588-Page Book of Mormon in Alphabetics

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Page 588 of Eight Translation New Testament

[This particular find will not be appreciated unless the rest of the BofM 588 document is read first.]

I have a book that shows eight translations of the New Testament side by side for comparison.

The content of this page does not have any direct matches to the Book of Mormon, but it does address several of the tangent themes that have been highlighted in this study on 588 and the Book of Mormon.

Here is the text from the King James Version that is on page 588:

resurrection from the dead, neither marry, nor are given in marriage: ³⁶Neither can they die any more: for they are equal unto the angels; and are the children of God, being the children of the resurrection.  ³⁷Now that the dead are raised, even Moses shewed at the bush, when he called the Lord the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.  ³⁸For he is not a God of the dead, but of the living: for all live unto him.
    39 Then certain of the scribes answering said, Master, thou hast well said.  ⁴⁰And after that they durst not ask him any question at all.  ⁴¹And he said unto them, How say they that Christ is David's son?  ⁴²And David himself saith in the book of Psalms, The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand, ⁴³Till I make thine enemies thy footstool.  ⁴⁴David therefore calleth him Lord, how is he then his son?

It addresses the idea of multiple mortalities, of us being the children of God, and of God coming in the flesh among man as the offspring of mere mortals.

It also illustrates well an instance where what is written seems to contradict something one believes to be truth.  Do we always defer to what is written on the page, or do we go with what we believe God has taught us personally?  As for me, I go with the latter.  It is what I believe marks the difference between a child and an adult in God.

Dewey attempts to addresses the phrase "neither can they die any more," and he does a pretty good job; but the primary test is if we are willing to go with our soul truth, even when the written words -- of Jesus himself in this case, or at least that is how it is presented -- say something to the contrary.

I've struggled with how to present this particular page, and was going to just leave it out of the report because it is too complicated to explain.  However, as I prepared this report here on this site, I kept feeling like this needs to be included.

I can't help but think that it may be the most insightful correlation of all, when pondered in the context of what has been said here.

I have found that to be the case many times.  The most obvious correlations have little substance to them by way of new insights.  The more you have to think about how something matches and meditating upon the various ramifications and possibilities, the more richly the personal revelations and insights flow.

This certainly is not the last match to ponder by means of Alphabetics in regard to the Book of Mormon.  But it seems as good a stopping point as any for this particular study.  No doubt God has a whole host of unexpected witnesses that he will yet reveal for our betterment.  "Greater Things" is a continual evolution to higher truths and understandings and manner of living.  It is anything but stagnant.