Reply to "Truths Mormons believe"

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Pretty weak, Bugger. It must be nice to have a convenient refuge to which to run when you can't refute the huge body of well documented TRUTH that knowledgeable and scholarly ex-Mormons and others have made public.  Your appeal to James 1:5 & 6 is based on a fundamentally flawed interpretation of that passage.  The "wisdom" of James 5 is not factual knowledge.  Wisdom is the proper use of knowledge, not the acquisition of knowledge. James 1:5 is not some divine encyclopedia ready to reveal anything and everything to some Mormon who is too lazy to do his own research on facts that might arise in disputes over such things as Mormon history.  If Joseph Smith or Brigham Young or some other high-ranking Mormon dignitary made some outrageous false claim or false prophecy  and put it in writing and it is PROVEN on its face or by scholarly research from Mormon sources that they did so, God is not going to tell you that they did not write such stuff. Your emotions might inform you to the effect that your perceptions are correct in such matters, but God won't, Bugger, because He does not operate in the convenient way you allege.  Your cheap, silly, cowardly way of dodging the issues by using James 1:5&6 and the Holy Spirit to attempt to bluff your way past truths you can not refute is convincing evidence that you simply can not offer a valid defense of your belief system.

Parley P. Pratt was a highly-respected Mormon "apostle," and he wrote this prophecy in a Mormon publication, "Zion's Watchman," in 1838:

"...all who will not hearken to the Book of Mormon, shall be cut off from among the people; and that too, in the day it comes forth to the Gentiles and is rejected by them... the remnant of Jacob [i. e. American Indians and certain Mormons] will go through among the Gentiles and tear them in pieces. like a lion among the flocks of sheep. Their hand shall be lifted up upon their adversaries, and all their enemies shall be cut off. This destruction includes an utter overthrow, and desolation of all our Cities, Forts, and Strong Holds -- an entire annihilation of our race, except such as embrace the Covenant, and are numbered with Israel... and I will state as a prophesy, that there will not be an unbelieving Gentile upon this continent 50 years hence; and if they are not greatly scourged, and in a great measure overthrown, within five or ten years from this date, then the Book of Mormon will have proved itself false."

None of that prophecy came true, Bugger, except the last part:  "if they are not greatly scourged, and in a great measure overthrown, then the Book of Mormon will have proved itself false." No such misfortune as Pratt prattled about has overcome the "Gentiles," Bugger; therefore, according to "Apostle" Pratt, "the Book of Mormon [has] proved itself false."