What are the fundamental differences between the King James Bible, the Quaker Bible, and the Mormon Bible?

Question

I am not Christian but I was interested in the fundamental differences between the different versions, are they mainly interpreted differently, or are they completely different?

Answer 1

King James Bible:
Mistranslated

The Quaker Bible:
Liberally translated

The Mormon Bible:
Translated to fit the book of Mormon.

Answer 2

Hey Mick, thanks for the kind question, and not attacking anyone in wanting to know.
The King James Version of the bible came about in the 1600s when King James of England approved a new English translation. There were many disputes and many different versions of what the translations should be, so he directed that they all make one version.
Mormons use the King James Bible as part of their scripture. The Book of Mormon is another one of their holy books that they use as a companion to the Bible. The subtitle is "Another Testiment of Jesus Christ," which they believe adds to the testimony given in the Bible.
The different versions of the Bible today include modern language Bibles and things like that. Most Bibles have the same ideas in them, if there is any difference in words it is usually because people believe the book should have been translated differently, or that it was mistranslated. Sorry, I know nothing of the Quaker Bible.

Answer 3

There is no "Mormon Bible"

The Mormons believe that the Bible is the word of God and typically use the King James Version.

I know nothing about the Quaker Bible.

Answer 4

Quakers (Friends) don't use any particular Bible (some also don't see themselves as coming from a Judeo-Christian tradition, so they don't use any Bible). In general, though, we do attach great significance to the Bible, but we believe that the same Spirit who guided its writing also guides each of us today, and it is through this ongoing revelation of the Spirit that we discern (and obey) the will of God.

Elizabeth Duke (http://www.quakers.org.au/old_about_elizDuke.html) put it well:
"The spirit may have guided the Scriptures, but you don't receive the spirit through the Scriptures, you worship directly, you are directly guided. In practice, you will find that where God is leading you is in accordance with the guidance of the Scriptures, but neither priests nor buildings nor books should come between you and the living God."

So, although I've seen a lot of copies of the King James, it doesn't make all that much difference to us in the end which version one uses because our focus is on direct experience of God.

Unfortunately, I am not knowledgeable about the Mormon faith, so I can't speak to the other part of your question, but I see that others have.

Answer 5

King James Bible is Translated out of the original tongues: and with the former translations diligently compared and revised by the King of England's special command, appointed to be read in churches.

The deuterocanonical books (meaning "second canon") are not recognized as part of the canon of the Bible in Protestantism, but are recognized as canonical by the Roman Catholic church. They are also known as the Apocrypha. These books came from the Septuagint, the Greek version of the Old Testament used by early Christians and Jews. They were included in the first editions of the King James Bible, but were removed from some editions by reformers during the 17th century. By the mid-19th century, the deuterocanonical books were generally rejected by Protestant Christians. Judaism used the Septuagint until about the second century AD, but doesn't recognize either the deuterocanonical or New Testament books as part of their own canon, which is known as the Tanakh.

The Quaker Bible is a translation into English of the Christian Bible. It was translated in 1764 by Anthony Purver (1702—1777), a Quaker, hence the name: Quaker Bible. Its full official title is A new and literal translation of all the books of the Old and New Testament; with notes critical and explanatory. The translation was published in two Volumes in London by W. Richardson and S. Clark in 1764.

Purver was a self-taught translator and laboured for 30 years with the project single handed – compared to the New English Bible which involved a large number of academics.

The "Mormon bible"...
There are several kinds of books which may be described as "Mormon books." The Mormon Church, properly named The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, publishes two classes of books. These are:

The official, canonical scriptures of the Church, namely

The Holy Bible
The Book of Mormon—Another Testament of Jesus Christ
The Doctrine and Covenants
The Pearl of Great Price
These four volumes are sometimes collectively referred to as "the Standard Works" or simply "the Scriptures." In Mormon usage, this goes beyond the usual sense of "a work of recognised excellence" and is actually equivalent to "the official, canonical scriptures of the Church."

Hope that helps?

Answer 6

I am not familiar with the Quaker Bible but suspect it is quite similar to the KJV Bible.

