I actually asked someone else this question earlier but he didn’t know. With the discovery of the dead sea scrolls in aramaic is it possible that the LDS Church might add what is usually called the apocrypha to the official church cannon?
Speaking in terms of religion I could not disagree more with them. But as people and I have worked with many, I found them to be great people.
OK. I was refering to the Golden Plates, as that most closely parallels the translation situation of the Bible, but taking what you said to be true: What then do you think accounts for the quantitative and (more importantly) qualitative changes to the BoM, in the absence of translation issues? What reason could there be for the sorts of changes written about on the page I linked?
Because they were not found to be written in Aramaic or Hebrew, Luther would not allow them full status as he did with the rest of the bible. To him they became the apocrypha. See the Council of Jamnia around 70 AD. That is where the Jewish Canon was set.
If they teach different things? You are making stuff up. If you take 16 Bibles, and they all say the same thing but the one, well then, you know the one is up in the night.
I don’t know why the Protestants had rejected the apocrypha. Our reasons were not the same as theirs. We excluded the apocrypha from the Bible by the commandment of the Lord; and the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls does not alter that:
That scripture is section 91 of the Doctrine and Covenants. We have three additional volumes of scripture besides the Bible; they are the Book of Mormon, the Doctrine and Covenants, and the Pearl of Great Price.
To answer your slightly off track question, I believe it is because most people in the United States are taught “toleration at any cost”. And in my specific case, I had no interest at all in them until they got my daughter. In an attempt to live peacefully (and because I now have frequent door-to-door Mormon missionaries), I tried to learn as much as I could. And while I agree, that there is sometimes “less than nice” behavior, I don’t think that gives us the right to return that “less than nice” behavior. IMO, we who are Catholics have a duty toward “noblesse oblige”. (Perhaps I should be more like the Early Church Fathers and treat them as they are–usurpers and poachers of Christ’s Church, but …)
If you are looking to archaeology to bolster your faith in religion you are looking in the wrong place.Have you guys found archaeological evidence of the Lamanites and uhmm what was the other tribe again?
Great point to make if I was a Mormon. Hmmm that gives me an idea…
Yeah, cos don’t you know that there were never any such people as Ethiopians, Canaanites, Aramaeans, Arabs, etc.! The Bible made all of those people up! Looking for evidence is useless…
The answer to that is actually yes. See the videos that why me gave in this thread:
I wrote an article about that in my Blog, that you might find interesting:
