We have copies of scriptures from thousands of years of ago.
What we don’t have is a kind of D&C when, why, and how those revelations or scripture was given.
Many here don’t like to go back connect the dots and see their are many dots missing.
Many like to mock the messenger or message like when I said not many here do Critical Thinking and gave a definition which all made fun of me, because I did not give the source which I thought it would be obvious it is from some form of dictionary or wiki.
After all that raking me over the coals the main point was Critical Thinking was dismissed from this forum for it would mean being responsible for our words!
You think that gives you a pass because something was thousand of years ago well it does not!
Nobody made fun of the description you cut and pasted of critical thinking, in fact if you decided to cut and paste ALL of your responses from other sources it would probably make things much easier.
We have copies of scriptures from thousands of years of ago.
That is not actually correct. The Codex Vaticanus and the Codex Sinaiticus both date from the 4th Century and even they are incomplete. However, they were written on papyrus (which deteriorates) and would not have been considered "one of a kind" documents when they were inscribed.
The question is where are the gold plates and decoders from less than two hundred years ago?
What we don’t have is a kind of D&C when, why, and how those revelations or scripture was given.
I haven't got the slightest clue what you are talking about. We know EXACTLY who received revelation in the Bible.
Just as you have NO scripture to back up ANY of the things that is done inside your magnificent Temples.