“This is Written for the Intent That Ye May Believe That”
Compare Mormon 3:21. That is, the Book of Mormon is written for the intent of “proving to the world that the holy scriptures”-the Holy Bible-“are true” (D&C 20:11). It is not the reverse. The Bible has not been given primarily to bear witness of the Book of Mormon. Rather in a day when men and women all over the earth have come to doubt the historicity and question the value of the doctrinal messages of the Bible, the Lord has seen fit to bring forth a companion volume of holy writ, the stick of Ephraim, which bears witness of the essential truthfulness of the stick of Judah (see Ezekiel 37:15-19).
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