Free Republic
Browse · Search
Religion
Topics · Post Article

To: Grig
Your problem is with your founder, Joseph Smith, and Brigham Young, not me.

You have added your own "book" to Holy Scripture which destroys your credibility. The Bible, as written by God, is complete and does not need additions by some sinful man to complete it. The "Book of Mormom" is not part of God's Holy Scripture, and, in fact, directly contradicts Scripture.

You would have to back what you claim with what God said, not Joseph Smith.

115 posted on 07/15/2007 1:34:56 PM PDT by GiovannaNicoletta
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 70 | View Replies ]


To: GiovannaNicoletta

For a second time I show your accusation to be false, and for a second time you ignore it and try to change the topic by tossing out more false accusations. Do you think that I and other readers don’t notice?

The bible was written by prophets of God, men like Moses, Daniel, Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Paul. It was not ‘written by God’. Nor is it complete, the Bible itself says it isn’t complete and mentions several books of scripture that are lost to mankind today, these include:

book of the Wars of the Lord (Num. 21: 14)
book of Jasher (Josh. 10: 13; 2 Sam. 1: 18)
book of the acts of Solomon (1 Kgs. 11: 41)
book of Samuel the seer (1 Chr. 29: 29)
book of Gad the seer (1 Chr. 29: 29)
book of Nathan the prophet (1 Chr. 29: 29; 2 Chr. 9: 29); prophecy of Ahijah (2 Chr. 9: 29)
visions of Iddo the seer (2 Chr. 9: 29; 2 Chr. 12: 15; 2 Chr. 13: 22)
book of Shemaiah (2 Chr. 12: 15)
book of Jehu (2 Chr. 20: 34)
sayings of the seers (2 Chr. 33: 19)
an epistle of Paul to the Corinthians, earlier than our present 1 Corinthians (1 Cor. 5: 9)
possibly an earlier epistle to the Ephesians (Eph. 3: 3)
an epistle to the Church at Laodicea (Col. 4: 16)
and some prophecies of Enoch, known to Jude (Jude 1: 14)

And before you trot out Rev 22: 18-19, keep in mind that there are a few other NT books that were written AFTER John wrote Revelation, did you rip those out of your Bible? You can find the same command in Deut 4:2, are you going to toss everything after Deut 4 now?

All those verses do is command man to not alter God’s word, it in no way limits God from providing more of his word and the fact is that God gave men more Bible scripture after each of those commands. It’s also a real stretch to suggest that the book being referred to is the Bible, since there was no Bible when it was written. Now if you want to believe God is unable to call prophets today and unable to bring forward additional scripture, that is your prerogative but I believe God is fully capable of doing those things.

As for the Book of Mormon, I believe it to be from scripture inspired by God just as the Bible was. My belief is based on the witness of the Holy Spirit I received after I read and prayed about it (try that some time, you will at least have a better understanding of what we actually believe). I don’t see any part of it that is contrary the Bible, only things that are contrary to the false interpretations of the Bible men have created.

The choice before me is not one of choosing between what you claim God says and Joseph Smith claims God says, it is between believing what the Holy Spirit answered to me personally, or what you assert after clearly showing you really don’t know what we teach in the first place.

Why should I trust the condemnations of a person who has shown twice that they are ignorant of the religion they condemn?

Does it not bother you that you have twice made false accusations? Are you not aware that it is a sin to bear false witness against someone as you have done to us? Do you not think that perhaps you should choose your sources of information with more care to avoid appearing foolish and discrediting yourself by making such false accusations? Are you not willing to question the credibility, honesty, and/or ability of the people who have fed you these lies? If your reply is to post more accusations, then your answer to the above is no and you demonstrate that protecting your ego is more important to you than speaking truth.


134 posted on 07/15/2007 5:44:27 PM PDT by Grig
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 115 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
Religion
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson