Posted by:
Elder Berry
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Date: June 20, 2014 08:04PM
These are not the since questions of 14 year olds.
http://www.mormon.org/beliefs/joseph-smith"What is to be done? Who of all these parties are right; or, are they all wrong together? If any one of them be right, which is it, and how shall I know it?" (Joseph Smith-History 1:8, 10)."
Quote from Church PR stooge here.
http://exmormon.org/phorum/read.php?2,1299688These are questions of adult seekers for universal metaphysical truths. When Smith wrote these questions he was an adult with an audience of adults wanting the answers that he was giving to these questions.
Newly adolescent teenager's sincere questions are ones related to the ontological nature of religion itself or their individual acceptability or individual acceptance to the religious ideals offered by their cultural upbringing. They aren't questions on what is to be done outside of a teenager's individual struggles with acceptance and finding beliefs they can personally endorse before reaching adulthood.
They want to know which is right for them to join not right for their God. That is a question adults ponder.
Just more mythologizing Smith using his own lies.