[Elsie]

Indeed, Joseph Smith went so far as to say that we are the only people who truly believe it as it is written.

WHAT??

How to explain the JST and the Articles of Faith that states:

"as long as it's translated correctly"?

[TheDon]

John Mill (1645-1707, England) published the “Greek New Testament”, 1707, with indications of 30,000 variants. This was long before Joseph Smith. In that context, Smith was just stating what scholars of the day already knew.