Book of Mormon Edit?

Question

What are you opinions on the recent change of text in the Book of Mormon?

It used to say...

"After thousands of years, all were destroyed except the Lamanites, and they are the PRINCIPAL ancestors of the American Indians.”


Now it says....
“After thousands of years, all were destroyed except the Lamanites, and they are AMOUNG the ancestors of the American Indians.”


The interesting thing is this change is not published anywhere. Additionally, the new Doubleday Edition still lists itself as a first edition. I am no publisher, but my understanding was when you made changes, you listed it as a second, third, etc. edition. The second edition also indicates that it is still first printing, which would be impossible since the change was made.

http://www.sltrib.com/faith/ci_7403990

Answer 1

New findings in DNA make that verse a difficult one to defend, so voila, someone in the high counsel has a burning in the belly and God reveals the proper interpretation.

Answer 2

I've said this in other answers, but this is a huge change. Mormons don't want to see it, but it is. I was mormon my whole life. I grew up with the "knowledge" that the American Indians came from the Lamanites. If you search the word Lamanite in lds.org you find numerous talks referring to American Indians as Lamanites. Jospeh Smith called people to serve missions among the Lamanites. This is not the only place that said this. Also, we were taught that the entire content inside the covers of the BoM were scripture. The Intro was written by a man who was called as a "Prophet, Seer, and Revelator" Being that he was a prophet, and was given the official responsibility of writing an intro to such an important book, wouldn't it make sense for him to recieve revelation as to what he wrote, making future changes unneccessary. Are people basically saying that a man of such high standing in the church, who is called as a prophet and is given the hefty task of writing an introduction to the "most true book" on the face of the Earth, would not rely on revelation to do such? Are we really saying that God gave Joseph Smith a record of a people, but no further info on them such as what happened to them? Was Jospeh Smith just guessing or assuming when he called people to serve among the Lamanites? As I stated in a previous question I had, when someone in the church says something, or "prophecies" something that ends up coming true, then that is proof the church is true, and proof that they have revelation. When they are wrong, they are "just human" and capable of mistakes. Seems a little too convenient to me.

Answer 3

Regarding the recent change to the INTRODUCTION of the Book of Mormon, people are making a much bigger deal of this that it actually is. The text of the Book of Mormon has not been recently modified. What was modified was the introduction to the Book of Mormon, which was written in 1981. The introduction was not translated from the ancient record, nor was it written by Joseph Smith.

Regarding the specific change made, DNA evidence does suggest that Lehi was not the sole or even principal ancestor of Native Americans. This is what many Mormons have believed for decades. The change in the introduction reflects this belief, which has in turn been informed by scientific findings.

To learn more about the Mormons, visit http://www.allaboutmormons.com .

Answer 4

The LDS church never said that all native Americans came from the lamanites. They were people in the Americas before Lehi. Lehi, Nephites, and Lamanites were a group of people who not the only peoples who populated the Americas.
The Lamnanites either assimilated or were destroyed the neighboring peoples.

The introduction is just an introduction to the book of Mormon.
You're just knitpicking. and Peggie whoever from the Utah paper is anti mormon. I have read her stuff before.

Answer 5

definite, that does look like particularly some adjustments...yet having stated that, we are speaking a pair of e book that exchange into translated via a guy with merely approximately no guidance. He ignored a gaggle of commas and used exciting spelling on some words, and while he wrote, he copied each and every thing down into one substantial block of words. The grammar exchange into finally fixed, and the words have been broken into verses and chapters to make reading greater handy. Footnotes and flow references to the Bible have been additionally extra. The call internet site exchange into additionally replaced with the aid of the years...yet at no factor exchange right into a single be conscious replaced previous spelling corrections, and the message of the e book of Mormon maintains to be precisely a similar. A comma does not exchange something, and the e book of Mormon remains the main splendid (no longer truest, nevertheless it is likewise that) e book on the earth.

Answer 6

I was puzzled by this until I read the article. They only changed the introduction, not the text of the Book of Mormon. I think it's pretty cool that the LDS leaders wanted it changed to reflect subsequent scientific discoveries (DNA evidence that suggested the principal ancestors of the American Indians DIDN'T come from Israel).

Answer 7

The part that was changed was in the introduction to the book which wasn't even added until (I think) the early 80s. That's not part of the text. It was written by Bruce R. McKonkie who, despite all of his wisdom, was just a man and therefore did indeed make some mistakes.

Answer 8

It's a chapter heading that describes what is in that chapter, not a verse itself. Besides, people have changed things in the bible A LOT more then we have changed things in the BoM. If you say they haven't, then how do you explain all the different versions?

Chapter headings were added so people would know what was in that chapter. It is for convenience, not part of the scripture themselves. So changing them isn't like changing the versus in the chapters.

Answer 9

Last time I looked, which was just now, the Middle East, and Asia are not that far apart. Middle East is where Lehi, and Nephi, and Laman and Lemuel came from, and the ancestors of the American Indians, are supposed to have come from Asia and Russia.
So the lack of DNA was a big to do, about absolutely NOTHING!

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Answer 10

It is not an editing of the book itself, but the description. You can change the preface to a book all the time and it will still be the same edition of the book. The book itself was not changed.

Answer 11

This is the kind of editting the Christians have done for the past 2,000 years.