i love the book of mormon

[scherieb1]

So did you ever serve a mission?? I am sure you know that there will always be people that feel you should believe in THEIR beliefs. The Church has made me whole and I have felt the many blessing of God. He too, loves you and he also loves those who are so negative about what OTHERS believe. Stand firm in your faith and may you live a rich life.

[khatesesante]

@scherieb1 hi! yes i did actually.=) the best 18 months of my life =) 11 april 2009 - 28 oct 2010 Philippines davao mission =) after three of waiting, i was finally allowed to go!how about you?

[graso12]

ikaw ni khate? ikaw ha naa diay ka cam

[lmadigan1971]

love god and truth and mormonism falls over

dont call me a hater i love some mormon friends but am i to say nothing when i see that all the things around them are what keeps them in the truth rather than a doctrine that is true

every time you question a mormon and it gets too hard even using their own church history they are too willing to say we just dont know

dont then say we know the church is true

thats a cop out

search in your heart and your mind and hold true to what is good

[ReynardLuaiua]

I love the Book of Mormon too, Dont listen to the rest of the Haters

[ferrusty86]

STOP PICKING ON MORMONS!

[munching1112]

What the.....

[TommyMonson]

If you love the Book of Mormon, take a look at a book called *View of the Hebrews*. It was written by Oliver Cowdery's pastor named Ethan Smith in 1823. This book discusses the journey of the lost tribes of Israel from Jerusalem in 600BC to America. The people break into two groups, one light and one dark. The dark group destroys the light group. Many chapters of Isaiah are quoted, the same ones quoted in the Book of Mormon. Christ visits the people. The Church owns Martin Harris's signed copy.

[leeuniverse]

You don't know what your talking about. The "parallels" with the View of the Hebrews book and the Book of Mormon is like trying to compare "Lord of the Rings" with the Bible. In otherwords, it's a huge stretch trying to make the two books match, even if there are some small similarities. Because the same can be done for almost any book with another book. Your seriously exaggerating this old anti-mormon malarky claim.

[TommyMonson]

Hi leeuniverse,

I am not exaggerating. You, however, are downplaying the similarities. You probably haven't even read *View of the Hebrews* or B.H. Roberts' *Studies of the Book of Mormon*, but a cheap (un)FAIR reply which downplays the obvious parallels with a nice pokerface. Your Bible/Tolkien analogue is B.S. because they have no super-unique & novel features in common. (cont)

[TommyMonson]

2)The super-unique and novel idea of writing a history of Israelite Amerinds from Jerusalem at 600BC (in 1823!), that split to two dark/light tribes where the cultured light ones are destroyed by the (cursed) dark uncultured ones, a urim and thummim, and an Isaiah based promise of Indian redemption (and more) are particular to the BOM and VotH. If the Bible discussed orcs, the redemption of the Shire by Bagginses and their journey to Mount Doom and back, you might have had a case.

TM

[gpsabado]

u suck sister!

[Zeadman2]

ok i see