
Troy Hooper
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Troy Hooper
@TroyJHooper
I’m a member of the church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. My wife Jesslyn and I have 5 kids. I love skateboarding, hiking, running, and sports. Go Jazz!



I left Catholicism as a teenager. I pretty much just moved on from it but I felt traumatized by losing God and Christ. I didnt believe it was true and that's what hurt so much. It felt like a betrayal. I never ever attacked anyone for their faith though and always stayed hoping God was real and dualism was real.


“I have better news … there is Hell.”



Here we go. I want you to know this: I'm going to be posting occasionally about my faith as a Latter-day Saint. I have a firm testimony of the Book of Mormon from a personal witness, but it's understandable if people have questions about its veracity. Note that the first several chapters of the Book of Mormon take place in 600 BC Jerusalem. The question at hand: how could Joseph Smith have gotten SO MUCH RIGHT about that culture, namesakes, locations, politics, language, of military practices from pre-exile Judah if he conjured the Book of Mormon from whole cloth in 1830?! We defer, of course, to the greatest LDS scholar and apologist: Hugh Nibley:


































