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Summary: chain of possession of the evidence?
Review: I'm reading quite a number of comments which are not positive on the LDS faith. This is good. Hopefully it will entice people here to do some real homework. This video isn't a documentary by qualified professionals despite the format it's presented in. I've been creating my own DVD's for years and could come up with something like this and not be factual. A reviewer here wrote the following:'I find it amazing that a church that refers to potential new converts as "investigators" insists that people stop investigating as soon as they hit the baptismal water.' If that's the case then I'm in a lot of trouble :-) I haven't stopped yet. Yes there are questions about the LDS church. Did you know there are questions about EVERY church out there? This is the part in which faith is brought up. I'm afraid the answer to questions (even the Book of Abraham) will NOT be found in something as simple as a DVD.
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Summary: I do not agree....
Review: I'm reading quite a number of comments which are not positive on the LDS faith. This is good. Hopefully it will entice people here to do some real homework. This video isn't a documentary by qualified professionals despite the format it's presented in. I've been creating my own DVD's for years and could come up with something like this and not be factual. A reviewer here wrote the following: 'I find it amazing that a church that refers to potential new converts as "investigators" insists that people stop investigating as soon as they hit the baptismal water.' If that's the case then I'm in a lot of trouble :-) I haven't stopped yet. Yes there are questions about the LDS church. Did you know there are questions about EVERY church out there? This is the part in which faith is brought up. I'm afraid the answer to questions (even the Book of Abraham) will NOT be found in something as simple as a DVD.
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Summary: The Bible Is Full Of Paradox, Is The Lost Book Too?
Review: Is the lost book of Abraham really God's Voice? Why then would God seal the Bible in Revelation 22:18 and then have a lost book added to it? I mean, Does God know what He's talking about or not? Or is He really in control of what happens to His Word? Was it God or man that decided to neglect Revelation 22:18? Does God break His Word? Does this lost book speak like God would speak? Or does it sound like the ramblings of a man? Was John Smith truly a prophet of God? Or was he merely a puppet of the devil? What great works did he do? Do they equal that of Paul or Peter? What does the concrete evidence say? What is the concrete evidence? As a human being we have the freedom to believe any truth we want to. We also have the freedom to believe any lie as well. We can choose what we believe but who is right? Are not all of us right in our own eyes? But who is truly right? We can't all be right because regardless of what we believe there is only one correct interpretation of our Creator, Therefor, Since we all have different opinions, We all must believe in one lie or another. Only God Himself is always 100% correct. Cheers.
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Summary: Low-key, informative eye-opener
Review: Key to being a member of the Mormon church - which claims to restore Jesus Christ's church to its correct form -Â is accepting the unusual spiritual premises laid down by its founders. The two young LDS women interviewed in this DVD talk confidently about the importance of personally investigating those claims. What I discovered in 10 years of active LDS membership is that the Mormon definition of investigation only includes approved, sanitized sources. Mormons are trained from an early age to automatically dismiss "critics" as a personal act of faithfulness. This aversion to intellectual scrutiny on matters of Mormon faith is not surprising. The more you honestly study the lives of LDS founders such as Joseph Smith, the more you discover credibility questions that cut to the core of Mormon faith. This film looks at Smith's life during the Kirtland-Nauvoo period, when he produced and promoted the Book of Abraham as inspired scripture. The film suggests Smith lied repeatedly about his ability to "translate" ancient writings, and that his church today deliberately ignores the obvious implications. Sadly, well-intentioned Mormons nowadays who think they have to "follow the prophet" to follow Jesus, will probably automatically turn a blind eye again.
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Summary: Low-key, informative eye-opener
Review: Key to being a member of the Mormon church - which claims to restore Jesus Christ's church to its correct form - is accepting the unusual spiritual premises laid down by its founders. The two young LDS women interviewed in this DVD talk confidently about the importance of personally investigating those claims. What I discovered in 10 years of active LDS membership is that the Mormon definition of investigation only includes approved, sanitized sources. Mormons are trained from an early age to automatically dismiss "critics" as a personal act of faithfulness. This aversion to intellectual scrutiny on matters of Mormon faith is not surprising. The more you honestly study the lives of LDS founders such as Joseph Smith, the more you discover credibility questions that cut to the core of Mormon faith. This film looks at Smith's life during the Kirtland-Nauvoo period, when he produced and promoted the Book of Abraham as inspired scripture. The film suggests Smith lied repeatedly about his ability to "translate" ancient writings, and that his church today deliberately ignores the obvious implications. Sadly, well-intentioned Mormons nowadays who think they have to "follow the prophet" to follow Jesus, will probably automatically turn a blind eye again.
