Why do other books also claim that God showed Abraham the heavens and those in the premortal existence?

In Abraham 3, God shows Abraham the premortal world:

Now the Lord had shown unto me, Abraham, the intelligences that were organized before the world was; and among all these there were many of the noble and great ones;

And God saw these souls that they were good, and he stood in the midst of them, and he said: These I will make my rulers; for he stood among those that were spirits, and he saw that they were good; and he said unto me: Abraham, thou art one of them; thou wast chosen before thou wast born.

Jeff Lindsay notes how this is not found in the Bible but is found in other ancient documents:

• The Sefer Yetzirah or “Book of Creation”
• The Apocalypse of Abraham
• The Midrash Rabbah,

Why does the Book of Abraham correspond to all these other ancient documents?

See:

• Jeff Lindsay – Questions about the Book of Abraham, Part 3: Does It Agree with other Ancient Texts?

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