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Single Word Change in Book of Mormon Speaks Volumes
Salt Lake Tribune ^ | November 8, 2007 | Peggy Fletcher Stack

Posted on 11/08/2007 5:23:05 PM PST by Colofornian

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To: Old Mountain man
Yeah, I belong to that "great and abominable church" your BoM talks about, full of "priestcraft" and "superstition" and "idolatry".

Boo!

And don't mess with the albino monk assassin squads, either.

41 posted on 11/08/2007 7:47:38 PM PST by Campion
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To: Campion

Better watch out or the Spanish Inquisition will get you!


42 posted on 11/08/2007 7:50:42 PM PST by Old Mountain man (Extremism in defense of liberty is no vice!)
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To: Old Mountain man; Campion
Better watch out or the Spanish Inquisition will get you!

Well, the alleged reason why Hill & Huck won't campaign in Utah is 'cause their wagon train originally hitched up in Arkansas & certain Mormons were known to dress up in WarPaint on 9/11.

43 posted on 11/08/2007 7:53:14 PM PST by Colofornian
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To: Enterprise

I’m a Laminate, myself.


44 posted on 11/08/2007 7:54:51 PM PST by kaehurowing
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To: Old Mountain man

They play on my team.


45 posted on 11/08/2007 7:55:13 PM PST by Campion
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To: Colofornian

Watch it! My musket is loaded!

(somewhere)


46 posted on 11/08/2007 7:55:51 PM PST by Old Mountain man (Extremism in defense of liberty is no vice!)
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To: kaehurowing

You’ll make a GREAT private investigator then!


47 posted on 11/08/2007 7:57:11 PM PST by Enterprise (Those who "betray us" also "Betray U.S." They're called DEMOCRATS!)
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To: kaehurowing
I’m a Laminate, myself.

Yes, oh my (looking whiter & brighter every day, IMA)

48 posted on 11/08/2007 7:58:53 PM PST by Colofornian
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To: Old Mountain man; restornu; greyfoxx39
Watch it! My musket is loaded! (somewhere)

OK, if you & Resty are 2 of the Musketeers, who's the 3rd?

49 posted on 11/08/2007 7:59:53 PM PST by Colofornian
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To: Colofornian

My son, the missionary!


50 posted on 11/08/2007 8:12:10 PM PST by Old Mountain man (Extremism in defense of liberty is no vice!)
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To: Old Mountain man; Campion
My son, the missionary!

Oh, the Catholic converter Campion called out about.

(BTW: If NONE Of the key distinctive doctrines that LDS teaches about its faith are in the Book of Mormon, why are LDS missionaries intentionally disengenous by having folks they visit read the BoM to pray about it? I mean, it comes across as a used car dealer who does a bait & switch with an leader...)

Oh, you didn't know that this marvelous vehicle we have on sale comes with flesh paint 'cause nobody mentioned that to you yet?

Oh, you didn't know that this marvelous work & wonder didn't come in 3 shades of glory?

Oh, you didn't know that, you took can not only drive this vehicle, but be the maker of it?

Oh, you didn't know that when the first lemon car came out that it was actually a matter of celebration within the auto industry? (Yeah, it's what we call an "upward lemon")

Oh, you didn't know that Priesthood Dealerships which gives us the authority to sell these vehicles wasn't mentioned in the paperwork we handed you?

Oh, you didn't know that we salvage salvage-yard vehicles by car-washing them by proxy 'cause that just wasn't mentioned in that "fulness of the everlasting what-you-need-to-know-about-vehicles-to-heaven" document we left with you to pray about?

51 posted on 11/08/2007 8:24:18 PM PST by Colofornian
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To: Old Mountain man

***Watch it! My musket is loaded!

(somewhere)***

One hand made by Browning?


52 posted on 11/08/2007 8:28:16 PM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: Colofornian
The book's current introduction, added by the late LDS apostle, Bruce R. McConkie in 1981, includes this statement: "After thousands of years, all were destroyed except the Lamanites, and they are the principal ancestors of the American Indians."

The new version, seen first in Doubleday's revised edition, reads, "After thousands of years, all were destroyed except the Lamanites, and they are among the ancestors of the American Indians."

Ping for later

53 posted on 11/08/2007 8:47:04 PM PST by Alex Murphy ("Therefore the prudent keep silent at that time, for it is an evil time." - Amos 5:13)
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54 posted on 11/08/2007 11:17:57 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Profile updated Thursday, November 8, 2007. https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: Old Mountain man
Do you think these ‘missionary to the mormons’ will ever learn to be kind. Then do not seem to know the difference between ‘pro-christian’ and ‘anti-mormon’.
55 posted on 11/08/2007 11:35:30 PM PST by fproy2222 (If you want to know the truth, study both sides. To the most original source.)
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To: Colofornian; Rameumptom; Reaganesque; Grig; sandude; Saundra Duffy; Utah Girl; Spiff; tantiboh; ...
"Our enemies have never done anything that has injured this work of God, and they never will. I look around, I read, I reflect, and I ask the question, Where are the men of influence, of power and prestige, who have worked against the Latter-day Saints? . . .

