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"title": "Is the Church embarrassed by the JST",
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"timestamp": "2025-10-13T01:15:53Z",
"comment": "Created page with \"{{Header}} ===This claim is contradicted by an enormous amount of historical evidence=== Some critics have claimed that the Church is \"embarrassed\" by the Joseph Smith Translation of the Bible. <ref>{{CriticalWork:Tanner:Changing World|pages=385}}</ref> This claim is contradicted by an enormous amount of historical evidence. The claim was made in 1977. In 1978, the Church produced its new version of the KJV after years of work. Thus, the JST was the focus of serious...\""
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"title": "Why is JST Genesis creation account not more like the Book of Abraham",
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"timestamp": "2025-10-13T01:14:27Z",
"comment": "Created page with \"{{Header}} === The Bible does support plurality of gods === When God gives new insight and revelation, he doesn't typically \"rewrite\" all scripture that has gone before: He simply adds to it. The creation account in the Book of Abraham supports a plurality of gods. Critics claim that the Bible does not support this. However, there are two errors in the assumption that the Bible does not support a plurality of gods. === There are clearly multiple divine personages in...\""
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"title": "Why does the Book of Mormon and Book of Moses describe God as creating while the Book of Abraham describes Gods",
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"user": "ReedComire",
"timestamp": "2025-10-13T01:03:40Z",
"comment": "Created page with \"{{Header}} ===Latter-day Saints believe that God is one, but accept the Biblical witness that this is a oneness of purpose, intent, mind, will, and love=== The scriptures affirm that there is \"One God\" consisting of Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. A great debate in Christian history has been the ''nature'' of this oneness. Protestant critics do not like the fact that Latter-day Saints reject the nonbiblical Nicene Creed, which teaches a oneness of substance. Latter-day...\""
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"title": "Why are there discrepancies between translations in the Book of Mormon, KJV and the JST of the Bible",
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"user": "ReedComire",
"timestamp": "2025-10-13T00:51:39Z",
"comment": "Created page with \"{{Header}} ==Parallel passages from the Book of Mormon and Joseph Smith Translation of the Bible sometimes disagree not only with the King James Version of the Bible, but also with each other== Parallel passages from the Book of Mormon and Joseph Smith Translation of the Bible sometimes disagree not only with the King James Version of the Bible, but also with each other. Critics ask why Joseph's earlier work (i.e., the Book of Mormon) generally followed the King James...\""
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"title": "Why does the JST of Genesis (Book of Moses) contain New Testament language",
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"user": "ReedComire",
"timestamp": "2025-10-13T00:48:31Z",
"comment": "Created page with \"{{Header}} The Book of Moses comes from the few chapters of the JST—it is essentially the JST of the first chapters of Genesis. The translation includes many phrases from the New Testament. The following occurences of New Testament language and concepts reflected in the Book of Moses were documented by David M. Calabro—a Latter-day Saint and Curator of Eastern Christian Manuscripts at the Hill Museum and Manuscript Library at Saint John\u2019s University.<ref...\""
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"title": "Why does the Church use the KJV instead of the JST as its official bible",
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"user": "ReedComire",
"timestamp": "2025-10-13T00:45:56Z",
"comment": "Created page with \"{{Header}} The answer to this question is complex. There is no ''single'' reason; instead, there are many: #There is no revelation that has directed the Church to replace the KJV with the JST. Such a change would require both prophetic instruction and a sustaining vote of the membership. #The original manuscripts for the JST were retained by Emma Smith when the Saints went west. She later gave them to her son, Joseph III, and he had the first JST Bible printed under th...\""
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"title": "Was the JST ever completed",
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"user": "ReedComire",
"timestamp": "2025-10-13T00:43:52Z",
"comment": "Created page with \"{{Header}} As one LDS scholar noted: <blockquote> \"The Bible Dictionary in the English LDS Bible states that Joseph Smith 'continued to make modifications [in the translation] until his death in 1844.' Based on information available in the past, that was a reasonable assumption, and I taught it for many years. But we now know that it is not accurate. The best evidence points to the conclusion that when the Prophet called the translation 'finished,' he really meant it, a...\""
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"title": "Did Adam Clarkes Bible Commentary influence the JST",
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"user": "ReedComire",
"timestamp": "2025-10-13T00:42:24Z",
"comment": "Created page with \"{{Header}} In March 2017, Thomas Wayment, professor of Classics at Brigham Young University, published a paper in BYU\u2019s ''Journal of Undergraduate Research'' titled \"A Recently Recovered Source: Rethinking Joseph Smith\u2019s Bible Translation\". In a summary of their research, Wayment and his research assistant wrote: <blockquote> Joseph Smith\u2019s translation of the Bible has attracted significant attention in recent decades, drawing the interest of a wide variety of a...\""
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"title": "What was the translation procedure to produce the JST",
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"user": "ReedComire",
"timestamp": "2025-10-13T00:39:52Z",
"comment": "Created page with \"Kent Jackson reports: {{Header}} <blockquote> The original manuscripts of the JST, as well as the Bible used in the revision, still exist. They show the following process at work: Joseph Smith had his Bible in front of him, likely in his lap or on a table, and he dictated the translation to his scribes, who recorded what they heard him say. ... there are no parts of the translation in which the scribes \"copied out the text of the Bible.\" The evidence on the manuscripts...\""
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"title": "What is the relationship between the JST and biblical manuscripts",
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"user": "ReedComire",
"timestamp": "2025-10-13T00:37:13Z",
"comment": "Created page with \"{{Header}} The Joseph Smith Translation does claim to be, in part, a restoration of the original content of the Bible. This may have been done (a) by reproducing the ''text'' as it was originally written down; or, (b) it may have been about reproducing the original ''intent'' and ''clarifying the message'' of the original author of the text in question. We are not entirely sure, but in either case the JST does claim to be, in part, a restoration. Critics who fault the...\""
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