/lit/ - Literature

>>20792464
LDS Bible

Best Bible coming through.

>>17567058
First of all, there is more Mormon scripture than just the Book of Mormon. The entire Triple Combination (BoM, D&C, PoGP) would count as the "sequel" to contrast with the Quran. And the Mormons come out on top. The Book of Mormon has an actual narrative and when you look past the weak prose, there's a lot of very memorable stories there, and a lot of theological questions are directly addressed and answered in interesting ways. But then you've got the Doctrine and Covenants, which is a bit more like the Quran in the sense that God (or specifically, Jesus) speaks the revelations included there. Many of the revelations there may be pretty boring at first sight, especially without the historical context, but D&C has some really great sections that reach some of the highest speculative theology/religious metaphysics heights out of anything in the entire extended Abrahamic canon, particularly D&C 93 and to a lesser degree D&C 88. And the Pearl of Great Price continues that with the Book of Moses and the Book of Abraham. They also take us back to the patriarchal and antediluvian eras, and there's a good chunk of it spent on Enoch in particular, which is really cool. Last but not least, the LDS scriptures are dripping with an incredible sensibility for the sublime that I don't know if the Quran really matches, but Muslims should prove me wrong if they know better. The Bible reaches it sometimes, Job 38 is a great example. But in the LDS scriptures you often read of visions and other mystical experiences being described as being supposedly so intense in their magnitude and scope that they just cannot be completely expressed in a short space, or even in language proper. For example, the glossolalia in 3 Nephi 17, 19, and 26, or the vision had by the brother of Jared in Ether 4, Enoch's vision in Moses 7, Moses' vision in Moses 1, Joseph Smith's and Sydney Rigdon's vision in D&C 76, etc. It's like taking 2 Corinthians 12 and making it into an entire expanded genre. I think it's really beautiful and underrated, and fitting to the 19th century romantic era and especially Emersonian America, it almost anticipates Lovecraft though being far more optimistic. Can the Quran compete with that?

>>15596347
Yes.
>>15596420
Precisely.
>>15596988
It's the corporate 2010s remake of a classic film, with drastic reimagining of the original characters and a different enough plot.

>>15577743