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About Me

Hello everyone and welcome to my new and improved site. Well it's really not that different just mainly has a new look to everything. My name is John. I was an EFY counselor and I have had many of my EFY kids ask me countless questions and come to me with their concerns about anti-mormon literature, questions they have heard from critics etc etc. This site is created with the intent to help strengthen the testimonies of the members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints; specifically the youth but be they young, old, new to the church or life long members all should find useful information here. There are many out there who spend there entire life trying to persuade the members of this church from their belief by presenting them what they claim are "truths." Some of these statments are true but are taken out of context. Some are edited and some of these "truths" are completely false they and made up altogether.The goal of this site is not to bash or argue with protestors or mormon antagonist but to provide the members with accurate facts, explanations and insights to doctrine, scriptures or quotes by general authorities.
THIS IS NOT AN OFFICIAL SITE OF THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER DAY SAINTS; THEREFORE THE STATEMENTS MADE (every effort will be made to make statments based purely on scriptures and statments made by the First Presidency and Apostles of the church)ARE MY OPINION ONLY AND CANNOT BE TAKEN AS OFFICIAL DOCTRINES FOR THE CHURCH.
This site will continually be updated and new features added periodically. Please leave your comments or questions. If you have doctrinal questions just mail them to me and I will reply hopefully fairly soon. There will be blogs posted on different doctrinal issues, Q & A and answering the critics sections, and sections where I will ask the critics questions right back at them (I hate always playing defense) and many more features to be added. This site won't have the prettiest of pictures but it will cut to the chase and get right down to the information. Please leave any feedback you may have so I can get a feel of how to make this site better. I hope this site is useful to you all and God bless!Professional MySpace Layouts by Iron Spider

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Music:

I have been asked by many people if I speak at firesides and devotionals and just so that everyone knows I do. I started speaking at devotionals when I was a counselor at EFY and I have been doing it ever since (about 4 years now)I typically do firesides for the youth seminaries and young adult firesides but I can also do firesides for adults as well. If you would like me to speak at a fireside or devotional just e-mail me. Hope this answers a lot of questions. Hope everyone has a great day!

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Here are some great links to great scholarly information related to the church.
The Official Site for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
Jeff Lindsay.com a great scientist who has some great information supporting the church.
Fairlds.org A great site which answers many of the hard questions asked by critics
Fair Wiki This website is a collaboration from the researchers at the Foundation for Apologetic Information and Research
Here is a list of different topics which we have discussed so far, just click on it and you will be able to read about the different topics. Enjoy!!!
WHAT IS A TESTIMONY?
WHAT IS CHIASMUS?
MY QUESTIONS TO THE CRITICS!!!
CHARACTERISTICS OF CHRIST'S TRUE CHURCH
MONOTHEISTIC OR POLYTHEISTIC WHICH ONE ARE WE?
HOMOSEXUALITY
WHAT IS CONSIDERED OFFICIAL DOCTRINE?
QUESTIONS TO THE CRITICS PART 1
Questions to the Critics part 2 - The Bible
What if Joseph Made Up The Book of Mormon?
Animals, Metals, and Crops, Where are They?
Facsimile 1 - Was It Just Made Up?

My Blog

Baptism for the Dead

Well well well. I can't believe it's been almost 5 months since the last time I wrote a blog. Unbelievable. Once again sorry for the hiatus but I just had some personal issues that n...
Posted by LDS Truth on Wed, 21 Nov 2007 01:53:00 PST

Faith - You'll Find What you are Looking for

So for many years I have been defending, re-defending, and actively showing the many logical points to what I believe in. It's actually not a hard thing for me to do seeing as the evidences out ...
Posted by LDS Truth on Wed, 20 Jun 2007 06:10:00 PST

Reformed Egyptian Writing

One of the most common attacks against the Book of Mormon focuses on the use of "Reformed Egyptian" as the writing system for the golden plates (Mormon 9:32-34). It is alleged that the no self-respect...
Posted by LDS Truth on Wed, 20 Jun 2007 04:42:00 PST

Dead Sea Scrolls. What do they show?

The Dead Sea Scrolls and Other Ancient WritingsThe discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls has had a major impact on Bible studies. It has changed many views about religion in ancient Palestine and has give...
Posted by LDS Truth on Tue, 15 May 2007 09:19:00 PST

Does DNA prove the Book of Mormon false?

If you follow Mormon-related news, you may have encountered the publicity about a Mormon bishop who left the Church because of DNA evidence, or the story of a Mormon scientist who has publicly taught ...
Posted by LDS Truth on Tue, 20 Feb 2007 06:11:00 PST

Facsimile 1, Was it just made up?

Funny how many of the critics remarks and their supposed "proof of all proofs" that the church is false turns out to be yet another supportive argument for the church isn't it? This is in a...
Posted by LDS Truth on Mon, 29 Jan 2007 10:36:00 PST

Animals, metals, and crops. Where are they?

First of all just to let you know, there is a lot of research done on this subject so this is just a general summary of the research which I have done. I'm sure that many of us have encountered ...
Posted by LDS Truth on Fri, 19 Jan 2007 10:42:00 PST

What if Joseph made up the Book of Mormon?

I have decided to go off from the serious note for a second and try a little satire if you will. Here is just a hypothetical situation of Joseph making up the Book of Mormon. (even though t...
Posted by LDS Truth on Wed, 17 Jan 2007 12:34:00 PST

Question to the Critics Part 2 - The Bible

We have all heard it. One of the greatest heresies of the church is that we believe in additional scriptures and revelations. Why is that? Many say that the Bible is complete and thu...
Posted by LDS Truth on Mon, 15 Jan 2007 12:13:00 PST

Questions to the Critics part 1

I have received some request from many of you in regards to my "Questions to the critics" section asking for more of an explanation on each question. So I have decided to break up the "Questions...
Posted by LDS Truth on Fri, 12 Jan 2007 05:05:00 PST