Margaret Barker, an English scholar, is the rare scholar who has studied LDS doctrine and riruals. She has taken a beating for it, and some people won’t read her work just because she studied LDS claims and rituals. I read on a Catholic blog a reader who asked if he should read a certain book of Barker’s and was told NO because she has studied Mormonism and Mormons like her and she has spoken at BYU and with Mormon scholars. How idiotic, ignorant, bigoted, hateful, and just plain stupid, to ignore good scholarship just because the scholar objectively and without bias studied Mormon rituals and doctrine…….so that automatically disqualifies Barker from being a respectable, qualified, knowledgeable, reputable scholar. These idiots amongst others who are LDS critics, do the very thing they claim the LDS do.

As far as the mental gymnastics Mormons are accused of doing……the same could be said of any religion. The critics have a double standard they conveniently ignore. They can dish it out but can’t take it.

It turns out that those of us who trust Kerry Muhlestein are not nearly as gullible as you. I happen to know first hand that the Egyptian Antiquities Ministry investigated the false claims of some newspapers and found it to be misinformation. The dig Kerry is involved with has their blessing and continues. It shows to what length you will go to to justify your non-testimony.

You need to check your sources better, Bing. I have first hand information that the Egyptian Antiquities Ministry investigated the false reports from some newspapers and concluded that they reported misinformation. The excavation continues and was not shut down. The fact that such misinformation is reported, spread and believed so easily is proof that Mormons are not the only ones who have an agenda.

Jim, I am not aware of any church general authority who is teaching or has taught any lies or false doctrine knowingly. Perhaps you could share an example.

John, thanks for your comment. The title was not meant to infer what you are taking from it. The title is meant to ask if Mormons can be honest and still believe. This comes from many anti and ex-Mormons who claim that it is indeed impossible for anyone who knows of these challenges to remain in the church and still be honest. Nothing in this title or article is intended to question in any way the honesty of those who leave.

Flackerman is no Egyptologist and the actual Egyptologists he quotes are making assumptions without any acquaintance with the findings of LDS Egyptologists in the last decade. They are simply uninformed on this specific branch of Egyptology.

There are some responses to Dr. Muhlestein’s findings here from actual egyptologists:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KLa8HYsfpM

Muhlestein? The guy who got kicked out of Egypt for misrepresenting his findings? That’s your source to save your testimony?