@hurricane92596 Before I tear into you, welcome to Fluther. I gave you a Great Question on this because it shows thought and guts.
My main question is how can so many people, and I am not just referring to Mormons here, be so incredibly gullible. Of course, if you go to a Mormon Church, you will get a long list of proofs (all basically tautologies) about how Mormonism is the one true religion. Go to one on Sun Myung Moon’s Mooney churches, and they will tell you in just as convincing (and circular logic) terms how they have the one true way. Mary Baker Eddy’s Christian Scientists have yet another take. And we have all the Christians following not the teachings of Jesus, if he ever actually lived, but those of the Roman Emperor Constantine; who put his own brand on the budding new cult and used it to justify his consolidation of power in the Roman Empire and his persecution of Jews. Go to a Mosque, and you will hear a whole new set of tautologies about how Mohamed is the final Prophet of the Abrahamic God. Check with a Jewish Rabbinical scholar and you will at least get the truth about what the God of the desert actually was purported to have revealed to man. Lo and behold, it doesn’t even come close to matching up with the teachings of ANY of the sects aforementioned.
Now, one thing is abundantly clear. All these sects cannot possibly be right, because while they all claim to worship Yahweh, they have wildly differing interpretations of what He requires of man. However, it is possible that all of them are wrong. And since they purport to worship a God who is omniscient and omnipotent and who revealed himself in the Torah, and they refuse to follow the Torah, my guess is that they all are wrong.
That begs the following additional questions. Why would an omniscient and omnipotent God need over 3,300 years of successive prophets culminating with Joseph Smith to finally work out what he, the omniscient one, really meant to say 3,313 years ago? Why would his final revelation in so many ways contradict his earlier ones. I might add, why would we even believe the God of the Desert’s original revelations when they were full of contradictions and statements that have proved to be wrong?