Originally posted by Justbyfaith
Good point Shaky, however,...greek is greek and hebrew is hebrew. What is says is what it says.
That make to sense. if you could read the original text, you would see how the translation have distorted the text. That is why much of the dead sea scrolls are still not published.
Originally posted by Alliance
for modern prophets, preferable living ones.
Our current prophet is Gordon B. Hinckley. As far as prophets that have a lot of writings go, Joseph Smith and Brigham Young would be the best ones to look up. Brigham Young wrote a lot, the Journal of Discourses has a lot of writings of his.
Originally posted by Justbyfaith
One thing that makes the bible unique is it's 66 books. They flow as if they were written by one Author. There are 44 Authors of which many have never meet one another other before and have lived in completely different regions and completely different times. I believe it is God inspired just as the scriptures say it is.
Yes, my point exactly. The Bible is one people's text. I don't believe the form follows God's style of writing, it follows the Hebrews' style. The Tao te Ching follows the Chinese style, others follow other styles. The messages are often similar in many ways.
Originally posted by Regret
Our current prophet is Gordon B. Hinckley. As far as prophets that have a lot of writings go, Joseph Smith and Brigham Young would be the best ones to look up. Brigham Young wrote a lot, the Journal of Discourses has a lot of writings of his.
I think Hinkley's a good guy from what I've read. Do mormon's always have a current prophet?
Originally posted by Alliance
Doesn't that seem a bit arbitrary? To always HAVE to have one? Surely even your god has dry spells 😄.Is there ever more than one prophet?
Can you tell me when Christ is comming again? I want to watch 😄 😆
Not all prophets have written large amounts of scripture. Even in the Bible there are periods where a prophet has no words shown at all, just mention that he was there. During the period of Jeremiah it says the prophets left, we have little if any writing from them.
We believe that there are a number of prophets at any given time. We also believe that they have stewardship's, and only our current leader, the only one we frequently use the term prophet for, has the ability to receive revelation for the entire church/world. We would have said that Jeremiah was probably the prophet at his time, and probably the only one that would receive revelation for the Israelites and the world as a whole, even if others existed at the same time.
No we don't, but we do believe in the Bible, and believe much of the book of Revelations is describing the times surrounding the second coming of Christ.
Originally posted by lil bitchinessNoone doubts existence of Jesus - i never questioned existence of Jesus, he has a historical figure.
Bible's claim of his divinity is the question.
Ehh... I do. That is, I question the existence of Jesus. There is no archaeological evidence that he ever existed, nor did any contemporary greek or roman writers mention him with a single line.
Originally posted by Alliance
So does this alpha prophet become holy because he is ordained by the people, or is he ordained by your god to become the alpha prophet ?
We believe he is chosen by God, at the present time through the prophets. We believe the current twelve apostles together hold the same amount authority as the current prophet, but do not have the authority to speak for God to all people. When the prophet dies the twelve apostles have the authority to bestow the authority they hold on the prophet's successor, typically a member of the twelve, and typically the senior member of the twelve. We believe that this is the way that church authority worked following Christ's death and resurrection.
Originally posted by Shakyamunison
He could have just been unimportant.
First off I know my spelling isn't the greatest...
Very true, But if there was a man that challenged the Jewish church, cured a blind man, was resurrected, and was born from a Virgin. Then there should of been some sort of mention of him etleast somewhere. Doing miraculas things like curing something that was at the time incurable like M.S. now a days. It would put you in some sort of book, scroll, or etleast somewhere.
Originally posted by DontEatAnAnimal
First off I know my spelling isn't the greatest...Very true, But if there was a man that challenged the Jewish church, cured a blind man, was resurrected, and was born from a Virgin. Then there should of been some sort of mention of him etleast somewhere. Doing miraculas things like curing something that was at the time incurable like M.S. now a days. It would put you in some sort of book, scroll, or etleast somewhere.
Outside of the Bible, he really is not mentioned. And Jesus only did those things if you beliefe the Bible to be infallible.