LDS? How about maybe a New Revelation from God? A new beleif?

Question

So the Mormons (LDS) beleive that this Joseph Smith dude got some special revelation for God and even got revelations enough to create a new book (the Book of Mormon) and millions of people fell for it. So what if I claimed I got revelations from God, created my own new Bible and a new beleif system who is ready to follow me?

Answer 1

lol

Answer 2

There's an old saying, often attributed to Mark Twain but I believe he only paraphrased it, as I will: It is better to hold your peace and be thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt. Now please don't get offended. People do this all the time and I think you ought to just learn from it and move on.
I think that cows will learn to talk before you create something comparable to the Book of Mormon. So far, it's stood up to 177 years of scrutiny and the evidence to support it is growing. So much so that anti-Mormons don't even try to refute the evidence anymore, they just spew their same tired old arguments. The most recent half-serious argument against the Book of Mormon had to do with DNA research but that was three years ago and numerous articles (containing actual evidence rather than conjecture) have shown why that argument just doesn't work.
Why don't you try reading the Book of Mormon?

Answer 3

You need to get your facts right before you spew some 'facts' about a religion.

Joseph Smith did not 'get revelations enough to create a new book (The Book of Mormon.)'

The Book of Mormon was complied by a prophet who abridged the history, as the book is named after Mormon. The Book of Mormon is complied of peoples who lived in the Americas and is a witness of Jesus Christ appearing in the Americas.

The Bible is a testimony of Jesus Christ of the peoples who lived in the East.

Joseph Smith was and is a prophet of God and he translated the Book of Mormon by the power of God. Have you prayed to know if it's true? I doubt it.

Answer 4

First of all, the Book of Mormon is not a "new Bible". It works WITH the Bible.

I would like to challenge you to write a book like the Book of Mormon. Here is the challenge given to some college students, by an LDS professor.

>>...the Book of Mormon is anything but gibberish to one who takes the trouble to read it. Here is an assignment which we like to give to classes of Oriental (mostly Moslem) students studying the Book of Mormon (it is required) at the Brigham Young University:

Since Joseph Smith was younger than most of you and not nearly so experienced or well-educated as any of you at the time he copyrighted the Book of Mormon, it should not be too much to ask you to hand in by the end of the semester (which will give you more time than he had) a paper of, say, five to six hundred pages in length. Call it a sacred book if you will, and give it the form of a history. Tell of a community of wandering Jews in ancient times; have all sorts of characters in your story, and involve them in all sorts of public and private vicissitudes; give them names--hundreds of them--pretending that they are real Hebrew and Egyptian names of circa 600 B.C.; be lavish with cultural and technical details--manners and customs, arts and industries, political and religious institutions, rites, and traditions, include long and complicated military and economic histories; have your narrative cover a thousand years without any large gaps; keep a number of interrelated local histories going at once; feel free to introduce religious controversy and philosophical discussion, but always in a plausible settings observe the appropriate literary conventions and explain the derivation and transmission of your varied historical materials. Above all, do not ever contradict yourself! For now we come to the really hard part of this little assignment. You and I know that you are making this all up--we have our little joke--but just the same you are going to be required to have your paper published when you finish it, not as fiction or romance, but as a true history! After you have handed it in you may make no changes in it (in this class we always use the first edition of the Book of Mormon); what is more, you are to invite any and all scholars to read and criticize your work freely, explaining to them that it is a sacred book on a par with the Bible. If they seem over-skeptical, you might tell them that you translated the book from original records by the aid of the Urim and Thummim--they will love that! Further to allay their misgivings, you might tell them that the original manuscript was on golden plates, and that you got the plates from an angel. Now go to work and good luck!

To date no student has carried out this assignment, which, of course, was not meant seriously. But why not? If anybody could write the Book of Mormon, as we have been so often assured, it is high time that somebody, some devoted and learned minister of the gospel, let us say, performed the invaluable public service of showing the world that it can be done.<<

Have you ever read the Book of Mormon? Youcan read it online for free.

Answer 5

HE DID NOT GET REVELATIONS TO CREATE A NEW BOOK! The Book of Mormon had already been written by old prohpets like Nephi! He simply translated them.
Go take your hate somewhere else.

Answer 6

The Savior has said, “Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me” (Revelation 3:20).

Answer 7

the only one I follow, is Jesus.