Joseph Smith is a false prohphet.

"Okay, it will take me FOREVER, to go through and explain to you how your confusing scripture. You should go talk to your Rabi about this (seriously, I'm not saying this spitefully)." I don't have a Rabbi. Although I do respect my Jewish heritage, I don't allow anyone to tell me what to believe. The truth is that even Rabbis and Priests are, at best, taking someone else's word for it. And I'm not confusing scripture. I'm simply trying to point out the ludicracy of saying that a prophet is only "true" if his prophecies happen. Let me make one thing perfectly clear. I don't believe that Joseph Smith was inspired by god to write the book of Mormon, and I don't believe his prophecies were divinely inspired. In fact, I don't believe anyone's prophecies have ever been divinely inspired, because I've never seen any proof that they were. I reject your definition of a "true prophet" and instead propose that all prophecies are false and thus a prophet is simply someone who makes prophecies. This means that Joseph Smith is just as true a "Prophet" as any other. "Joseph son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary home as your wife, because what is conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit. She will give birth to a son, and you are to give him the name Jesus, because he will save the people of they're sins. All this took place to fulfill what the Lord had said through the prophet. Matthew 1:20-22." See, the thing is, this is a quote from the King James Bible which was written in 1604 a.d., more than 1600 years after the events it describes happened. It does come from an earlier source, the Textus Receptus, which was published in Greek around 1500. Before this, of course, it was rewritten and translated at the many Councils from at least 3 different languages. The EARLIEST possible date of authorship for the book of Matthew is 70-110 A.D., still more than half a century after the Crucifixion. Now, you remember the old kindergarten game, where everyone sits in a line, and a simple message is passed down, until at the end, it turns out completely different? Now Imagine the game involves thousands of people speaking four different languages, takes 1600 years to complete, and consists not of a simple message but of thousands of words of scriptures and prophecies. Then take into account that the message was written by people who were basically missionaries, trying to convert people and make their religion grow. That too has to be taken into account. The truth is there is no historical or non-canonical proof that the PROPHECY was said before Jesus' birth or the crucifixion, word for word, in any language, or that the events played out in exactly the way the prophecy describes. I'm not saying that the gospel is full of lies, Candice, and I'm not saying that these prophecies were false. I just want you to acknowledge that believing in the truth of any of these prophecies requires Faith, because they cannot be proven. You seem to have a knack for taking pieces of other people's religions and making them sound ridiculous. The truth is that you are committing the same psychological heuristic that the Mormons do to their scripture. When genesis was written, early holy men didn't know about evolution, or geology, and thus didn't know that the earth was actually billions of years old and had life on it for a rather long time before people arrived. Today, Christians and Jews have different reactions. Some continue to take it literally and deny evolution, geology, and all other science because it doesn't fit with their beliefs. This is dumb. Others relax and take a less literal interpretation. When the Book of Abraham was written, the author didn't know that there wasn't a star somewhere, very close to heaven, where god has his throne. Today, some Mormons are fundamentalists and believe in it, and are as dumb as the Literalist Christians and Jews. Others relax and take a less literal view. The point is that if you believe your religion is cool and all others drool then nothing will ever change that. However, in a logical debate, you can't say any religion is more valid than any other because they ALL require huge leaps of faith. In truth, I believe that Joseph Smith is a true prophet, just like Nostradamus and Bobby Henderson http://en.wikipedia.org... because in the end, a prophet is just someone who makes prophecies, whether or not they come true. Also, I'm not REALLY calling you a Nazi. I just want you to stop holding your religious beliefs above everyone else's. As a Jew living in the bible belt I know that there is nothing more irritating than someone condescendingly trying to "Save" you- other people can in fact be just as happy with their religions as you are.