Showing posts with label lost scriptures. Show all posts
Showing posts with label lost scriptures. Show all posts

Friday, February 5, 2010

3 Books of Enoch

There are 3 books purporting to be the books of Enoch.  They are pseudepigrapha, meaning they are written under an assumed name and written long after the supposed author.  However, they may contain some truths.

Jude quotes from the Book of Enoch,
Jude 1:14 And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints,
Here are links to the Book of Enoch.
http://reluctant-messenger.com/enoch.htm
http://reluctant-messenger.com/1enoch01-60.htm

the Ethiopian Orthodox Church to this day regards it (The Book of Enoch) to be canonicalhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Enoch


 This photo is Chester Beatty XII, Greek manuscript of the Book of Enoch, 4th century.


Apparently there are more books than just the Book of Enoch that are missing from the Bible.

http://mormonbible.org/holy-bible/lost-books - This is a very well written article that references verses in the Bible that refer to other books, which are not found in the Bible.

Here's an article that quotes an ad for a New Bible: 

An interesting advertisement inadvertently testifies of Mormon beliefs

The ad linked below is to The Holy Bible in its Original Order: A New English Translation.
http://www.restoringtheoriginalbible.com/.  There's nothing like having sectarian Christians prove Mormon doctrine true, all in the name of trying to make a buck.

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Thursday, January 21, 2010

They are written, but not on these plates. Omni 1:18

With so many references to the other writings of the Nephites, it leads one's curiosity to want to read more.

Jarom1:14 And I, Jarom, do not write more, for the plates are small. But behold, my brethren, ye can go to the other plates of Nephi; for behold, upon them the records of our wars are engraven, according to the writings of the kings, or those which they caused to be written.


How can we go to the other plates of Nephi?   

1 Nephi 19:4 Wherefore, I, Nephi, did make a record upon the other plates, which gives an account, or which gives a greater account of the wars and contentions and destructions of my people.

Jacob 3:13 And a hundredth part of the proceedings of this people, which now began to be numerous, cannot be written upon these plates; but many of their proceedings are written upon the larger plates
2 Nephi:14 For I, Nephi, was constrained to speak unto them, according to his word; for I had spoken many things unto them, and also my father, before his death; many of which sayings are written upon mine other plates; for a more history part are written upon mine other plates.

The larger plates are not the only records that the Nephites had.

Mosiah 25:5-6 And it came to pass that Mosiah did read, and caused to be read, the records of Zeniff to his people; yea, he read the records of the people of Zeniff, from the time they left the land of Zarahemla until they returned again.    6 And he also read the account of Alma and his brethren, and all their afflictions, from the time they left the land of Zarahemla until the time they returned again.
   23 And he said: Behold it proceedeth out of the mouth of a Jew. And I, Nephi, beheld it; and he said unto me: The book that thou beholdest is a record of the Jews, which contains the covenants of the Lord, which he hath made unto the house of Israel; and it also containeth many of the prophecies of the holy prophets; and it is a record like unto the engravings which are upon the plates of brass, save there are not so many; nevertheless, they contain the covenants of the Lord, which he hath made unto the house of Israel; wherefore, they are of great worth unto the Gentiles.


According to this the plates of brass have much more scripture than the Bible.