Jeremy Runnells states that "the purpose of the CES Letter was to get official answers from the Church through official Church channels."
u/kolobot, comment on "Ces letter and the critics response", Reddit, January 9, 2018
The purpose of the CES Letter was to get official answers from the Church through official Church channels. This included the CES Director and my Stake President. They refused to give me answers. The closest "answers" from the Church are its Gospel Topic Essays (which are admissions rather than answers) and their attempt to excommunicate me (www.cesletter.org/resign) without answering a single question.
Other than this, there are unofficial apologists sharing their Gospel of the Mormon Apologetics(TM) which I've responded to. You can see a list here.
Since the Church (which is the only source that matters here as its official answers are authoritative) never answered my questions, my questions still stand. Regardless, these are questions that need to be answered and questions that members of the Church and investigators need to be asking as well.
Unofficial apologetic opinions and theories are not answers. They're the theories of Mormon apologists mingled with scripture. Even worse, the apologists give contradictory answers that conflict with one another and even the Church.