However, some scholars in the faith have felt that during the translation of the text when Book of Mormon prophets quoted and commented on Isaiah, when quotations began, Joseph Smith went on autopilot and was influenced by the reading of the text he grew up with in the translation process. I have not been able to read the texts in their ancient languages and could not speak to “errors”. I have heard some say that the texts of Isaiah found in the Dead Sea Scrolls, which are now the oldest known copies of Isaiah and even incorporated in some versions of the Bible vindicate the quoted text in the Book of Mormon. In regard to translation “errors” I am not a translator and don’t have access to the most current texts. Second, if one assumes that the biblical text is reliable or has been well preserved we would expect the texts to be very close and in fact the closeness of the texts should testify of the reliability of the King James text, if the Bible is “the word of God” in the sense that you say. I found the narrative of an exact plagiarism somewhat exaggerated in terms of my own study, not relying on the words of scholars or skeptics. The majority of which being in the italicized portions of the King James with some modernizations of the language. While the texts are very close, there were more differences than I thought. I have put the two side by side in a Word document and noted all of the differences in the Isaiah text and the text as quoted in the Book of Mormon. In regard to your question, I assume that you are specifically talking about the long quotations of Isaiah. But, scrolling down I did not see any interesting comments. I am new to this site and this is an old comment and probably no longer of interest. I am a practicing member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints and a believer in the divine origin of the Book of Mormon. To say a thing is not true based upon it’s source is to say authority is the source of truth. If a thing is part of Truth its source is irrelevant. They wrote according to their knowledge and belief. No prophet or Holy man knew all the truth. The truth in an sacred book can only be weighed upon the value the truth stated has to a human’s spiritual comprehension and growth. The reality is many cultures who do not have the Bible has oral traditions telling of a creation, a fall, a flood etc. I have read 300 pages of the book and it is very convincing.īut I do not base the worth of the Bible or the Book of Mormon on whether the events related took place at a particular location nor in a particular year in the past. The Bible was written during the 1400 to 1500s and that no achaeological evidence has ever proved or supported the idea that the events spoken of in the Bible took place in the city now called Jerusalem or the land now called Israel. Fomenko in his book History Fiction or Science the entire timeline of history is false. After thousands of years, all were destroyed except the Lamanites, and they are among the ancestors of the American Indians.Īccording to Anatoly T. The other came much earlier when the Lord confounded the tongues at the Tower of Babel. and afterward separated into two nations, known as the Nephites and the Lamanites. The record gives an account of two great civilizations. Their words, written on gold plates, were quoted and abridged by a prophet-historian named Mormon. The book was written by many ancient prophets by the spirit of prophecy and revelation. According to Smith this ancient Moroni buried the plates in a hill near Smith’s home in Manchester, New York. Smith said he has received these plates in 1827 from an angel named Moroni, who identified himself to Smith as a Native American, which wrote a part of the book for over a thousand years ago. According to Smith, the book is originally written in an otherwise unknown language called “reformed Egyptian” on golden plates and it should be of similar importance as the Bible. The Book of Mormon is a sacred text that was published in March 1830 by Joseph Smith, Jr.
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