"We believe the Bible to be the word of God as far as it is translated correctly..." Many parts of the Bible were removed during the time that the world calls the dark ages. The Church refers to that time as the Great Apostasy. During that time, many important truths and basic gospel concepts were either taken out or changed by those who felt that it was not a correct teaching for their time. In its orginal form, the Bible was correct and complete. Another "testiment" was needed to complete those missing truths.

Do we believe all of the Bible? Well, there is one book in the Bible that we don't accept as scripture. This book is the Song of Solomon (a.k.a. the Song of Songs). Way back when the early Christians were trying to decide which books to included in the Bible, there was a lot of argument as to whether to include the Song of Solomon. There were some who said that this is just a collection of love letters exchanged by a husband and wife (presumably between Solomon and one of his wives) and, therefore, should not be included in the canon scripture. On the other hand, there were others that said that these letters were an allegory for the relationship between God and Israel and therefore should be included in the canon of scripture. Those that held the latter view won out when the Bible was originally compiled. However, we take the former view. (If you look at any LDS edition of the Bible, you will note that the footnotes for the verses in the Song of Solomon only reference other verses in the Song of Solomon.) However, this is the only instance where we do not consider a portion of the Bible to be scripture. "pacella23: What parts of the Bible were removed?" Quite a bit of the Bible is missing (http://www.answerbag.com/a_view.php/6701). How much of it was removed intentionally and how much was just lost is a matter of debate, but I don't think it arguable that much is missing.

Glenn Blaylock... In the link you provided, the very first entry of a missing book is not missing at all... so I did not even investigate the rest (yet). Exodus 20:22-23:19 is what many believe to be the Book of the Covenant.

No. The Mormon church uses two sources as its primary authorities, the Book of Mormon and the Bible. The Doctrine and Covenants and The Pearl of Great Price are also viewed as divinely authoritative. The Christian church uses the Holy Bible alone as its authority from God.

The Bible is translated correctly! Just Google accuracy of the Bible and read all the facts and decide for yourself. The Jehovah witnesses claim the same thing. Don't take my word for it....Research it!!!!

There are so many aspects to this question. We believe all of the Bible, as far as it is translated correctly (Blazergirl, there are many, many translations and they differ greatly in some parts, so what you've said doesn't make logical sense). However, we don't believe that all scriptures apply for all times. For example, Jesus fulfilled the Law of Moses through his Atonement, death and resurrection. Parts of that law are contained in the Gospel of Christ, but some parts are no longer relevent, as they were preparing the House of Israel for the coming of the Messiah. We still believe that the law applied at that time and that many parts of it are still relevent, but we don't, for example, hold a Passover feast or sacrifice animals. Also there are many stories, parables, metaphors, lots of symbolism and imagery - we believe in them as teachings, but not necessarily the literal story as told. (eg the story of the Good Samaritan may or may not have literally taken place...it was given to illustrate a point and would do so whether a story or a retelling of a real event. The imagery used in Isaiah and the Book of Revelation is another good example of something we believe but don't necessarily take literally.) In regards to the Song of Solomon, we believe that Soloman wrote a rather eccentric love poem to his 'love' (have you ever read it? it's a scream!) but that doesn't necessarily mean it should have ended up in a collection of books of scripture (what the Bible is). The Bible is also not the limit of spiritual truth for Mormons. We also use other scriptures, the teachings of the living prophet, and other sources of spiritual truth outside the church. I hope that's helpful. The question is not as simple as it looks, and I've tried to show various ways a Mormon might see the matter. The crucial point though, is that we believe the Bible to be the word of God and we respect the great truths to be found within.

Yes, however they also believe in more sets of scripture such as: the Book of Mormon, the Doctrine and Covenants, and the Pearl of Great Price. So yes, they believe in the bible, but they believe in more scripture as well.

Yes. even though it has become flawed and edited through centuries of translation.