Sacred DOES NOT EQUAL secret. NEVER HAS NEVER WILL. That is yet ANOTHER lie the LDS teach.
I can tell you sacred things all day long, because they are NOT HIDDEN! Christ revealed all upon His death.
Go to a Bible teaching church (I double dog dare you) and you will hear the Gospel of Grace in full, none of this ‘milk before meat’ junk.
More verses taken out of context Resty. But I doubt you will listen if I provide context. So general overview of the verses will have to do...
There are many examples in the Bible of people NOT listening to the truth and doing like the LDS on here do for example and shutting their eyes and ears to what the Bible really says and going ‘lalalalalala - I can’t hear you’ because it contradicts what they hear at the LDS church. Or biblically, it contradicted what the pharisees or the pagan religions taught.
LDS teachings contradict the Bible, Christian teachings do not. Therefore there is NO REASON AT ALL to hide doctrine and if the LDS church had the truth AT ALL, they would be honest. The fact that they lie, hide, whitewash and obfuscate speaks volumes that their ‘master’ is the father of lies (Satan).
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In the Gospel of Matthew (13:10-17) Jesus provides an answer when asked about his use of parables:[19]
The disciples came to him and asked, “Why do you speak to the people in parables?” He replied,
“The knowledge of the secrets of the kingdom of heaven has been given to you, but not to them. Whoever has will be given more, and he will have an abundance. Whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken from him. This is why I speak to them in parables:
Though seeing, they do not see; though hearing, they do not hear or understand.”
While Mark 4:33-34 and Matthew 13:34-35 may suggest that Jesus would only speak to the “crowds” in parables, while in private explaining everything to his disciples, modern scholar do not support the private explanations argument and surmise that Jesus used parables as a teaching method.[20] Dwight Pentecost suggests that given that Jesus often preached to a mixed audience of believers and non-believers, he used parables to reveal the truth to some, but hide it from others.[21]
Christian author Ashton Axenden suggests that Jesus constructed his parables based on his divine knowledge of how man can be taught:[22]
This was a mode of teaching, which our blessed Lord seemed to take special delight in employing. And we may be quite sure, that as “He knew what was in man” better than we know, He would not have taught by Parables, if He had not felt that this was the kind of teaching best suited to our wants.
In the 19th century, Lisco and Fairbairn stated that in the parables of Jesus, “the image borrowed from the visible world is accompanied by a truth from the invisible (spiritual) world” and that the parables of Jesus are not “mere similitudes which serve the purpose of illustration, but are internal analogies where nature becomes a witness for the spiritual world”.[23]
Similarly, in the 20th century, calling a parable “an earthly story with a heavenly meaning”, William Barclay states that the parables of Jesus use familiar examples to lead men’s minds towards heavenly concepts. He suggests that Jesus did not form his parables merely as analogies but based on an “inward affinity between the natural and spiritual orders”.[24] WIKI
Most teachers, especially Oriental teachers, have used some form of parable in their instruction, but none so exclusively as Jesus at one period of his ministry.
During part of the Galilean ministry the record states that “without a parable spake he not unto them” (Mark 4: 34).
From our Lord’s words (Matt. 13: 13-15; Mark 4: 12; Luke 8: 10) we learn the reason for this method.
It was to veil the meaning. The parable conveys to the hearer religious truth exactly in proportion to his faith and intelligence; to the dull and uninspired it is a mere story, “seeing they see not,” while to the instructed and spiritual it reveals the mysteries or secrets of the kingdom of heaven.
Thus it is that the parable exhibits the condition of all true knowledge. Only he who seeks finds. ~ BD
The LDS religious Organization® does NOT 'reveal all'!
Therefore - they are ANTI-Christian!!
A) Source?
B) It is referenceing PARABLES not secret doctrine. A Parable is a form of address.
C) ALL THINGS were revealed upon His death. I stated that in my original post about this.
D) Christ’s use of parables is in no way the same as the LDS hiding doctrine under the guise of ‘milk before meat’.
Not even a really good try, Resty.