Category Archives: Apologetics – From Water Into Wine

22 For false Christs and false prophets shall rise, and shall shew signs and wonders, to seduce, if it were possible, even the elect. Mark 13:22 (KJV) In a YouTube video entitled “The Scripture That Saved My Life From Human Traffickers” (https://youtu.be/LJof2_59vbc), Tim Ballard tells a story about going undercover to gain intel. As heContinue reading “Moroni’s Broken Promise and God’s Undying Oath”

And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. –Matthew 22:37 An Application of Textual Criticism The year before I left the LDS Church, I received as a gift Royal Skousen’s The Book of Mormon: The Earliest Text, published byContinue reading “Dialogues With My Former Self (Part 5): The Breath Of God Pt 2”

“It is finished.”Jesus (John 19:30 ESV) Imagine you took your old clunker to get restored and the mechanic only did half the job. He promised to continue working on it, but couldn’t give a definite date of completion. In the meantime, you were welcome to keep using it. Would you proudly drive a partially restoredContinue reading “The Restoring Gospel and the Renewal of the Apostasy”

All Scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness; so that the man of God may be adequate, equipped for every good work.–2 Timothy 3:16 Finding Hidden Books Recently, I listened to an Episode of Mike Licona’s Risen Jesus Podcast. He was discussing three methods ofContinue reading “Dialogues With My Former Self (Part 4): The Breath Of God Pt 1”

Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men’s bones, and of all uncleanness. Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.Matthew 23:27-28 (KJV) As a Mormon apologist, IContinue reading “Fountain Theology: Moroni 7 and the Gospel of Grace”

3 You keep the one in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on you, because that one trusts in you. 4 Trust in the Lord forever, for the Lord God is an everlasting rock.Isaiah 26:3-4 The Great Prologue A pastor friend of mine has a favorite axiom that he coined: “Truth is discovered, not downloaded.”Continue reading “Dialogues With My Former Self: On Why I Still Love God Pt 2”

“A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in settings of silver.”Proverbs 25:11 NKJV By: Fred Anson and Michael Flournoy In part one of this series we considered some of the harsh “scorched earth” tactics that Christian Mormon Critics often engage that either drive Mormons deeper into the LDS Church or ensures that whenContinue reading “Apples of Gold (Part Two): Becoming Mormon to Win Mormons”

What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us.–A.W. Tozer, Knowledge of the Holy . . . there began to come moments when I could feel moving into my mind, like a physical presence, the conviction that all was quite absurd. It made no sense at allContinue reading “Dialogues With My Former Self: On Why I Still Love God Pt 1”

A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold In settings of silver.(Proverbs 25:11 NKJV) In Disney’s “Hercules”, Hercules battles a monster called a hydra. During the fight he slices its head off with his sword. Bystanders applaud his victory until the beast revives with two heads instead of one.  Hercules flies around on hisContinue reading “Apples of Gold (Part One): Will You Forget the Whole Mormon Bashing Thing?”

Smoke, nothing but smoke. [That’s what the Quester says.] There’s nothing to anything—it’s all smoke. What’s there to show for a lifetime of work, a lifetime of working your fingers to the bone? One generation goes its way, the next one arrives, But nothing changes—it’s business as usual for old planet earth.—Ecclesiastes 1:2-4(The Message: TheContinue reading “Dialogues With My Former Self: Continuing The Tragic Quest”