Why Didn't Adam Write Anything?

[Bishka]

If you could find holy books that weren't in the "original" canon of the Bible, would you read them to help understand God better?

Maybe there were, but surley Adam and Eve would have been credited for having written something!

That's why one of the articles of faith of the LDS Church is We believe the Bible to be the word God as far as it is translated corrected, we also believe the Book of Mormon to be the word of God"

This means we believe that things were taken out of the Bible and things were changed.

 

[Katzpur]

If you could find holy books that weren't in the "original" canon of the Bible, would you read them to help understand God better?

Absolutely. I'll take truth from whatever source it may come to me.

 

[Buttons*]

True. Think of how much did not make it into the Bible.

at least 700 pages of scripture! (Nag Hammadi Library)

 

[Bishka]

at least 700 pages of scripture! (Nag Hammadi Library)

True, but what was left out, we may never know, we will?

 

[Buttons*]

Didnt mean to lead yall off topic there... So Adam could very well have written something down and we'd never know it, but wouldnt God have preserved that bit of his own history or protected it for the prophets like Moses and whoever?

 

[Buttons*]

True, but what was left out, we may never know, we will?

Not in my lifetime anyway....

 

[Aqualung]

If you could find holy books that weren't in the "original" canon of the Bible, would you read them to help understand God better?

Yes.

Maybe there were, but surley Adam and Eve would have been credited for having written something!

Once again, maybe they were given credit, but that part hasn't made it into the bible, either.

 

[Bishka]

Didnt mean to lead yall off topic there... So Adam could very well have written something down and we'd never know it, but wouldnt God have preserved that bit of his own history or protected it for the prophets like Moses and whoever?

True, true. Moses may have gotten it, where else would he have gotten the story of the creation? God's reasons are sometimes unknown, sometimes he takes things away and we haven't the slightest idea why. That's where a lot of LDS doctrine comes in, I believe.

 

[Buttons*]

Once again, maybe they were given credit, but that part hasn't made it into the bible, either.

Possibly, but something THAT monumental i doubt would be left out!

 

[Bishka]

Hehe. Think about buttons, all the LDS are saying, yes, we would read something not in the Bible, and yes, it may not have made it in there. Tee-hee, I just thought that interesting, don't mind me.

 

[Aqualung]

Possibly, but something THAT monumental i doubt would be left out!

Why do you doubt it so much? Who knows how monumental the stuff that's been left out really is?

 

[Bishka]

Possibly, but something THAT monumental i doubt would be left out!

Did you see what I posted?

 

[Aqualung]

Hehe. Think about buttons, all the LDS are saying, yes, we would read something not in the Bible, and yes, it may not have made it in there. Tee-hee, I just thought that interesting, don't mind me.

LOL!! What if, in addition to the records of adam and eve, there was also a record of people crossing the ocean to the americas?

 

[Bishka]

LOL!! What if, in addition to the records of adam and eve, there was also a record of people crossing the ocean to the americas?

Seriously. The Catholic church(not to be rude) and other churches took out a lot of things out of the bible. And think how many versions of the Bible there are today. Think of how much has really been taken out.

 

[Buttons*]

I think anything written by the founders of a whole species would be pretty damn important. Monumental, maybe not, but important nonetheless. I should have known better than to ask that one question about things being left out of the Bible. Dur on me. *sigh*

 

[Katzpur]

I think anything written by the founders of a whole species would be pretty damn important. Monumental, maybe not, but important nonetheless. I should have known better than to ask that one question about things being left out of the Bible. Dur on me. *sigh*

I'm sure it was very important, but 6000 years is an awfully long time ago.

 

[Buttons*]

LOL!! What if, in addition to the records of adam and eve, there was also a record of people crossing the ocean to the americas?

that would certainly be something...

i should have known better than to direct that sort of question to the members of the LDS church

 

[Buttons*]

I'm sure it was very important, but 6000 years is an awfully long time ago.

2000 is pretty long, not NEAR as long as 6000, but we've got stuff from a long time ago... (boy do i sound smart... :bonk: )

 

[blood-lord14]

eve+christ=mary+joseph=christ+god=adam+eve=cain and abel....
christ was,christ is,christ will be,cain altars humanities sins,abel altars humanities virtues/love.
makes any since,that kinda explains how the bible works..in a weird yet possible way.

 

[SoyLeche]

Just thought I'd let you know one of the reasons the LDS people are coming to Adam's defence. LDS scripture does mention that writings of Adam did exist at one point.

Moses 6: 5-8

5 - And a book of rememberance was kept, in the which was recorded, in the language of Adam, for it was given unto as many as called upon God to write by the spirit of inspiration;

6 - And by them their children were taught to read and write, having a language which was pure and undefiled.

7 - Now this same Priesthood, which was in the beginning, shall be in the end of the world also.

8 - Now this prophecy Adam spake, as he was moved upon by the Holy Ghost, and a geneology was kept of the children of God. And this was the book of the generations of Adam, saying: In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him;

9 - In the image of his own body, male and female,created he them, and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created and became living souls in the land upon the footstool of God.