Posted by:
wolfsbane
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Date: April 16, 2013 05:12PM
Honestly, as long as you "stick with the basics" (faith, prayer, attend church, pay tithing, go home teaching, sacrifice etc...) it's really pretty easy to believe. But as soon as you actually sit down and dissect the various aspects of "the gospel" is when it becomes impossible to believe.
Adam and Eve were the first humans and they broke a law of God so that's how sin and death entered the world. All fine and dandy as long as you don't dig deeper. It's when you realize human remains have been discovered that pre-date Adam and Eve by thousands of years that the story becomes impossible to believe.
Noah was an ancient prophet who warned the people to repent. They chose not to so God flooded the earth and killed all the wicked people. Moral of the story: follow the prophet. Easy to believe until you realize that hundreds of problems associated with that story and the fact that there is absolutely no evidence of such an event and there were civilizations all over the planet that were thriving at the time, uninterrupted by a flood.
So, I think that's why the church is pushing so hard these days to stick with the basics. As long as members don't think about it, and only concentrate on their warm fuzzies all will be well in Zion.