God has revealed many things to me. Should my revelation be added to the Bible?
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If we read the ENTIRE word of the Lord, then there is an answer to our questions. We are told in Isaiah that it is good to discuss scripture. We are told in the sermon on the Mount how to discuss scripture when Christ explained what murder was, for we are not to even say "you fool" to others. In other words, we are to let all others explain their interpretation. In Acts it tells us of what to do if others explain incorrectly when it was decided that if the explanation was from God it would last and if it wasn't it would die. And last we are told that we are not to either add or take away from scripture. Nothing anyone tells us about scripture is to be considered an addition or taking away, it is only to be subjected to agreeing or disagreeing with scripture.
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For the simple reason that your beliefs are rather shaky, as seen in your posts. How do you even know that God revealed anything to you? How do you know that another spirit did not give you some bizarre revelations? So give us a sample of the revelations you have received. They will either prove to be true or simply lies. To the Law and to the Testimony: if they speak not according to this Word, it is because there is no light in them. (Isaiah 8:20)
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Prophesy is proclaiming God's words. So people that prophesied in the past usually just said, "thus saith the Lord." In those days, the scriptures weren't complete, so a lot of prophesy of the Lord was of future events. Today, exhorting each other in the written scriptures is like prophesying. It's different than saying, "thus saith the Lord." Nowadays you cite book/chapter/verse. It's the same thing as proclaiming God's word because the scriptures are his words.
But we believe that God's word has been completed from Genesis to Revelation. That doesn't mean people aren't given revelations. Revelations are the spiritual understanding of certain scriptures. I say certain because to have complete revelation of all the dark sayings of the entire scriptures is daunting.
So, if you're Joseph Smith and you believe you found angelic tablets written in angelic language that you spend 3 or however many years discerning and then telling others, I would think those types of prophesies outside of God's completed word are of a "perverse spirit," not the Lord.
But we believe that God's word has been completed from Genesis to Revelation. That doesn't mean people aren't given revelations. Revelations are the spiritual understanding of certain scriptures. I say certain because to have complete revelation of all the dark sayings of the entire scriptures is daunting.
So, if you're Joseph Smith and you believe you found angelic tablets written in angelic language that you spend 3 or however many years discerning and then telling others, I would think those types of prophesies outside of God's completed word are of a "perverse spirit," not the Lord.
