A moment to discover

We were talking in family home evening on Monday night about the 4 books that as Latter Day Saints we use as our scriptures. We talked about what they cover, why we have them, what their purposes are, and why other religions don't have them. So we started with the Old Testament. The Old Testament is really rather large and therefore covers a lot of time from the creation until the birth of Jesus Christ. There are prophecies for the coming of Christ, for our day, a genealogical record, and a history of people long since passed on. The New Testament and Book of Mormon are of roughly the same size. The Book of Mormon has 531 pages and the New Testament is a bit shorter. The New Testament is basically a book about the life of Jesus Christ, His ministry, and his disciples and their teachings. There is some revelation about what will happen in the time after the death of Jesus. The Book of Mormon is a book similar to the Old Testament. It too provides prophecies of the coming of Jesus Christ, prophecies for our day, a genealogical record, and a history of people long gone. Interestingly, there are two places where the Old Testament and the Book of Mormon Cross over, first with Laban in 1st Nephi and then again in Ether at the Tower of Babel. And finally the Doctrine and Covenants (and you could lump all the general conference talks in here too) which is DIRECT instruction, from the prophet, for our very SPECIFIC needs. But the thought that occurred to me as we were talking about it, came from a question from Allen.

Why are there so many places in each of the four different books that talk about the same thing?

Hmmm. Good question. Why are there? The answer is littered throughout the scriptures:
Deut. 17:6, Matt 18:16, 2 Cor 13:1, Ether 5:4, D&C 6:28, and D&C 128:3
"In the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word be established."

They are all there to rely on each other and provide the witnesses that we have been told are there for us, so that we may know that they DO come from God.