Expository Essay: The Book Of Mormon

You mention that “Faith for us is things hoped for and we have not seen, that doesn’t mean someone else hasn’t been a witness.”

My concern with this is twofold. First, everyone’s “witness” seems based of someone else’s witness. This in the legal system is called hearsay. Second, the appeal to scriptural witness is hard for me to accept. You’re right, I could choose to believe the accounts given. For me to do so would be to dismiss a great deal of evidence. I have written out my issue with scripture at length which I will include at the end of this response.

After Thomas had seen the resurrected Lord would not his faith become a perfect knowledge in that thing therefore his faith would be “dormant” according to the Book of Mormon. So called

“The Book of Mormon is a volume of holy scripture comparable to the Bible. It is a record of God’s dealings with ancient inhabitants of the Americas and contains the fullness of the everlasting gospel.” “The book was written by many ancient prophets by the spirit of prophecy and revelation. Their words, written on gold plates, were quoted and abridged by a prophet-historian named Mormon. The record gives an account of two great civilizations.” (1) It is official church doctrine that the Book of Mormon is

It is worth noting that there are many who claim parts of these books to be figurative and not literal. This is an untenable position. Considering that only taking scripture figuratively seems to undermine the entire concept. If one does not believe the Bible to be literal what reason do they have to believe Christ's suffering brings salvation. How can one say, well obviously the creation and Noah’s flood are figurative, while in the same breath profess the resurrection of the dead and walking on water as literal. It is far past time for someone to point out that to do so is void of logic and is a prime example of the Cherry Picking Fallacy. It seems clear that to believe in scripture implies to take them literally.

To take Scripture literally is to ignore facts and to ignore reason. So why do people believe in scripture?

“And when ye shall receive these things, I would exhort you that ye would ask God, the Eternal Father, in the name of Christ, if these things are not true; and if ye shall ask with a sincere heart, with real intent, having faith in Christ, he will manifest the truth of it unto you, by the power of the Holy Ghost. And by the power of the Holy Ghost ye may know the truth of all things.” (3)

Such “revelations” are used to claim just about anything and everything and are unfalsifiable and unverifiable. This kind of “revelation” is seemingly faith based