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Re: What Books Should be Studied as Scripture? [message #1910 is a reply to message #304]

Fri, 11 January 2013 10:43

rdwhitaker
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What's interesting to me about this thread, is that even though the King James version of the Bible is part of our canon, we openly recognize that it is not translated correctly. The Joseph Smith translation improved upon some of its errors, but I suspect even after that there is simply too much still missing or changed in it to bring it up to the level of purity we have in the Book of Mormon or the Doctrine and Covenants.

I fear too many LDS members look at "scripture" as being a closed set of doctrine and thus close their minds to anything outside of it. Its too much of a "catechism" mentality -- treating the accepted works as spiritual Lego blocks that are used to build a precise, well defined belief system. Those building blocks are not meant to construct a spiritual ceiling, but to build a set of stairs. The closed attitude goes completely against the spirit of current revelation by living prophets, seers and revelators, and against the personal mission of the Holy Ghost in each of our lives.

I now view the scriptures as being the core of correct doctrines that are necessary and sufficient to get us started in the right direction. Other ancient books are like bonus gifts, like finding spiritual coins in the seat cushions of the Gospel. They are nice, but not essential. The scriptures we have are not meant to be the full, complete, nothing else to be learned, corpus of all Gospel knowledge.

Like so much else in this Fallen world, we only get to dabble in the slightest fragments of pure Truth, and our test is to learn how to follow that golden thread to achieve greater truths. We know there are missing books of scriptures. Both the Bible and the Book of Mormon refer to them, so those writers apparently trusted them well. There are missing scriptures (to us) of what the Lord has revealed to the lost tribes of Israel. There is the Book of Enoch, of which we only have fragments. If we had it in its purity, there's no doubt it would be as good of scripture as anything else. There are the sealed portions of the Book of Mormon yet to be learned. There are books that prophets wrote and then were instructed to immediately seal up.

I view all of the scriptures, canonical and others, as being pointers to a better way -- the more sure word of prophecy. This is the beauty of the message from Nephi, that I keep turning to and enjoying more and more:

"Behold, this is the doctrine of Christ, and there will be no more doctrine given until after he shall manifest himself unto you in the flesh. And when he shall manifest himself unto you in the flesh, the things which he shall say unto you shall ye observe to do." 2 Nephi 32:6

The beauty of this instruction is it tells us to use all of the means given to us to gain the gift of the Holy Ghost. Then we follow the Holy Ghost to where He leads us. He leads us to Jesus Christ. When Jesus Christ manifests Himself to us in the flesh, then we have pure, complete, eternal scripture available to us: The words of God to us personally. That was the original source of the written scriptures we have today. We need to strive to get to the original source for ourselves. Then we may grow to a perfect knowledge, a perfect unity of faith, and all other things will be placed in their proper order and their proper perspective.

Ryan

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		What Books Should be Studied as Scripture? By: Seeker on Mon, 25 April 2011 16:47
		Re: What Books Should be Studied as Scripture? By: Dragon on Mon, 25 April 2011 21:42
		Re: What Books Should be Studied as Scripture? By: Seeker on Wed, 27 April 2011 13:26
		Re: What Books Should be Studied as Scripture? By: Dragon on Fri, 29 April 2011 01:35
		Re: What Books Should be Studied as Scripture? By: Seeker on Fri, 29 April 2011 15:51
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		Re: What Books Should be Studied as Scripture? By: Amonhi on Mon, 21 May 2012 12:51
		Re: What Books Should be Studied as Scripture? By: Dragon on Mon, 21 May 2012 14:46
		Re: What Books Should be Studied as Scripture? By: zephyr on Fri, 25 May 2012 21:02
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		Re: What Books Should be Studied as Scripture? By: Seeker on Tue, 19 June 2012 17:45
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		Re: What Books Should be Studied as Scripture? By: Seeker on Tue, 19 June 2012 23:31
		Re: What Books Should be Studied as Scripture? By: JulesGP on Sun, 08 July 2012 00:56
		Re: What Books Should be Studied as Scripture? By: Dragon on Sun, 08 July 2012 01:35
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		Re: What Books Should be Studied as Scripture? By: Dragon on Thu, 02 August 2012 04:52
		Re: What Books Should be Studied as Scripture? By: kenh on Fri, 03 August 2012 22:27
		Re: What Books Should be Studied as Scripture? By: rdwhitaker on Fri, 11 January 2013 10:43
		Re: What Books Should be Studied as Scripture? By: mormonhah on Fri, 11 January 2013 12:39
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