Max:
I grew up without any religious teaching or training. In fact, for me religion equated to tradition. In my household those traditions were frown upon since my grandma read the bible and what see saw around her did not match her simple and linear interpretation of the bible. For us it was "this is clear in the bible" or "we are not sure what this means."
My acquaintance with the Holy Ghost and the power and reality of the Atonement came at a critical moment in my life on account of my life being in great danger. What I experienced there drove me to search for years to come. I took the time to ponder and study diverse interpretations and philosophical/theological positions. But in my mind the principles of the Gospel were simple. The Scriptures are transparent when it comes to the basics for salvation. The notion that revelation is the means by which God shows to the faithful His will is self evident when one reads the scriptures. Subscribing to a preconceived theological school or other may dissuade you to believe otherwise. That the Gospel was entrusted to those to whom authority was given and the in time that authority faded away as they passed on is also clear in the scriptures. That there cannot be true worship of God without a Holy Place where man is washed away clean and find the stairwell to heaven and God steps onto His footstool and commune with men is also evident. Nobody told me these things. They are there in black and white for all to see that seek diligently.
Nibbler's position that there s no revelation and that is not necessary is not supported in the scriptures. After all, and like I pointed in my previous post, after the Torah God continued to reveal for centuries to His children His will. After the Savior was crucified NEW revelation was recorded. His position is fixed but not supported by scripture but by his own bias and circular reasoning. That was the point I was trying to get across.
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