aussieguy55 wrote:The arguments against the Book of Abraham are so logical Why don't LDS see that? What do u think that is Marg? Stubborness? delusion?
I think there's a tendency among exmormons to feel like we were "blind and now can see" and thus look at our believing friends and family as somehow delusional or ignorant or whatever.
But we were all in the same boat. Were we stupid? Delusional? Stubborn? For me, I think everything always came back to my testimony. I knew that the church was true, so every piece of evidence was going to be analyzed within that pre-existing knowledge. In other words, no evidence was going to Trump the spiritual knowledge I had, so the obviousness of the Book of Abraham problems (or any number of other things that seem obvious now) was always secondary to testimony.
One small turning point for me was when cinepro said to me that for me, "the spirit Trump's everything." Of course I was offended, but he was right. The end came when I had a clear realization of what kinds of things I was rationalizing in order to make the testimony work. I had sold my conscience, and I knew it. I had to leave.
So, no, church members are not delusional or stupid or stubborn. They just see things from a different perspective. I'm not really sure what changed my perspective, but I'm certainly not going to tell anyone their perspective is wrong. It's just different.