(May 18, 2016 at 5:35 pm)robvalue Wrote: The first very common error is assuming that one of the (current) religions must accurately describe God, if there is one. There's no reason to think that is the case. In fact, there's every reason to think it's not the case.
The truth is likely to be much more mundane.
Even if a putative actual real life universe creating god did instill divine knowledge into a given human, his/her ability to then go on to gestate The (ordained) One True Faith is zero.
Thought experiment:
let's assume this is precisely what happened to Joe Smith in 1820, 1823, 1816, 1825 or whenever (he gave differing accounts), when supposedly God and/or Jesus and/or Moroni and/or Micheal and/or Adam and/or a host of angels (he gave different accounts) imbued upon him whatever it was that was imbued upon him (he gave differing accounts) and then he proceeded to establish the One True Church, but also immediately began changing things (current Mormon administration denies anything significant or consequential was changed) (despite copious evidence to the contrary the church itself has published in approved church sponsored publications printed on church owned printing presses which church fore knowledge and approval prior to publication) including forbidding polygamy in the Book of Mormon, secretly began practicing polygamy and lied about it, then slowly taught others about polygamy while denying it, then announced a revelation commanding polygamy but only in regards to taking native American wives in order to 'whiten' their offspring and make them less loathsome to God, but only to a select few in his church (including Brigham Young, who did try a couple of the recommended wives, found them wanting and abandoned them in Council Bluffs IA while on the way to Utah) then had the church become more open about polygamy and dropped the native American requirement and opened it to Caucasian women, even ones already married, and working out new rules that contradicted the Old Testament strictures while claiming they followed them and then altered the churches Doctrines and Covenants to indicate polygamy was now approved while denying the teachings had ever been otherwise then experienced pressure from the US government to renounce polygamy (somewhere along the way Joe died, church admin continued in Joe's furrow) so the church renounced it publicly and still practiced it secretly for 10 years more then changed to prohibit it and it was while still being described in some church publications (Book of Mormon) to be prohibited and in others to be the most exalted form of marriage possible, also, along the way, to clarify matters further, the church instituted celestial marriages where in the afterlife polygamy could be instituted by the folks left alive on earth for their revered dead and then . . . .
LOL, see what the problem is ??
God is totally fucked if He thinks humans are ever going to tow His line and do it right.
God!! Get a clue you big dummy !!!!
The granting of a pardon is an imputation of guilt, and the acceptance a confession of it.
