Being saved does involve the positive response of the human will. The person who is saved begins, at a point in time, to consciously and voluntarily assent and submit to (as well as delight in) God’s revealed truth where he formerly dissented to it in open rebellion or apathetic disinterest (which is also a form of rebellion). God grants regeneration to whom He pleases, thus freeing the will, which, until the point of regeneration, is enslaved to sin and opposed to God and truth. Once the will has been set free through regeneration, faith inevitably follows (cf. John 6:44-45). In this way it is rightly said that saving faith is a gift from God.
Daryl Wingerd

Mormonism: Archeological Evidence

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Mormonism: Archeological Evidence

  • Book of Mormon claims:
    • great number of people in these two civilizations
    • 38 cities catalogued
    • presence of Old World domestic animals and grains
    • use of iron
  • Archeologists repudiate claims:
    • no evidence of wheat, oats, barley, rice, cattle, pigs, chickens horses, etc. until 1492
    • Iron, steel, glass, silk did not appear in New World before 1492
    • Some metallurgy, like gold, silver, copper was present before 1492, but not iron.
    • No similarities between Egyptian and Mexican artifacts have ever been found.
    • No major ruins have been found
    • American Indian is genotypically and phenotypically similar to Mongoloid not Caucasoid (John Hopkins University study)

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