We're Mormons & we believe in the bible.
It's a fact, Mormons believe in the bible.
 
There is great inspired text in the Book of Mormon
and in this passage
2 Nephi, chapter 29 verses 6 through 8
it says a fool shall say a Bible we have
got a Bible and we need no more Bible have
you obtained the Bible say that word by
the Jews know ye not that there are
more nations than one? know ye not that
I the Lord your God have created all men
and that i remember those who are upon the
aisles of the sea and that I rule in the
heavens above and in the earth beneath
and I bring forth my word under the
children of men yea, even upon all
nations of the earth.  Do you guys realize how
amazing it is that the Bible was
even preserved until 2017? This thing was
written 4,000 years before the
birth of Christ and now we still have
these records! and so it's really
interesting to think about the miracles
that came to pass that, we're going to
use scripture language here, came to pass
in order for the Bible to exist today.
Such as, it started with the Adamic
language the language of Adam and Eve,
then you know, it goes to Hebrew and then
after Hebrew, Egyptian. Egyptian, yeah, so
clearly at Abraham started to
take over the records of Adam which then
went to Moses and Moses he abridged the
first five books of the Old Testament,
so we had to change it to Egyptian
because how was he raised? By the Egyptians
and then this language went on for a
long period of time until it hit the
period of Jesus and Jesus spoke in Aramaic
which was the language of the
Babylonians because Jerusalem was
actually taken over by the Babylonians
and then this language is changed into
Greek which is the language of the
learned which then was changed into the
language of Latin because the
Roman Catholic church decided to take
these scriptures, put them into a Bible
and in Latin they would use it in their
masses but it wasn't part of common
society it was sort of you know the
fathers and the Pope, you know the people
that dealt with the Bible. The normal
people didn't really have access to the
Bible they couldn't read it- they could read
first of all, but they weren't able to have
the scriptures for themselves, nor
understand it as it was still in Latin. that's
another good point.
So what happened was
Gutenberg, he created the printing
press and then this exploded. Bibles were
translated into several different
languages, primarily German and
then other Anglo-Saxon languages
and then into Spanish, Portuguese and the
list goes on.
Yeah and so the Bible was translated an
infinite amount of times. I don't even
know...
but we use the King James version... there is a number
to be fair. There is a
number it probably wasnt infinite a
couple times but let's go for it,
like one less than infinite- go with it
so we should appreciate
the Bible for what it is. A miracle! The
fact that it exists is amazing, it is. You
get the hand of God in these men who
were preserving this work for us so we can
have the record of the ancient Jews, that's
important, to me I think that's amazing.
Yes, and I think paired with the Book of
Mormon, it's phenomenal you have the east
and the west coast
both testifying of  Christ. Woah!! paired with the Book of Mormon
so you're saying that there are scriptures
outside of the enclosed capsule of the
Bible? Yeah so up for non-LDS friends up
here I know that the wacky idea, but I
know it also kind of makes sense. God
is going to speak to all of his children.
The Bible is the record of those that
were in the Middle East the Book of
Mormon has a record of those that are here in
the Americas and one day maybe- maybe- we
could have a record of those in the
Oriental a record of those in Australia
you know who knows what will come out
but it's important to know that God
speaks to his children all over the
world so lets hit the doctrine here, the
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day
Saints, we don't believe that God has
only revealed his word through sola
scriptura which means which means that
revelation can only come by way of the
Bible, we believe that revelation can come by
way of the Bible,
however we have an open cannon. We
believe that there can be other records
that can be added on, that's why we
have modern prophets, like Joseph Smith those
that are in the book of mormon are
considered modern prophets, right, and let's be
clear everything in the New Testament
are apostles adding on to what was there
before, the Bible translated means, library
it's a collection. And that's important
to recognize because collections can be
added onto. Now we should probably
address the parts of the Bible that do
state you shall not add on to this, right
which has you knoe I think what parts
in Deuteronomy and in Revelation says
you should not add on to this and the
way we interpret that is we should not
add onto the revelation given to John or
we should not add onto the law which was
the revelation given in Deuteronomy
those things that the law of Moses and
the revelation given to John it's not
saying do not add on to this library
that you have because the Bible called a
library right so not to rain on anyone's
parade but what I'm trying to say here
is don't you want a bigger library the
one you already have?
Do you want to put limits on God? I don't
I don't want to put limits on God.  I also
want to emphasize this very important
point if we look at those verses and we
say you cannot add onto the Bible at all
one that would mean the Bible came out
just the way we have it which isn't true
we didn't all come out at one lots of
translations came until that first
actually came to your face and also for
example Deuteronomy 4:2 if we're not
supposed to add onto the Bible but you
wouldn't have the New Testament would
have the earthly mission of Christ at all
you can't take those verses to mean you
know considering that you can't take- you
can take- You cant, just just cant Kwaku
you can't take, you just cant Kwaku... you just
cant take those verses to mean that nothing will ever be added onto
God's plethora of words. He gives amazing
revelation, is going to keep going
it is it doesn't mean you get my point
hey let's just let's just say this: that the
Bible is true the Bible is a wonderful
book and we all need it
that also the Bible is something that we
should look to every day, lots of people
nowadays think the Bible's an ancient
text, it's got fallacies... don't look at it that
way
don't look at it as something that has
fallacious arguments or fallacious
stories they could someone get animals
two-by-two and put them into an arc and
survive that's not the purpose of the
Bible sometimes we need to take it
literally sometimes we need to get
symbolically, and that's when it comes
down to us reading it by the spirit. When
you read something by the spirit with
the intention to do good there will be
only blessing that come by that and you
know it's also okay to have different
opinions on things in the Bible
some people think the story of Noah's
Ark is symbolic some people think it
literally happened
ok that's fine you can have different
opinions but have the spirit with you
and know that Christ lives.
Is that too much to ask? We also don't believe that
Mormons have ownership over all words of
God
k, words of God can can touch anyone in
this world
Mormon Catholic Muslim any religion that
you want to think of people can be
touched by God in their own personal way
and they can write it down right? and I
will also add if you have the Holy
Spirit with you the spirit can help you
differentiate from what is true and what
is not true right in other texts but we
believe that the Bible the Book of
Mormon they were written by prophets
called of God. These are not just like random people
that are like I'm just gonna feel the spirit & write it down
these are people that were called by God
so that they could write words that
would be good for our day that we can
read them and apply them in our lives
like wow I I need this I need this for
my day and translated by those who may
not have been prophets but the Lord
inspired them to get that work done so
we can benefit from it.
Wherefore murmur ye because that you shall
receive more of my word
no ye not that the testimony of two
nations that witness unto you that I am
God that I remember one nation like onto
another wherefore I speak the same words
into one nation like onto another and
when the two nations shall run together
the testimony of the two nations shall run
together also we leave this with you in
the name of Jesus Christ.
shout out to my boy Jedi Mormon I know you'll be in
the comments just know we're thinkin about ya
and hey hey leave some stuff, leave
out some of the cuss words but hey we love you
Then there is 'old and wise' 'old and wise' is our fan,
He is like, "Shut up."
"You don't understand what
you're talking about, please
shut up and here is lds.org,
here is mormon.org
one more time shut up
