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A FairMormon Response to Questions Asked in Swedish Fireside with Elder's Jensen and Turley
1: BoM translation—2: Polygamy and Polyandry—3: Polygamy forced?—4: Book of Abraham—5: "Lying for Lord"—6: Mark Hofmann—7: Blood atonement—8: First Vision—9: Sanitized history—10: "Not all truth is useful"—11: Angelic affidavits—12: Blacks and priesthood—13: Temple concerns—14: Evidence of Vikings—15: Adam-God—16: Kinderhook
Question:
- When I went to the temple the first time, it was 1970 in Switzerland. And after being in there the first day, I was terrified. I couldn’t sleep at night. I thought, what is this, you know? There was a black hole in my heart and I had nightmares the whole week. I thought, what is this? Have I been deceived?
Short Answer:- This experience is distressing, and is is possible that the speaker was ill-served by those who should have prepared him/her for the experience of the temple. One can hope that such preparation is more effective, more than forty years later.
- The answers to such questions—such as Have I been deceived?—must be found where the Church has always taught they should be sought: from God Himself via a personal revelatory experience. No historical or academic analysis can answer the question.