Why are so many people concerned with...?

Question

changes in the Book of Mormon (grammatical only anyways), as opposed to how many changes have been made to the bible, which have been thousands????

I challenge anyone out there to read it, ask the Lord if it is true, and you will not get the answer "no."

Answer 1

Wow! Some of the people that gave you answers should learn to be a little more excepting of other religions! Mormons probably think that their veiws are a load of crap too! Anyway, I think that you are over looking the fact that changes in the bible did cause a bit of controversy. And I think that maybe since The Book of Mormon hasn't been changed alot in the past (if at all), then they don't want to ruin such a holy and unchanged thing.

Answer 2

the Mormons change the rules in their book more than i change my socks...no offense but i don't see any "revised editions" of the NIV...except from ...ye olde stuck in stocks..to more modern language i mean COME ONE.....and i KNOW that its not just grammatical because i have a Mormon friend....until the Mormons owned the Coca Cola company you couldn't drink Coca Cola....and right after it was bought by Mormons you changed you're book...hm coincidental eh?...and how dare you say that God is going to tell us that youre right and were wrong...first of all he's not like that..so dont expect an answer because that would only cause rivalry...and in history there was only ONE original church for God....but people have changed and contorted in so many different ways that we all just decided to make our own "groups" ... God Almighty and the Prince of PEACE .( note the peace part) wouldnt try to cause commotion between two groups of religion

Answer 3

Never heard of any changes to the bible. If you read the original texts that have been found, they have found no changes made to it so where are the thousands of changes you speak of that have been made to it? I have seen a bible that was printed in the 1500s and comparing it to what I have today, I see no changes whatever but a simpler wording of the language of today rather than the thees and thou's.

Answer 4

I'm not concerned about the Book of Mormon. It's a False Doctrine anyway.

Answer 5

I agree with you, in one way. The way I look at the situation, there really are too many versions, especially when you consider what the Bible says about not taking away from or adding to the original Word of God. That means to me that we were not meant to have "versions" or "interpretations" of our own, period.
The way I see it, a copy of an original Bible is the only one acceptable to God, so which came first the King James Version of the Bible, or the Book of Morman?

Answer 6

Because people are dumb

they can see this happening now the changes in the bible happend mostly in the past so they dont care about them

Answer 7

problems with the NIV version by jvitne



jvitne http://answers.yahoo.com/question/;_ylt=AsYhD9hPqph4ATy4SnOkNRcjzKIX?qid=1006041111226

<------------------------------ NOT BY A MORMON BY THE WAY VERY UNBIASED



The NIV is NOT a literal translation, but something between literal and paraphrased. Is it biased? Yes! When it relates to its “church” teachings/doctrines. Even the NIV is a version of a version-or if you like, a revision of the New International Version which is one of the best selling Bibles on the market. Since it is based on another version, and not on the original Greek and Hebrew manuscripts (though they say that they used some), there is opportunity for play...and abuse.

Note the following example: Is the NIV biased when it comes to the Trinity? Yes it is. Dr. Kenneth Barker, General Editor of the NIV when accused of being too strong on the Deity of Christ answered: "If they want to accuse me of being biased toward the Deity of Christ, I'm honored."

The NIrV has allowed these translators to go Hog-trinity wild. Here are some examples:

Phillipians 2:6 "In his very nature he was God."
Should read: "though he was in the form of God" RSV
Collosians 1:15 "Christ is the exact likeness of God, who can't be seen."
Should read: "He is the image of the invisible God" RSV
Revelation 3:14 "He rules over what God has created."
Should Read: "the beginning of God's creation" RSV
Galatians 4:6 "God sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts. He is the Holy Spirit."
Should read: No other literal translation has the last sentence.
1 Timothy 3:16 "The Holy Spirit proved that he was the Son of God."
Should Read: "He was manifested in the flesh, vindicated in the Spirit." RSV
John 1:18 "God, the One and only Son."
Should Read: "the Only Son" RSV, or better yet, "the
only-begotten God" NASB
Colossians 2:9 "God's whole nature is living in Christ in human form."
Should read: "The full content of divine nature lives in Christ" Good News Bible-TEV
Titus 2:13 "We are waiting for Jesus Christ...he is our great God and Savior."
Should Read: "the Great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ" ASV
Hebrews 1:8 "But here is what he says about the Son. 'You are God.' "
Should Read: "God is thy throne" RSV mg
2 Peter 1:1 "our God and Savior Jesus Christ"
Should read: "our God and the Saviour Jesus Christ" ASV

God's name Jehovah/Yahweh appears in the original hebrew text about 7000 times, but the NIV fails to mention it even once. When asked about this, Edwin H. Palmer, Th.D., Executive Secretary for the NIV's committee wrote:

"Here is why we did not: You are right that Jehovah is a distinctive name for God and ideally we should have used it. But we put 2 1/4 million dollars into this translation and a sure way of throwing that down the drain is to translate, for example, Psalm 23 as, 'Yahweh is my shepherd.' Immediately, we would have translated for nothing. Nobody would have used it. Oh, maybe you and a handful [of] others. But a Christian has to be also wise and practical. We are the victims of 350 years of the King James tradition. It is far better to get two million to read it—that is how many have bought it to date—and to follow the King James, than to have two thousand buy it and have the correct translation of Yahweh. . . . It was a hard decision, and many of our translators agree with you."

Profit is a low motive for changing this most important text. Even the King James had "Jehovah" 4 times at Exodus 6:3; Psalms 83:18; Isaiah 12:2; 26:4.

As to such statement made by the translators to the effect that they would be throwing away millions of dollars if they were to include the Divine Name Jehovah or Yahweh in their translation. So we see a profit motive in translating God's word. This was carried over to the NIrV, which makes absolutely no mention of this great name (which incidentally occurs about 7000 times in the original Hebrew). There is absolutely no mention of it in the foreword either.

There is however see several names, including the editor, interior designer, typesetter, proofreaders, printers and of course, the publishing company.

Even references to the NAME are often removed, such as in Joel 2:32, "Everyone who calls out to me will be saved."
In closing, I have this scripture. Psalms 74:10 "God, how long will your enemies make fun of you? Will they attack you with their words forever?"(NIrV)

“If you belong to a small group of serious students of the Bible who are trying to appreciate to learn the Hebrew or Greek languages, then you will appreciate the value of a ‘crib’ or ‘gloss’ translation, especially an interlinear one, or a relatively word –for– word one like the NASB, KJ2, NWT, Young, Darby, RV, Douay, Concordant”. (Pg. 67, Bible Translation And How To Choose Between Them by Alan S. Duthie.)









ALSO our church does not own coca Cola you can look up shareholders if you want that's false and I am sorry people are misleading you about other peoples beliefs it really is quite sad.


her.royalfre...

Answer 8

I'm concerned about changing scripture(the bible)or adding new books.

Answer 9

Oh !
Book of Mormons has been changed?
Never heard nothing about it.

Answer 10

A better question is why would anyone in their right mind compare the Bible to that collection of crap?

This I believe; http://homelessheart.com/testimony.htm