Meet the Mormons debriefing

So we had a "Meet the Mormons" night at my school. It was a dinner and panel for fellow students to ask questions. Of the 80plus people there, there were only about 30 Mormons. There were 3 students who had heard much about the Mormons and were asking questions in a rather attacking manner, but the rest had great friendly questions. Almost all the panel members ended up sticking around for a few hours after the 2-hour long dinner and panel discussion to talk more with the 3 in particular and a few other that didn't get their questions in. I was talking to my friend who had a conversation with one of the 3 about how the Book of Mormon contradicts the Bible, so if my friend believed in the Book of Mormon, he couldn't believe in the Bible and was, therefore, not Christian.

I heard this later and was a little frustrated with the misinformation out there. The Book of Mormon doesn't contradict the Bible any more than the Bible contradicts the Bible. For example, Exodus 7:3, the Bible says that the Lord told Moses "I will harden Pharaoh’s heart," which is contradictory to basically to everything else in the Bible about God's love and His desire for all on earth to be humble. There are a few more things that the Joseph Smith Translation of the Bible fixed that make the Bible not contradict itself so much, but the Book of Mormon doesn't contradict the Bible any more than the Bible does itself.