Posted on 06/29/2010 8:28:07 AM PDT by Colofornian
Quite reasonably, the current Introduction to the Book of Mormon begins, The Book of Mormon is a volume of holy scripture comparable to the Bible....
Yet...we are likely to point out some significant differences as well...
...The Bible is more of a library than a single book, and there are tremendous differences in genre...
At first glance, the contents of the Book of Mormon appear to be similarly diverse...On closer inspection... the Book of Mormon turns to be entirely narrative. The whole book takes the form of a story told by narrators...but we know who is responsible for every word in the Book of Mormon. Its either Nephi, Jacob, Mormon, or Moroni (plus a few minor authors...). This means that the Book of Mormon, as a whole, is a much more integrated and deliberately constructed volume than the Bible.
...the Book of Mormon operates by very different literary principles than the Bible. Consider the characteristics of Old Testament narrators as described by Shimon Bar-Efrat, formerly of Hebrew University at Jerusalem:
The narrator in most biblical narratives appears to be omniscient
Biblical narrators do not usually mention themselves
Biblical narrators [generally] make no reference to their activity in writing the narratives
The narrators do not...address their audience directly
Outside the books of Kings there are very few instances in which the narrator passes judgment
How many of these statements are true of the Book of Mormon? None of them.
Nephi, Jacob, Mormon, and Moroni are...often...participants in the stories...They interrupt their narratives regularly to tell us about their lives, their testimonies, and their desires. They worry about their weakness in writing (Eth. 12:23, 40; cf. 2 Ne. 33:1, 4). And they do not hesitate to address readers directly to explain their intentions,...editorial techniques,...emotional responses to...events...
(Excerpt) Read more at ldsmag.com ...
go to www.lds.org and I think there is a place you can ask and they’ll send you one for free.
LOL
Hmph! I guess we’re just lowly gentile women.
I wanna see the submarine...
Oh Grasshoipper!
Just merely COPY the formatted stuff you want; and then PASTE it into your e-mail.
Then you select the SOURCE tab and cut out the HTML code between the {BODY} and the {/BODY} commands.
Paste/post it to FR and yer good to go!
OMG! LOL
Bada Bing!
It’s “reformed French” :-)
Yikes! King Solomon is in big trouble.
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So is Joe Smith!
I got that up to, but not including “source tab”. Learn me more :-)
With God or Christ there is only perfect good.
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Worth a repost, and blows the “God was once a man (and thus a sinner)” out of the water.
And where exactly did he get the manuscripts from which to translate?
Given what you say you were and how you say they just didn't get it or you felt (breast burning) they were wrong and that's why you converted to lds........is just not passing the smell test any longer.
Do I think you are an idiot, no.
Do I think you misrepresent yourself and history - you betcha.
From the sample I posted; it appears that a BLENDER was used!
"It is the first principle of the Gospel to know for a certainty the character of God...
He was once a man like us; ...
God himself, the Father of us all, dwelt on an earth, the same as Jesus Christ himself did"
(Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, pp. 345-46)
Joseph Smith taught:
"It is the first principle of the Gospel to know for a certainty the character of God...
He was once a man like us; ...
God himself, the Father of us all, dwelt on an earth, the same as Jesus Christ himself did"
(Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, pp. 345-46)
The translation was intended to restore what Smith described as many important points touching the salvation of men, [that] had been taken from the Bible, or lost before it was compiled.[1] But the work was not a literal translation from ancient documents, as the term translation is commonly used by scholars. Neither was it an automatic and infallible process where "correct" words and phrases simply were revealed to Smith in final form. As with Joseph Smith's other translations, he reported that he was forced to "study it out in [his] mind"[2] as part of the revelatory process
Thats a dangerous road to travel, FReeper.
I think its weird that you said what you said to me. Very weird . . . and makes me feel sad for you.
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It isn’t dangerous when it is the truth. The Holy Ghost will NOT confirm things that are contrary to the Bible. the BoM is contrary to the Bible (that has been proven over and over again here), so therefore if it is not of God, it must be of Satan.
And don’t feel sad for me, I have the truth of Christ. I am blood washed, redeemed and made pure by the Sacrifice of my Savior on the Cross. I don’t need a ‘church’ to tell me I am worthy, I have Christ. I don’t need ‘religion’, I have Christ. Christ is my all, I have been rescued from the chains of Mormonism.
I weep for you and the lies you claim to believe. THAT is a path to Hell and your time is running out.
Katana,
Don’t let that post fool you. The Articles of Faith are a whitewashed version of LDS doctrine there are many many teachings and doctrines that are not mentioned and many layers beneath them.
If you are interested in some well documented links, let me know. I was LDS for several years before Christ rescued me from Mormonism.
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