Mormon was responsible for keeping the historical records safe and well, which has given opportunity for people of different civilizations and generations to read and learn from it after thousands of years since his death. The Book of Mormon testifies of Jesus Christ, invites all people to learn of Him, and teaches how to become more like Him. The more we know of Jesus Christ and his teachings, the more equipped we are to follow His perfect example.
Click here for a free copy of the Book of Mormon. How We Got the Book of Mormon. What is the Book of Mormon, and how does it compare to the Bible? One of the things that I found very effective to stay positive despite the hard situations we face in life, is to always remember the Lord Jesus Christ and His atonement, and the sweet feeling I feel from the Holy Ghost every time I read The Book of Mormon.
Through remembering our Savior Jesus Christ, His sacrifice and by reading The Book of Mormon, I can feel peace within my bosom and obtain the spiritual power to keep moving forward. I testify that Jesus is the Christ and that He lives. He is our advocate to our Heavenly Father, He is our Savior and Redeemer, and He is always anxious and willing to help us.
I also bear my witness that The Book of Mormon is true. This very sacred book was prepared by God for our time in order for us to come to know Him, and the way to follow Him, so that we may be saved in the last day together with our families and loved ones. As we study diligently and use The Book of Mormon in all our endeavors, I know that our choices and steps will be guided.
I know that I have been rescued by our Master. Therefore, I know that anyone that will come unto Him may be rescued as well, and their faith in Him will be strengthened despite the hardships, even the hardest situation that will come to them.
However, many outsiders do not agree. The fact that twenty-two percent of recently polled Americans would oppose voting for a Mormon for President causes one to wonder why there is such opposition to Mormonism in its country of origin. According to a standard dictionary definition of Christians "as believers and followers of Christ", Mormons are Christians. Jan Shipps, a Methodist and noted scholar of Mormonism, is often asked whether she believes Mormons are Christians and responds with questions of whether the question is analytical, analogical, historiographical or theological and religious.
From this viewpoint, Mormonism can be seen to diverge from traditional Christianity in four areas: its views on scripture, the nature of God and the deification of believers; the deity of Christ and the trinity, and finally, salvation. With respect to scripture, Mormons differ from traditional Christian groups in that they accept extra books in their canon. The Doctrine and Covenants is a compilation of the revelations given to the Priesthood, namely those given to Joseph Smith.
The Book of Mormon is the most controversial addition to the canon. It is a supposed record of ancient groups in the Americas, and begins with a family moving from Jerusalem, shortly before its destruction, to the New World. The climax of the record is a visit of the resurrected Jesus Christ in the Americas. Although the records, inscribed on gold plates, were lost shortly after this in the fourth century, the burier of the book, Moroni, is said to have returned in the early 19 th century as an angel in a revelation to Joseph Smith and led him to the plates.
Smith then translated these into English as the Book of Mormon. The lack of evidence about these golden plates and a message reflective of the times led many critics to believe that the book is a fanciful fabrication. As shown by the acceptance of the extra-biblical works, Mormons maintain a canon open to further revelation from God.
Mormons believe that the death of the apostles led to the death of apostolic succession and that the traditional church perpetuated a false line of apostolic succession. Christian critics argue that the canon is closed because the last two verses of the Book of Revelation say that if you add or subtract from the New Testament you will be accursed, but Mormons hold this warning to be only true of the Book of Revelation and not the entire Bible.
Robinson states that it is unbiblical to believe that the Bible is a closed canon as there is no biblical statement within it that prohibits additional revelation and that the Book of Revelation was written prior to the formation of the Bible; therefore, the warning can only speak to its own book. Another point of divergence between traditional Christian doctrine and Mormon doctrine is the belief in human deification and thus the nature of God.
According to a recent study, over three-quarters of Mormons surveyed stated belief in pre-mortal existence of humans as spirits, human deification during mortal life, and eternal marriage after death.
Furthermore, the parallels tying the stories together occur on multiple levels, both in the underlying structural framework and in the specific language used to express ideas and events which accounts for the unusual appearance of a sixteenth-century, Protestant reconfiguration of traditional martyr narratives in the year B.
In the first of the two passages, Bunyan the narrator is having a dream about Christian, the main character of the story, who lives in the City of Destruction.
The dream opens with Christian reading a book that causes him to weep and tremble. He is frightened because the city where he is living is about to be destroyed. He returns home in distress and goes to bed, but he cannot sleep. He tells his family about the imminent destruction of the city, but they become hardened and refuse to believe him. Christian finally decides he must leave the city.
Christian then departs the city alone in search of his inheritance, the Celestial kingdom. In the second of the two passages, Christian is at the House of the Interpreter.
In this episode, Christian is ushered through a series of allegories, presented with living dioramas, of various conditions of sin and righteousness. He observes a man shaking and trembling after rising from bed following a dream Job
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