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Summary: Factual, historical, and something every LDS should see
Review: Produced in a History Channel format, this video is excellent because it relies on factual history to report the events that led to the publication of the Book of Abraham in the LDS scripture Pearl of Great Price. The question is this: If Joseph Smith was truly a prophet of God, and if he accurately translated the Book of Mormon plates into English, then shouldn't he have had the ability to take the writing of the patriarch Abraham and accurately translate it into English as well? However, as the video points out, the Book of Abraham is nothing more than common funeral papyrii that was sold to Smith by a traveling salesman. With the science of Egyptology in its infancy at that time, Smith was able to convince his people that this papyrus had been produced by Abraham himself. Although the scroll was lost for a century, it was uncovered in the 1960s and given back to the LDS Church. For the first time, this papyrus could be studied in light of the abundance of work that had been done in the field of Egyptology. In effect, the truth about Joseph Smith has been revealed. All in all, this video is interesting to watch and accurate in its analysis. Although it may cause some honest Latter-day Saints some sleepness nights, grabbing ahold of truth is the most important thing anyone can do. I challenge every Latter-day Saint to see this video for him/herself and then weigh the evidence. If Mormonism is true, then it ought to stand the test.
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Summary: Oh it's a good movie
Review: Sure it's a good movie. You can make anything seem plausible.
That's why reason doesn't always do the job. It's unreasonable that Christ was resurrected, it's unreasonable that Moses parted the red sea. It's unreasonable that the world was created by a god. It's unreasonable that we go anywhere after death. There's no proof of any of it, and therefore it's open to debate and vulnerable to attack. Anyone could take the Book of Abraham, or the Bible or the Koran and "disprove" it's origins or it's meaning. For that matter philosophers and physicists are constantly "disproving" subject matters, and theorems. But does that necessarily make them untrue?
This movie does a good job of what it was designed for, but it doesn't change my feelings on the matter. The only thing that could do that is myself.
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Summary: The Facts Speak for Themselves
Review: The negative Mormon reviewers ignore the facts and go for the messenger. The facts PROVE that Joseph Smith Jr. lied about his ability to translate an Egyptian papyrus. Because Mormons can't answer the facts, they always attack the messenger. "The people who made that movie are Christians" or "That's just Anti-Mormons bashing us again." Yes, the makers of this documentary are Christians -- but that doesn't obscure or change the facts that it presents. This is a well made movie and it presents the facts well. Neutral historians of Mormonism like Jan Shipps are interviewed. Important liberal Mormons are interviewed. The official church refused to participate as did their apologetic "scholarship" wing, FARMs. (One reviewer asked, where is FARMs? Watch the movie, they invited FARMs members to respond and be interviewed and the FARMers said "no comment.") I hold back 1 star because the movie was made by Christians and that helps Mormons argue that its content is irrelevant. The Christians would have done better to leave it in the hands of an independent film maker, but otherwise this is a good, solid documentary.
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Summary: The Facts Speak for Themselves
Review: The negative Mormon reviewers ignore the facts and go for the messenger. The facts PROVE that Joseph Smith Jr. lied about his ability to translate an Egyptian papyrus. Because Mormons can't answer the facts, they always attack the messenger. "The people who made that movie are Christians" or "That's just Anti-Mormons bashing us again." Yes, the makers of this documentary are Christians -- but that doesn't obscure or change the facts that it presents. This is a well made movie and it presents the facts well. Neutral historians of Mormonism like Jan Shipps are interviewed. Important liberal Mormons are interviewed. The official church refused to participate as did their apologetic "scholarship" wing, FARMs. (One reviewer asked, where is FARMs? Watch the movie, they invited FARMs members to respond and be interviewed and the FARMers said "no comment.") I hold back 1 star because the movie was made by Christians and that helps Mormons argue that its content is irrelevant. The Christians would have done better to leave it in the hands of an independent film maker, but otherwise this is a good, solid documentary.
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Summary: Great Piece of Art
Review: The truth has been distorted in this DVD. The makers of this DVD claim the Book of Abraham is a great piece of art. The DVD is a GREATER PIECE OF ART. The Devil will tell you a 1000 truths to get you to believe 1 lie. They take a lot of things which are true and skew it towards their beliefs so that you are left to believe only that which is false.
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