Excuse me Quester I personaly believe in the earyly AD that the scriptures were alredy being altered even during the time of Paul as he stated
in Gal 1
6 I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel:
7 Which is not another; but there be some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ.
8 But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed.
There was even posible because in those days there were sightings of angels both of good and deceiving!
So I believe you follow another gospel just by debating and deciding how the the personage should be thought!
These men had no authority to the Lord priesthood!
Resty, the scriptures you quoted said they were perverting the gospel. It does NOT say they altered scripture. At the time of Pauls letter to Galatians, the scripture was the Old Testament and some letters from Paul that had not yet been assembled by anyone.
We have very succinct evidence that the Old Testament is still intact and not altered since the time of the Church of Galatians.
These men had no authority to the Lord priesthood!
Of what men do you speak ?
The writings of the New Testament were all written by the first Apostles of Jesus Christ ... and their disciples.
If you can't trust them to accurately deliver the gospel of Jesus Christ ... who can you trust ?
You wrote the above on Post #251, and nobody called you on this. Why is this even an issue to you or LDS? I mean,
#1 here you have Joseph Smith's "Inspired Version" where he supposedly corrected whatever mistranslations there were. (How or why we don't know...he really didn't know much Hebrew or Greek...how many translators do you know who know only one language?). Anyway, why these vague references to "altered" verses when you could make a list of the differences between the "IV" and other versions of the Bible and there you have it...a specific distinctive list.
#2 If the KJV was such an error-filled bastion of ungodly and abominable thought, as JoeSmith and other LDS continue to portray to this very hour, why does Salt Lake City publish it? Send it out for free to folks who see LDS KJV commercials?
You know, if I possessed any error-filled book, I would not recommend it, let alone market it and advertise it, and base my entire life upon it.