Unpopular opinion: the Bible is a map, not the territory.

The Bible is an old, weathered, heavily censored, and significantly altered map with large missing pieces. It'll help you find God, but with a lot of confusion, detours, and unanswered questions along the way.

What's needed is a more complete map that was preserved and protected from mistranslations, censorship, and alterations, in order to validate the truths in the Bible, correct errors that have snuck in over time, and fill in some missing pieces. Yes, I'm saying we need the Book of Mormon.

But what's needed even more than that is people who only use scriptures as the tools they were always meant to be; as a means to an end, and not the end itself.

I told you this was an unpopular opinion.