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Question

You say the Bible is mostly correct, could you just show me where it is incorrect.

moonman...no that doesnt answer my question. show me the verses that are incorrect.

Life is beautiful....so what you are saying is when ever it contradicts the BOM

so your telling me that Revelation 22:16-21 must have some error in it?

Andrew J....you sure know how to go waaaayyyyy around the question dont you. If i wanted an atheist opinion I would have posted it Question for Atheist.

Answer 1

As a former LDS it is incorrect in any thing that does not line up with the teachings of the"prophet" :-) Joseph Smith. A teaching that is common among the cults.The Jesus they claim to know is not the same one in the New Testament.There Jesus is the brother of Satan the son of a holy father who was a man once and achieved godhood and a holy mother.He was conceived when their holy spirit had literal sex with Mary.

Answer 2

I'm sure this is referring to what I said earlier (see my post here: http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Al2QciEOy3shrg_YP0dNZv_sy6IX;_ylv=3?qid=20071210204312AABcPtB&show=7#profile-info-OCjDRUgpaa)

It's not necessarily that there are specific parts; we just believe that as a whole, some of the verses might not be AS elaborate as they were when they were originally written, or as descriptive, etc. And some verses might not be in exactly the same format they originally were, so the ones we have no are re-written forms of the verses. And think about how many forms of the bible there are... who's to say which is the absolute correct one? We are not the only religion that believes the bible is not 100% in it's original format.

Although, we believe there is more to the book of Genesis. These extra chapters make up a doctrinal book we use called the Peal of Great Price.

Answer 3

Any recent LDS edition of the Bible has footnotes related to better or more precise words in the KJV. These may be found in the Joseph Smith Translation.

JST 1John 2:1 My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. But if any man sin and repent, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous;

KJV 1 John 2:1 My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous:

The KJV is not 'incorrect', but the addition of the words 'and repent' are useful to better understand the principle.

In Corinthians Paul says for women to keep silent in Church. The JST says they should not preside in Church. A minor difference between proper authority and domination.

Answer 4

2telldatruth, I hope you know what you’re getting yourself into. If you’re willing to seek the answer to your question with a sincere, open mind, it could shake your very foundation.

I’m sure most Latter-day Saints can point out a few discrepancies in the Bible, and I’m surprised that no one has cited the usual examples yet, here, but many atheists could answer your question much more fully—even overwhelmingly. I once browsed a huge encyclopedic volume written by one very scholarly atheist who was intent on “exposing” the Bible and all religious believers to ridicule, and it was truly overwhelming to see the discrepancies listed throughout several hundred pages. As a Latter-day Saint who was raised as a Protestant and intent on becoming a minister at the time that I met the missionaries in college, I love the King James Version of the Bible and value the insights that a few other translations offer on some passages. As someone who attended a predominantly Jewish high school and thereby gained a great love for the Lord’s chosen people, my love of the Bible is even stronger. I study the Old Testament in Hebrew in the evenings, but I haven’t gained enough interest in Greek to do the same for the New Testament, even though I intend to do so in the future.

I hope you realize that in Sunday School Gospel Doctrine classes, Latter-day Saint adults study the Old Testament for a full year, followed by the New Testament on the next year, and then the Book of Mormon on the following year, etc., so we certainly don’t dismiss the Bible, despite the “plain and precious truths” that have been taken from it over countless centuries.

You can start with the following randomly searched URL, but I challenge you to also go to a university library and actually read any book written by an atheist dealing with biblical errors and contradictions, and see whether you can stand up to the test. I was able to answer many of them (I don’t know what percentage), but I can guarantee that no one can answer all of the thousands of instances without lying to themselves andy denying what is obvious. It is a huge eye-opener. I’m glad that I was a Latter-day Saint at the time I read it and thus realized that errors have been perpetrated in transcription by monks, as even most Bible-believing biblical scholars at any state university would assert—unlike most bible colleges. If I hadn’t been a Latter-day Saint and instead thought that my religious belief depends on the Bible being inerrantly perfect, I would have been devastated and would have had to start doubting religion in general. Thankfully, though, I know that revelation is the key upon which Christ built His Church, instead of a bunch of books that were compiled by a few councils hundreds of years after Christ died, arguing among themselves what to include and what to exclude from the biblical canon.

In direct answer to your question, start with the following URL, but first ask yourself the following question. If God allows mankind such full use of their free will as to frequently allow little babies to be murdered and innocent preteen girls to be raped in the cruelest of manners each day, what would make you think that he would make an exception and stop errors from creeping into the Bible. If you are a Protestant, which I assume you are, you must by definition believe that the Roman Catholic church is apostate, and thus you would have to admit that it is very likely that the church that prays to Mary, once sold indulgences, had popes who were blatantly guilty of whoredom, denies the marrying of priests, and believes in the transubstantiation of the Eucharist would have introduced some errors into the biblical text over the countless hundreds of years of spiritual darkness before Protestant churches began to be formed. The Lord God is unchanging, and He did not say at any time that He would intervene and force mankind to keep the Bible intact. Okay, now read the following URL and search for similar ones on the Internet before making a visit to a library.

http://www.infidels.org/library/modern/jim_meritt/bible-contradictions.html

Answer 5

Here is a non LDS site that talks about changes and incorrections in the Bible.

http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/religion/spurious.htm

Here is another site that talks about changes in modern day translation of the Bible.

http://www.gospelcenterchurch.org/changes.html

These are all non LDS sites. It is just to show you more people than the LDS think there are incorrections in the Bible.

Answer 6

How many versions of the Bible are there? I think that pretty much answers your question. How can they all be the correct translation if they are different?