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
And I do this that I may prove unto many that I am the same
yesterday, today, and forever; and that I speak forth my words
according to mine own pleasure. And because that I have spoken one
word, ye need not suppose that I cannot speak another; for my work
is not yet finished; neither shall it be, until the end of man;
neither from that time henceforth and forever. Wherefore, because
that ye have a Bible, ye need not suppose that it contains all my
words; neither need ye suppose that I have not caused more to be
written; for I command all men, both in the east and in the west,
and in the north and in the south, and in the islands of the sea,
that they shall write the words which I speak unto them: for out
of the books which shall be written, I will judge the world, every
man according to his works, according to that which is written. For
behold, I shall speak unto the Jews, and they shall write it; and
I shall also speak unto the Nephites, and they shall write it; and
I shall also speak unto the other tribes of the house of Israel,
which I have led away, and they shall write it; and I shall also
speak unto all nations of the earth, and they shall write it. And
it shall come to pass that the Jews shall have the words of the
Nephites, and the Nephites shall have the words of the Jews; and
the Nephites and the Jews shall have the words of the lost tribes
of Israel; and the lost tribes of Israel shall have the words of
the Nephites and the Jews. And it shall come to pass that my people
which are of the house of Israel shall be gathered home unto the
lands of their possession; and my word also shall be gathered in
one. [38]
I say this answer is worthy of God to utter, and worthy of man to heed.
It lifts us entirely out of narrow, sectarian views of revelation,
and breathes a universal spirit of interest and love for mankind. It
carries within itself the evidence of a divine inspiration. Its very
worthiness of God is a testimony of its truth. How petty and unworthy
in contrast with it is that sectarian Christian view that would limit
God's revealed word to the few books contained in the Bible! How
partial and unjust does that same sectarian view of revelation make
God appear! If there is one doctrine more emphasized in the teachings
of the New Testament that another, it is that God is no respecter
of persons; "but in every nation he that feareth him, and worketh
righteousness, is accepted with him." [39] With this fact in mind let us
test the two conceptions of God's dealings with man in the matter of
revelation. The narrow, sectarian, "Christian" view, and the Book of
Mormon view; and this for the purpose of ascertaining which would be
the more worthy of God, which most like him.
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