According to proponents of Sola Scriptura, what are examples of logical contradictions between doctrines from the Bible and LDS sacred books?
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For proponents of *Sola Scriptura*, only the Bible is inspired and authoritative.
For Latter-day Saints, three additional books are inspired and authoritative too: *the Book of Mormon*, *Doctrine and Covenants* and *Pearl of Great Price*.
According to proponents of *Sola Scriptura*, are there any doctrines solidly grounded in rigorous biblical exegesis that are in direct **logical contradiction** to well-established LDS doctrines derived from their holy books?
To use an illustration, let's suppose that book A unambiguously teaches that *"all cars are either yellow or blue"*. Let's suppose also that book B unambiguously teaches that *"some cars are green"*. Then the logical contradiction becomes quite obvious: if book B claims that green cars exist, that logically contradicts the teaching from book A that cars can only be either yellow or blue.
According to proponents of *Sola Scriptura*, what would be **illustrative examples** of instances where:
- we know the Bible unambiguously teaches doctrine X,
- a LDS sacred book unambiguously teaches doctrine Y, and
- doctrines X and Y cannot both be true (they lead to a logical contradiction)?
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**Note**: when I say that I want examples of logical contradictions, I'm talking specifically about contradictions between the *contents* of the books. In other words, something that the Bible says (substantiated by quotation of specific verses) vs. something that a LDS holy book says (substantiated by quotation of specific verses). Thus, the contradiction would need to be grounded in accurate *exegesis* of the texts: the Bible says *X* based on exegesis of certain passages, a LDS book says *Y* based on exegesis of certain passages, and *X* and *Y* cannot both be true (*logical contradiction*).
Therefore, unless *Sola Scriptura* can be inferred exegetically from the Bible, it would be out-of-scope for this question to appeal to *Sola Scriptura* itself as an axiom that is contradicted by claims of new revelation by Latter-day Saints. As I said, I want contradictions that are grounded in exegesis of the texts, not in contradictions of *a priori* axioms which are not found in the texts.
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Jan 29, 2022, 04:22 AM
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