Many errant
LDS think that they can proof-text the Bible and/or the Book of Mormon to
support all the doctrines the Church teaches. This is problematic for many
reasons, not the least is that it flies in the face of D&C 128:18.
In a sermon
dated August 25, 1878, Orson Pratt said the following wherein he argues that
the developed LDS doctrine of the hereafter is not to be found in the pages of the Bible and the Book of Mormon;
instead, it comes from modern revelation:
Then again, what could we learn from either
the Bible or Book of Mormon in regard to three glories—the celestial, the
terrestrial and the telestial glories? What did we know concerning those that
should inhabit these various worlds of glory? Nothing at all. It was merely
referred to in Paul's writings, that there were three glories, "one glory
of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars; for
one star differeth from another star in glory. So also is the resurrection of
the dead." But Paul left us here; he did not tell us anything about the
celestial, or anything about terrestrial, or telestial glories; he told us
nothing about the inhabitants of these worlds, nor anything about the laws by
which these different glorified worlds were governed. but merely referred to
them in a few words and then dropped it. (JOD 20:70)
