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To: tantiboh

There is no difference in the King James Version which is the only “authorized” version by your Church.

I am surprised they even allow you to read the Greek, since you aren’t allowed to read the Bible in modern day English, but your point is taken.

Aything that puts you in a position of self-esteem or self- worth denies the glory of God IMO. The Bible tells us so. Even pride in being a Mormon.

Here are the definitions of Proud found on the internet.
1. Feeling pleasurable satisfaction over an act, possession, quality, or relationship by which one measures one’s stature or self-worth: proud of one’s child; proud to serve one’s country.
2. Occasioning or being a reason for pride: “On January 1, 1900, Americans and Europeans greeted the twentieth century in the proud and certain belief that the next hundred years would make all things possible” W. Bruce Lincoln.
3. Feeling or showing justifiable self-respect.
4. Filled with or showing excessive self-esteem.
5. Of great dignity; honored: a proud name.
6. Majestic; magnificent: proud alpine peaks.
7. Spirited. Used of an animal: proud steeds.


555 posted on 05/05/2007 4:04:45 PM PDT by colorcountry (An Honest Man will change his thoughts to match the truth and a Dishonest Man will change the truth)
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To: colorcountry

“I am surprised they even allow you to read the Greek, since you aren’t allowed to read the Bible in modern day English, but your point is taken.”

Allowed? Why wouldn’t we be “allowed?” The LDS Church does not control what information we choose to access. It provides general resources, such as the LDS edition of the KJV of the Bible, which is heavily cross-referenced with the rest of the LDS canon; but this is for the good of the many. Those of us who have a desire are perfectly “allowed” to read what we want.

Take a look at FARMS and FAIR, for example. They bring in all sorts of outside resources into their research.


590 posted on 05/05/2007 5:08:07 PM PDT by tantiboh
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