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To: Elsie
Acts 19:1-3
 
1 While Apollos was at Corinth, Paul passed through the interior and came to Ephesus. There he found some disciples 2 and asked them, “Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you became believers?”
 
“No,” they answered, “we have not even heard that there is a Holy Spirit.”
 
3 “Into what, then, were you baptized?” Paul asked.
 
“The baptism of John,” they replied.…
 

 
While Elsie was at home one day, there came a knocking upon his door.
 
Opening it, he found 2 elders who simultaneouly told him, "Hi.  We would like to help you learn more about who GOD and Jesus Christ are."
 
“Will you be using the LDS 'Inspired Version' of the bible?”, Elsie questioned.
 
“No,” they answered, “we have not even heard that there is a 'Inspired Version' !”
 
"You mean it is NOT found in your Quad?", Elsie asked.
 
 "No", they replied; in stereo.
 
"Strange", said Elsie, "considering ALL the work Joseph Smith put into obeying the COMMAND of GOD.  Especially in light of the Articles of Faith casting doubt on the accuracy of the KJ version; too."

131 posted on 05/07/2024 1:17:42 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Elsie
The fresh faced elders may reply that...

The inspired verson was not completed, so it is not scripture.

Really?  Is that what you've been taught?


Smith claimed that he received a revelation on January 10, 1832 commanding him “to continue the work of translation until it be finished (D&C 73:4b). A year and a half later, Joseph Smith said his translation was completed. On July 2, 1833, History of the Church 1:368 reported,

“We this day finished the translating of the Scriptures, for which we return gratitude to our Heavenly Father.”

The corrections made by Smith were lauded by Mormon apostle Bruce R. McConkie, who wrote:

“The Joseph Smith Translation, or Inspired Version, is a thousand times over the best Bible now existing on earth. It contains all that the King James Version does, plus pages of additions and corrections and an occasional deletion. It was made by the spirit of revelation, and the changes and additions are the equivalent of the revealed word in the Book of Mormon and the Doctrine and Covenants. For historical and other reasons, there has been among some members of the Church in times past some prejudice and misunderstanding of the place of the Joseph Smith Translation. I hope this has now all vanished away. Our new Church Bible footnotes many of the major changes made in the Inspired Version and has a seventeen-page section which sets forth excerpts that are too lengthy for inclusion in the footnotes. Reference to this section and to the footnotes themselves will give anyone who has spiritual insight a deep appreciation of this revelatory work of the Prophet Joseph Smith. It is one of the great evidences of his prophetic call” (Sermons and Writings of Bruce R. McConkie, p. 289).


Even if you WERE correct in what you have asserted here; the next questions that should be in any Mormons mind would be...

 

I wonder why GOD didn’t know that Joseph would not finish what he was commanded to do?

I wonder WHY hasn't any subsequent Living Prophet® been given the task to COMPLETE the work??

Why has my chosen religion continued to let the rest of the world wallow in the pit of incorrect scripture???


133 posted on 05/07/2024 1:21:30 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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