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Changing the wording on the thread - to ask the same question but in the inverse so we get straight to the point about no Mormon distinctive doctrines coming from BoM and/or Bible.
1. What are the significant/key/distinctive doctrines of the Mormon church? (Short list please - if possible) -- that DO come from the BoM or Bible and do not need other books (the ones written by Joseph Smith) to sustain them?
2. Are they all stated in either the Book of Mormon or the Bible? Or do you need one of Joseph Smith's books to find/define/support them?
3. What doctrines do Mormons hold to - that they claim are not distinctives for Mormons but rather are in common with all Christians?
4. If all the books written by Joseph Smith were deleted - (assuming the book of Mormon had some other author since it claims to be written by someone other than Joseph Smith) -- because "translating a book is not the same thing as authoring it", if all Smith's books were deleted what doctrines of Mormons would not survive? Doctrines that could no longer be held by the LDS church because they come from Smith's writings?
As I understand it - Mormons claim that in their early history all their missionaries had was the Bible and the book of Mormon -- so then they could not have held to any doctrine that is not found in one of those two books.
1. What are the significant/key/distinctive doctrines of the Mormon church? (Short list please - if possible) -- that DO come from the BoM or Bible and do not need other books (the ones written by Joseph Smith) to sustain them?
2. Are they all stated in either the Book of Mormon or the Bible? Or do you need one of Joseph Smith's books to find/define/support them?
3. What doctrines do Mormons hold to - that they claim are not distinctives for Mormons but rather are in common with all Christians?
4. If all the books written by Joseph Smith were deleted - (assuming the book of Mormon had some other author since it claims to be written by someone other than Joseph Smith) -- because "translating a book is not the same thing as authoring it", if all Smith's books were deleted what doctrines of Mormons would not survive? Doctrines that could no longer be held by the LDS church because they come from Smith's writings?
As I understand it - Mormons claim that in their early history all their missionaries had was the Bible and the book of Mormon -- so then they could not have held to any doctrine that is not found in one of those two books.
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