This is me adding to a conversation held over Twitter with Kwaku El. This to make it easier for me to reply to some of these questions.

if joseph smith was a prophet, it means God has restored clarity in the search for the divine, and has a proactive living interest in the world. it means God actually still speaks today

if he wasn’t a prophet, christianity might just be another ancient set of stories & that’s it

— kwaku (@thekwakuel) December 16, 2019

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I responded with these comments:

That’s ridiculous because that just ignores the historical evidence for the claims merely to look when they were claimed. If anything,why trust a modern claim about ancient events if the event lacked sufficient evidence? How could someone distinguish an accurate modern claim from a false one.

Kwaku:

Christians, Hindu’s, Jews, and Muslims all exercise miraculous evidences via apologetics as evidence of their faiths. Yet, Christianity is the only one with a modern witness of their God’s divinity, and that is expressed through “mormonism” or the restored gospel of jesus christ

TheSire:

I don’t think that they all have the same evidences. Furthermore, we have reasons to doubt these other worldviews.

Kwaku:

Of course they don’t have the same evidences, they have their individual evidences respective to their religions. And each has reason to doubt the others worldviews. That’s just how it works

TheSire:

I disagree. I think everyone shares the same respective evidence but only one worldview has the proper interpretation that makes sense out of the evidence.

Kwaku:

Do you really think you’ve studied every single religion to ever exist?

TheSire:

Furthermore, we possess the same world the issue is that their interpretation follow from an incorrect worldview.

Here I wish to add to my comments in a better format. Kwaku challenges the notion that all other worldviews are self defeating by stating that there are too many worldviews to analyze. I think we should think about these ideas a few different ways. If Kwaku is correct, then we could never know that LDS theology is true. This would leave an infinite amount of interpretations that contradict the LDS worldview with no way to distinguish them as the truth of the matter. Secondly, Christians have a reason to suppose they know the correct interpretation of things because the Christian God has a comprehensive knowledge of reality and can provide the correct worldview for such issues regarding miracle claims and knowledge claims.