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The Oncoming Storm - bc
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Date: July 27, 2012 10:51AM
So 10 years old...
Have you seen this?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ac_fLUHiBwYou could potentially watch appropriate sections with him and discuss it.
You could talk to him about Nephi & the brass plates and that it was wrong from Nephi to murder Laban. If God needed the plates he didn't need Nephi to murder someone and that hearing voices in our heads is never an excuse to kill someone or do anything else bad. When he agrees help him understand that the Book of Mormon can't be true then.
You could explain why the Jaredite barges are completely impossible. You can't fit enough food for that long, the air would not ventilate, the 8 barges wouldn't stay together, etc.
You could explain that when Joseph Smith wrote the Book of Mormon that not nearly as much was know about the Americas as there is today and that as we learned more it proved Joseph Smith made it up: horses, barley, DNA evidence, etc.
http://mormonthink.com/book-of-mormon-problems.htm-------------
Now to think out loud:
I have a 10 year old son as well. I have a TBM wife. One of the real concerns I have is that with my kids having parents with different religious beliefs my children are caught in the middle. It's a challenging thing. I don't want to make a difficult thing worse by making my kids feel like they have to choose between Mom or Dad.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 07/27/2012 12:41PM by bc.