What makes Moses any more believable than Joseph Smith?

Question

Why do people choose to believe some supposed "prophets of God" but not others? Their only credibility lies in who they could originally convince and the era in which they lived. If there were a true prophet today, nobody would believe him or her.

Answer 1

"What makes Moses any more believable than Joseph Smith?"

Years believed.One person in any given religion of importance was only important to the people they encountered at the alleged time they existed.As time passed, if the religion survived the passage of time, they became more important and believe-able.Not that what they allegedly said or did was actually true.And even if it was true, that doesn't necessarily mean that there was a supernatural (God) cause.History distorts fact from fiction when it comes to religion.

"Why do people choose to believe some supposed "prophets of God" but not others?"

I don't believe.

"If there were a true prophet today, nobody would believe him or her."

Don't underestimate the gullible.

Answer 2

Very good question. I guess if Joseph Smith had performed any miracles, or brought down any plagues, in the name of God, he'd probably have as much credibility as Moses. Of course, displaying the gold plates to hundreds of people, as Moses did with the Ten Commandments, would have been a real plus. I guess it's just a matter of why and how you believe someone.

Answer 3

Because Moses was a prophet of God and a harbinger of Jesus Christ. Joseph Smith does NOT appear in the Word of God.

Answer 4

I believe in the hopes that we won't have to repeat that awful episode in history.

If you don't believe and worse, if you forget, then you're doomed to repeat history.

And that would be a bad thing.

Anyway, to answer the question, the story of Moses and Exodus is over 3000 years old!!! It is a story that is known the world over. We have the Ten Commandments as a result of this epic. We have been living with the laws and religions and traditions of Exodus and many other books of the Old and New Testament for several millenia (thousands of years).

Mormonism has only been around sind the 1800s, less the two hundred years ago, is unique to North America, and is a product of Christianity. Since Christianity has been around a lot longer than Mormonism, a lot more people believe and adhere to that than Mormonism.

Answer 5

Moses set the point. Jesus advised it like that is. Paul articulated what Jesus reported fairly nicely. Muhammad got here a lot later with a inventive and prescient probably from a demon. Islam is the appropriate weapon from devil against the Gospel. the guidelines for Mormonism are shakey. scholars dont have self assurance that Smith write the e book of Mormon. it could have been Sydney Rigdon or possibly even yet another follower. Jesus is the be conscious of God.

Answer 6

The problem with Joseph Smith is that the new testament makes it clear that there is no further need of prophets. God spoke finally in Jesus Christ. Prophets as of old are no longer in existence. JS came about only recently and none of what he reported is corroborated and it has changed significantly over the last 100 years. What moses recorded has not changed significantly in thousands of years and much has been corroborated.

Answer 7

Most of the miracles of Moses can be explained by natural seismic and geographic phenomena a you could understand how these events must of seemed miraculous in the region at the time.

For example if the exodus was from New Zeland things like Pillars of fire, burning bushes and vast body's of water suddenly disappearing and reappearing would be considered normal activity by the locals.

Joe Smith just made stuff up as he went along in the hope of making God an American.

Answer 8

God's rules about prophets was that if a prophet prophesied something and it did not come to pass he or she was a false prophet. Can you name any modern prophets that have a 100 percent accuracy rate. The true prophets in the Bible are accurate 100 percent.

Deuteronomy 18:20-22
But the prophet, which shall presume to speak a word in my name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or that shall speak in the name of other gods, even that prophet shall die. And if thou say in thine heart, How shall we know the word which the LORD hath not spoken? When a prophet speaketh in the name of the LORD, if the thing follow not, nor come to pass, that is the thing which the LORD hath not spoken, but the prophet hath spoken it presumptuously: thou shalt not be afraid of him.


Grace to you, and peace, from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. Philemon 1:3

Answer 9

Prophet Moses PUOH was a the 1st human liberator.

Answer 10

Moses had ONE story and stuck to it.

Joey Smith couldn't get even ONE version of his "First Vision" straight if his life depended on it!!

According to the historical evidence Joseph Smith could not have been stirred by an 1820 revival to ask which church was true, since there was no revival in 1820 anywhere near Manchester, New York, where he was living. A revival as described by Joseph Smith did occur there beginning in the spring of 1824. However, this then seriously disrupts Joseph's whole story, because there is not enough time between the First vision and the 1830 publication of the Book of Mormon for all the events described in the First Vision story.

There are other earlier accounts of the First Vision, including one handwritten by Joseph Smith himself, which make no mention of an appearance of the Father and the Son. Instead, these earlier accounts refer to an angel, a spirit, many angels, or the Son. The story in its present form with the Father and the Son, did not appear until 1838, many years after Joseph claimed to have had the vision.

The details now known about Joseph s early life contradict his claim that he was persecuted in 1820 for telling the story of the First Vision. As a young man he participated in Methodist meetings, and later joined a Methodist church class. No persecution is recorded.

That's JUST for starters....