Re: About the Mormons

On 2 Nov 2005 09:33:49 -0800, dianaiad put finger to keyboard and
typed:

>Gareth McCaughan wrote:
>> Ken Down wrote:<snip to>
>
>
>> If it is true that they give precedence to the writings of
>> Joseph Smith over the Bible (at least the Bible as we have
>> it now)
>
>Actually, we use the KJV. There is a translation that Joseph Smith
>worked on, but we do not use it much at all, except as a sort of study
>guide; the KJV is the official version that the church uses, period.
>Given this, that the "JS translation" is secondary to the KJV, I think
>the idea that we 'give precedence to Joseph Smith over the Bible" is
>disproven.

Why don't you use any more recent translations?

>We don't give the Book of Mormon precedence over the bible, either. We
>hold the Book of Mormon in the same relationship to the bible as bible
>readers hold Matthew in relation to Luke, or Hebrews in relation to
>Acts. I realize that some may consider this in itself an insult to the
>bible, but at least they can't say we give any writing preference over
>it. We believe it to be scripture.

The difference is that Matthew and Luke can both be found in a single
translation. This makes it reasonably easy to compare notes between
the two, because there is a consistency of presentation in English.
The BoM isn't presented in the same way - it's a separate book, and
none of the English versions of it have any translators in common with
the Bible.

Mark
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