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So ... Mormon founder Joseph Smith, Jr. introduced translation errors and deceitfully contrived heresies into Mormon scripture?
1 posted on 03/10/2013 5:26:20 PM PDT by delacoert
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Last Friday, the LDS church announced a newly released digital edition of the LDS canon, which includes "adjustments" (as they call them). Many have called the changes a bomb detonated to revise history, especially on troubling issues such as racism and polygamy....

....One of the most significant 2013 edition changes is the heading to the Official Declaration 2, which states the following: "Early in its history, Church leaders stopped conferring the priesthood on black males of African descent. Church records offer no clear insights into the origins of this practice"....

....The other change is the Book of Abraham Introduction... They no longer admit, as Joseph Smith wrote in History of the Church, that it was written by the hand of Abraham. (History of the Church, 2:235–36, 348–51). Rather, it is an "inspired" translation. This is an obvious migration to one of the several solutions advanced by LDS apologists to overcome the deficit on the proven inability of Joseph Smith to actually translate Egyptian.

Huge kudos to the writer, for coming up with the brilliant "canonbombed!"

2 posted on 03/10/2013 5:32:51 PM PDT by Alex Murphy ("If you are not firm in faith, you will not be firm at all" - Isaiah 7:9)
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To: delacoert

False religion. Other religions with obvious errors need to also admit their errors and return to the Bible. However, to say so here would cause a chorus of accusations of being a ___________-basher. lol.


4 posted on 03/10/2013 5:39:10 PM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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So...The Lds church...

Unveils its...
...duplicious reasoning as to why it took "this opportunity" to make some editorial changes in its "sacred" docs...(as if we are somehow to believe that we don't live in a digital age)...
...openly racist past from the top-down -- from men who were supposedly THE very vocal chords of God on earth...
...plus the conclusion from the Mormon church that, "Hey, I guess our 'prophets' can lead the Mormon church astray, after all"

5 posted on 03/10/2013 5:39:20 PM PDT by Colofornian
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To: delacoert

Next you’ll doubt the gold tablets, magic glasses and the Angel Moroni.


6 posted on 03/10/2013 5:52:55 PM PDT by BipolarBob (Happy Hunger Games! May the odds be ever in your favor.)
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To: delacoert

Well, considering the thousands of changes already to the BOM and DAC to correct for errors in geography and/or history... What’s a few more?

Say what you want about reconciling small vagaries between manuscripts of the OT and NT... They haven’t needed to be “fixed”.


7 posted on 03/10/2013 5:57:24 PM PDT by Ramius (Personally, I give us one chance in three. More tea anyone?)
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To: delacoert

Amazing is in is not that this “book” which was given directly from the lds god, has to be revised again because of all the mistakes and lds god mind changes.


8 posted on 03/10/2013 6:21:19 PM PDT by svcw (Why is one cell on another planet considered life, and in the womb it is not.)
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Well I’d say you just can’t make this up....


13 posted on 03/10/2013 7:59:31 PM PDT by ejonesie22 (8/30/10, the day Truth won.)
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It seems that the great harlot in rev 17 is causing a lot of strife, so many of the big religious institutes racing like mad to be the one.


20 posted on 03/11/2013 6:00:10 AM PDT by ravenwolf
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