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Janadele said:
The Ten Tribes are a numerous civilisation. Located in the North. Yet in this day and age they are still not seen nor known of by the majority of the earth's inhabitants. Are they on a planet which has broken from the earth and appears to us as a northern star, are they within the earth, or are they kept from our sight in some other way? These are questions yet to be answered.
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Ooh, those are easy questions. I can answer those for you.

No.
 
James E. Talmage wrote: "it is plain that, while many of those belonging to the Ten Tribes were diffused among the nations, a sufficient number to justify the retention of the original name were led away as a body and are now in existence in some place where the Lord has hidden them." At both the April and October 1916 General Conferences James E. Talmage spoke of the Lost Ten Tribes: "There is a tendency among men to explain away what they don't wish to understand in literal simplicity. True, the gathering is in progress, this is a gathering dispensation; but the Prophecy stands that the tribes shall be brought forth from their hiding place... and their Scriptures shall become one with the Scriptures of the Jews, the Holy Bible, and with the Scriptures of the Nephites, the Book of Mormon, and with the Scriptures of the Latter-day Saints as embodied in the volumes of modern revelation."
 
What's this hollow earth thing the others are talking about, Janadele? Is that something that you believe?
 
Janadele said:
The Ten Tribes are a numerous civilisation. Located in the North. Yet in this day and age they are still not seen nor known of by the majority of the earth's inhabitants.
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If, for the sake of argument, we accept the premise for a moment, have you considered they may be hiding in plain sight? You could fit ten tribes of several thousands into one moderately sized town.

Are they on a planet which has broken from the earth and appears to us as a northern star
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No. They are definitely not.

are they within the earth
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Absolutely definitely and unequivocally not.
or are they kept from our sight in some other way?
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False beard and glasses x 120,000?
 
1 Nephi 22:4 "And behold, there are many who are already lost from the knowledge of those who are at Jerusalem. Yea, the more part of all the tribes have been led away and whither they are none of us knoweth, save that we know that they have been led away."http://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/1-ne/22?lang=eng
 
Janadele said:
1 Nephi 22:4 "And behold, there are many who are already lost from the knowledge of those who are at Jerusalem. Yea, the more part of all the tribes have been led away and whither they are none of us knoweth, save that we know that they have been led away."http://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/1-ne/22?lang=eng
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Didn't you hear? They left a post-it on the fridge saying they were going to see the king of Assyria. And we're out of milk.
 
President Joseph Fielding Smith wrote: "Notwithstanding all that has been written, there are many members of the Church who think that these "lost tribes" were scattered among the nations and are now being gathered out and are found through all the stakes and branches of the Church. They reach this conclusion because the general opinion is that these tribes went into the North, and it is the northern countries from whence most of gathered Israel has been found... Whether these tribes are in the North or not, I am not prepared to say. As I said before, they are "lost" and until the Lord wishes it, they will not be found. All that I know about it is what the Lord has revealed, and He declares that they will come from the North. He has also made it very clear and definite that these lost people are separate and apart from the scattered Israelites now being gathered out... Surely there must be a time when this great body of people will come to the children of Ephraim to receive their blessings. At their presence the mountains will tremble; they will smite the rocks, and the ice shall flow down."
 
Janadele said:
1 Nephi 22:4 "And behold, there are many who are already lost from the knowledge of those who are at Jerusalem. Yea, the more part of all the tribes have been led away and whither they are none of us knoweth, save that we know that they have been led away."http://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/1-ne/22?lang=eng
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In case you haven't realized it yet, the majority of people on this forum are of a skeptical worldview. If you want them to have any chance of coming to believe what you do then the key is to engage them in an honest discussion while offering objective evidence and logical arguments.

If however you are happily doing this to stroke your own ego while under the delusion that you are making an honest effort to bring God to the heathens and or plain old trolling for the same effect, please continue as you were.
 
This thread is like a cross between performance art and a parlour game. One player has to try to sustain the illusion of a discussion, but may only use quotations and can express no opinions of their own. Could perhaps be fun if done well, but inevitably gets dull in the end.
 
Elder Orson F. Whitney said "It is maintained by some that the lost tribes of Israel -those carried into captivity about 725BC- are no longer a distinct people; that they exist only in a scattered condition, mixed with the nations among which they were taken by their captors, the conquering Assyrians. If this be true, and those tribes were not intact at the time Joseph and Oliver received the keys of the 'gathering of Israel from the four parts of the earth,' what need to particularize as to the Ten tribes, if they were no longer a distinct people? And why do our Articles of Faith give these tribes a special mention?"
9 We believe all that God has revealed, all that He does now reveal, and we believe that He will yet reveal many great and important things pertaining to the Kingdom of God.
10 We believe in the literal gathering of Israel and in the restoration of the Ten Tribes; that Zion (the New Jerusalem) will be built upon the American continent; that Christ will reign personally upon the earth; and, that the earth will be renewed and receive its paradisiacal glory.http://www.lds.org/scriptures/pgp/a-of-f/1?lang=eng
 
Janadele says: Read the Scriptures :D

Esdras says: "God stilled the flood to enable the tribes passage to the north countries, and that God will do it again to enable their return."
That correlates with D&C 133 "and they shall smite the rocks, and the ice shall flow down at their presence".
 
Janadele said:
Janadele says: Read the Scriptures :D

Esdras says: "God stilled the flood to enable the tribes passage to the north countries, and that God will do it again to enable their return."
That correlates with D&C 133 "and they shall smite the rocks, and the ice shall flow down at their presence".
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But we don't believe things without evidence, and the scriptures are contradicted by evidence. If you want to provide supporting evidence for the scriptures, fine. Otherwise, you may as well be reading from The Hobbit, explaining to us that the Shire is actually somewhere in Devon.
 
Janadele said:
Janadele says: Read the Scriptures :D

Esdras says: "God stilled the flood to enable the tribes passage to the north countries, and that God will do it again to enable their return."
That correlates with D&C 133 "and they shall smite the rocks, and the ice shall flow down at their presence".
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There's not a lot of difference between this and your song line threads in community, is there. People quoting lines of text and zero discussion.
 
Janadele said:
Janadele says: Read the Scriptures
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Which scriptures? What reason can you give us to read LDS scriptures rather than those of other religions?

There are plenty of reasons to pay no attention whatsoever to LDS scriptures, we're still waiting for you to make a case against them.
 
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