(October 22, 2014 at 10:17 am)Chad32 Wrote: I'm not sure how you can divide into 100 groups in 200 years. That means there were so many divisions within the lifetime of the people who started the religion.
Joe Smith himself showed several dissenters the door.
And some walked off on their own. With Smith's death, the 'main' church discovered/realized Smith had totally munged up the issue of the churches continuation upon his demise, and things got very complicated.
Additionally, many of the schisms have schismed. (Just my 2 cents, but if someone is going to the bother of schisming, wouldn't the first thing you do afterwards is announce a revelation prohibiting schisms ??)
If we get the idea Smith and his multitude of successors were just making shit up as they went along, it would be understandable.
