The Testaments begins with a statement admitting that the exact locations are not known, but assures its viewers that these events did in fact take place. This film is primarily a fictitious story set somewhere in the Western Hemisphere concurrently around the earthly life of Jesus of Nazareth. And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice and there shall be one fold, and one shepherd.īut most New Testament scholars take this to be a reference to Christ's impending ministry to the Gentiles after His resurrection, of which the peoples in America certainly wouldn't qualify since, according to the Book of Mormon as well as the film, they were of the same fold as the rest of the Israelites.) As the Father knoweth me, even so know I the Father: and I lay down my life for the sheep. I am the good shepherd, and know my sheep, and am known of mine. (LDS find Christ's statement to this effect in John 10:14-16: that Christ came to the Americas to save His lost sheep. The Testaments is used to promote a very basic premise of the Book of Mormon, viz. The Testaments of One Fold and One Shepherd
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