(January 12, 2017 at 2:33 pm)vorlon13 Wrote: And as awestruck as Joe Smith claimed to be (in every different version) when he saw God and was then given revelations and a commission to found God's One True Church, Joe ws not bashful at all about changing EVERY revelation he received, and most of them more than once.
We're being asked to believe to incompatible items there, yeppers, God Almighty Himself told me to tell you this stuff, oops, better revise and extend (or curtail) Gods words there, looks like he munged up things . . .
And with OT, oral tales, transmitted generation to generation, then scribes record and then scribes copy (and revise) (and not it was around like 300 or 400AD before the Christian church(es) started using 'professional' scribes instead of volunteers, damn, it's just lunacy to think they have even an inkling of what originally was even being told around the campfires 1500 years before.
Is this the Mormon stuff again? I've never considered that to be a real religion, just at best a cult along the lines of Scientology, and thus not worth even considering. But if mainstream Christianity suffers from similar flaws then I'd be very interested to know. For instance in the case of Catholicism, has the Pope ever contradicted himself? Or in Protestant Christianity has any prophet, or even Jesus himself, contradicted himself?
