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To: restornu
The Book of Mormon never claim to be perfect only the Most correct book!

If your history is an indicator, you won't respond...So, here, I will help (helping is Telestial in nature, correct?):

I told the brethren that the Book of Mormon was the most correct of any book on earth, and the keystone of our religion, and a man would get nearer to God by abiding by its precepts than any other book. (History of the Church, 4:461) (But, given it's lack of geographical correctness...we know that this is not accurate)

It is to be expected that when the angel restores the gospel it will be restored in fullness and in the most perfect simplicity and plainness so that every point of the doctrine of Christ shall be clearly revealed and expressed in such language that no two persons could understand it differently...nothing else can be an infallible standard of the Christian religion; nothing else can reclaim them from divisions and strifes; nothing else will give certainty and stability so necessary to the happiness and salvation of man; and nothing else could be expected in the revelation of the gospel by an angel. Such a revelation is the Book of Mormon; the most infallible certainty characterizes every ordinance and every doctrinal point revealed in that book. In it there is no ambiguity­­; no room for controversy; ­­no doctrine so imperfectly expressed that two persons would draw two different conclusions there from... (Orson Pratt's Works, Vol 2, "Important Works in Mormon History", Grandin Book Co, 1990, p. 83; This can also be found in Divine Authenticity of the Book of Mormon, Apostle Orson Pratt, 1851, No. 6, page 83)

Doesn't being infallible mean that it also has to be perfect? And...I just love the part about two persons not drawing different conclusions!

Prophet Ezra T. Benson, quotes Mormon Apostle Bruce R. McConkie as follows:

Men can get nearer to the Lord, can have more of the spirit of conversion and conformity in their hearts...can gain a better understanding of the doctrines of salvation through the Book of Mormon than they can through the Bible...there will be more people saved in the kingdom of God - ten thousand times over - because of the Book of Mormon than there will be because of the Bible. (The Ensign, November 1984, p. 7)

349 posted on 04/30/2008 12:27:47 PM PDT by pby
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To: pby; Utah Girl; Spiff; tantiboh; Grig; Logophile; Rameumptom; Reaganesque
Again God is nfallible but man is not!

To Believe the Bible survived all these centuries and not one scribe did not make a mistake is saying all men are infallible.

That is also saying there were no designing men along the way and I am not talking about prophets there were many occasion where men were in charge of the Word of God who was given no mantle to do so!

They may have the best intention, but so did those who tried to steady the ark!

This is true about the Book of Mormon on doctrine and ordinances. What Pratt said here is true there is no ambiguity you do not wonder or some one looking for loop holes to down grade an ordinance.

This is the problem mainstream is always running into and that is why there are 30k Plus different churches because many of the doctrine seems left open ended.

This is why the LDS who has a testimony stands firm and can not be rocked!

And those who strive to keep the Lord's commandments are truly blessed

Such a revelation is the Book of Mormon; the most infallible certainty characterizes every ordinance and every doctrinal point revealed in that book. In it there is no ambiguity­­; no room for controversy; ­­no doctrine so imperfectly expressed that two persons would draw two different conclusions there from...

So the Bible has evidence of Location yet much of the D&C in the Bible is open ended.

The Book of Mormon might not have location Evidence you are looking for but the D&C is infallible!

368 posted on 04/30/2008 1:38:37 PM PDT by restornu
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