(January 29, 2015 at 12:59 pm)Esquilax Wrote: But surely you can see how irrelevant that distinction is? You're basically saying that Mohammad and Smith's testimonies can't be true because they aren't the kind of things that you think a god would inspire them to say. Well, who cares? The truth of a message is in no way impacted by how much it departs from orthodoxy; saying that Paul's experience was a small change, and Mohammad's experience was a big change is little more than an observance of scale, not of truth. So far you've thrown out a bunch of road blocks to this, but none of them actually address how you know that one message is true, and the other is false. All you've really managed is listing how the messages are different, and nobody was ever saying they were identical.
My point is that a message delivered by God to people [plural] over the course of three years would be superior to the private revelations of one man. You then tried to use Paul to catch me so I pointed out that Paul content was not new revelation. Mohammad and Smith wrote content that cannot be reconciled to Jesus' (Gods) teachings so therefore must be dismissed as not true.