Latter-day Saint apologetics
“Though argument does not create conviction, lack of it destroys belief. What seems to be proved may not be embraced; but what no one shows the ability to defend is quickly abandoned. Rational argument does not create belief, but it maintains a climate in which belief may flourish.”
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Doesn’t Paul curse anyone — even an angel from heaven — who preaches another gospel? Isn’t that Moroni and the Restoration?
Paul is protecting the gospel of Christ crucified — not banning angels, prophets, or more scripture. Moroni brought a record that preaches that same Christ. The New Testament even expects an angel to carry the everlasting gospel in the last days.
Open answersPaul says even an angel from heaven who preaches another gospel is accursed. Isn’t that a bullseye on the Angel Moroni — and on ‘Another Testament’ printed on the cover?
Paul curses a different gospel, not a different messenger. Revelation 14:6 expects an angel with the everlasting gospel in the last days. ‘Another Testament’ means an additional witness of the same Christ — the legal sense of testament — not a rival religion. Moroni passes Paul’s content test. The Judaizers would not.
Open answersDo Latter-day Saints believe they will each get their own planet after they die?
“Your own planet” is a cartoon of exaltation. The doctrine is biblical: the children of God inherit what the Father has, sit with Christ on His throne, and are partakers of the divine nature. The Father remains God. A private planet is not a lesson, a temple covenant, or a missionary talking point.
Open answersDoesn’t Revelation 22 — and Deuteronomy 4:2 — forbid adding anything to God’s word? How can Latter-day Saints have more scripture?
Revelation 22 warns against tampering with that scroll of prophecy, not against God speaking again. Deuteronomy said the same centuries before Isaiah, Matthew, or John existed. If that verse closed the canon, the New Testament itself would be illegal. An open canon is the biblical position.
Open answersAre members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Christian?
We worship the Jesus of the New Testament — crucified, risen, coming again. We refuse some post-biblical creeds. That is not leaving Christianity. That is arguing, inside the family, about who God has revealed Himself to be.
Open answersDo Latter-day Saints reject the Trinity, and if so, what do they actually believe about the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost?
The New Testament shows three distinct persons who are one in will, love, and glory. Latter-day Saints affirm that biblical oneness without the later philosophical packaging of Nicea.
Open answersWhy are there several First Vision accounts that differ in detail?
Paul told his conversion more than once, with shifting details. Joseph did the same. The core never moves: he saw God, was forgiven, and was told not to join the churches of his day.
Open answersIs the Book of Mormon a real ancient record, or a nineteenth-century invention?
The Restoration presents the Book of Mormon as a genuine ancient record, translated by gift and power of God. Internal Hebrew structures, Old World geography, and a growing web of convergences are what we would expect of a real text — not a frontier novel.
Open answersDoes the CES Letter destroy the Restoration?
The CES Letter is a stack of recycled criticisms in a PDF. Almost every item is treated in Gospel Topics Essays, FAIR, and Scripture Central. A pile of questions is not the same thing as a pile of unanswered questions.
Open answersHow can the Book of Abraham be scripture if the papyri look like ordinary funeral texts?
Joseph produced a revealed Abrahamic book in connection with Egyptian papyri. Surviving fragments are later funerary texts. Revelation can use a catalyst; it is not bound to a dictionary of hieroglyphs. Extra-biblical Abraham books show the same universe of cosmology, idolatry, and covenant.
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