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laughing at Andrew
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Date: July 14, 2017 12:36PM
Back for seconds? More like he's walking around with a Kool-Aid I.V. drip in his arm.
"I am also inclined to believe in the possibility that the Fall moved the earth into a different place and time frame."
Ah yes, the old "the earth was nigh unto Kolob ere the Fall" hypothesis.
Brigham Young, July 19, 1874, Journal of Discourses, Vol. 17, p. 144:
"When the earth was framed and brought into existence and man was placed upon it, it was near the throne of our Father in heaven. And when man fell – though that was designed in the economy, there was nothing about it mysterious or unknown to the Gods, they understood it all, it was all planned – but when man fell, the earth fell into space, and took up its abode in this planetary system, and the sun became our light."
And that's why we have 4 billion year old Martian rocks on the earth today.
https://www.space.com/8229-oldest-mars-meteorite-younger-thought.htmlhttp://www.popularmechanics.com/space/moon-mars/a9696/the-ancient-martian-rock-that-fell-to-earth-16179984/"I think that time is something that we have wrong - dispensations are not all 1,000. If that were the case the dispensation of the fullness of times has 800 years to go."
Length of dispensations are irrelevant. Please show us where any church leader has stated that all dispensations are 1000 years long. If the "dispensation of Jesus" had lasted that long, there wouldn't have been an apostasy until 1000 AD.
Per the official LDS Bible Dictionary, correlated and vetted at the highest levels:
4000 BC - Fall of Adam
2400 BC - Noah & the Flood
2200 BC - Tower of Babel
And there's no "geo-specific place" for the Flood. It was supposed to have covered the entire planet. No room to hide.
"The D & C tells us that details of the creation are not fully available and will not be until after the Second Coming."
You are aware that Joseph Smith said that Jesus wouldn't return until rainbows stopped appearing, right? Can you propose a mechanism by which light no longer refracts?
Finally, as for "no one knows," while we don't claim to know everything, we know enough to make an informed assessment. And to fall back on "because god" is a cop-out. God waves his magic wand; if that's the best explanation you've got, it's best not to waste our time.