There is not only no good reason to do as Moroni 10:4 directs, there is very good reason not to do so.
Do you agree with the author one should not pray to God to know whether the Book of Mormon is true?
Do you agree with the author one should not pray to God to know whether the Book of Mormon is true?
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I do. To pray about a book that contradicts the Bible is not necessary and unscriptural.
The Bereans SEARCHED the Scriptures, not prayed about them and nowhere in the Bible are we told to.
Do you pray to know if robbing a bank is wrong?
Let me point you to the logic of that question as seen through mormon eyes.
Adding to the Bible - Revelation 22:18 - by W. John Walsh, Robert L. Millet, Scott Drennan
Just to save you the trouble.
The closing paragraph reads thusly: It is the humble but bold testimony of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints that God has restored His church, given additional scriptures, and continued to guide His church once again through modern revelation to a modern prophet and a modern twelve apostles. Just as the first coming of Christ was not an unprophesied event, so this greatly prophesied preparatory era prior to Christ's second coming should also not surprise the serious student of scripture.
An unparalleled unique prophetically promised clarion call of such splendorous stupendous significance decidedly deserves real review, not canon-closing cliches sourced from superficial scholarship of Revelations readings!
I agree with the author of my previous post...this "read and pray about it ploy" is nothing but a bait and switch attempt to sway the unaware, and is rooted in the guile of the father of lies, the great liar, Lucifer.
1. There is no place in the Bible that tells us to do so.
2. As the revelation of God, the Bible consistantly disproves and refutes mormon doctrine
3. The bible warns of false prophets and teachers bearing the witness of 'ANOTHER GOSPEL' and those sects like mormonism require a more detailed biblical comparison to see if they are bearing the truth.
4. The essence of the bom is founded on a false premise that a group of israelites came to the Americas and resulted in the todays Amerindians (and I can even refute that Lehi et al were even in Jerusalem at the start of it all). I've encounted as many as 9 different mormon based theories as to where the bom lands were. The book then, lies about history.
5. This bom 'translated by the power of God' has over 4000 changes to it from the origional ms - without any documentary support (ie no golden plates to refer too).
Logo, even both the Book of Mormon & D&C advocates "verifying" the word of the Lord -- not praying about its verification. [See D&C 5:20; Alma 9:14; Jarom 1:9].
The key point in all these -- like in Gen. 42:20 -- is that actions such as following through on a promise -- that is what verifies.
Besides, why do you need to pray about something that Joseph Smith himself already clearly revealed?
So if I prayed, it'd probably be this "convo of questions":
"Lord, who wrote the Book of Mormon?"
He'd probably say back: "Why ask me the obvious?"
"What do you mean?"
"Well, what did Smith himself say?"
"I dunno. Where do I look?"
"Have you tried Lds doctrine & covenants, 24:1?"
"Let me look it up: 'Behold, thou wast called and chosen to write the Book of Mormon...' What the...???"
Ya wanna know who authored the BoM?
Why pray about the obvious?
(Don't Mormons know their own so-called "scriptures"????)