My step-mother had been a Nazarene before joining the LDS Church. so i found her old copy of Mormon Claims Answered by Marvin Cowan. And i read the Salt Lake City Messenger from UTLM somebody had her sent. This utterly devestated the testimony i had of the Book of Mormon. I was reading stuff i had never heard. LDS apologetics seemed fairly crummy to me back then. These days its much more responsible. But i found enough answers that i retained my belief in the book. I developed a great mistrust of Evangelical anti-Mormon ministries.
My chief complaint about Anti-Mormon writers is they develop a great skill for repeating, or developing questions. But they don't develop the more important skill of learning how to resolve the questions they raise. I did develop some of that skill. So frequently when i read their stuff, or watch Anti-Restoration films i see them raising many answerable issues. Many things do not have a perfect answer, but you can find enough to sustain you.
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