What does the Book Of Mormon bring . . . .

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mark_a said:
. . . . .that is morally superior to the bible?
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Zerinus, where are you ???
  1. List those ‘errors’ in the Bible.
  2. List the ‘corrections’ in the Book of Mormon
Real simple, even a neophyte mormon missionary could do this, right? Zerinus? Come back! Don’t run away! Zerinus!!

You’re our resident LDS. Give it a go, bro.
 
JonathanKinsman said:
Zerinus: you’re on line at the Forums and not answering the call!

Too hard for you? What is wrong SPECIFICALLY with the Bible that the Book of Mormon “corrects?”
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Oh come on…dont bait or harrass the poor guy…he is problably waiting for his Elders to provide him with a suitable LDS answer:D 😉
 
Karin said:
Oh come on…dont bait or harrass the poor guy…he is problably waiting for his Elders to provide him with a suitable LDS answer:D 😉
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I suppose if I were answering this question, I would say the Book of Mormon brings clarity on a number of issues more than correcting the Bible. For instance, the Book of Mormon clears up the issue of infant baptism and says that it is highly wrong to baptize an infant because an infant hasn’t sinned. It makes the fall a necessary part of God’s plan – basically, Adam and Eve were doing what God wanted them to do when they chose to eat the fruit on the tree because that was the only way they would be able to choose between good and evil. Those are the two major contributions of the Book of Mormon. I suppose another contribution is its insistence that excessive materialism leads inevitably to excessive pride and the fall of civilizations. There is a constant cycle of this in the Book of Mormon. God blesses us materially when we follow him, but once humans get what they need materially they tend to forget and ignore God altogether. The other message of the Book of Mormon is the need for priesthood authority to carry out baptism, etc.
 
christianley said:
I suppose if I were answering this question, I would say the Book of Mormon brings clarity on a number of issues more than correcting the Bible. For instance, the Book of Mormon clears up the issue of infant baptism and says that it is highly wrong to baptize an infant because an infant hasn’t sinned. It makes the fall a necessary part of God’s plan – basically, Adam and Eve were doing what God wanted them to do when they chose to eat the fruit on the tree because that was the only way they would be able to choose between good and evil. Those are the two major contributions of the Book of Mormon. I suppose another contribution is its insistence that excessive materialism leads inevitably to excessive pride and the fall of civilizations. There is a constant cycle of this in the Book of Mormon. God blesses us materially when we follow him, but once humans get what they need materially they tend to forget and ignore God altogether. The other message of the Book of Mormon is the need for priesthood authority to carry out baptism, etc.
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I am sorry are you LDS or Catholic? I am confused you are awnsering like LDS.:confused:
 
Karin said:
I am sorry are you LDS or Catholic? I am confused you are awnsering like LDS.:confused:
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I used to be LDS. Now I’m Catholic. I’m answering as if an LDS might answer that question. I believe the only way we can really understand the LDS is to see the Book of Mormon from their perspective.
 
Karin said:
I am sorry are you LDS or Catholic? I am confused you are awnsering like LDS.:confused:
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Another thing the Book of Mormon clearly teaches is that the Lord’s Supper is only a memorial meal not the body and blood of Christ.
 
The original New Testament Greek text clearly depicts Jesus as calling it “the body of me” and, “the blood of me”.

Think back to the Jewish Passover. Did they put the literal blood of the lamb on the alter and consume the literal body of the lamb, or did they use represenations of them? (The Passover foreshadowed what would happen to the Messiah)
 
Chris_LaRock said:
The original New Testament Greek text clearly depicts Jesus as calling it “the body of me” and, “the blood of me”.

Think back to the Jewish Passover. Did they put the literal blood of the lamb on the alter and consume the literal body of the lamb, or did they use represenations of them? (The Passover foreshadowed what would happen to the Messiah)
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I agree – I love the fact we Catholics believe in the Real Presence, but you won’t find that in the Book of Mormon. Perhaps that is one good sign that it is false.
 
christianley said:
This is not a lie. Blacks did belong to the Church prior to 1978…
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Yes, the very first contact I ever had with a Mormon was a black man in 1977. He was a colleague of mine, and we got to know each other fairly well. We both even moonlighted at the same offduty job (we were in the Army) and so had many conversations about Mormonism vs Christianity. He gave me a BoM and was the first one to tell me to read it and then pray for the BITB. I tried reading it, but it was like drinking turpentine! I prayed fervently for the illumination Paul told me the Holy Spirit would surely confer, but I felt nothing. Later, when he asked me about it, I told him I felt nothing, and he just let the matter drop and, as I recall, the subject never came up between us again. Even though I was, in those days, a novice Christian, knowing almost nothing about Christian doctrine or practice, apart from the salvation experience with the sinner’s prayer, something seemed fishy to me about Mormonism as presented by my friend. Now that I know a little more about Mormonism, especially about its racist past, I often wonder about him, and whether he’s still a Mormon.

But, I can definitely testify that there was at least one black American Mormon as early as 1978.
 
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