[CynicalBear]

>>Could you post your copy of the Prophecy of Ahijah... I'm missing that.<<

What? You think God failed? Perhaps you may be overlooking the fact that God didn't see it as His word so didn't preserve it? Not much faith in God there.

>>he words of God Himself that says that His word would not be found on the earth.<<

There we see the lack of knowledge of scripture that the Mormons and others have. You used Amos 8 as your example. But you neglect to include who God is talking to in that chapter.

Amos 8:2...Then the Lord said to me, “The time is ripe for my people Israel; I will spare them no longer.

Just as He warned the people of Israel as a whole have wondered the world over but have not found the word of the Lord as it applies to the Messiah. God keeps His promises and His warnings.

>>Without them there would be no Bible.<<

Wow! Your lack of faith in God is showing. Did not He say that if the apostles kept silent like the Pharisees wanted the very stones would cry out?

Luke 19:40 And he answered and said unto them, I tell you that, if these should hold their peace, the stones would immediately cry out.

God has always and will always keep His word StormPrepper. He preserved the word He wanted preserved. It has been available to all generations just as He promised. The fact that some don't see it like the Israelites, Mormons, and others is only a consequence of their own rebelliousness as spoken of in John 12.

[StormPrepper]

What? You think God failed? Perhaps you may be overlooking the fact that God didn't see it as His word so didn't preserve it? Not much faith in God there.

Do you think it was God who failed when he had to destroy Sodom? Do you think it was God who failed when He had to destroy the earth with the flood?

Was it God who failed when Jesus was rejected and crucified? Was it God who failed when all the Apostles were killed?

Man's freedom to choose over rides all. John gave these words:
Rev 22:
19 And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.

Why would John give this warning if it weren't possible to alter his words?

Do you consider Song of Solomon to be the "Word of God" too?

There we see the lack of knowledge of scripture that the Mormons and others have. You used Amos 8 as your example. But you neglect to include who God is talking to in that chapter.

From time to time I see people put scriptures into the wash cycle in a desperate attempt at forcing them to support their positions. They torture the meanings of the words to the point of silliness.

What you've done to Amos is a classic example.

Amos 8:
12 And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east, they shall run to and fro to seek the word of the Lord, and shall not find it.

The meaning is in the active words. What are they doing? They are actively seeking the words of the Lord. Where are they seeking? All over the world. Where are the words of the Lord to be found? No where, because there is a famine of hearing His words.

But all famines eventually end.

Wow! Your lack of faith in God is showing.

You are supremely NOT qualified to judge my level faith.

God has always and will always keep His word StormPrepper. He preserved the word He wanted preserved. It has been available to all generations just as He promised. The fact that some don't see it like the Israelites, Mormons, and others is only a consequence of their own rebelliousness as spoken of in John 12.

Yes God keeps His promises. But you're failing to see that it is not in the way you want it kept. God doesn't force His will on anyone.

What you're doing is back filling gaps in your beliefs in order to validate your accepted religion/doctrine whatever position you claim to have.

When I say that the Bible was not compiled by prophets or by revelation, your reply is "God wouldn't allow that to happen." God allowed His Son to be killed and His Apostles to be cast out and killed, but whoa don't you touch that Bible! Your conclusion just isn't consistent with God's commitment to man's free agency.

God had His prophets store His words away until mankind was again ready to believe the truth. And a prophet could be raised up to bring them again into the world. And with the promise that God spoke to prophets all over the world and eventually we would have all their writings.

Now that is consistent with a living God!