We believe all that God has revealed, all that He does now reveal, and we believe that He

will yet reveal many great and important things pertaining to the Kingdom of God.

We believe all that God has revealed

God has always revealed to his prophets through revelation. This is part of his plan of
Salvation for us – To receive revelation through living prophets no matter what time we’re
allocated here in earth…
Amos 3: 7.
7 Surely the Lord God will do nothing, but he revealeth his secrets unto his servants the
prophets.

We can witness for ourselves the revelations given to living prophets. Twice a year we can
here the words of living prophets sink deep into our souls. We can allow the Holy Ghost to
witness to us that these great men speak the truth directly from God. We can even read
their words in the Ensign, the Liahonna and other church publications and manuals.

We can even see and learn for ourselves that revelation is alive today through a book. A
book translated through the gift and power of God; The Book of Mormon.

He does now reveal

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Some Christians have declared that there could not be any more scriptures further then
the old and new testament. On my mission I constantly discovered how quickly people
would reject the idea of new additional scriptures. In pronouncing that there could be no
addition to the currently canonized books of scripture ie the old and new testaments, they
close the door on revelation that we in the church of Jesus Christ hold so dearly.
The book of Mormon
The Doctrine and Covenants
And the Pearl of Great Price
And the ongoing revelations revealed by living Prophet s and Apostles. As put by Elder
Jeffrey R. Holland Of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles “we respectfully but resolutely reject
such an unscriptural characterization of true Christianity.”

One of the arguments that I encountered on my mission and that some of you have
probably heard, in defence of no more revelation and additional scriptures is the New
Testament verse, written by Paul while he was imprisoned on the Isle of Patmos, from
Revelation 22:18-
“For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any
man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in
this book”
However, there is now overwhelming census among biblical scholars that this verse is not
referring to the entire bible but to the book of Revelations only. Scholars today
acknowledge that there were several other books from the New Testament that were
written after the Book of Revelations.
These include the books of Jude, the 3 epistles of John, and probably the entire Gospel of
John.

If we look at the chronology and circulation of the books from the New Testament we can
see that we cannot apply the verse from Revelation 22:18 to the entire Bible. The bible -as
we know it today – did not begin as one great collection of books. For centuries after john
wrote his books, the individual books of the New Testament were circulated as single
books or perhaps in combinations with a few other texts, but almost never as a complete
collection. Of the entire collection of 5,366 known Greek New Testament manuscripts, only
35 contain the whole New Testament as we now know it, and 34 of those were compiled
after a.d. 1000

The fact of the matter is that virtually every prophet of the Old and New Testament has added
scripture to that received by his predecessors. If the Old Testament words of Moses were sufficient,
as some could have mistakenly thought them to be, then why, for example, the subsequent
prophecies of Isaiah or of Jeremiah, who follows him? To say nothing of Ezekiel and Daniel, of
Joel, Amos, and all the rest. If one revelation to one prophet in one moment of time is sufficient for
all time, what justifies these many others? What justifies them was made clear by Jehovah Himself
when He said to Moses, “My works are without end, and … my words … never cease.”4

Continuing revelation does not demean or discredit existing revelation. The Old Testament does not
lose its value in our eyes when we are introduced to the New Testament, and the New Testament is
only enhanced when we read the Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ. In
considering the additional scripture accepted by Latter-day Saints, we might ask: Were those early
Christians who for decades had access only to the primitive Gospel of Mark (generally considered
the first of the New Testament Gospels to be written)—were they offended to receive the more
detailed accounts set forth later by Matthew and Luke, to say nothing of the unprecedented passages
and revelatory emphasis offered later yet by John? Surely they must have rejoiced that ever more
convincing evidence of the divinity of Christ kept coming. And so do we rejoice.

We love and revere the Bible. The Bible is the word of God. It is always identified first in our
“standard works.” Indeed, it was a divinely ordained encounter with the fifth verse of the first
chapter of the book of James that led Joseph Smith to his vision of the Father and the Son, which
gave birth to the Restoration of the gospel of Jesus Christ in our time.

James 1:5
If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not;
and it shall be given him.

But even then, Joseph knew the Bible alone could not be the answer to all the religious questions
he and others like him had. As he said in his own words, the ministers of his community were
contending—sometimes angrily—over their doctrines.

“Priest [was] contending against priest, and convert [was contending] against convert … in a strife
of words and a contest about opinions,” he said.
About the only thing these contending religions had in common was, ironically, a belief in the
Bible, but, as Joseph wrote,
“the teachers of religion of the different sects understood the same passages of scripture so
differently as to destroy all confidence in settling the question [regarding which church was true]
by an appeal to the Bible.”
Clearly the Bible, so frequently described at that time as “common ground,” was nothing of the kind
—unfortunately it was a battleground.

Thus one of the great purposes of continuing revelation through living prophets is to declare to the
world through additional witnesses that the Bible is true.
The ancient Prophet Mormon tells us this…

 9 For behold, athis is bwritten (Meaning the Book of Mormon) for the intent that ye may cbelieve that
(Meaning the Bible);

In one of the earliest revelations received by Joseph Smith, the Lord said, “Behold, I do not bring
[the Book of Mormon forth] to destroy [the Bible] but to build it up.”9

Since it is clear that there were Christians long before there was a New Testament or even an
accumulation of the sayings of Jesus, it cannot therefore be maintained that the Bible is what makes
one a Christian. In the words of esteemed New Testament scholar N. T. Wright,
“The risen Jesus, at the end of Matthew’s Gospel, does not say, ‘All authority in heaven and on
earth is given to the books you are all going to write,’
but [rather]
‘All authority in heaven and on earth is given to me.’
”In other words, “Scripture itself points … away from itself and to the fact that final and true
authority belongs to God himself. ”So the scriptures are not the ultimate source of knowledge for
Latter-day Saints. They are manifestations of the ultimate source. The ultimate source of knowledge
and authority for a Latter-day Saint is the living God. The communication of those gifts comes from
God as living, vibrant, divine revelation.

Will yet reveal many great and important things

John Taylor has said…
“From the time that Adam first received a communication from God, to the time that John,
on the Isle of Patmos, received his communication, or Joseph Smith had the heavens
opened to him, it always required new revelations, adapted to the peculiar circumstances
in which the churches or individuals were placed.”

In other words, as men change, additional revelation is needed for their peculiar
circumstances. Someone else’s past revelations can’t help you if it was for their peculiar
circumstance.

You can no more be saved by someone else's revelation than you can be saved by their
righteousness. Adam's revelation did not tell Noah how to build his ark; Noah's revelation
did not tell Lot to forsake Sodom; neither of these instructed Moses as to how he was to
free the children of Israel from their Egyptian bondage; and Christ and his disciples were
dependent upon none of them. Surely revelation needs to be as constant as the changing
circumstances of men. God is the God of the living, not the dead, and he speaks and
directs in the affairs of men today with the same ease that he did anciently. As Nephi
suggested, “Because, he has spoken one word, we need not suppose that he cannot
speak another. (2 Nephi 29:9.)

Just as these principles are true of the body of knowledge that constitutes the doctrine of
the Church, they are true of the individual testimonies possessed by its members. They
too must find their roots, the lifeline of their faith, in personal revelation; for as Joseph
Smith taught, there is no salvation without revelation (HC 3:389), and it is not a church, but
a people that God desires to save.
Have we, individually, received personal revelation for our own peculiar circumstances?

D&C 9:8
But, behold, I say unto you, that you must astudy it out in your bmind; then you must cask me if it be
right, and if it is right I will cause that your dbosom shall eburn within you; therefore, you shall ffeel
that it is right.