Yes, of course - We have here two verses: The New Testament verse I posted from Revelation was this one:
Revelation 22:18
“18 For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book: “. (Said by the Lord Jesus Christ to John the Apostle)(See lists of Plagues in Exodus and Revelation)
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. . . and this one you posted, from Deuteronomy 4:
Deut 4:2
“Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall ye diminish ought from it, that- ye- may- keep- the- commandments- of- the- Lord- yout- God- which I command you.”
In Dt 4:2, God is speaking through Moses to the Israelites in the wilderness about the Ten Commandments and the Levitical laws given in Exodus, Deuteronomy, and Leviticus, about how His chosen people were to live.
In Revelation, The Lord Jesus Christ in John’s journey to Heaven and vision, is saying “Do not add to the prophecy of this book” so that you don’t get plagues by adding to the prophecies.
All verses must be read in context.
It is the book about God’s dealings with humanity, but mostly about the Lord Jesus Christ.
Long story short, a lot more happened after that.
Jesus wasn’t born for - (guesstimate, need to check, don’t quote this) about another 2500 years after this.
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I apologise if the answer seems insufficient for you. Your question, as I am sure you realize, is a leading one. I am happy to assist you to study the Word of God. I do research for my own purposes, and am not a formal teacher.
Understand, please, that I do not know how much biblical knowledge you have. It may be helpful if you would care to share this information.
Norski
“Your question, as I am sure you realize, is a leading one. I am happy to assist you to study the Word of God. “
Since you useed the verse in Revelations as proof God cannot give more of His Word in The Book of Mormon it is not a leading question.
Other people have written on why this verse does not apply to all of the Word of God:
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The book of Revelation was written prior to some of the other biblical books
Some claim that this verse states that the Bible is complete, and no other scripture exists or will be forthcoming.
However, the critics ignore that:
The book of Revelation was written prior to some of the other biblical books, and prior the Bible being assembled into a collection of texts. Therefore, this verse can only apply to the Book of Revelation, and not the Bible as a whole (some of which was unwritten and none of which was yet assembled together into ‘the Bible’).
While the traditional date of the book of Revelation is A.D. 95 or 96 (primarily based on a statement by Irenaeus), many scholars now date it as early as A.D. 68 or 69.
The Gospel of John is generally dated A.D. 95-100. (For more information on the dating of Revelation, see Thomas B. Slater’s Biblica article).
The New Testament is made up of first the four Gospels and then second the epistles of the apostles. Since the book of Revelation is neither a gospel nor an epistle, it was placed at the end of the canon in its own category. Therefore, John cannot have intended the last few sentences of Revelation to apply to the entire Bible, since he was not writing a ‘final chapter’ for the New Testament and since the Bible would not be completed and canonized for some centuries later.
Other scriptures (such as Deuteronomy 4:2, Deuteronomy 12:32, and Proverbs 30:6) likewise forbid additions; were the critics’ arguments to be self-consistent, they would have to then discard everything in the New Testament and much of the Old, since these verses predate “other scripture” added by God through later prophets.
Further evidence that Rev. 22:19 is not referring to the entire bible when it reads “words of the book of this prophecy” is found if one reads Revelation 1:3,11:
Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written therein: for the time is at hand...Saying, I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last: and, What thou seest, write in a book, and send [it] unto the seven churches which are in Asia; unto Ephesus, and unto Smyrna, and unto Pergamos, and unto Thyatira, and unto Sardis, and unto Philadelphia, and unto Laodicea.
It is self evident that the book referred to at the very beginning of Revelation is the same book being referred to at the very end of Revelation
Everything that John saw and heard in between these two statements are the contents of that book.
Even if the passage in Revelation meant that no man could add to scripture; it does not forbid that God may, through a prophet, add to the Word of God. If this were not possible, then the Bible could never have come into existence.
Noted Biblical scholar Bart Ehrman wrote:
The very real danger that [New Testament] texts could be modified at will, by scribes who did not approve of their wording, is evident in other ways as well. We need always to remember that the copyists of the early Christian writings were reproducing their texts in a world in which there were not only no printing presses or publishing houses but also no such thing as copyright law. How could authors guarantee that their texts were not modified once put into circulation? The short answer is that they could not. That explains why authors would sometimes call curses down on any copyists who modified their texts without permission. We find this kind of imprecation already in one early Christian writing that made it into the New Testament, the book of Revelation, whose author, near the end of his text, utters a dire warning [quotes Revelation 22:18–19].
This is not a threat that the reader has to accept or believe everything written in this book of prophecy, as it is sometimes interpreted; rather, it is a typical threat to copyists of the book, that they are not to add to or remove any of its words. Similar imprecations can be found scattered throughout the range of early Christian writings.[1]