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The most basic premise of Letter to a CES Director is that Mormon doctrine and practice are contradictory: Today’s LDS practice contradicts LDS history, or as CES Letter puts it, “yesterday’s doctrine is today’s false doctrine. Yesterday’s prophets are today’s heretics.” CES Letter says Mormon doctrine contradict science as well, with typical Antimormon claims of anachronisms in the Book of Mormon and that it was impossible for Noah to fit all those animals into an ark. Finally, CES Letter claims Mormonism contradicts moral decency. What kind of God bans Blacks from hold priesthood leadership and what kind of God institutes polygamy?
Just about every paragraph in CES Letter is dedicated to finding a contradiction in Mormon belief. That’s basically what CES Letter is all about. In the very first sentence, they say “1769” King James errors in the bible are quoted in the Book of Mormon, yet that should be impossible if the Book of Mormon really were ancient scripture. This is the kind of contradiction that CES Letter attempts to portray.
- Contradiction within Mormonism and Mormon history.
- Contradiction with science and facts.
- Contradiction with moral decency.
- Physical Contradictions In Scripture – How can scriptures be true when the Book of Mormon says one thing and the bible says another?
- Science – physical, archaeology, DNA, Einstein physics, etc. How can the Book of Mormon be true when there were no horses in pre-Columbian America?
- History – History contradicts with today. Polygamy was wrong, then right, then wrong again?
- Ethical – Mormons believe in virtue yet married teenage girls polygamously? The morality that we grew up with in the church is actually harmful and toxic.