Rough Stone Rolling.
By Richard Lyman Bushman
I just got done reading a book call Rough Stone Rolling. I was very impressed with how it was written start to finish.
You would have to ask yourself how would a man like Joseph
Smith get involved in religion and do so much in writing religious text. His
family had very little religious meaning to them. His mother wanted religion but
could not figure out which church to join. His father did not like religion at
all. Then there was Joseph a young boy at the young age of 14 becoming involved
in religion. I think as a young person we all look at religion sometime. And
ask where we stand.
You have to be amazed how Joseph Smith said he saw angels or
God and his son Jesus Christ in a vision. How could it not be true? And all
these things take years to develop into a religion. It even took Joseph Smith
many years to develop into being a preacher or a prophet. You have to ask
yourself many times over and over who was teaching this religion thing to him.
I like this book because it seemed not to hold anything back
over the years of Joseph’s lifespan. Things that are going on in Joe’s life and
in the history of the times in his lifespan.
How did he write the Book of Mormon? What would make him
think about keeping a record of things that were going on in his life? You have
to be amazed that he would rewrite the Bible and write the Doctrine and
Covenants and the Pearl of Great Price. Joseph Smith would have to be a genius
in religion. Or a prophet of God. Again, was he a religious genius or a prophet
of God?
As I read this book I was always asking myself is this true
about Joseph Smith or is it false? The more I read the more I wondered. The
more I wondered and the more I wondered.
This was a very very good book.
But by the end of the book it came to me that it had to be
faith. When it comes to religion, no matter how much you study it always comes
down to faith. That’s what it comes down to, faith in what you believe. And what
is right. And can you live it.
By
Michael H Vroman
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