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| + | #REDIRECT [[Question: Does the fact that the Bible states that nothing should be "added to" or "taken away" from the book mean that the Book of Mormon is false?]] |
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| − | ==Criticism==
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| − | Critics claim that the Book of Mormon cannot be true because the nothing should be "added to" or "taken away from" the Holy Bible.
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| − | ===Source(s) of the criticism===
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| − | *"[Joseph] Smith apparently was either oblivious to the expressed warning about adding to or substracting from the Word of God, or willfully disobedient to it (see Rev. 22:18,19)." - "Dr." Walter Martin, ''Mormonism'' (Minneapolis, Minnesota: Bethany House Publishers, 1984), 29.
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| − | ==Response==
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| − | The verse often cited (as by Martin, above) is [http://scriptures.lds.org/rev/22/18#19 Revelation 22:18-19]:
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| − | :18 For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book: 19 And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.
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| − | Critics claim that this verse states that the Bible is complete, and no other scripture exists or will be forthcoming.
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| − | However, the critics ignore:
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| − | ==Conclusion==
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| − | ==Endnotes==
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| − | ''None''
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| − | ==Further reading==
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| − | ===FAIR wiki articles===
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| − | ===FAIR web site===
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| − | *FAIR Topical Guide:[http://www.fairlds.org/apol/ai104.html Bible Complete] - no additional scripture
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| − | *Scott Gordon, "To Add To or To Take From," (Mesa, Arizona: FAIR, April 2002)[http://www.fairlds.org/pubs/AddOrTake.pdf *]
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| − | ===External links===
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| − | *{{Ensign1|author=Howard W. Hunter|article=No Man Shall Add to or Take Away|date=May 1981|start=64}} [http://library.lds.org/library/lpext.dll/ArchMagazines/Ensign/1981.htm/ensign%20may%201981.htm/no%20man%20shall%20add%20to%20or%20take%20away.htm?fn=document-frame.htm&f=templates&2.0 *]
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| − | *{{aremormonschristians}}[http://www.lightplanet.com/mormons/response/general/christians/ser5.htm Chapter 6]
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| − | ===Printed material===
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