Monday, December 21, 2009

The Most Correct Book

This is a very Bold statement, if you say something of this magnitude, you better be able to back it up, now again I am a Mormon but as stated in previous post, I have doubts and can not honestly say without a doubt in my mind that the church istrue and the only true church. So I am sure reading all this ex-Mormon literature does not help the Mormon cause but it sure does bring up a number of questions that should have reasonable answers.

The first LDS Prophet Joseph Smith
“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 by any other book.”
and numerous other LDS Prophets have said the same. I have problems with this statement, Joseph Smith wrote other books, The Pearl of Great Price, the original Doctrines and Covenants (before his successors' additions), and the Joseph Smith Translation of the Bible. Shouldn't these books also be the most correct? They were inspired of God, right?

The 8th Article of Faith states
the belief in the Bible as the “word of God as far as it is translated correctly; we also believe the Book of Mormon to be the word of God.” The Book of Mormon gives to us that second witness of the authenticity of the scriptures as recorded in the Bible.
So if it supports the Bible, why is it that the correct version of the Bible (Joseph Smith Translation) it not one of the most correct books.

In a Talk by President Ezra Taft Benson he says "In 1829, the Lord warned the Saints that they are not to trifle with sacred things. (See D&C 6:12.) Surely the Book of Mormon is a sacred thing, and yet many trifle with it, or in other words, take it lightly, treat it as though it is of little importance (7th paragraph). Since I have been in a Mormon, I hear of the Bible all the time but rarely get any lessons or teaching from it. Most Lessons are straight from the Book of Mormon or the Ensign, which for the most part references the Book of Mormon or talks from LDS Leadership.

Here's where I'm going with this, The Book of Mormon, according to LDS Prophets, is the one true Correct Book, but I have seen prior versions of the Book of Mormon that are not the same as the current version. There are contradictions here.

So now that I have rambled on for a bit, What is the Most Correct Book?

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