@TheGermanicist @imsofuckindone0 It doesn’t matter if there are golden plates an

@TheGermanicist @imsofuckindone0 It doesn’t matter if there are golden plates and the translation is true because the Book of Mormon contradicts the Bible making it false.

@TheGermanicist @bulldogbkb Why is the Book of Mormon needed for this? The Bible is extremely clear on this. If you insist that Son of God means spirit child of the Father and a heavenly Mother, even if an angel told you this or you heard a voice fr...

@TheGermanicist @bulldogbkb Why is the Book of Mormon needed for this? The Bible is extremely clear on this. If you insist that Son of God means spirit child of the Father and a heavenly Mother, even

@TeeplesCY Joseph Smith was a false prophet. His teachings are evidence. The Book of Mormon claims Lehi and Nehi were told to disobey the instruction of Jeremiah and flee to America and not to submit to Nebuchadnezzar when all people, good or bad, m...

@TeeplesCY Joseph Smith was a false prophet. His teachings are evidence. The Book of Mormon claims Lehi and Nehi were told to disobey the instruction of Jeremiah and flee to America and not to submit

@azuritian What does the Book of Mormon add to the Bible? It contains no doctrinal statements. And how does one explain how Lehi and Nehi were told to disobey a direct command of God through Jeremiah, that all—including Jeremiah and Daniel and Ezeki...

@azuritian What does the Book of Mormon add to the Bible? It contains no doctrinal statements. And how does one explain how Lehi and Nehi were told to disobey a direct command of God through Jeremiah

RT @ryanschatz: @LdsLawyer2156 Joseph Smith was a false prophet because the Book

RT @ryanschatz: @LdsLawyer2156 Joseph Smith was a false prophet because the Book of Mormon teaches that Lehi obeyed God by fleeing Jerusale…

@LdsLawyer2156 Joseph Smith was a false prophet because the Book of Mormon teaches that Lehi obeyed God by fleeing Jerusalem, while Jeremiah (God’s true prophet) declared that the Lord had given all nations (including all the true prophets), even the...

@LdsLawyer2156 Joseph Smith was a false prophet because the Book of Mormon teaches that Lehi obeyed God by fleeing Jerusalem, while Jeremiah (God’s true prophet) declared that the Lord had given all n

@DawnTreloa22996 @DrFrankTurek As I was reading the Book of Mormon, in the first bit I realized that Nephi and Lehi (I hope I remembered who it was correctly) were being told to leave for America which was expressly forbidden by Jeremiah. Jeremiah sa...

@DawnTreloa22996 @DrFrankTurek As I was reading the Book of Mormon, in the first bit I realized that Nephi and Lehi (I hope I remembered who it was correctly) were being told to leave for America whic

@Methodios007 The Mormons tell me I'm missing a lot. They have new revelations I

@Methodios007 The Mormons tell me I'm missing a lot. They have new revelations I am supposed to read, the Pearl of Great Price, the Book of Mormon, the Doctrine and Covenants. I can readily read these

@JackAllLanterns @NBidnz @harmonizedgrace Okay, but the Book of Mormon mentions

@JackAllLanterns @NBidnz @harmonizedgrace Okay, but the Book of Mormon mentions God... mentioning God is not how we determine if it is part of the Bible or not.

Unlike the Book of Mormon (golden plates taken away), the Book of Abraham papyri CAN be tested — this is unique

The Book of Abraham as a uniquely testable LDS truth claim

Canonical closure argument: the New Testament closes the canon — there is no room for a new book of scripture

Theological argument against the LDS claim to new scripture

Argument from the Mormon authority hierarchy: when the Bible, LDS standard works, and the Holy Spirit contradict each other, which do Mormons follow?

Epistemological challenge to Mormon missionaries

Q&A: Most Mormons are not convinced by intellectual arguments — they are committed emotionally through 'testimony,' an emotionally validated belief experience.

Viewer question: 'What would Mike suggest to say to a Mormon to convince them that Christianity is truth?'

The LDS church is quietly distancing itself from past presidential statements and Journal of Discourses rather than formally changing doctrine — 'plausible deniability.'

Mike explains the mechanism by which Mormonism is changing: not reforming doctrine but retreating from its sources.

Pattern of false teaching: take a doctrine, find a Bible passage with similar vocabulary, read the doctrine into the passage

Hermeneutical critique applied more broadly

Ra's appeal to Quranic prophecy is self-refuting: the Quran's 'best' examples either copy Old Testament passages Ra already called invalid, or are too vague (Donald Trump in Surah 68).

Ra attempts to relativize biblical prophecy by arguing the Quran has equally valid (or better) fulfilled prophecy.

The one invalid way to use the Bible to prove itself is simple circularity: 'The Bible says it's God's Word, therefore it is.' This same logic could be applied to the Book of Mormon or the Quran, and Winger agrees with skeptics that this form of reasoning is illegitimate.

Winger cites Book of Moses 1:40-41 as an example of a text prophesying about itself (claiming Joseph Smith would restore corrupted scripture) when in fact Joseph Smith wrote that very text himself — making it a case of backdated, self-fulfilling prophecy rather than genuine authentication.

Valid prophecy requires dateable pre-event writing. Manuscript evidence (e.g., Dead Sea Scrolls) places Isaiah and the Psalms before Jesus, making their messianic content genuine prediction rather than post-hoc composition. This distinguishes biblical prophecy from the Book of Mormon or Quran examples.

The Mormon burning-in-the-bosom claim does not undermine the Christian's witness of the Spirit

Responding to the classic objection that the Spirit's witness is unreliable because others claim the same for false religions

LDS Book of Abraham — Joseph Smith's evolving theology from monotheism toward polytheism

A viewer asks about doing a verse-by-verse study on the LDS Book of Abraham.

Q: Is the Book of Mormon right? No. It lacks theology (just a long story), but fails on historical/archaeological claims: horses in pre-Columbian Americas, weapons and materials that didn't exist, no verifiable rivers/mountains/civilizations. Not a single Book of Mormon claim has been archaeologically confirmed, unlike the Bible.

Q&A — Book of Mormon