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ldsmodernliving:

I saw this on the tumblrstake post and decided to provide scripture showing why it is wrong. I purposely did not post the actual verses, spending time looking at scriptures is good for us, AND, it gives a chance for people to see it in context and not just the verse. Also for some reason my…

You missed the point: those are Mormon doctrines which I deny. Whether they are true or not is irrelevant. The point is, because I deny those doctrines you would not call me a Mormon. Likewise, when you deny Christian doctrine, I will not call you Christian.

As for the “refutation,” try again. I don’t even need to respond to such a poor showing.

shannaelainestlaurent:

mordaciouslyyours:

What I don’t think you understand is that the Bible edits were nothing but grammatical and spelling changes. Take a look for yourself. 

Wow, for once you finally excepted the fact that it was nothing but grammatical and spelling error changes to the book of Mormon. Now we are making some progress here.

I am sorry but some youtube video of some man does not give me enough proof to your arguement here, just as all your justifications about the Lds church, teaching false prophecies. Unless you can tell me you stood in front of the face of God or he sent down an angel unto you and said directly that the Lds church is false that I continue on my way. Your “interpretations of the bible” are not enough proof to me. The Bible itself, as in the words within it..were never meant to be corrupted. It is the people who made it that way, NOT God. In that video he does state claims that are correct. We can still receive christianity teachings through the bible, thus I never said we couldn’t.

I think you have so strongly drilled inside your head that the Lds members do not study or read the bible period. That we completely follow the book of Mormon in and on its own. Let me enlighten you with a fact—I read it all the time. The entire LDS Church is studying the Book of Mormon right now, every Sunday. The LDS Church has a rotating curriculum that repeats every four years. It starts with the Old Testament, then goes to the New Testament, then Book of Mormon, then Doctrine and Covenants, and then starts over. Our Seminary (a 5 day a week study program all LDS teens are expected to participate in) and Institute (a similar program for college students) programs follow the same schedule. In other words there is twice as much time officially dedicated by the LDS Church to studying the Bible compared to the Book of Mormon. So Mormons do study the bible quite a bit. We revere it as scripture and try to live its teachings, we just admit that it was tampered with a bit over the years. But you don’t throw a car in the river just because it has a few dents, or throw away a banana because it has a little spot, or divorce your husband because he has a mole on his chin.

Summary of what has been said and our belief of the Bible:The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints only distributes the King James Version of the Holy Bible because it is the only version of the Holy Bible that the LDS Church accepts as the Word of God.

The LDS Church does not prohibit it’s members to utilizing other versions or translations for personal study but they do not recognize them for use in lessons or talk (sermons).

The reasoning behind this is that the KJV is the oldest translation of the Bible that is available from the original Hebrew and Greek manuscripts.

All other versions are just interpretations or additional translations of the KJV or utilize surviving copies or translations of the original Hebrew and Greek manuscripts. Since the KJV has the least of possible human error we accept it as the most accurate translation available to man.

Unlike other faiths, LDS do not believe that scholars translating the Bible are incapable of error, we believe that translation is going to create grammatical error as well and errors to translation capacity as well as misinterpretation of passages do to the fallibility of man.  

Hope I could clarify your thought.
 

Actually, other translations are not just reinterpretations of the KJV, they’re retranslations of the original text. And unlike the CJCLDS, we believe in a God powerful enough to preserve His word: “Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my word shall not pass away” — Jesus Christ, as quoted by Matthew.