Below I've listed several questions that bring forward the questionable validity of the mormon church. I feel these can be good questions to ask when looking at the mormon church and also Joseph Smith, the founder of the mormon church, and just mormonism in general.
*Smith was supposedly told during his vision not to join any church because current churches were false and he would bring forth the true church. However, 8 years after his supposed 1828 vision, he applied for membership in a Methodist church. Why would he do that?
*If the plates he got the book of mormon from actually existed, why couldn't they be here for everyone to see and believe?
*If there were so many Jews, etcetera that were 'lost sheep', stretching across the Americas, wouldn't they have had the same/similar language as the rest of the Jews? Think about history for a moment, Native Americans, Mesoamericans, etcetera, all had different languages and civilizations. And supposedly the language Joseph Smith translated was reformed Egyptian, why would these Jews use Egyptian when the rest of the Jews kept Hebrew?
*Joseph was a bit of a nut, a treasure hunter, he believed in things such as mystical or magical stones. In fact, he used a seer stone in a hat to translate the Book of Mormon. Why would God use sorcery to translate the word? (He wouldn't is the correct answer.)
*Joseph Smith claimed that six feet tall men lived on the moon and lived to be a thousand years old. Isn't it a little extreme to try to prove men never landed on the moon so you're religion isn't proven false? Shouldn't actual, in stone, proven scientific evidence support your beliefs, if they are in fact, true?
*Joseph Smith claimed that Jesus would return by 1891. How could a prophet of God be that far off?
*Where are the wheeled objects that should be in the Americas then since the Jews would have known of the wheel?
*If Joseph Smith was translating from a document that no one had seen before and the translation was given to him directly from God, why are the errors in translation as well the added words (the words in italics) that are in the King James Version of the Bible also in Joseph Smith's Book of Mormon? Maybe he wasn't hearing from the Lord but was actually copying from the Bible directly? God wouldn't give him an incorrect translation.
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