You have clear answers in the catechism. I’m not sure what you believe given what your prophets have said and what I hear your apologists now say. Can you help me? Is there a catechism of the Mormon church that answers the following questions authoritatively? 1. Was Adam “our Father and our God”? (Brigham Young) 2. Was God the Father once as we are, a mortal man who became a god? (Joseph Smith) 3. Are human spirits eternal, pre-existing even God the Father when he was merely a mortal man? (Joseph Smith) 4. Were there gods before God the Father? 5. How did God the Father become a god? Who or what gave him the requisite powers? 6. Does the Father god-man have a wife, heavenly mother? Have they sired any children? 7. Can mortal human beings like you become a god? 8. Is the so-called Book of Abraham a “translation” of “papyrus” on which Abraham, “by his own hand,” wrote the book and that had “fallen into” the church’s hands? 9. If an Egyptologist translated the facsimiles, would what he writes match the “translation” in the Book of Abraham? 10. When did the catalyst theory develop? Who was the first to defend it? Was it after the findings of the Egyptologists about the book? There are many more questions I’d have, but I think that’s a good start—I’ve heard different answers from @ThoughtfulSaint , the prophets, and more conservative Mormons who are willing to defend them (versus changing them with philosophy).

I look to Christ through James, who says ‘faith without works is dead.’

Why do you intentionally downplay the evidence? There are many witnesses, including a German Protestant prince who saw Joseph fly and converted to Catholicism. It was controversial enough for Leibniz to mention.

Yes. St Ignatius of Antioch.

Anti-Trinitarian tries to use AI to refute the Trinity. It doesn’t go well.

He knew Polycarp and John, the beloved disciple. I'm going with him over Americans 2000 years later.