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  • You should ask whoever told you this for examples. I doubt though if any Scriptures are a 100% accurate account of what the religions founder originally said. Mormons believe that the Book of Mormon is a third revelation from the Christian God. The first two being the Old and New Testaments of the Bible. Most non Mormons however either reject the Book of Morman as a C19th forgery or have no opinion about it.
  • Using the word GOD is a big example of corruptness. The translators knew there were better words, and didnt use them.
  • Perhaps you should understand that when it comes to Christianity and, in particular, to interpreting the Bible, any goes and it's all left up to the reader for interpretation. That whole business is a free for all of madness and ignorance
  • Aramaic, Greek and Latin don't translate directly into English, no matter which Bible. The Mormons don't have a lock on gifted translators. The best thing is to get multiple translations and compare them to get the best sense of what is being said. There is something called a parallel Bible that has several translations side by side.
  • The Mormons dont have a hold on correct translations. That is a way of getting people to believe their ideas are superior to others.
  • "You should ask whoever told you this for examples." * I have, they show nothing in return. By there silence, they confirm that there are no mis translations. Yet they still throw it out there that there are "thousands" of translations and they are all corrupted. Just like the Book of Mormon, all talk no walk"
  • Why do you misrepresent Mormonism? Mormonism never made the claim that corruptions in the Bible were the reason the Book of Mormon was written. The oft-quoted "A Bible, a Bible" passage states that there is more than one nation, and that God is the Lord of all of them. The Jews gave us the Bible. The Lehites gave us the Book of Mormon. The Lehites wrote for the following purpose: "to show unto the remnant of the House of Israel what great things the Lord hath done for their fathers; and that they may know the covenants of the Lord, that they are not cast off forever - And also to the convincing of the Jew and Gentile that JESUS is the CHRIST, the ETERNAL GOD, manifesting himself unto all nations" (Book of Mormon title page)
  • In modern scholarly translations, there aren't exactly errors or corruptions as such. But there are editorial choices. Also, as no punctuation existed in any language until invented by Christian monks in the Dark Ages, all punctuation in Biblical translations is a committee decision (i.e., a consensus of best guesses by scholars). For some reason all English translations get John 11:33 wrong: "he was deeply moved in spirit and troubled" actually reads in the Greek, "he was enraged." They don't have a problem with this in the French, German, Dutch, Spanish, or Italian translations. In Thai, however, they soften it even further as in Thai culture it's a horribly low-class face-losing behavior to ever exhibit rage. Also, all major English translations soften a number of other passages. For example, John 2:10 - "Everyone brings out the choice wine first and then the cheaper wine after the guests have had too much to drink; but you have saved the best till now." The middle clause actually reads, "after he has gotten them drunk." A few places they clean up the coarse language for the niceties of liturgical reading: Paul actually wrote, "I count it all as shit;" Elijah taunts the prophets of Baal saying, "Where is your god? Is he out taking a crap?" and God says through Isaiah, "All your righteousness are as filthy menstrual rags before Me." Though something is always lost in any translation of anything, the major translations are certainly faithful and more than accurate enough on handling the key passages. Also, if you were to translate the original languages absolutely literally, much of the Hebrew OT would be unintelligible; e.g. "And said the [one] gods be Illuminator and was Illuminator and countenanced the [one] gods the illuminator that beneficial and separated the [one] gods between the illuminator and the confusing and called the [one] gods to the illuminator warming and to the confusing he called twisting-away and was a slow-subtle-concealing and was a sudden-violent-bursting-forth the first warming." The fact is that almost all Hebrew nouns are actually participles of abstract verbs, and they get their concrete sense only from their context. The Hebrew word often translated as "bird" literally means "flying-thing". The word translated as "sea" literally means "roaring". The word translated as "land" means "standing". The word translated as "heavens" means "lofties" and the word translated as Earth means "lowly." The phrase translated as "chews the cud" actually says "moves jaw side-to-side" and "cloven hoof" actually says "divides thing-stand-on." While translating these into *reasonable* English equivalents sacrifices much of the allusions, similes, associations, value-tones, and plays-on-words inherent in Hebrew vocabulary, there’s no other way to translate it – or any other work in any other language whatsoever. Happily, with the aid of a decent Biblical commentary you can read all about all these things that get lost in translation. As for the Book of Mormon: it's not a different translation of the Bible, but a completely different book on events that it claims took place in the Americas between the Babylonian Captivity and the first few centuries AD. It still manages to plagiarize several passages form the King James, and it repeats the KJVs errors. The BoM is simply nonsense: a long series of long boring accounts of long boring migrations written in bad immitation King James English. There's also not one shred of archaeological evidence to back up what it claims, and a mountain of evidence that absolutley and inarguably contradicts its claims about ancient America.
  • I sure wouldn't put my faith in no stupid book of Mormon, not one bit.
  • The bible is just as fraudulent as the book of Mormon. The Quaran is equally fraudulent. What are you looking for? Life is in the here and now.
  • The best way to find them is to have a look in a greek or hebrew translation, with original text - you can get them and they are often a lot closer that modern versions. KJV has fewer mistakes I believe than the NIV and some more modern versions. Some examples include the "wine" mentioned in the Bible, in most instances it was in fact grape juice, not wine. Another example is when the disciples "talked in tongues", the original translation actually explains that each person could understand the message in their own language (chinese people in chinese, greek in greek etc), despite only one person, with no interpreter, talking. I am sure there are a lot of other mistranslations, due to the changes in customs and culture etc. Good luck. I'm not a christian (so have no opinion on the accuracy of the book or belief in it), but I thought I'd throw that in from what I know.
  • Look at important scriptures and compare them...God makes sure that his book is not corrupted... Compare this scripture in the KJV and the New World Translation... Exodus 6;3.... They are the same. Jesus was SENT...by whom? WHO spoke out of heaven when Jesus was baptised...and again when he was transfigured...
  • Nice to see you are up to your old tricks of Misquoting and misinterpreting what Mormons have told you. Any Mormon who has told you incorrect translations of the bible were the reason for the Book of Mormon being published is an idiot and is doing more to discredit the Church than people like you. I suspect however no member of the Church has ever directly told you this but as usual it is your spin on what they said. That's why people like you haven't managed to convince me in the last 27 years that I have been a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints that Mormonism is the corrupt evil cult you all claim it is because you twist everything around instead of just being straighforward with what is said. Maybe if people like you didn't twist so much of what we believe around and add your own spin to it you might be a little mor convincing in your arguements about Mormonism being such an evil and corrupt religion.
  • It's not the reaon the book of Mormon was written at all. Somebody just spotted a gap in the market filled with gullable douches and invented a story
  • yes it's true you can see that clearly in the greek word (perklotos) i don't know the exact spell. but search about its meaning and you will know that the translations are all corrup (in purpose)
  • How could someone possibly give a neg for this question?
  • Hebrews 6:1 as it stands in the King James Version makes it sound like you must leave the principles of the Gospel in order to attain perfection. In reality, Paul says that we must perfect the principles then go on to the deeper, more profound topics of the Gospel.
  • I wouldn't call them "corrupt," but it has been my experience that Christian bookstores stock only certain translations and, not surprisingly, those are the translations that take a more conservative perspective. The more highly respected scholarly translations can't be found in those stores.
  • There is the passage that says "Thou shalt commit adultery." That might be a mistake.

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