Rest assured this is far from all I do bud, but thanks for the concern. Happy to talk about any specific issues raised in this post or others whenever you like. You will find their is much mention of the Saviour throughout this site.

This example does not work for comparison of what LDS critics claim they are doing, and.. it.. is.. always used by LDS critics; always..without fail. I see this example on every site critical of LDS.

LDS critics do not show concern and care (and do not pull some of the other poor analogies used by LDS critics that just do not work.) When someone is in an unsafe area, like in the example of being on a one way street, the person doing the warning usually does not argue with the person who is unsafe, nor does the person doing the warning call the unsafe person names, ridicule what they did, make fun of them, criticize them, dress them down for their stupidity and denseness, and so forth. That is why this is such a poor example and a cop out to use it.

It all sites critical of LDS really showed concern and care, they would be interested in honest dialogue, they would refrain from being overly critical and refrain from name calling, refrain from making false accusations, quite using mocking tones, quite ridiculing what we believe is sacred.
Use quotes in context, quite using sources of people who are known to have lied about their credentials (like “Dr.” “Dr.” Martin – and many others like him). Quite using outdated sources and information that has been debunked. Quite perpetrating myths and lies. Quite accusing LDS of twisting Scripture, and understand that every religion and people interprets Scripture differently. Quite dismissing sources LDS use and quite calling those sources hacks, jokes, false, uneducated boobs, and quite assuming they were all educated at BYU (which does not matter if they were). Quite saying LDS can not express their opinions; but yet the critics express their opinions and use it as fact. Quite telling LDS we do not know what we believe. (And when the LDS turn the table on the critics, the critics start howling. The critics can dish it out but can not take it)

Truly (try) to understand where the LDS are coming from and concede that a lot of LDS beliefs are Biblical and that LDS beliefs have a lot in common with mainstream Christianity. There are many non-LDS scholars that have proven LDS believe in the Biblical Christ, and have shown where LDS theology comes from and what it is related to in the Bible.
The critics should find common ground from which to have true, genuine, uncritical, dialogue with out being condescending and hypocritical. (An example of hypocrisy: attacking the LDS church for blatant racism, when there are mainstream Christian churches that still practice blatant racism and use the Bible to back it up.)

And the critics need to quite stabbing in the back their own who do have honest and cordial discourse with the LDS. Quite splitting hairs over one little area of disagreement, quite nit picking a topic to death, quite beating a dead horse, quite throwing out many hateful things at once to distract from your frustration – for example: (and this happens all the time) – “well, ole Jo Smith was a money digger, pedophile, charlatan, liar, racist, married women who were still married, was a Mason, was evil, a drunkard, smoked, etc.; and let us not forget Brigham Young who did those same things.” And so forth to detract from the topic and to detract from what the LDS are saying. And THEN the LDS person gets personally attacked after all this diatribe. Every..single..time. And PLEASE, quite saying the same things over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over……because nothing is being said or accomplished.

And what is sad about all of this is that critics rationalize their bad, boorish behavior and think it is alright to treat people and their beliefs this way.
I have on many occasions dared critics to do to Muslims what they do to LDS. So far have not seen it. Too scared because the critics know what will happen. Yes, the critics have a double standard (one of many things they accuse LDS of).

I have been called a liar, troll, stupid, dense, evil, devil worshiper, fool, coward, and so forth, And in person I have been treated even worse. Really caring stuff here. Riiiiight.

Thank you for your time.

Concerning the Priesthood and the Apostle John and the Three Nephites: These four people have different roles to do/play. And they are no longer mortal. So yes, the Priesthood did need to be restored to a mortal, human being, to be taken to other mortal, human beings.

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Best wishes

Roy