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- * The authority cited is not an expert in this field - e.g. A Biblical scholar might be very knowledgeable in his own field, but know relatively l ...one knows God doesn't speak to man"; "all Christians accept that the Bible canon is closed"; "everyone knows religious people are deluded."44 KB (7,051 words) - 17:45, 13 April 2024
- ...accurate to compare Joseph Smith with Peter, Abraham, Moses, or any other biblical prophet. To state otherwise is a false comparison that serves no other purp * [[Mormonism and the Bible/Inerrancy|Biblical inerrancy?]]8 KB (1,361 words) - 14:19, 13 April 2024
- ...res, was quite clear that the non-scriptural textual items were helps, not canon, and even granted they could well contain mistakes. This likely applies to ...st critics do not call on their congregations to abandon such literalistic Biblical concepts as:19 KB (3,134 words) - 14:19, 13 April 2024
- *[[Archaeology and the Bible|Book of Mormon and Biblical archaeology]] ...er Biblical doctrines, but it does offer a different interpretation of the Biblical data.29 KB (4,776 words) - 14:20, 13 April 2024
- * [[Mormonism and the Bible/Inerrancy|Biblical inerrancy?]] * [[Mormonism and the Bible/Completeness|Biblical sufficiency?]]5 KB (781 words) - 14:19, 13 April 2024
- * [[Mormonism and the Bible/Inerrancy|Biblical inerrancy?]] * [[Mormonism and the Bible/Completeness|Biblical sufficiency?]]14 KB (2,363 words) - 14:19, 13 April 2024
- ...e Holy Spirit, not just feelings or what is in their heart and to do so is biblical ({{b||John|14|26}}). ...nd that God continues to talk to His children today, the same as he did in biblical times.31 KB (5,234 words) - 14:19, 13 April 2024
- {{Main|Open canon vs. closed canon}} ...her Christians in our beliefs about the nature of God, and reject the post-biblical creeds that attempted to define God's nature (Nicene Creed, Athanasian Cree21 KB (3,648 words) - 15:00, 13 April 2024
- ...rrying sisters or mothers and daughters, therefore Mormon polygamy was not Biblical ...rrying sisters or mothers and daughters, therefore Mormon polygamy was not Biblical==45 KB (7,254 words) - 14:17, 13 April 2024
- ...to understand things by faith. Several scriptures in the Latter-day Saint canon affirm the primacy of reason and of learning through the Spirit--used inter ...nd spirit make the soul (D&C 88:15).<ref>This is essentially the view that biblical scholars recognize as being advocated in the Bible. Donald R. Potts, "Body"8 KB (1,425 words) - 15:34, 13 April 2024
- ...niversal idea and exclamation of the nations of Christendom would be, "the canon of Scrip-{{page break|351|top}}ture is full." Who told them this? From what ...e people, from generation to generation, that the Bible was full, that the canon of scripture was closed, and that it was no more necessary for {{page break24 KB (4,250 words) - 14:42, 13 April 2024
- I suggest that no biblical passage intends to inform us about the condition of God before the beginnin ...eaders that while I believe that my belief is a logical development of the Biblical data, and the early Church Father's teachings, for one who is not a Catholi48 KB (8,193 words) - 14:14, 13 April 2024
- ...e used in conjunction with each other to provide a consistent theory. "The biblical doctrine of the atonement teaches that it is God who initiates and fulfills10 KB (1,638 words) - 15:22, 13 April 2024
- ...hurch of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints|The LDS Church]] has [[Biblical canon|canonized]] part of this 1838 account as part of its [[religious text|scrip3 KB (452 words) - 13:34, 13 April 2024
- ...Jesus in the New Testament.<ref>Kenton Sparks, ''Sacred Word, Broken Word: Biblical Authority and the Dark Side of Scripture'' (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdman’s P ...in 2016. Along with impossible riches amassed from taxation and trade, the biblical ruler’s personal fortune could have surpassed $2 trillion in today’s mo51 KB (8,337 words) - 21:51, 12 April 2024
- *The revelation (still included in the Mormon canon) specifically provided the amount of stock to be owned by any individual an ...as a corrupted form of temple rituals that had descended directly from the biblical Solomon and were restored to their true, pristine form by the inspired Jose43 KB (6,425 words) - 13:34, 13 April 2024
- |H=Articles related to the Latter-day Saint Scripture Canon |L2=The consistency of the Mormon scripture canon572 bytes (73 words) - 14:57, 13 April 2024
- ...amed rivers represent four of the great rivers of the known world, yet the Biblical description does not match any modern known configuration. If the critics c ...double standard, they'd have to realize that there are more differences in Biblical manuscripts of the New Testament than there are words in the New Testament!51 KB (8,385 words) - 14:00, 13 April 2024
- *David E. Bokovoy, "Joseph Smith and the Biblical Council of Gods" [http://www.fairlds.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/2010-Da ...: The Cultural Context of Hierophanies and Theophanies in Latter-day Saint Canon" [http://maxwellinstitute.byu.edu/publications/studies/?vol=3&id=72 (Maxwel14 KB (1,963 words) - 17:53, 18 September 2017
- |spin=For the shock value, the author has invoked a biblical prohibition under the Mosaic law and applied it to 19th century plural marr |facts=Joseph Smith was not observing the biblical Mosaic Law, which was fulfilled and done away with at the time of Jesus Chr47 KB (7,393 words) - 14:21, 13 April 2024