The Gospel of the Mormon Apologist (R): Philosophies of Men Mingled with Scripture
Jeremy was hoping for answers to the LDS Church's truth crisis through official channels.
Three years of waiting for promised answers from the CES Director only to be left with silence.
One-and-half years of waiting for answers and/or corrections from Stake President Mark Ivins only to be met with silence, threats, and ultimately an excommunication hearing that he terminated himself in disgust, by resigning.
He sincerely tried. He gave it due time.
He did it their way only to find lots of icing but no cake. Lots of hats but no cattle.
Jeremy entertained the answers of unofficial apologists. He even went into the trenches with one of them that took him close to 900 pages worth of content in rebuttals and defenses against their attacks on his personal name and integrity, as well as their false claims.
As fun as it was for him to wrestle with these unofficial apologists and defenders, the reality at the end of the day is this: unofficial Mormon apologetics are simply the philosophies of men mingled with scripture. They are unauthorized men with unofficial pet theories and unofficial claims that the LDS Church refuses to stand behind.
They are irrelevant. They do not matter.
These unofficial defenders of the church and their pet theories are no more legitimate or official than the wacky pet theories and claims of that weird, old “High Priest guy” that everyone rolls their eyes to in Sunday School (every ward seems to have one).
In fact, most of them have created versions of Mormonism that directly contradict the First Presidency's and Quorum of the Twelve's version of Mormonism. They're in apostasy. Most “Chapel Mormons” would be disturbed and shocked at the new Mormonism that these unofficial apologists preach and mingle with scripture.
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