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Dear Mitt Romney

Can you please answer the following questions for me since you want my conservative Christian vote...

Why don't you believe in the Trinity?

Why don't you believe in original sin?

We are all one… We are all part of the body of Christ which is comprised of God the Almighty Father… Every aspects of existence including all we see, touch, hear and feel in the present moment, including the past the future are part of God.  Quantum mechanics has shown the world we are nothing more than mere light, particles brought together through intelligent design all linked together… Nothing is separate… In other words, we are all part God the Almighty Father including Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit… If we are all part of God, all one, link together through the Father, Son and Holy Spirit called the Trinity, then how can God, Jesus and Holy Spirit be three individual beings not linked together?

Next, please explain to me the Book of Abraham...

Joseph Smith claimed that an angel appeared to him and revealed the location of some golden plates on which was written the account of the ancient people of the Americas. Joseph Smith later translated those plates into what is now known as the Book of Mormon. This translation was done by the power of God through special means. Joseph Smith, being the Lord's chosen instrument, became the prophet of the Mormon church, held the office of Seer. A Seer, according to the Book of Mormon in Mosiah 8:13, can translate records that are untranslatable.

In July of 1835, an Irishman named Michael Chandler brought an exhibit of four Egyptian mummies and papyri to Kirtland Ohio, then the home of the Mormons. The papyri contained Egyptian hieroglyphics. In 1835 hieroglyphics were unreadable.

As Prophet and Seer of the Church, Joseph Smith was given permission to look at the papyri scrolls in the exhibit and to everyone's shock, revealed that "one of the rolls contained the writings of Abraham, another the writings of Joseph of Egypt" (History of the Church, Vol. 2: 236. July 1835). The Church bought the exhibit for $2400. Joseph finished the translation of the Book of Abraham some time later, but the book of Joseph was never translated. The papyri were lost soon afterwards and thought to have been destroyed in a fire in Chicago in 1871. There was, therefore, no way to validate Joseph's translation. If the papyri were re-discovered and translated it would either prove or disprove the abilities of Joseph as a prophet of God.

To every one’s surprise, in 1966 the papyri were rediscovered in one of the vault rooms of the New York’s metropolitan Museum of Art. The Deseret News of Salt Lake City on Nov. 27, 1967 acknowledged the rediscovery of the papyri. On the back of the papyri were "drawings of a temple and maps of the Kirtland, Ohio area."1 There could be no doubt that this was the original document from which Joseph Smith translated the book of Abraham.
      
With the papyri rediscovered and Egyptian hieroglyphics decipherable since the late 1800's, it would then be an easy task of translating the papyri and proving once and for all that Joseph Smith was a prophet with the gift of "Seer" as he and the Mormon church have claimed. This would then prove the truth of the Book of Mormon and the Book of Abraham and would vindicate Joseph Smith as a true prophet of God.

Joseph Smith copied three drawings from the Egyptian scrolls, labeled them Facsimile No. 1, No. 2, and No. 3, and incorporated them into the Book of Abraham with explanations of what they were. Egyptologists have viewed the drawings and found Joseph Smith's interpretation of them to be wrong.

The rest of the story has been documented.  It should be quite obvious that present scholarship has revealed that Joseph Smith did not translate the Book of Abraham by the power of God as he had claimed. It follows that if he did not translate the Book of Abraham by the power of God, then it would be very easy to conclude that he did not translate the Book of Mormon by the power of God either.

When Joseph first gave his translation, hieroglyphics were undecipherable. Today they are.  I do not feel I need to say any more on the matter. 

I love the Mormon’s and for what all your members stand for, and it’s my intention to bring together the body of Christ in all religions that believe in Jesus Christ.   I only pray the Mormon’s can see eye to eye with the majority of the Body of Christ… Unfortunately the subject of the Trinity versus the God Head describes two different God’s even though we both believe in the love of the Lord Jesus Christ and he is the only way to salvation.

If we are speaking about the same thing, then perhaps the Church should consider believing in the Trinity as the Reform Latter Day Saints do.  Moving to this belief should not be that difficult for the Church considering the Church, which is suppose to be the only TRUE Church on Earth, has continued to evolve since its earliest beginnings, is constantly changing what it believes is true and not true…

Kind of sounds like your campaign and you... 

All the best,

William Michael
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