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To: jude24
Your emphasis on "might" was quite misplaced. At the very least, you could have checked another translation, and you would have found the sense in which "that you might be" was used. The NASB renders that clause "that we would be a kind of first fruits." Similarly for the KJV, Darby, and RSV.

It's good to see that it's not only we Mormons who "believe the Bible to be the word of God as far as it is translated correctly". ;-)

603 posted on 10/02/2002 8:05:24 AM PDT by CubicleGuy
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To: CubicleGuy; P-Marlowe; RnMomof7; Elsie; Wrigley
Actually you believe the Bible is the Word of God unless Joesph Smith sees fit to exercise prophetic liscense and cut part out, change words or ignore portions that don't fit his revisionistic theology.

Want to visit the Joseph Smith Translation debate some more??? How about a cordial discussion format interchange on whether the Joseph Smith translation is in any legitimate sense a translation?

Just you and me and the JST!

604 posted on 10/02/2002 8:11:15 AM PDT by drstevej
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To: CubicleGuy; drstevej
You are mistaken if you consider quibbles over translation like "might be" and "should be" on the par with Joseph Smith plagarizing the King James Version in these alleged Golden Plates closely held by the Mormon church.
652 posted on 10/02/2002 12:30:46 PM PDT by jude24
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