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Verfasser: Janeway Datum: Sonntag, den 1. Juli 2007, um 1:42 Uhr Betrifft: Viele Seminar- und Institutslehrer wissen, dass das Buch Mormon falsch ist!
In einem älteren Artikel des Sunstone Magazins aus dem Jahr 2004 erfuhr ich, dass ein Leiter eines mormonischen Institutszentrums diszipliniert wurde, weil er die Echtheit des Buches Mormon als alte Heilige Schrift anzweifelte. Hier der Artikel:
MORMON SCHOLAR
DISFELLOWSHIPPEDA FORMER LDS INSTITUTE director was disciplined 13 December for his writings on the origins of Mormonism. After a six-hour disciplinary hearing, Grant Palmer, 64, was disfellowshipped for having written An Insiderâs View of Mormon Origins, in which he argues that the Book of Mormon is better explained as a nineteenth-century document than as an ancient record.
âI regard myself as heretical regarding some of the Churchâs teachings, but I donât view myself as an apostate,â said Palmer shortly after learning he was being charged with apostasy.
A year ago, Palmers stake president Keith Adams received a dossier on Palmer from the Strengthening Church Members Committee, but for reasons that are unclear to Palmer, Adams
chose to delay the proceedings One week before the hearing, a group of LDS supporters posted a web
page calling Palmer an âauthor, historian, and true Christianâ and inviting members to sign a petition. âThe Gospel has nothing to fear from truth,â reads the page, posted at
<www.supportgrantpalmer2.netfirms.com>. âWe can only progress if each of us has the courage to stand up for what we have learned through our mortal existence.â
In An Insiderâs View, Palmer states that there is no evidence Joseph Smith ever translated correctly any ancient record, and he concludes that the Book of Mormon âreflects the intellectual and cultural environment of Josephâs own time and placeâ (p. 259).
Following his disfellowshipment, Palmer received a letter from the stake leadership inviting him to pray and read the scriptures so he might fully understand the nature of his transgression.
Palmer has repeatedly said he doesnât know how to repent for saying things that he feels are true.
During a 2003 Sunstone Symposium session in Salt Lake City, Palmer alleged that he knows a dozen seminary and institute teachers in the Salt Lake Valley alone who also do not believe in the historicity of the Book of Mormon (tape SL03-275).Am Ende einer Sunstone Veranstaltung im Jahre 2003, sagte er, dass er âDutzende von Seminar -und Institutslehrer kennen würde, alleine im Gebiet von SLC, die NICHT AN DIE HISTORIZITÃT DES BUCHES MORMON GLAUBEN würden."
Ein Schock für alle gläubigen Mormonen!
Und ein Zeichen dafür, dass Mormonen manchmal nachdenken, und somit zeigen, dass sie besser als ihr Ruf sein können. Wie wohl die Kirchenführung damals reagiert hat? Mit Spitzelmethoden wie üblich?