Ed1 wrote: ↑Mon Jan 17, 2022 7:18 pmActually, when things are actually deciphered properly, and it all "fits the bill" where "the shoe fits," it shows that this whole enterprise is set up deliberately in a way that will never give you what you are after as a critic without faith, not being a believer, and that was the point here.
It sounds like you’re trying to find a fit for a certain glass slipper from a certain cartoon we are all familiar with. And yes, I am a critic and do NOT walk by faith and totally reject the restored gospel established by Joseph Smith. I am not a believer in Joseph Smith’s ability to translate Egyptian. I gave him that chance long ago but my eyes were opened and I woke up.
That’s not a nice thing to say to someone in whom you’re having direct conversation with here in the Celestial Forum. It’s this sort of religious condemnation that religious people like to heap on nonbelievers that gives religion a bad name. It’s mean spirited and not appreciated here.
You may safely conclude that I will never accept the claim that there is a king’s name in the writing of Facsimile No. 3. No matter what anyone ever says or presents, I know their solution is false. And with that, I can explain why.
Then it stands as a testimony against everyone, not just me. The whole world stands condemned except for Ed. Nobody will believe what you presented as a solution to Smith’s obvious error. You are all alone.
Ed1 wrote: ↑Mon Jan 17, 2022 7:18 pmThis is why it makes no sense to communicate with you, and why I no longer respond to any and every message you spew, but carefully select the ones I choose to respond to now. I owe you nothing, and I owe nobody on this forum anything. I've learned not to care but to go forward without acceptance.
You are welcome to contribute and respond according to your desires and nobody will fault you for that here in the Celestial Forum. You don’t owe anybody anything and can come and go as you please. I respect that and hope you allow me the same privilege.
When Joseph Smith pointed at hieroglyphs and claimed that it was the very autograph of Abraham or that the name Shulem is written in the writing and he is the only person on earth that can translate it, there can be no further argument in my mind that Smith was making it up out of thin air. I am grateful that my discernment has allowed me to detect the fraud in which Smith was guilty of committing.
Ed1 wrote: ↑Mon Jan 17, 2022 7:18 pmFurthermore, I am not bound by Joseph Smith's faulty suppositions. I am bound only by what was given him by the Spirit, and what actually came from the ancient world. You presume that every writing that Joseph Smith produced by speculation is something that I am bound by. That is not the case. I am independent of anything from the 19th century that is not solid revelation.
I believe or rather KNOW that Joseph Smith was wrong on all the points he made in that fateful address he gave to the entire Church via the Times and Seasons:
Joseph Smith, Times and Seasons, 1843 address wrote:
- I proceed to answer you
- the truth of revelation, or religion as promulgated by me
- I have succeeded as a man of God
- by the power of God I translated the Book of Mormon from hieroglyphics
- bold measures of receiving direct revelation from God, through the Comforter
- and that one man empowered from Jehovah, has more influence with the children of the kingdom, than eight hundred millions led by the precepts of men.
- Were I an Egyptian, I would exclaim Jah-oh-eh, Enish-go-on-dosh, Flo-ees-Flos-is-is; [O earth! the power of attraction, and the moon passing between her and the sun.]
- embalming human bodies, and preserving them in the catacombs of Egypt, whereby men, women and children as mummies, after a lapse of near three thousand five hundred years, come forth among the living, and although dead, the papyrus which has lived in their bosoms, unharmed, speaks for them
- The spirit of prophesy is the testimony of Jesus.
- I who have witnessed the visions of Eternity; and beheld the glories of the mansions of bliss
- I who have heard the voice of God, and communed with angels; and spake as moved by the Holy Ghost
- I, who hold the keys of the last kingdom
- The whole earth shall bear me witness that I, like the towering rock in the midst of the ocean
- I combat the errors of the ages; I meet the violence of mobs; I cope with illegal proceedings from executive authority; I cut the Gordian knot of powers; and I solve mathematical problems of Universities: WITH TRUTH, diamond truth, and God is my ‘right hand man.’
- let me say in the name of Jesus Christ to you
- JOSEPH SMITH.
Joseph Smith was testifying falsely with regard to the age of the mummies and he invoked the very name of Jesus Christ in stating his authority as a revelation to the Church. Smith has been caught red handed lying to the whole Church!