Folks, following are just four or many, many excerpts I could post that show serious changes in Moron doctrine that can be found in the Book of Mormon:
The radical changes to the personages in the original versus the edits, just seven years later and beyond, these are only a VERY small sampling of the changes that create HUGE changes to the doctrinal teachings from their first, prime source for teaching and doctrinal authority. Were the Bible to have ever been known to have had anywhere near these kinds of edits, we would be justified in rejecting the Bible outright.
These people are taught that the Bible is unreliable, and therefore needs the leadership to interpret it for their members. Gauging from this small sampling of corruptions within the Book of Mormon, and also known edits to the Pearl of Great Price and their Doctrines and Covenants, the Bible shines so brightly that these works that they venerate as reliable are laughably lacking in legitimate measure of credibility.
Remember...I was once one of them.
MM
1830 original edition | 1837 and subsequent editions | |
1 Nephi 11:18 | And he said unto me: Behold, the virgin which thou seest is the mother of God after the manner of the flesh. | And he said unto me: Behold, the virgin whom thou seest is the mother of the Son of God, after the manner of the flesh. |
1 Nephi 11:21 | And the angel said unto me: Behold the Lamb of God, yea, even the Eternal Father. | And the angel said unto me: Behold the Lamb of God, yea, even the Son of the Eternal Father! |
1 Nephi 11:32 | ...And I looked and beheld the Lamb of God, that he was taken by the people, yea, the everlasting God was judged of the world. | ...And I looked and beheld the Lamb of God, that he was taken by the people; yea, the Son of the everlasting God was judged of the world. |
1 Nephi 13:40 | ...that the Lamb of God is the Eternal Father and the Savior of the world... | ...that the Lamb of God is the Son of the Eternal Father, and the Savior of the world... |
The radical changes to the personages in the original versus the edits, just seven years later and beyond, these are only a VERY small sampling of the changes that create HUGE changes to the doctrinal teachings from their first, prime source for teaching and doctrinal authority. Were the Bible to have ever been known to have had anywhere near these kinds of edits, we would be justified in rejecting the Bible outright.
These people are taught that the Bible is unreliable, and therefore needs the leadership to interpret it for their members. Gauging from this small sampling of corruptions within the Book of Mormon, and also known edits to the Pearl of Great Price and their Doctrines and Covenants, the Bible shines so brightly that these works that they venerate as reliable are laughably lacking in legitimate measure of credibility.
Remember...I was once one of them.
MM