OTOH there is not a Mormon Bible, but rather a Book of Mormon that is treated as scripture. It teaches the very same principles and doctrines as the Bible, only with a different people, the ancestors of Native Americans. It covers peoples led from the middle east from 2000 BC to around 250 AD. It mentions a visitation of Christ among these peoples soon after His resurrection in the Americas. The Book of Mormon is entirely a different book of scripture, it is not another version of the Bible, yet teaches the same principles. This fulfills the Biblical principle that "In the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word be established". The Book of Mormon was sent to be a companion to the Bible, and authenticate the Bible.

Unfortunately, and many LDS folks here will disagree with me, the Book of Mormon does NOT teach many LDS doctrines such as the past practice of polygamy and racism, the current practices of Celestial Marriage, Baptism for the Dead, Celestial Marriage for the Dead, the 1st Presidency, 3 Degrees of Glory, a Changing God and many other lesser doctrines. In many ways the Book of Mormon bitterly opposes these teachings, especially polygamy which it terms is a whoredom and abomination to God, no excuses, no exceptions. While the LDS may PROFESS the Book of Mormon, in many ways they reject it and disobey it.

So the KJV, Quaker Bibles and Book of Mormon teaches the same doctrines, but the LDS Doctrine and Covenants is completely different. They rely on it more than any of the other books such as the Bible or Book of Mormon.

Answer 7

The "Mormon Bible" is really the same thing as the King James Bible; Mormons use the KJV as their Bible. They also have a companion book of scripture, called The Book of Mormon (sometimes inaccurately called the Mormon Bible), which contains writings of ancient prophets that used to live in the Western Hemisphere. The two books of scripture are complementary to each other. I do not know anything about the Quaker Bible.

Answer 8

The Quakers are also known as The (Religious) Society of Friends. I believe that Quakers now use the most common translations of the bible (KJV, NIV, NLV, etc.). There was at one time a bible referred to as Quaker bible, though it was never used by Quakers:
http://quaker.wikia.com/wiki/Quaker_Bible

Mormons have a supplemental book called the book of mormon.

The King James version of the holy bible is simply the English translation that was the most popular one for years. The main difference between the King James version and the New Living Translation is just that the New Living translation uses more contemporary English, as opposed to Jamesian English. 'Thine' becomes 'your/s', 'thee' becomes 'you', etc.

Quaker sites:
http://www.quaker.info
http://www.quaker.org

Answer 9

Mormons study from the King James version of the Bible. In fact in sunday school right now we are dedicated to the New Testament study out of the King James version.

If you are talking about the Book of Mormon, that is an entirely diff set of scriptures of prophetic writings of prophets in the americas. It is essentially a Bible from another part of the world. It is just another testament of Christ including Christs visit and teachings to the people in this region of the world right after his resurrection.

But mormons absolutely believe the Bible to be the word of God and study all the time from the King James version of it.


summerdawn
the Book of Mormon was written by prophets and translated by Joseph Smith
Why in the world is that such a difficult concept to grasp, that God might possibly give people in other parts of the world a chance to hear his message as well.?
You may not believe in the book of mormon, but why is it not possible that there were other prophets in other parts of the world???? Do you really think that the Bible is all God ever gave to the entire world thruout its history? Do you think that God only gave his message to one tiny portion of people in the world?



history note
that little scripture at the end of the Bible that people like to quote as a reason there cant possibly be any other books of scripture other then the bible was actually written chronologically before a lot of rest of the Bible
given that fact, parts of the Bible you believe in then would have to be false because it was written after that verse
There is to be no additions to the TRUTH and the true word of God. We know for a fact that the church left out scriptures in the organization of the Bible. If the Bible is it, in terms of the word of God, then where in the world do all these christian sects get the authority to break off from one another? How is it churches get any authority to give woman or homosexuals the priesthood? If you cant change any doctrine in the original interpretations of the Bible what right did most churches in the US have to exist given they are breakoffs of the protestant church which was simply a breakoff from the catholics. Where do any of you get any authority to do any of that if you have no right to change any original biblical doctrine you claim to be doctrine.

Answer 10

CaDisneyGirl76 wrote:

"that little scripture at the end of the Bible that people like to quote as a reason there cant possibly be any other books of scripture other then the bible was actually written chronologically before a lot of rest of the Bible"

This scripture is found somewhere in Revelation I think. The funny thing is that there's a similar one to it in Deuteronomy (5th book of the Torah). For this same reason many Orthodox Jews accept nothing past Deuteronomy. Many Jews site this in Deuteronomy as proof that Christianity is fake because it has "added to the word".

Just history repeating itself I see.