Week 2: The Testaments

Week 2: Christ and the Testaments of Him

In class this week we discussed Christ as seen through the words of the prophets. One scripture the spoke to me this week was in 2 Nephi 29:3. This is God speaking to the prophet Nephi about the Bible. In this verse God tells Nephi that, his "...words shall hiss forth—many of the Gentiles shall say: A Bible! A Bible! We have got a Bible, and there cannot be any more Bible." It iis very ironic because Bible comes from the greek meaning "a little library." So the people are say "A little library! A little library! We have got a little library, and there cannot be anymore little libraries." 

As members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, we declare that God's word is not limited to "a little library," but that His word is continuous and is contained in more that just the Bible. We know, as God stated latter in that chapter of 2nd Nephi that, "the testimony of two nations is a witness unto you that (He) am God, that (He) remember one nation like unto another... speaking the same words unto one nation like unto another" (2nd Nephi 29:8). Christ and His Gospel are not only in the Bible, but in the words of Book of Mormon prophet and also to modern day prophets as seen in the Doctrine and Covenants and discourses given by those prophets today!

I encourage you to see out all of those testaments of Christ, that ye may know Him!