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Originally Posted by TripletDaddy
I think you partially answered your own question. "Fulness" cannot possibly mean that each book contains everything about every ordinance, etc...at least not in their respective present incarnations--because neither book contains all of it.
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But what is the purpose of ordinances?
DC 84:20:
20 Therefore, in the ordinances thereof, the power of godliness is manifest.
God keeps giving us ordinances because we keep missing the point. Like the Israelites of old. Nothing ever changes.
The power of god is his ability to change a fallen person. atonement. The purpose of ordinances is just to try and help us think of that.