To explain knowledge of God

[Jenny A]

Drich, my method is the one actually stated in the Book of Mormon. What's wrong with it?

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You too Professor. How does ASK differ from Mornoni's asking with a sincere heart? Because looking at this from the outside, I don't see a difference.

nothing if your looking to be mormon

You might have guessed I'm not looking to be Mormon. . .

But how can you not see the problem here? If you use a method like A/S/K on any set of beliefs from mainline Christianity, to Mormonism, to Islam, to devil worship, chances are good, you will find what you are looking for. Since the things found are diametrically opposed, it seems to me that the seekers are not finding anything real. Certainly they can't all be finding the true god.

And it's not as if the method only works on reasonable stuff (not suggesting the Bible is reasonable). The Mormons call their version of this seeking, the truth test. And they use it to verify the truth of the Book of Mormon. Ever dipped into The Book of Mormon? It's less historical than the Bible. It contradicts what we know about North America at every turn. Yet, using the truth test, person after person accepts it as trumping the gospels.

So how would an outsider know who to ask for? Or if any of the gods sought exists at all? Certainly, ASK won't tell you, because it works on all the gods.

---- Except of course when it doesn't work and the seeker is told to go on knocking endlessly . . . .