Joseph Smith made very few changes, and those are only footnotes in the King James version, which we use.
There is no question that a lot of sacred writings are missing from the Bible. The Bible was assembled by men hundreds of years after Christ died.
There’s also no question that a lot of changes have been made in the earliest sacred writings which did make it into the Bible. Ehrman identified 30,000 changes in the New Testament, alone.
God does things on His own timetable. There were sealed portions of the record that Joseph Smith wasn’t permitted to translated. God will reveal those in His own time.
AH, yes, the fall-back "records haven't been unsealed" excuse.
P. T. Barnum is laughing his head off.
Yes, there have been many translations, and there are scriptural books that “did not make the cut” . Follow your logic once again. Who is to say that those men who made such “decissions” were not indeed guided by the spirit?
Indeed what makes more sense, following a line of rational and exact actions over 6000 plus years or throwing in never before heard of ideas and concepts that are alien to all those who have followed the lord for those thousands of years?
Could the record really be that hidden from all of man? Where are the “proto” Mormons, the ones who knew of the Priesthood concept as you see it, the ones who knew of Kolob and the Nephites and Laminates? You mean to tell me that is just 2000 years we lost that until Joe stuck his head in his hat? You talk of "silly', that is remarkable!
You quote Ehrman, a agnostic, who has made good points, but is he more interested in finding fault or finding faith. Is he like so many others so mired in the muck of the details that they can't see the beauty of the meaning?