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Captain Relativity wrote
Oooh, that's a good one! That's an absolutely fundamental aspect of their dogma. Along with those idiotic golden plates...which no one has ever seen.
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It is a shame, but there is no real solid question you can ask about the plates and the magic seer stones.
"Dum Dum Dum Dum Dum "
"Why hasn't God told
me that the Book of Mormon is scripture?"
"God has not validated to
me your credentials to speak for Him or about Him. Why should I believe anything that you say?"
Parallel question -- "Since I have as much or more authority to disseminate God's will and His promises as you do, will you listen while I tell
you about God's plan for
your salvation?"
Snarky addendum -- "For a small added fee, I will tell you exactly what Heaven is like."
"Why should I believe what you believe since belief does not imply the truth of a proposition?" follow-up "Or, do you have some objective and verifiable evidence for your belief?" {Belief for which there is evidence, is called knowledge or fact and is drained of faith.)
"If it would destroy my (ignorant, blind) faith for God to reveal Himself to me, why did He destroy the faith of all those people He appeared to in the past, people like Moses and John and Thomas and Paul?"
"If God is omniscient and unable to lie, why did He 'pretend' to not know where Adam was in the Garden?"
"How could perfect gentle, pacifist, 'turn the other cheek', 'love thine enemies' Jesus go berserk and commit destructive mayhem in the temple on people who were engaged in perfectly legitimate commerce and hurting no-one?" Money changing was necessary in order to pray and make sacrifices in the temple.
"What can we make of the book of Exodus now that the Israeli archaeologists, with every incentive to validate the story, have determined that the events in it never happened?" They were concocted during the Babylonian exile to make the Hebrews feel like a unified nation.
"What can it mean to 'live eternally' when God's entire creation, the whole universe itself, will not exist for eternity?"