Thanks guys, a friend of mine e-mailed me this link, and the site name caught my attention...we gotta start showing up to the fight.

Just as after the Civil War ended there wer guerrilla groupes still fighting and taking prisoners (metaphorically), so now, Jesus won the war, it is finished, but there is still guerilla warriors out there wrighting books, going door to door...takeing prisoners.  They run away when we show up to the fight. Not because of who we are, but because of the One standing beside us, who sent us.  So if I see a brother in need of some strengthening nurishment or encouragement, I'll rise to the call, to the degree Jesus calls and equips me.

Andplusalso, I need some sharpening too.   

If the BoM is compareable to the BiBle, as it says in the introduction to the BoM,  and as you stated Pumkin, that the Bible us unreliable as a source of truth, then it must be the case that the Book of Mormon is also unreliable as a source of truth.

Are you in the habit of believing something is true, that you know to be false?

Steal...you did nothing wrong...except maybe the timing of reading the Davinci Code.  You are young in the Faith for now, but you wont allways be if you stay in the Word as recommended by others who posted above.  Use your doubt / confusion to your spiritual advantage.  Isolate, and identify your questions that the book raised for you, then research the Bible, and ask your Brothers here.

I was raised in a 'christain' home, attended church regularily, attended a christain elementary school all 8 years, and memorized many Bible passages...BUT, I never learned as much of what the Bible actually said untill I had mormons come to my house and give me their shpeal, for about 8 weeks.  Each time I learned Bible truth, it began with doubt.  I thought that maybe what the mormons said was true, because it sounded reasonable, and I went back to the Bible to research what IT said (Acts 17:11).  The authority I chose to believe was not what a man ( or boy) said, but what the Bible said.  Because of that, I found the answers to the questions the mormons raised in my mind...and grew.

I tend to learn better if the question exists in my mind before the answer does, maybe that is the path you are beginning right now.


I have since read all the Mormon "scriptures".  Since I had a good foundation in the Word first, I see the lies easily in mormonism, but even now, if I read too much mormon doctrine, it begins to create questions in my mind...but greater is He that is in me, than he who is in the world.  The same can be said for anything, TV, novels, CNN, whatever music you listen to, all of that stuff can cloud our minds so Jesus is faded....back to the Word we must go.


Let Jesus answer the questions in your mind now, through prayer, reading His word, and hanging out with christian friends and e-brothers, and don't sweat the doubts, answer them.

"doubting" Thomas believed Jesus was God.  He said, " my Lord, and my God"
Paul believed Jesus was God, read 1 Tim 1  (Is God the Savior or is Jesus the Savior---yes)

These two lived 300 yrs before Constantine,  Not to mention the entire OT that identifies Jesus as the Messiah  (the OT was the scriptures referred to in Acts 17:11--thats all they had)

It isn't wrong to have questions, unless you don't look for the answers.