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PioAndrew
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I find it interesting that Smith would eliminate some portions of the bible. Did he ever include 2 Peter, specifically 2 Peter ch 2???
Here’s the link.
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Here’s the link.
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majick275
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I’m confused by the topic…what does this have to do with the Book of Mormon?
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PioAndrew
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Isn’t the Book of Mormon the copied King James version of the bible???
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majick275
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No. The Book of Mormon is a totally separate book that Joseph Smith claimed to have “translated” from writings on golden plates that were shown to him by an angel. They are alleged to cover the history of two different colonies of Jews who immigrated to the Americas because God told them too. This book frequently quotes from the King James Bible, but is not the same as the bible.
Mormons use the King James Bible in addition to this book but claim that since it was improperly translated and edited any conflicts are to be resolved in favor of the Book of Mormon.
They have other scriptures as well that they claim correct and expand upon Genesis and Matthew as well as provide “new” revelations supposedly received in modern times.
Mormons use the King James Bible in addition to this book but claim that since it was improperly translated and edited any conflicts are to be resolved in favor of the Book of Mormon.
They have other scriptures as well that they claim correct and expand upon Genesis and Matthew as well as provide “new” revelations supposedly received in modern times.
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majick275
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Perhaps you are confusing this with the Joseph Smith Translation or “inspired” version of the Bible? That is supposed to be the “corrected” King James Version that Joseph Smith wrote.
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honeybear
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No, sorry, majick. The LDS use the Bible translated from the King James Version. The Book of Mormon is advertised as a seperate “another testament of Jesus Christ.” At least that is what they do on the T.V. commercials.
I don’t know if you have ever tried to read the Book of Mormon. I have. Nothing could be further from the Bible in how it is written, in form or content.That is why they use both, I guess.
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majick275
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I’m familiar with all. I used to be LDS and have read all cover to cover numerous times.
I had pointed out the difference between BoM and KJV Bible but due to his comment thought perhaps he might have encountered a reference to JST Bible.
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I had pointed out the difference between BoM and KJV Bible but due to his comment thought perhaps he might have encountered a reference to JST Bible.
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PioAndrew
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So I guess 2 Peter is out of the question then. It’s a good read, thinking about how, in my opinion, Smith invented his own religion and deceived so many people.
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majick275
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I went back and reread this after reading your post. You are right, this is an excellent scripture.
I know that is is still in the LDS “standard works” but I understand them to believe that this justifies their doctrine of having a “prophet”.
Just goes to show the dangers of “interpreting” scripture.
I know that is is still in the LDS “standard works” but I understand them to believe that this justifies their doctrine of having a “prophet”.
Just goes to show the dangers of “interpreting” scripture.
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flameburns623
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The LDS Bible is the complete King James Bible, minus the Catholic ‘Apocrypha’ (Deuterocanonical)–which Smith commended for reading but never decreed should be re-inserted into LDS Bibles.
It is possible to purchase an ‘Inspired Version’ of the Bible–this would be the version of the Bible which Smith revised by ‘inspiration’. So far as I know, he excluded no books from his “Inspired Version” but the work on it was on-going at the time that Smith was killed.
Contemporary LDS Bibles have notes at the bottom of the pages which reference the shorter revisions Smith made. For longer revisions the reader is referred to a section in the back which contains the revisions.
Smith’s revisions of the Bible should not be confused with either the Book of Mormon, or with other “Standard Works”–the Doctrine and Covenants, the Pearl of Great Price. Each of the “Standard Works” contains references to the Holy Bible and makes revisions to the version we are familiar with–there is an extended section in II Nephi which purports to contain various chapters of Isaiah, with slight ‘revisions’.
The “Standard Works” however are independent books of Scripture–the Book of Mormon purportedly a record of a vagabond group of Israelites who fled the Old World for the New, the Doctrine and Covenants being Smith’s own personal revelations, the Pearl of Great Price being a revision of Genesis along with a ‘translation’ of Egyptian papyri and the official account of Joseph Smith’s First Vision.
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