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God calls and has called many through out history. There have been great men, and women, of God who have answered Christ's call for 2000 years.

I totally agree. There have been great individuals through out history. The Founders of our nation and Christopher Columbus stand out to me at the moment.

Just because we do not keep making the Bible larger and larger does not mean that scripture is not being written in the hearts of the faithful, that lessons are still not being taught, but again God has turned that job over to us, who, like you said yourself, hear God's words.

that lessons are still not being taught,

There in lies the problem...you don't know if the lesson is right or not.

I know it would be of benefit to the desires of the LDS to have a heavily divided Christian faith, it would be a self fulfilling "prophecy" that could lend at least some credence to the words of your Prophets. Sadly, no such divide really exists, the differences fall to trivialities amongst the faithful when the sum total is taken into account.

Unfortunately this isn't true. Not by a long shot. It's true that the hostilities have cooled, mostly due to apathy and the fact that genocide became unfashionable.

For one example: In the late 16th century through the early 17th century the Lutheran church carried out genocide in Austria. They killed 30,000 (and not quickly either they preferred torturing people to death)people over the doctrine of infant baptism.

The ana-baptist, who believed infant baptism to be wrong, were killed for heresy.

"by their fruits you shall know them."

His Imperial Majesty Charles V at the Diet of Augsburg
in the year 1530
Article IX: Of Baptism.
3] They condemn the Anabaptists, who reject the baptism of children, and say that children are saved without Baptism.

Article V: Of the Ministry.
4] They condemn the Anabaptists and others who think that the Holy Ghost comes to men without the external Word, through their own preparations and works.

We owe those brave souls known as Ana-baptist a great debt of gratitude. They died for the faith and for truth. They helped break the chains of oppression that had become "christianity".

There is a great divide between Christian sects they just kill each other over it any more...but it's still there.

Again, you cannot expalin several things.

How can there be any inspired men of God from the time of your alleged "loss" of the word in this world until Joseph Smith (and from his time until now among non Mormon's). Your own words betray your position. The Word of God has lived with Men from the beginning of time, DEPITE the ills of the mortal world. Your own President praises men who should never have heard the Word of God because it was gone from this world until the “prophet” restored it.

We are not simply talking great individuals, but inspired men of God. If things were truly as you present, God would never have been heard by these men, for he was not talking to us until Joesph Smith came along according to the LDS doctrine.

You again seek division where there is none. Again I ask you, how can an ecumenical ministry made up of individuals from multiple denominations, all working to spread the same Good news of God's grace exist, and with the blessing and support of the various church authorities for each denomination, if we were “at war’ with each other.

The individual acts of a few men of power, directed by questionable motives and more than likely the spirit of the evil one does not the entire body and history of Christendom make. The stories of love and good works far out strip the evil done supposedly in his name, we are blessed with more men of goodwill and faith than were are of tyrants.

Like your question about the JS version of the Bible, perhaps it is time to look beyond what you have been taught and look into your heart, look into the true words of the Christ. You will find a far different, and ironically simpler lesson on the love and grace of our lord.