March 10 — Mormons Lie to Hide Guilt of Missing Golden Plates. Matthew 5:18 “For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.”
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Dr. Walter Martin’s words about witnessing to Mormons is always a good thing to remember. They point fingers at Christianity to hide their guilt, and divert attention away from truth.
Today’s Mormon reference is a good example of this. From one side of their mouth they claim we can’t know what the Bible said because original manuscripts are no longer extant.
However, they may not realize we have copies of the original they can see known as The Dead Sea Scrolls.
See August 1992 First Presidency Message. When you have the opportunity, lovingly ask if they can look at any remnants of the so-called ‘golden plates’.
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Mormon Doctrine, p. 234 “Moroni deposited the plates in the Hill Cumorah in about 421 A.D., and then as a resurrected being revealed the hiding place to the Prophet on September 22, 1823. Four years later the Prophet was permitted to obtain possession of them, but the actual translation of the portion we now have as the Book of Mormon did not take place until between April 7 and June 11, 1829. Thereafter the plates were returned to the custody of Moroni. (Jos. Smith 2:27-65; D. & C. 27:5; Doctrines of Salvation, vol. 3, pp. 215-226.”
LDS apologist/ historian Richard Bushman said “For most modern readers, the plates are beyond belief, a phantasm, yet the Mormon sources accept them as fact. Smith said that he returned the plates to the angel Moroni after he finished translating them, and their authenticity cannot be determined by physical examination.
So, unlike the Book of Mormon we have plenty accepted copies and texts to refer to, and thanks to modern technology they have been digitized to preserve them. Every accepted translation of the Bible was translated from those copies. Furthermore, any new copies discovered, the translations we already have were then compared to the newer findings. So we know God’s Word does not fail.
The 1611 KJV Bible reads the same as the the KJV version you would buy today at the bookstore. Hasn’t changed in over 400 years.
It’s been a source of comfort to an untold # of people and will continue to be so forever!
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