What is missing from the bible?

[sojourner]

Originally Posted by tomspug

A wicked guitar intro and all of the dead jedi showing up at the end to wave goodbye.

Don't forget "The Stars and Stripes forever," with the Thunderbirds flyover, trailing colored smoke.

[Ronald]

If I were God, I would have given a visible sign, when someone thumbed his nose at me three times there would be a very, very small puff of smoke and that one would be no more.

The world would either be a sparsely settled world or a world with a lot of God Fearers! That is my ungodly side. LOL

But God is doing quite well without my help. He loved us while we were yet sinners. Much better than me!

Shalom

[Scuba Pete]

Originally Posted by Ronald

If I were God, I would have given a visible sign, when someone thumbed his nose at me three times there would be a very, very small puff of smoke and that one would be no more.

There is some great comfort then in you NOT being God. God has already been painted as a megalomaniac by his followers. We surely don't need a real one at the helm.

[Ronald]

Originally Posted by Scuba Pete

There is some great comfort then in you NOT being God. God has already been painted as a megalomaniac by his followers. We surely don't need a real one at the helm.

Why did you paint him a megalomaniac?
Seems you are a selective reader.
But I've come to expect that from Christians. Todah rabah

[Jayhawker Soule]

Originally Posted by Ronald

But I've come to expect that from Christians.

Why should your expectations be deemed relevant?

[idea]

Infant baptism – necessary or not? what about mentally ill?
Baptism by immersion or sprinkling?
Prophets - do they still exist? Will revelation ever cease?
The nature of God – person? Trinity?
Works vs grace? Relationship between justice, grace, mercy…
More about the creation process.
The words of the sacrament prayer
Baptism of fire – Laying on of hands to receive the Holy Ghost?
Blessings – who can give them? How?
Priesthood authority – who has it? what is it needed for?
Explanation of Baptisms for the Dead
Where did we come from?
Clear description of Heaven / hell / who goes where/ what happens there? Harps? Halos?
Marriage / celibacy – which is better?
Do we have free agency? Explain predestination?
Perfect creator / imperfect creation…??? 93:29-31
Where did Satan come from? Why did he fall?
How do you know what is true?
The date of the second coming (JK - No, we don’t know that one)

With all of the ambiguous doctrines and differences between the Christian faiths, obviously there are a lot of things not included in the Bible.

How about another testament of Jesus Christ, a history of another people on another continent under the same God – God’s dealings with someone other than the Jewish people? (I love Jewish people, but by two or three witnesses shall every word be established J God rules the entire world, not just one people.) something with specific guidance for those living now, in the Latter Days???

J
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Actually what I would really like to know is what it is like on other worlds. Our world was the only one capable of killing Jesus… other worlds prob have more utopian living conditions… and how was it decided who would go to which worlds? Why do we not get to know about them, while they get to know about us? (they must know about Jesus). Do they avoid us because of how violent we are? Sorry, that was prob really out there…

[Katzpur]

Originally Posted by Scuba Pete

Perhaps it would be more fitting to precede each of your posts?

LOL!

However, I just don't find Scripture lacking in any way. Everything you need to know about yourself and God is right there, if you let the Spirit guide you into it's truth and meaning.

How do you know that everything you need to know is there? Suppose we only had the gospel according to Matthew, and weren't even aware of the other three gospel accounts? You'd probably say, "Everything you need to know about God is right there." I'm sure we could all learn quite a bit about Jesus' ministry from Matthew, and we wouldn't even know what we were missing. But isn't it nice to have three other accounts? We have several of Paul's epistles and they teach us a lot of important things. But some of these epistles mention others and suggest that they are also worth reading. Too bad they're missing. Personally, I love the Bible, particularly the gospels. I suspect I would be able to get a pretty fair understanding of Jesus Christ's teachings if that's all I had to go on. On the other hand, I want to have all the information about God, what my relationship with Him can be and what He expects of me that I possibly can.

Most who mock it have their own agenda of paranoia, arrogance and theophobia.

True.

[idea]

Originally Posted by Willamena

Understanding.

I think willamena has the right answer. There are too many holes, leads to too much contention.

Yes, Mormons love the Bible and use it...
As a convert I can say I love the bible a whole lot more now (with some holes filled in) than I used to.