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I Believe In God Essay

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and mercy and forgiveness throughout his ministry on earth. Yet we are to believe that people who taught from the Bible and those who lived simple yet productive lives were all bad? They were an “abomination” in the eyes of God? Abomination would mean bad and evil. Some other adjectives might be wickedness, depravity, prejudice, evil doers, vile, wretched, intolerable, sinister, and we could add many more words to the meaning. We have shown the various denominations were not vile, wretched, and certainly not intolerable. It has been my experience that among people who believe in God and among those who don’t believe in God, we can find many good hearted people who try to live by societies rules and laws so it is difficult to believe Joseph …show more content…

Did you see him after he was cast out of you.
A. Yes Sir. I saw him.
B. Q. Pray what did he look like
Here one of my Lawyers told the Witness that he need not answer the question. The witness replied I will answer you provided you answer me one questions to wit Do you Mr. Seymour understand the things of the spirit.
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No. (Answered) Mr. Seymour. I do not pretend to such big things. Well, then (replied Knight) it would be of no use to tell you what the devil looked like, for it was a spiritual sight, and spiritually discerned and of course you would not understand it, were I to tell you of it.” Page 410-411
It becomes increasingly evident that all of Joseph Smith’s claims rely on them being spiritual rather than actual or real. This would explain why no one in his house was aware of the vision of Nephi (or Moroni) when he appeared in such a great light in the middle of the night. Critics hold varying opinions about the true nature of the first vision, believing it to be a dream, a hallucination, a self-deception, and intentional fabrication, or some combination of these. In fact, Alexander Campbell, a well known minister of the time, believed Joseph Smith was subject to epileptic seizures which he claimed were revelations from

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