Mormonism is Crumbling Merely by Logic

I just found another site on the internet on which I can post. It seems that there are lots and lots of different kinds of message boards. Now there are three which I can lurk on. (I'm not counting the NOM or the exmormon board.) It seems that eliminating the exmormon board is not going to create a problem for me. I will learn what it is like to politely post and get polite responses! Wow! What a swanky idea!

Yesterday I read Deuteronomy 31-32. In Chapter 31, Joshua is called to take the people of Israel to the promised land. Moses also completes writing down on a scroll every single word of what is known as the law of Moses. He has the people place it beside the ark of the covenant as a "witness" against them. I suppose this is an acknowledgement of the Israelites' tendency to rebel against the commandments of the Lord. It's also a prophecy of greater rebellion. What would it be like should a religious leader say this to you? Would you believe him? You have to be an awfully good leader to be like Moses.

Chapter 32 is in verse in The Holman Bible. It is entitled "Song of Moses." This song appears to be a very big prophecy. Verse 25 says "Outside, the sword will take their children, and inside there will be terror; the young man and the virgin [will be killed] the infant and the gray-haired man." This is the verse of the lack of mercy of the invaders and destroyers of Jerusalem, in particular, the Chaldeans. (2 Kings 25: 8-21) It refers to slaying the people by the sword without the city. In the city, people will starve to death, etc. Chapter 32 is a prophecy to warn the people until their apostacy right before Jerusalem is destroyed.

I am reading the Bible, but not all chronologically. I am skipping around from book to book, between the Old Testament and the New Testament.

There is something else I have found. This passage was quoted on MADB, the Mormon Apologist board. It is Matthew 30-32: "Anyone who is not with Me is against Me, and anyone who does not gather with Me scatters. Because of this, I tell you, people will be forgiven every sin and blasphemy, but the blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven. Whoever speaks a word against the Son of Man, it will be forgiven him. But whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit, it will not be forgiven him, either in this age or in the one to come."

Basically, these verses are about which types of blasphemy and obedience are forgivable. Basically, "every sin and blasphemy" will be forgiven. But there is one blasphemy that will not be forgiven. We are not to blaspheme the Holy Spirit or Holy Ghost. It occurs to me that Jesus is willing to forgive, especially if we are willing to repent. However, this blasphemy against the Holy Ghost is something that just seems to be unforgivable. I do not know how it is that you blaspheme the Holy Spirit. Do you say something horrible if you know the Holy Spirit is in the room? Are there acts that could only be in defiance and disrespect of the Spirit which speaks all truth? It seems that you would either need to say something really horrible that is directly against the Holy Ghost, or that you would need to do things in complete rebellion to what everything good is telling you. It could be that you would have to intentionally be blasphemous against that which you know to be true. If you don't know how you would ever intend to do something like this yourself, it could be a really good sign. Basically, you're not as evil as you thought you were. I know that I do not completely know how this would be possible. I am not feeling ANY ambition in this area. But it seems there may be people evil enough to do this. To me, real, pure evil is an intention to be evil, not an accidental evil. If you keep trying to make good decisions and keep away from that which you think is evil, you are doing exactly the opposite.

According to the Book of Mormon there is more to this equation. Alma 39: 5-6 talk about the LDS version of this type of thing. According to these verses, there is one "unpardonable" sin: "[denying] the Holy Ghost." There is a sin that is most near unto it: "[murdering] against the light and knowledge of God," also called "the shedding of innocent blood." It is not easy to obtain forgiveness for this sin.

The Book of Mormon does people a disservice here. It does not use the word "blaspheme" like the Bible scripture does. It uses the word "deny." Why would denying something be the same as blaspheming something? Aren't these two acts lightyears apart? You could "deny" the Holy Ghost merely by denying the Holy Ghost is influencing you. You could just not know at all. You could "blaspheme" the Holy Ghost only by intentionally doing and saying very, very horrible things. I find myself laughing at this. Why is this so badly written? Could it be that the Book of Mormon has passages that are entirely uninspired in any way? Does this mean that Joseph Smith, Jr. did not translate any golden plates at all? Could it be that in the book are entire passages written so badly that not even Mormons can follow them?

It only seems that the more I try to defend or explain the Book of Mormon, the worse it gets. Passages that I once thought were the light of my spiritual world, fall apart under completely logical scrutiny. I do not even need to be antagonistic against it. I can only watch the cookie crumble. It was once a yummy cookie. Only, it is now stale and completely in crumbs.

This is why I no longer need virulently hateful anti-Mormon rhetoric. I don't need to hate people. All I need to do is find the truth and speak it as I see it. That, right there is enough to take down the weak structures in Mormonism, at least in my own mind. I personally don't need to complain all day long that Mormonism is a cult. I don't need to say bad things about my fellow Mormons very often at all. The Book of Mormon is falling apart, as has much of the more unique doctrines of Mormonism. I'm not worried about being converted back anymore.