(October 30, 2015 at 11:14 pm)Irrational Wrote:(October 30, 2015 at 3:27 pm)RoadRunner79 Wrote: I wasn't that familiar with early LDS church history, so I looked up the death of Joseph Smith. I'm sure there was persecution, but it was not all one sided, and their is reasons why Mormons where driven out of states. In any case, it seems inaccurate, to say that Smith died because he believed himself a prophet.
Don't you see that similar things could be said of Paul? The difference is that we have a severe lack of information to go by when assessing the reliability of what a 2000-year-old man said about his own experiences.
With Joseph Smith, we have a much clearer picture.
Again no. Paul did not run from persecution, he faced his accusors and honored what he believed. Joseph ran from his religious persecutors and from the law till he had no other place to run. We know this because even the LDS Church acknoweledges this. albeit they misuse the word 'persecution.'
Paul's trials and sufferings were also recorded
