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Posted by: Elder Berry ( )
Date: June 20, 2014 08:04PM
The sincere questions of a 14-year-old boy

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?2,1299688

These 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.

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Posted by: donbagley ( )
Date: June 20, 2014 08:57PM
Re: The sincere questions of a 14-year-old boy

It's funny that I wasn't allowed to ask questions when I was a fourteen year-old boy.

Funny indeed.

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Posted by: Elder Berry ( )
Date: June 23, 2014 12:40PM
Re: The sincere questions of a 14-year-old boy

donbagley Wrote:
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> It's funny that I wasn't allowed to ask questions
> when I was a fourteen year-old boy.

Joseph Smith Junior must have had a great dad but then again Joe Jr. was extremely involved in his old man's delusions.

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Posted by: moremany ( )
Date: June 20, 2014 09:13PM
Re: The sincere questions of a 14-year-old boy

He didn't join any of them because none of them allowed polygamy.

M@t

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Posted by: TheOtherHeber ( )
Date: June 20, 2014 09:54PM
Re: The sincere questions of a 14-year-old boy

This text wasn' even written by Joe. James Mulholland wrote it and he even got the name of the angel wrong. Joe probably didn't even revise the stuff.

That's propaganda from beggining to end.

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Posted by: southern Idaho inactive ( )
Date: June 20, 2014 09:59PM
Re: The sincere questions of a 14-year-old boy

Is just me or do those questions look like something a polictian would ask? The bit about parties could be a clue maybe?

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Posted by: Elder Berry ( )
Date: June 23, 2014 12:41PM
Re: The sincere questions of a 14-year-old boy

I agree. They are the questions of a politician not a prophet.

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Posted by: Bamboozled ( )
Date: June 23, 2014 02:06PM
The most earth shaking question I asked as a 14 year old was

You mean I'm not supposed to be playing with that?

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Posted by: moremany ( )
Date: June 23, 2014 02:37PM
Re: The sincere questions of a 14-year-old boy

Stay in the family line of "business" or start my own?
Hmmm

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Posted by: perky ( )
Date: June 23, 2014 03:08PM
Re: The sincere questions of a 14-year-old boy

After hearing about the liahona in T-quorum p-hood mtg., my 14-year old son said "Sounds like the magic 8-ball to me."

Needless to say and Thank God, he is now 19 and NOT headed out on a mission!!!

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