What are some good sites to learn apologetics against Mormonism?
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adamhovey1988
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Oh sure, like say you want to talk about the “plurality of the gods”, it will bring you to one of the Mormon scriptures, and even give you the LDS point of view on it (kind of like an interactive Bible study, but for LDS)
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Formon
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This is very true. When it comes to arguing Mormonism with Mormons, their own libraries are the best source.
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OKComputer
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Ex Mormon here. Those sites are great, but just go to the church site and read the essays. Boom.
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ReaderT
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http://www.utlm.org/onlineresources/contradictionsinldsscriptures_verses.htm
Also note the Book of Abraham, which Joseph Smith claimed to have translated from Egyptian hieroglyphics. Years later, after hieroglyphics were deciphered and scholars looked at Smith’s Egyptian sources, the hieroglyphics actually said nothing like what Smith translated into the “Book of Abraham”:
“I return herewith, under separate cover, the ‘Pearl of Great Price.’ The ‘Book of Abraham,’ it is hardly necessary to say, is a pure fabrication. Cuts 1 and 3 are inaccurate copies of well known scenes on funeral papyri, and cut 2 is a copy of one of the magical discs which in the late Egyptian period were placed under the heads of mummies. There were about forty of these latter known in museums and they are all very similar in character. Joseph Smith’s interpretation of these cuts is a farrago of nonsense from beginning to end. Egyptian characters can now be read almost as easily as Greek, and five minutes’ study in an Egyptian gallery of any museum should be enough to convince any educated man of the clumsiness of the imposture.”
Also note the Book of Abraham, which Joseph Smith claimed to have translated from Egyptian hieroglyphics. Years later, after hieroglyphics were deciphered and scholars looked at Smith’s Egyptian sources, the hieroglyphics actually said nothing like what Smith translated into the “Book of Abraham”:
“I return herewith, under separate cover, the ‘Pearl of Great Price.’ The ‘Book of Abraham,’ it is hardly necessary to say, is a pure fabrication. Cuts 1 and 3 are inaccurate copies of well known scenes on funeral papyri, and cut 2 is a copy of one of the magical discs which in the late Egyptian period were placed under the heads of mummies. There were about forty of these latter known in museums and they are all very similar in character. Joseph Smith’s interpretation of these cuts is a farrago of nonsense from beginning to end. Egyptian characters can now be read almost as easily as Greek, and five minutes’ study in an Egyptian gallery of any museum should be enough to convince any educated man of the clumsiness of the imposture.”
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otjm
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I am going to give you the “Understatement Of The Week Award”.
We had a phrase in law (and it was particular to trial attorneys): “False in part, suspect in all”.
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You may already be familiar with information from Catholic Answerrs, but as there are others who either join the conversation or follow it, I will add one available from CAtholic Answers.
The book Inside Mormonism is written by Isaiah Bennet. He started life as a Catholic, became a Catholic priest, eventually abandoned that to become a Mormon, and eventually returned to the Catholic faith, albeit not to the priesthood.
This is not a “been there, done that” book so much as a thorough explication of Mormon beliefs from the viewpoint of a Catholic who has been immersed as deep if not deeper than your ordinary LDS member - and perspective of a Catholic who has likewise been more immersed in Catholicism than the ordinary Catholic.
At 488 pages, and an additional 5 appendixes and a fairly extensive bibliography, this is not a short read. However, it is a thorough one.
The book Inside Mormonism is written by Isaiah Bennet. He started life as a Catholic, became a Catholic priest, eventually abandoned that to become a Mormon, and eventually returned to the Catholic faith, albeit not to the priesthood.
This is not a “been there, done that” book so much as a thorough explication of Mormon beliefs from the viewpoint of a Catholic who has been immersed as deep if not deeper than your ordinary LDS member - and perspective of a Catholic who has likewise been more immersed in Catholicism than the ordinary Catholic.
At 488 pages, and an additional 5 appendixes and a fairly extensive bibliography, this is not a short read. However, it is a thorough one.
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