What was your experience when you read the CES Letter?

Well... eye-opening for sure, but harrowing at the same time...
After years of attending seminary and institute, plus a two-year full-time mission, I was aware of some unresolved "hard questions," but I never grasped their real extent, so I could never give them the proper weight.

The level of detail provided in the CES Letter is simply very hard, if not impossible, to ignore. I couldn't just bury all that information in the sand and keep singing "All is well in Zion."

Once I read it, I couldn't find a way to reconcile it, and I literally lost sleep for a few days.

Part of me even thought that maybe there were valid explanations to debunk Brother Runnells' arguments... but I couldn't find any. Rather, I only found more sources supporting his research.

In order to truly "overcome" the CES Letter, the Mormon Church would need to provide an immense amount of clarification and evidence, that currently doesn't have.

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