So I clicked on the Mormon come-on advertisement on the top, the right side and the bottom of the JWD page that invited me to "Come chat about Jesus Christ".
I started a chat with Brook and Taiza and asked them why the subtitle of the book of Mormon changed from "Another Gospel of Jesus Christ" to "Another Testament of Jesus Christ".
Brooke told me it hadn't so I googled it and told them there's plenty of websites that refer to it that way and I had a very old copy with that subtitle on it.
So Taiza says it's probably a copy by some break off group and not from them.
I told her the inside said from the "LDS"
So they left the chat.
So I figured maybe there's a technical glitch and I shouldn't assume they just dropped me.
So I log on again and give my last name instead of my first name this time.
And Hellen and Catherine log into the channel.
I ask them again about the title change and they drop off the chat.
So I figured twice is very unlikely that they had a glitch, and I'm pretty sure they dropped me because they didn't like my question.
One more time, I'll give them one more try.
So I log on again, with my middle name this time.
Brooke and Jayne log on.
I type that I'd been chatting previously with Brooke.
She types back that she's a different Brooke.
So Jayne starts asking if I read the Book of Mormon.
I say yes and I have a question about it.
So I ask my question about the "another gospel" to 'another testament" change.
She says that she does not recall ever hearing about that and what do I like about the Book of Mormon.
I then ask her about the "gospel" Paul wrote about in Corinthians.
She says it's the same as in the Book of Mormon.
I ask back that if the gospel is the "same" why call it another??? And I quote her Galatians 1:8.
She says that it does not apply to the book of Mormon since it is not different from the Bible so therefore, it is not another good news.
But that is the subtitle of the book isn't it.
So she sends me a link to a two minute video by the LDS telling of the finding of the tablets and the transcription from reformed Egyptian to English by Joseph Smith.
I started questioning whether reformed Egyptian was a real language. So she sent me a link to an article the LDS has published on this, very shady reasonings there.
So we had a nice chat about there being hardly any evidence about this except Mark Hoffman's forgeries which the LDS Church was very convinced were original ancient documents.
She sent me another link to an article about what the LDS has to say about the forgeries.
It seemed whatever I asked they already did have some canned response, and if I objected to anything too strongly they'd cut the chat. So it was slow treading and gentle, but I think I brought up some questions that would put anyone who looks into the historical facts with a reasoning mind into high alert that there's something wrong there.
I sooooooo, wish that the WT would put something like a chat on their website, I'd be there in a second, bringing up questions that made me wake up. I guess that's why they don't have one yet, until that is, they continue copying the Mormons and assemble a host of canned responses to the hard questions. And if all else fails they'll just dump you like an "apostate" from the chat.
One thing good that came out of this. I know that everytime I click on one of those annoying Mormon ads in this web site Simon gets some money from them (and it helps keep JWD going :-)
How about you, would you jump on a chat with JW's or Mormons to try awakening some of them?