Izzy,-----Original Message----- One of the tenets of Christian theology is that the canon of scripture is closed (as mentioned in Jude 3), and that there will be no more revelation of the kind Joseph Smith purports to have received, i.e., revelation that reveals anything more than the Bible reveals, contradicts the Bible, or reveals any new doctrines that were not aready revealed in the Bible.Perry, I agree with that. I believe today's revelation can give deeper understanding of scripture. Of course true revelation never contradicts correct interpretation of scripture. I don't believe in extra-Biblical "scripture"--a sure sign of apostasy. Izzy
I used to think that was so, too. But if the meaning of a section of scripture is revealed to me, and revealed to you, and we disagree, how do we go about determining the truth?
Herein lies a problem. To you YOUR revealed interpretation is the correct one, and to me MY revealed interpretation is the correct one.
There are only 4 possibilities here: 1) the true meaning was revealed to me and not to you, 2) the true meaning was revealed to you and not to me, 3) the true meaning was not revealed to either of us, or 4) the Holy Spirit has contradicted himself by revealing different meanings to each of us.
How are we to choose which of the above 4 possibilities are correct?
The answer is we join TruthTalk and let the LDS tell us THEIR revealed interpretation is the only right one! (laughing)
Perry
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