Where are the men who have assailed this work? Where is their influence? They have faded away like dew before the sun.

We need have no fears, we Latter-day Saints. God will continue to sustain this work; He will sustain the right.

If we are loyal, if we are true, if we are worthy of this gospel, of which God has given us a testimony, there is no danger that the world can ever injure us.

We can never be injured, my brethren and sisters, by any mortals, except ourselves.

If we fail to serve God, if we fail to do right, then we rob ourselves of the ability and power to grow, to increase in faith and knowledge, to have power with God, and with the righteous" (Gospel Standards, p. 85-86). ~ President Heber J. Grant

56 posted on 11/09/2007 3:48:52 AM PST by restornu (Improve The Shining Moment! Don't let them pass you by... PRESS FORWARD MITT)
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To: Colofornian
In recent years, many LDS scholars have come to share Butler's belief in what is known as the "limited geography" theory. By this view, the Nephites and Lamanites restricted their activities to portions of Central America, which would explain their absence from the general American Indian genetics.

Yeh, right!!! more like activities restricted to the "limited geography" of Joseph Smith's imagination --

57 posted on 11/09/2007 3:54:26 AM PST by Uncle Chip (TRUTH : Ignore it. Deride it. Allegorize it. Interpret it. But you can't ESCAPE it.)
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To: Colofornian

The LDS Church has changed a single word in its introduction to the Book of Mormon, a change observers say has serious implications for commonly held LDS beliefs about the ancestry of American Indians.

Members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints believe founder Joseph Smith unearthed a set of gold plates from a hill in upperstate New York in 1827 and translated the ancient text into English. The account, known as The Book of Mormon, tells the story of two Israelite civilizations living in the New World. One derived from a single family who fled from Jerusalem in 600 B.C. and eventually splintered into two groups, known as the Nephites and Lamanites.

The book's current introduction, added by the late LDS apostle, Bruce R. McConkie in 1981, includes this statement: "After thousands of years, all were destroyed except the Lamanites, and they are the principal ancestors of the American Indians."

The new version, seen first in Doubleday's revised edition, reads, "After thousands of years, all were destroyed except the Lamanites, and they are among the ancestors of the American Indians."

LDS leaders instructed Doubleday to make the change, said senior editor Andrew Corbin, so it "would be in accordance with future editions the church is printing."

The change "takes into account details of Book of Mormon demography which are not known," LDS spokesman Mark Tuttle said Wednesday.

It also steps into the middle of a raging debate about the book's historical claims.

 


Ya think???



Oh... in my BoM 1981 edition, on the page with the introduction (4th sheet from front) has these lines...
 
"The record is now published in many languages as a new and additional witness that Jesus Christ is the Son of the living God and that all who will come unto him and obey the laws and ordinances of his gospel may be saved.
 
Concerning this record the Prophet Joseph Smith said: "I told the brethern that the Book of Mormon was the most correct of any book on earth, and the keystone of our religion, and a man would get nearer to God by abiding by its precepts, than by any other book."
 
Then I find, just 4 pages past that, under A BRIEF EXPLANATION ABOUT  THE BOOK OF MORMON, I found this at the bottom of the page...
 
About this edition: Some minor errors in the text have been perpetrated in past editions of the Book of Mormon.  This edition contains corrections that seem appropriate to bring the material into conformity with prepublication manuscripts and early editions edited by the Prophet Joseph Smith.
 
 

Interesting and ever changing!

58 posted on 11/09/2007 4:50:38 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Colofornian
In 1971, Church President Spencer W. Kimball said that Lehi, the family patriarch, was "the ancestor of all of the Indian and Mestizo tribes in North and South and Central America and in the islands of the sea."
59 posted on 11/09/2007 4:52:05 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Colofornian
"I have always felt free to disavow the language of the [Book of Mormon's] introduction, footnotes and dictionary, which are not part of the canonical scripture," said Barney, on the board of FAIR, a Mormon apologist group. "These things can change as the scholarship progresses and our understanding enlarges. This suggests to me that someone on the church's scripture committee is paying attention to the discussion."

And many of the LDS organization's 'apologists' ...

...feel free to disavow most ANYTHING that upsets their tight little world view.

60 posted on 11/09/2007 4:53:38 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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