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Within a system their is an element of free will in that frame of reference if you will. But to an observer outside of that system, the free will isn't there because you can see the outside elements that come into play.. This is interesting. Some won’t like this but I plugged your statement into Pi...

Arguments from incredulity seem to me extremely common, if not indeed almost omnipresent, when a proffered explanation is rejected. And I don't see them as inherently bad or false. They're certainly omnipresent in Daniel's work. "How could Joseph Smith have written the Book of Mormon? It must have ...

Hope you feel better soon, pirate!

A couple of folks over at the Peterson Obsession Board finally noticed the Meridian article -- Dumb-Dud and the former Kerry Shirts, at least -- and have begun to chant their disagreement with it and their disdain for it. As of yet, they've shown no awareness of the actual argument, let alone any s...

Is this something taught as a miracle in the CES curriculum? The link no longer works, but is archived here: https://web.archive.org/web/20200926001822/https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/manual/church-history-in-the-fulness-of-times/chapter-twenty-three?lang=eng “Chapter Twenty-Three: The Twelve t...

Apologists are always more secure with quantity than quality. They would rather have 90 pennies than a $100.00 bill, because, well more pennies! They make a nice neat looking pile of copper! Obviously they would be more impressive to the eye than a mere flat piece of single paper. Indeed. And no on...

In my judgment, the available evidence is persuasive that the story of Brigham’s transfiguration was being told quite early, and it’s difficult to imagine that so many testimonies over so long a period and from such far-flung areas emerged from a conspiracy to deceive or from a mysterious “contagio...

What's the Mormon connection to all of this?

I think you might consider using another manner of communicating/delivery for announcing your second return other than this backwoods forum/board. 🙂 Doesn’t this fit the pattern that Joseph Smith started? Who better than an obscure farm boy, where better than an obscure forum? “Thus saith the Lord ...

Your free will is impressive! :lol: And if he doesn’t have free will, which I assume you think is the case, then he’s not responsible for having made that statement. Opens a wide vista of possibilities, doesn’t it? Regards, MG I would argue that the moral responsibility you feel to Mormon God makes...