Very funny. I wonder why it was never the noun that was in error, but it was always the verb tense that was the problem? If God can’t get the tense of a verb right, that’s sort of surprising. Now if a man, who had a problem with verb tenses wrote the book of Mormon without guidance from God, that would make things easier to understand with 1000’s of mistakes in singular and plural verbs.
Also funny that the Mormon church line is that they are “punctuation errors,” so much so that it was a kneejerk reaction on your part before you saw that I’d posted proof that this was not the case. Yet that line by the church is a lie, that the changes were only punctuation. What sort of Church lies like that?
~”...so much so that it was a kneejerk reaction on your part...”~
That was a kneejerk reaction on my part; and I have corrected the error. However, it does remain that, while punctuation did exist in the 1830 edition, a large part of the “thousands” of errors you claim were punctuation changes made after the 1830 edition.
Once again, I’m still looking into this; but I suspect that the claim of “1000’s of mistakes in singular and plural verbs” is overstating the case by quite a bit.
~”What sort of Church lies like that?”~
Since that was my recollection and error, and not a “lie” sourced from the Church, I wouldn’t know. Just like any culture, Mormons tell each other things that the Church doesn’t tell them. Sometimes the Church has to address such falseness very pointedly. Thank God we have prophets to keep us from embracing such doctrines of men.
The preliminary research I’ve done so far indicates that every change has been made for a reasonable purpose, just as has been the case for the Bible. Of course, it’s a rather exhaustive topic, so I doubt we’ll finish the conversation in this thread.
Early indicators are that this is yet another claim hyped by our detractors in an attempt to sow discord; nothing more.