Book of the Week: American Apocrypha: Essays on the Book of Mormon
Monday February 4, 2008
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What’s the difference between authentic and inauthentic scripture? Is it age? Historical accuracy? Correct prophecies? These and many more criteria have been used to justify including writings in scriptural canons while excluding others, but perhaps these are all rationalizations for something else: 'real' scriptures are those that produce certain reactions in people, regardless of their origins.
Book of the Week: American Apocrypha: Essays on the Book of Mormon
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I might pick this one up. I get the impression that most people who convert to Mormonism do so on the basis of a subjective religious experience rather than as the result of empirical persuasion - I imagine that if the church relied solely on empirical persuasion, it wouldn’t have the strength of numbers that it presently does.