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Pregunta: ¿El hecho de que la Biblia declare que nada debe ser "agregado a" o "quitado" del libro significa que el Libro de Mormón es falso?
Acusación
La acusación clama que el Libro de Mormon no puede ser verdadero porque nada deberia ser "agregado" o "quitado" de la Santa Biblia.
Fuente(s) de la acusación
"[Jose] Smith aparentemente no estaba enterado de la expresa advertencia acerca de agregar o quitar de la palabra de Dios, o voluntariamente desobedecio a ella (ver Apoc. 22:18,19)." - "Dr." Walter Martin, Mormonismo (Minneapolis, Minnesota: Bethany House Publishers, 1984), 29.
Respuesta
El verso a menudo citado (por Martin, arriba) es Apocalipsis 22:18-19:
22:18 Yo testifico a todo aquel que oye las palabras de la profecía de este libro: Si alguno añadiere a estas cosas, Dios traerá sobre él las plagas que están escritas en este libro. 22:19 Y si alguno quitare de las palabras del libro de esta profecía, Dios quitará su parte del libro de la vida, y de la santa ciudad y de las cosas que están escritas en este libro
Sin embargo, la critica ignora que:
The book of Revelation was written prior to some of the other biblical books, and prior the the Bible being assembled into a collection of texts. Therefore, this verse can only apply to the Book of Revelation, and not the Bible as a whole (some of which was unwritten and none of which was yet assembled together into 'the Bible'). While the traditional date of the book of Revelation is A.D. 95 or 96 (primarily based on a statement by Irenaeus), most scholars now date it as early as A.D. 68 or 69. The Gospel of John is generally dated A.D. 95-100. (For more information on the dating of Revelation, see Thomas B. Slater's Biblica article). The book of Revelation is the last book in the Bible only because it was placed there centuries later. Therefore, John cannot have intended the last few sentences of Revelation to apply to the entire Bible, since he was not writing a 'final chapter'. Other scriptures (such as Deuteronomy 4:2, Deuteronomy 12:32, and Proverbs 30:6) likewise forbid additions; were the critics' arguments to be self-consistent, they would have to then discard everything in the New Testament and much of the Old, since these verses predate "other scripture" added by God through later prophets. The Bible forbids men to add to the Word of God; it does not forbid that God may, through a prophet, add to the Word of God. If this were not possible, then the Bible could never have come into existence.