The Most Correct Book

FLECKS OF LIGHT

(The following are small parts of information taken from Doctrinal Commentary on the Book of Mormon, by Robert Millet and Joseph McConkie, Vol. 1, pgs. 354-357):

"The Apostle Paul said: 'For they are not all Israel, which are of Israel: neither, because they are the seed of Abraham, are they all children' (Romans 9: 6-7).  Of our day, it might be said: Not all Mormons are Latter-day Saints; that is, not all who have entered into the new and everlasting covenant are keeping it."

Different subject:  "As the Resurrection was the tangible evidence that Jesus was the Christ for those living in the meridian of time, so the Book of Mormon is the tangible evidence of the truthfulness of the restored gospel in this dispensation.  It is our greatest missionary tool.  Here (2nd Nephi 30:3-6),  Nephi notes that from it the descendants of Lehi will learn of their fathers and that their fathers, contrary to the concepts of Christian churches generally, knew and worshipped Christ.

Indeed, it is in the Book of Mormon that we have restored to us a knowledge of the most basic and fundamental principles of the gospel, principles lost to the Bible as we presently have it.  The Book of Mormon, not the Bible, teaches that there is: 'a plan of salvation, that Christ is literally and unequivocally the Son of God.

Also, that it was necessary for Adam to fall in order that we be born, that without the Atonement, we would all become angels to the devil and on thru a host of doctrines fundamental to the exercise of faith and the obtaining of salvation…working out our salvation is a process rather than an event."

Another subject: "In earlier editions of the Book of Mormon, the phrase (2nd Nephi 30:6) read, 'white and a delightsome people.'  The manuscript that the Prophet prepared for the 1840 edition was changed to 'pure' rather than 'white.'  In the theological sense the difference is slight, 'white' being the symbol of purity. (Alma 5:24) (Mormon 9:6) (Revelation 19:8)  This, however, is not intended to say that in the course of generations righteous and faithful Lamanites will not also lose their darker skin, for such the Book of Mormon repeatedly prophesies."

Final subject:  "In 2nd Nephi 30:7 it says many shall begin to believe in Christ.  Nephi writes of a time when 'the Jews which are scattered also shall begin to believe in Christ.'  As with his prophecy describing the conversion of the Lamanites, again he emphasizes a process rather than an event.  History knows no people who have more tightly bound themselves with false traditions than the Jews.  It appears from latter-day revelation that the great conversion among the Jews will not take place until after Christ has set his foot upon the Mount of Olives.

It will then be split in two.  At that time the Jews will look upon the Lord and ask, 'What are these wounds in thine hands and in thy feet?...then shall they lament because they persecuted their king." (D&C 45:51-53)…

The work of gathering that will commence in the Millennium will be of such a magnitude that the extent of the gathering previously will hardly constitute a beginning by comparison.  (3 Nephi 21:26-28)