New Witnesses for God (Volume 3 of 3)Roberts, B. H. (Brigham Henry)
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New Witnesses for God (Volume 3 of 3)
Roberts, B. H. (Brigham Henry)
Book of Mormon; Smith, Joseph, Jr., 1805-1844
The foreging should be modified by this explanation, viz: all divisions
of Christendom are not agreed upon all the books that comprise what
is called the Bible. It is well known that the Catholics regard as
canonical some books which the Protestants hold to be apocryphal,
and in addition to the written word of God, I am mindful that the
great Roman Catholic church adds the unwritten word of God. In other
words, the traditions of the church are regarded as the word of God.
The Protestants generally accept the books of the English authorized
version of the Holy Scriptures, translated in 1611, and known as
King James' Translation, pointing out by name those books which were
regarded as of doubtful origin and which for that reason they call the
apocrypha. The Roman Catholic church accepts the books enumerated in
what is known as the Douay edition of the Bible, of 1609; revised and
corrected in 1750. It would therefore be proper to say that each of
these great divisions of Christendom would claim that the list of books
comprised within the respective editions of the Bible which they accept
are the only books of divine authority in the world.
The answer which the Lord in the Book of Mormon is represented as
making to this sectarian view of revelation; as also to this clamor
against the Book of Mormon, is in every way worthy of him:
Thou fool, that shall say, a Bible, we have got a Bible, and we
need no more Bible. * * * 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 isles of the sea;
and that I rule in the heavens above, and in the earth beneath;
and I bring forth my word unto the children of men, yea, even upon
all the nations of the earth? Wherefore murmur ye, because that ye
shall receive more of my word? Know ye not that the testimony of
two nations is a witness unto you that I am God, that I remember
one nation like unto another? Wherefore, I speak the same words
unto one nation like unto another. And when the two nations shall
run together, the testimony of the two nations shall run together
also.
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