(I guess the Mormon god had trouble getting things right the first time...this 'prophet' acting as a mouthpiece of a god? Hardly...try "the Mormon god's editor")
"I told the brethren that the Book of Mormon was the most correct book of any on earth... (Joseph Smith History of the Church, 4:461)
From the article: "One of the tenets of Mormonism, then and now, is continual revelation." He added, concerning the written revelations, "These were living, breathing documents to Joseph Smith and to others."...attitudes in the early days of the Church, when revelations were often updated to conform to newly understood doctrine...
Which means, properly "translated," is that unknown D&C editors could make changes again, willy nilly -- and you won't -- without doing your own painstaking comparisons -- know...
...what was original to Smith;
...what was second-generation Smith acting as "editor" of the Mormon god's so-called "revelations"
...what was added by later generations of unnamed Mormon editors, etc.
All Lds "scripture editors" need to do is to go on an editing binge -- and presto, even more changes will be forthcoming!
Kinda like NIV and all the other permutations. I tend to stick with KJV and call it done.
Comparing the manuscripts to the published revelations, one soon notices numerous changes.
"I don't think there should be a concern about that," Brother Jensen said.
So what God can't spell or punctuate?
Other changes, he said, might involve corrections in grammar, spelling, punctuation or capitalization. "I don't have a problem with that," he said. "I view it as Joseph Smith receiving concepts or ideas, or, in some cases, words that are literally from God's mind."
Which explains the dearth of new revelation since Brigham Young's day. You'd think the LDS would have issued four or five volumes of D&C-sized, confirmed revealed information by now.