LDS Laughs & Learning

 If you have read my other articles you might think this is some kind of parody piece. That is not the case. This article is really going to talk about lost Mormon Scripture. Read on to find out about real lost Mormon scripture found! The Doctrine part of Doctrine & Covenants has been lost since 1921 when it was removed from the cannon. It was known as Lectures on Faith. Some of you may have heard of it or at least heard quotes from it like, " A religion that does not require the sacrifice of all things, never has power sufficient to produce the faith  necessary unto life and salvation." The Lectures on Faith authorship is unclear but it is believed that most of it was written by Sidney Rigdon with help and approval of Joseph Smith. Bruce R McConkie said of the Lectures of Faith, "In my judgement, it is the most comprehensive, inspired utterance that now exists in the English language- that exists in one place defining, interpreting, expounding, announcing, ...

The Church has recently released a number of new Book of Mormon translations which will be available free to download next month from the church and this week through your favorite torrent sites. The translations include   Klingon, Vulcan, Cityspeak, Na'vi, Huttese, Ewokese, Quenya, Adunaic, Newspeak, Nadsat, Atlantean, Barsoomian,  Gungan,  Dothraki , and Parseltongue. The church decided to translate the Book of Mormon into these languages to help spread interest among the Millennials and Generation Z.  The languages chosen were hotly debated. Languages like Cityspeak would only be known by people who watched the R rated film Blade Runner. It was allowed in since the church would also like to use these translations as a proselyting tool. Parseltongue was the most controversial language of all as it had such strong ties to witchcraft and the devil.  Translating all of these languages was much harder than most translations. An example of the diff...