from your Mormon leaders. They don't prove anything at all, and come across as delusions of grandeur or worse. Either come up with an argument, or remain silent.
Well it's certainly nice for Brigham Young or whoever this was to tell us how Jesus was feeling, but again, I don't buy it for even one second.
Simply scattering this Mormon sub-apologetic buckshot across the thread would perhaps be acceptable if this were a Mormon website, but it isn't, so you actually have to try here. With respect, you don't seem as though you are trying. You are simply cutting and pasting large blocks of nonsense and then calling it a day, or doing a word search while making it clear that you aren't actually reading the results before you post them. Both are annoying in the extreme and should stop now.
Gosh, I miss Jane_Doe. She was often wrong, but at least sometimes she endeavored to have a back-and-forth based on the idea that her being Mormon in itself was not enough to defend her own points any more than my being Christian is in itself a defense of my points. Peter1000 was also better than you at this, though unfortunately he couldn't stop bringing up my particular Church when it had nothing to do with anything, which was pretty unhelpful and transparently desperate, too.
Still, at least they tried! Try! Be more like your fellow Mormon posters in this regard, please! Your faith deserves better than what you're giving it (and I write this even while I disagree with Mormonism on most things as a matter of theological and ecclesiological principle).
You said: "What does this have to do with anything I wrote?" Polygamy became illegal in the United States making it against the articles of faith. I am surprised you did not see the correlation.
You said: "Oh, well...he said it/wrote it, so I guess it must be true, huh?"
Yes it is true.
You said: "You are simply cutting and pasting large blocks of nonsense and then calling it a day, or doing a word search while making it clear that you aren't actually reading the results before you post them. Both are annoying in the extreme and should stop now.
It seems to me it is much of the time you do not understand what I am posting or you just do not want to understand it.
You said: "Gosh, I miss Jane_Doe" I do too and I believe it was all of the contention that is here that drove her away. Too many people are not willing to come together but love to be the means of contention. Some people do not want to share the LOVE, perhaps they don't have it.
(Book of Mormon | 3 Nephi 11:29 - 38)
29 For verily, verily I say unto you, he that hath the spirit of contention is not of me, but is of the devil, who is the father of contention, and he stirreth up the hearts of men to contend with anger, one with another.
30 Behold, this is not my doctrine, to stir up the hearts of men with anger, one against another; but this is my doctrine, that such things should be done away.
31 Behold, verily, verily, I say unto you, I will declare unto you my doctrine.
32 And this is my doctrine, and it is the doctrine which the Father hath given unto me; and I bear record of the Father, and the Father beareth record of me, and the Holy Ghost beareth record of the Father and me; and I bear record that the Father commandeth all men, everywhere, to repent and believe in me.
33 And whoso believeth in me, and is baptized, the same shall be saved; and they are they who shall inherit the kingdom of God.
34 And whoso believeth not in me, and is not baptized, shall be damned.
35 Verily, verily, I say unto you, that this is my doctrine, and I bear record of it from the Father; and whoso believeth in me believeth in the Father also; and unto him will the Father bear record of me, for he will visit him with fire and with the Holy Ghost.
36 And thus will the Father bear record of me, and the Holy Ghost will bear record unto him of the Father and me; for the Father, and I, and the Holy Ghost are one.
37 And again I say unto you, ye must repent, and become as a little child, and be baptized in my name, or ye can in nowise receive these things.
38 And again I say unto you, ye must repent, and be baptized in my name, and become as a little child, or ye can in nowise inherit the kingdom of God.
