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Is it true that LDS'ers believe in "magic rocks"?  I am not in the LDS but are you maybe talking about the story that Joseph Smith looked at stones in a bag to get the book of Mormon. (This is my simplified version of it please feel free to correct me) However I wouldn't call this believing in "magic rocks" I don't think it would be the first time someone claimed God had spoken to his people by putting his words on tablets of stone. As I understand (as told to me by an x-mormon) Smith claimed to have found a stone with inscriptions on it (god told him where to look for it) then he found another stone with the decoder on it (god told him where to look for that one too), with which he was able to read the first stone. He told his town folk about this miraculous discovery but when the towns people asked to see the stone, Smith's reply was that it was lost....but he could remember every word and thats where the book of Mormon came from.. |
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I do not know a whole lot. I have visited Navue Ill which is interesting.When i was in the service you basically could not believe anyone. I became friends with 2 LDS guys and we knew we had differences but that was not the focal point of our friendship. I liked them I believe for the same as they did me (i Hope)I could believe them. They were very respectful to people you could trust what they said was what they believed to be true. No deception. So the scriptures does say you will know them by thier fruit. These 2 LDS members had my respect..Blessings...Miles
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Is it true that LDS'ers believe in "magic rocks"? I am not in the LDS but are you maybe talking about the story that Joseph Smith looked at stones in a bag to get the book of Mormon. (This is my simplified version of it please feel free to correct me) However I wouldn't call this believing in "magic rocks" I don't think it would be the first time someone claimed God had spoken to his people by putting his words on tablets of stone. As I understand (as told to me by an x-mormon) Smith claimed to have found a stone with inscriptions on it (god told him where to look for it) then he found another stone with the decoder on it (god told him where to look for that one too), with which he was able to read the first stone. He told his town folk about this miraculous discovery but when the towns people asked to see the stone, Smith's reply was that it was lost....but he could remember every word and thats where the book of Mormon came from.. wow that was so off........ok, joseph smith was searching for the one true religion and prayed to God to tell him which church was right. he was shown in the woods where a set of gold plates were that had been barried by moroni(who is now an angel). the gold plates had a translation plate with them that joseph used to translate them into english. he was told by God to keep them hid and not show them to anyone so the towns people were getting angry and joseph and his wive had to move because people were trying to steal the plates. after he translated them then 3 witnesses were allowed to see the plates and made a record of their actual existance. then eight more witnesses were allowed to see them so yes people other then joseph got to actually see these plates. the translations were printed into the book of mormon which is used along with the king james bible in the mormon church. the book of mormon tells of the two tribes of isreal that came to america and how Jesus appeared to the people in america after his resurrection they were the "other sheep" that he spoke about when he arose from the dead. the plates were taken back to heaven by the angel moroni until God is ready for them to be seen again...that is why they can not be found today. |
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Google "seer stones"
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