No, it’s to draw a parallel between what I consider wrongful rewrites of the Bible with what I assume would be considered wrongful rewrites of the Mormon texts.
Personally I put no faith at all in the Mormon ideologies as I’m a Baptist. “No man cometh unto the Father but by me”, and all that.
No, it’s to draw a parallel between what I consider wrongful rewrites of the Bible with what I assume would be considered wrongful rewrites of the Mormon texts.
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I don’t see them as being parallel at all.
Original copies of the first printing of the Book of Mormon (exactly as Smith wrote and approved) are still in existance today. Why make changes when you have the original?
The Bible translations you refer to are just that, TRANSLATIONS from the original into English. No different than translations into French, German, or Korean. Nobody is claiming a translation is inspired the way the original document is.
A better parallel would be what happened in Greece. The New Testament, of course, was originally written in Greek. Greek speaking nations have always enjoyed the advantage of being able to read the New Testament in the original Greek. A number of years ago, a group decided they were going to “update” the Greek NT into “modern” Greek (what they ended up with was a highly revised/redacted Greek NT.) This caused quite a firestorm as I understand it.
The attempted Greek NT update and the BOM update are parallel situations. In both cases you had the original document (or pretty close in the Greek case) that was not being translated, but updated/modified by someone that wanted to put a different theological spin on it.
I understand your worries with some translations, but se still have the source documents (in the original language) we can use to verify any Bible translation. The Mormons are essentially modifying the original, not making a translation.
Except NO ONE says that the early transcriptions of the BIBLE are WRONG - just that our knowledge of ancient languages keeps getting better and better.