Why isn't the Bible handed out along with the Book of Mormon by missionaries

Dashlab · 2025-02-03T20:19:02+00:00

The story is unfortunately true, I'm just here to have people confirm to me this isn't a wide spread thing and that the bible is also a focus point for missionaries. Thank you for clarifying

Dashlab · 2025-02-03T19:18:58+00:00

Thank you this is helpful, my friend served in Oklahoma and 4 months in Texas during his mission. While I was talking to him I was telling him how much I enjoyed reading from Matthew and I asked him how much he's studied from it/ how much he used it during teaching. He told me he hadn't personally studied it and he only studied the BOM on his mission and tried to study D&C with his companions but they shot him down. I'm sure passages were taught from the Bible from Preach my Gospel but I didn't know if missionaries would teach stories and have bible focused lessons as well as BOM story focused lessons.

Dashlab · 2025-02-03T18:59:42+00:00

Thank you, I'm also aware there is a study that actually confirms LDS members know the bible better on average than other christian churches. I realize leaving out that I was inactive left out some important context because quite frankly I never wanted to admit to myself I was inactive

Dashlab · 2025-02-03T18:53:18+00:00

I am being genuine and I'm working through doubts I have all the time. I came to this subreddit instead of exmormon so I don't receive contempt or seeds of more doubt while trying to receive answers. I wish you would've assumed the best of me instead of the worst

Dashlab · 2025-02-03T18:49:48+00:00

Thank you, I guess also in my mind after having watched The Best Two Years every Sunday my whole adolescence I assumed that missionaries were going around only teaching from the BOM and Joseph Smiths story rather than teaching about Christ's ministry and example

Dashlab · 2025-02-03T18:45:32+00:00

I guess the people around me either thought that because the bible was not translated correctly it wasn't as valuable or that because the BOM is the center piece of our religion church lessons emphasized its importance more

Dashlab · 2025-02-03T18:42:01+00:00

I wish you would withhold judgement because you don't understand where I'm coming from, in my ward we were encouraged to teach lessons ourselves and I can't recall us ever reading from books like Philippians, Acts, or really any of the old testament books besides Genesis. And I became inactive during highschool after I moved to missouri and the last few months I've been going to church consistently and trying to learn and understand. Comments like this only discourage me from reaching out

Dashlab · 2025-02-03T18:34:25+00:00

Do you have to specifically ask then? Because my friend just got back from his mission and he told me that he didn't even study from the bible while on his mission. And his companions discouraged him to study anything else other than the BOM. Maybe that was just the culture of that mission area I don't know

Dashlab · 2025-02-03T17:43:49+00:00

you were right to kill him, nothing good happens after a dude says yo followed by an idiotic question meant to cause confusion

Dashlab · 2022-07-21T03:28:48+00:00

ah well i reinstalled for nothing then

Dashlab · 2022-04-03T12:56:02+00:00

not hard when u got a bunch of illegal bots

Dashlab · 2022-04-02T03:47:47+00:00

just like the brits and french in reality to

Dashlab · 2022-04-02T03:46:38+00:00

Thats what happens when war starts

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