| 1 | Even if Mormonism is false, it is still worth believing and ought not be refuted. | Mormonism, if false, ought not be “left alone”, but ought to be refuted and engaged and deconstructed. |
| 2 | Faith is ultimately irrational. | Faith is partly but vitally rooted in evidence that can be publicly scrutinized. |
| 3 | Even if you don’t believe in God, you should still stay on the membership rolls and consider yourself a Mormon. | Those who turn atheist can keep attending as welcomed guests, but ought not attend as members, and ought not self-identify as a member of any religion they no longer believe in. |
| 4 | If the LDS Church isn’t true, there is no God. | There are plenty of reasons to believe in a first, Most High, absolutely ultimate God outside of Mormonism. |
| 5 | How you live your life is more important than what you believe. | Beliefs are primary and behavior is secondary, because the only behavior that matters is that which flows from true and right belief. |
| 6 | I can’t believe in a God who demands worship. | God is a jealous God who demands that he be praised and worshipped as the best of all beings, and will harshly punish those who refuse to worship him. |
| 7 | It doesn’t matter if it’s true. What matters is whether it is official. | “Non-official” teachings of our tradition, culture, literature, and institution ought to be scrutinized. |
| 8 | I proudly mentally disassociate from the content and implications of my belief system. | We love systematic, integrated theology, and thinking through the implications of our worldview. |
| 9 | The Church is true. Even if I don’t believe this or basically understand it, I can bear testimony of it. | We insist that neither we nor our children bear such testimony until we basically understand and believe what this means. |
| 10 | There was a conspiracy to fundamentally corrupt the Bible. It is untrustworthy and we look elsewhere for truth. | We trust the Bible to not have been fundamentally corrupted, we encourage the study of original Biblical languages, and we value exegesis and examine the teachings of our leaders against the most probable original meaning of the text. |
| 11 | Apart from Mormonism, I have no good reasons to believe that Jesus rose from the dead. | Outside of Mormonism there are good reasons to believe in the resurrection of Jesus. |
| 12 | The existence of my personhood is not owing to any god. | My personhood is not co-eternal with God or any other intelligences, rather God himself created my essential personhood at a point in time. |
| 13 | Everything is matter and nothing is immaterial. | Not everything is composed of matter. Some things are immaterial spirit. |
| 14 | There is no ultimate personal being who is the ground of all other being. | There is an ultimate being from whom absolutely all other things (not to be relativized to one generation of the gods) come. |
| 15 | There is no first cause. | There is a first cause. |
| 16 | There are impersonal eternal laws that govern everything. | All eternal laws come from an ultimate personal being. |
