Ryan Harrison

Awesome to see the university itself promoting this!

@DylanOlive_UF @FLRecruits Teammate blocking in the back on a play like this is criminal.

Former #Gators WR Elijhah Badger in his professional debut for the Orlando Storm last night: 4 Receptions | 132 yards (Both led the team) This 94-yard touchdown catch called back for a block in the back that came at the end of the play.

@moroni_memer @BlackBlessedLDS *persecuted

@moroni_memer @BlackBlessedLDS That would be a great argument if those prophecies weren’t only about Jesus being mocked and predicted during his ministry, not after. Have you forgotten that Christianity is the dominant religion on planet earth today?

Apparently Jesus can: - Be conceived from a Virgin - Heal the sick and the blind - Raise the dead - Be God of the Old Testament prior to his condescension - Be raised from the dead - Turn water to wine - Help a man walk on water - Etc But Jesus cannot: - Visit and teach the Gospel to other parts of the world when He was here - Call Prophets today like He did of old and give ongoing revelation Yet, “our” God is limited? Got it.

@moroni_memer @BlackBlessedLDS Trust me when I say that if Joseph smith had ANY credibility and was not one of the most obvious false prophets and con men in all of human history, Mormonism would be the dominant religion. However, critical thinkers and truth seekers see through the thin lies.

@moroni_memer @BlackBlessedLDS No, it’s absolutely true. If it weren’t and there was real evidence, Mormonism would likely be the dominant religion on planet earth right now. However, literally every Christian denomination rejects the clearly falsifiable claims of the false prophet and con man Joseph smith.

@RymanHarrison @BlackBlessedLDS That is completely untrue. If it were true, we wouldn't be having this conversation and you know it.

@moroni_memer @BlackBlessedLDS I never said that. In fact, I think there are plenty of potentially credible stories of Jesus appearing to Muslims in the Middle East even today in dreams and visions. I don’t however think the evidence for him appearing in the Americas 2000 years ago has any validity.

@RymanHarrison @BlackBlessedLDS How do you know Jesus only spoke with the people in the Middle East in all of human history? How do you know that he never spoke to others in history around the world and doesn't do so now?

@moroni_memer @BlackBlessedLDS Do you not know how analogies work? Of course we’re not talking about backflips but the evidence of Jesus doing backflips is just as strong as the LDS claims of Hebrews settling in America and Jesus appearing to them.

@RymanHarrison @BlackBlessedLDS We are not talking about Jesus doing backflips. You're bringing things in that have nothing to do with anything at all.

@moroni_memer @BlackBlessedLDS My “claim” is merely a denial of your claim, which is not backed by any evidence other than a book that you think was written thousands of years ago and was translated by Joseph smith. Again, you made the assertion and I denied it due to lack of credible evidence.

@RymanHarrison @BlackBlessedLDS You made a claim. How do you know that claim to be true? What is your evidence? I have tons of evidence to the contrary.

@moroni_memer @BlackBlessedLDS Again, I don’t KNOW Jesus never did a backflip. However, it would be silly of me to begin teaching that Jesus did backflips based on *whatever supposed arbitrary evidence I think I have* just because I don’t have any evidence to the contrary.

@moroni_memer @BlackBlessedLDS Sorry, that’s not how critical thinking works. You don’t start with an assumption and look for reasons for it not to be true. Rather, you should look at evidence that the leads you to a conclusion. Otherwise you’re just demonstrating serious confirmation bias.

@moroni_memer @BlackBlessedLDS What do you mean why? Why didn’t Jesus do a backflip? I don’t know, he just didn’t. Saying that he didn’t do something is not the same as saying he couldn’t. It’s a dishonest argument to claim that’s what people are saying.

@RymanHarrison @BlackBlessedLDS Why?

@ShaunMcKnight What percentage of this comment is tongue in cheek as opposed to an actual argument?😅

“For God so loved HALF the world…”

@bearforheisman @badtothebone124 @AntHoneyJakes And the BOM doesn’t say “around Jerusalem”, it says “at Jerusalem”. There’s a difference there. Historical biographies are never written, or prophecies about, that way. It’s clear that the author (Joseph smith) thought that Jesus was born in Jerusalem rather than Bethlehem.

@bearforheisman @badtothebone124 @AntHoneyJakes Bad argument. There’s plenty of things prophecied about in scripture that are completely foreign to the current readers of the time. And as another commenter just proved, the Egyptians literally had a name for the town of Bethlehem during the time period of “the start of the BOM”

Who is that guy in the window? I’ve been repeatedly told by online experts that “Mormons don’t worship Christ” - so who is he?

@badtothebone124 @AntHoneyJakes Wait…so doesn’t this actually contradict your point? If the Egyptians “during the time of the start of the Book of Mormon” had a name for Bethlehem, then why did Joseph smith write Jerusalem instead of Bethlehem, where Jesus was actually born?

@RymanHarrison @AntHoneyJakes The name for Bethlehem in Egyptian as described in the land of Jerusalem according to Egyptian annals that date to the same time period as the start of the Book of Mormon.

@badtothebone124 @AntHoneyJakes I’m sorry, can you clarify what you’re seeing here that bolsters your argument? The only thing I see in this text is “a city in the territory of Jerusalem” which is absolutely not the same thing that we’re talking about here.

@RymanHarrison @AntHoneyJakes The Tell Al Amarna letters disagree with you. Game set match

@badtothebone124 @AntHoneyJakes You’re correct, there are MUCH stronger arguments against BOM. This is just the arguments that make it obvious that Joseph didn’t know his biblical geography when he wrote it. And any non LDS scholar would agree.

@RymanHarrison @AntHoneyJakes I mean, seriously, come on! There are MUCH stronger arguments against the Book of Mormon than what you are positing. That's just low hanging fruit that would ensnare only the most gullible.

@badtothebone124 @AntHoneyJakes There are no historical writings outside the Book of Mormon that use the term “land of Jerusalem”. That’s a term that Joseph made up because he was biblically illiterate.

@badtothebone124 @AntHoneyJakes Yeah this argument doesn’t work because ACTUAL writing from thousands of years ago that we see in the Old and New testaments don’t follow that pattern. When they say a city, they mean that city. Not “kind of in the geographical area of that city”.