In his blog on Patheos, Daniel Peterson has a post that addresses Joseph Smith running with the golden plates:
Running with the golden plates (cf. FairMormon's wiki article addressing "Of what material were the Book of Mormon 'gold' plates constructed?")
I found this to be interesting as this is a long-standing argument Bill McKeever (and Eric Johnson) love to throw out to Latter-day Saints at places such as the Manti Pageant.
To see other
responses to McKeever and Johnson, see:
Response
to a Recent Attempt to Defend Imputed Righteousness (this is a review of
John Kauer, “Are You Considered as Good as Jesus? The Imputation Approach” in
Eric Johnson and Sean McDowell, eds. Sharing
the Good News with Mormons [Eugene, Oreg.: Harvest House Publishers, 2018],
273-81, 339).
Answering
An Illogical Attempt to Refute the Claim LDS are "Christian" and an
Appeal to Jeremiah 17:9 (a response to some “arguments” in the forward to Sharing the Good News with Mormons from
Johnson himself)
For years,
McKeever and Johnson have been engaged in ministry against The Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter-day Saints. Rarely, however, have they engaged in moderated,
public debate (closest thing would be McKeever’s radio debates with Prof. James
Holt [which McKeever lost] and Daniel Peterson [the latter is unavailable,
sadly, but the consensus among those who did listen is that McKeever
embarrassed himself]).
Both Bill
McKeever and Eric Johnson can consider this an open challenge to participate in
moderated debate(s) (whether in public or via a medium such as Zoom), including a challenge for them to defend their Protestant theology on the topic
of Sola
Scriptura.
Robert Boylan
IrishLDS87ATGmailDOTcom
11 November 2019
