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Detailed response to CES Letter, Conclusion
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Response to "Conclusion"
| [[../Other Concerns & Questions|Other Concerns & Questions]] | A FAIR Analysis of: [[../|Letter to a CES Director]] A work by author: Jeremy Runnells
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FAIR and these unofficial apologists have done more to destroy my testimony than any anti-Mormon source ever could.
—Jeremy Runnells, "Letter to a CES Director," April 2013
FAIR confirms polyandry and the rock in the hat translation. Both of these issues usually cause severe cog dis in members. They did with me. I mean, once the rock in the hat story was confirmed, the whole thing collapsed because the rock in the hat ruins the official story of ancient prophets creating gold plates for Joseph and the testimony of the witnesses of the gold plates (since Joseph never used the plates anyway).
—Jeremy Runnells, "Letter to a CES Director," April 30, 2013
- "Among the first sources I looked to for answers were official Church sources such as Mormon.org and LDS.org. I couldn’t find them."
- "FAIR and these unofficial apologists have done more to destroy my testimony than any anti-Mormon source ever could"
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"Among the first sources I looked to for answers were official Church sources such as Mormon.org and LDS.org. I couldn’t find them."
"FAIR and these unofficial apologists have done more to destroy my testimony than any anti-Mormon source ever could"
Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship, "Eye of the Beholder, Law of the Harvest: Observations on the Inevitable Consequences of the Different Investigative Approaches of Jeremy Runnells and Jeff Lindsay"
Kevin Christensen, Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship, (2014)A large portion of the complaints that Runnells makes both in his Letter and his response to FairMormon works from an assumption that LDS leadership should display no weakness, have no common manner of language, never err in their statements, never need to seek wisdom since they should already have it all on the shelf, never sin and therefore never need to repent, and have all knowledge from the start so that no one, especially not Runnells, might ever need to change their thinking on any subject, no matter how trivial, especially not after having attended EFY, read some “approved” books, and served a mission.
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