{"id":6127,"date":"2026-01-20T08:08:03","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T15:08:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novus2.com\/righteouscause\/?p=6127"},"modified":"2026-02-26T22:25:46","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T05:25:46","slug":"questions-worth-asking-of-our-lds-friends-how-about-those-golden-plates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novus2.com\/righteouscause\/2026\/01\/20\/questions-worth-asking-of-our-lds-friends-how-about-those-golden-plates\/","title":{"rendered":"Questions Worth Asking of Our LDS Friends: How About Those Golden Plates?"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Dialogue Starter for Thoughtful Conversation<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n
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Friends, I’ve been thinking about something that genuinely puzzles me, and I’d value hearing your perspective. You know I come at this from a different theological tradition, but I’m asking in the spirit of honest inquiry\u2014not to score points, but because I find the question genuinely fascinating and I suspect you’ve thought about it more than I have.<\/p>\n

The Question:<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h3>\n

When I consider the narrative of the golden plates, I find myself wondering about their return to Moroni. Here’s what occupies my thinking: throughout Scripture, God seems remarkably willing to leave physical evidence of His direct intervention in human hands. The Israelites carried the original stone tablets\u2014inscribed by God’s own finger\u2014through the wilderness, into Canaan, and eventually into Solomon’s Temple. These weren’t replicated or copied and then withdrawn; the originals remained with God’s people for centuries until the Babylonian destruction.<\/p>\n

So my question is this: Why would the pattern differ so significantly with the plates?<\/strong><\/span> If their continued physical presence could serve as an ongoing witness\u2014something skeptics and believers alike could examine\u2014why withdraw them?<\/p>\n

I recognize there are thoughtful answers to this. Perhaps the emphasis on faith over empirical proof is intentional. Perhaps there’s something about the nature of the Restoration that requires a different evidentiary standard. I’m genuinely curious how you think through this.<\/p>\n

An Invitation:<\/strong><\/p>\n

I’m not asking this as a ‘gotcha’\u2014I’m asking because I think the question reveals something important about how we understand God’s relationship to physical evidence, human testimony, and the nature of faith itself. What has your reflection on this been?”<\/p>\n

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