Sciptural Witnesses

My thought on Elder Nelson's talk "Sciptural Witnesses"

I love hearing Elder Nelson’s voice and I hear it coming through loud and clear!

I love the “two or three witnesses” and I use that all the time with my kids. In fact I used it just last week while on jury duty. We had the words of four witnesses against his (and his story wasn’t very plausible). As I weighed the facts, I used the “two or three witnesses” test and I had to convict.

Our missionaries go out in pair with the Spirit to be “two or three witnesses.” We have the Old Testament, the New Testament and the Book of Mormon Another Testament—two or three witnesses! The Book of Mormon completes and complements the Bible. When I was a little girl I had a Bible that had all the words of Christ in red. I thought that was so cool! The four gospels were almost all red! I thought that was neat. When I got my next set of scriptures there was no red, so I set about marking them red. But I noticed that there was no red in the Old Testament, so I started marking things that were ABOUT Christ. It got red really fast. The Bible is two books that testify of Christ.

I find it very interesting what scriptures we do have. I often ask myself “Why did Heavenly Father let this part be put in?” “Why do we have this part?” “What does it say about Christ?” and then the all important thought, “What does it mean to me?”

We are starting our world history from the beginning—I mean THE beginning. As we were talking about the account of the creation we noticed that there are THREE accounts of the creation: Genesis, Moses and Abraham. “Out of the mouth of…” How interesting. We also happen to be using a science curriculum that is heavy on the creationism bent verses the big bang and evolution ideas. We talked about how there is no “two or three witnesses” to the other ideas, but there are three witnesses for the creation as well as the fourth: the Holy Ghost testifying truth.