 | Floyd C. McElveen - 1985 - 228 pages
...Smith translated the Bible into an accurate translation, why does the Mormon Article of Faith say, 'We believe the Bible to be the Word of God as far as it is translated correctly?'" The Inspired Version of the Bible can be purchased in the Deseret Book Store in Salt Lake City, a Mormon-owned... | |
 | Thomas A. Fudge - 1998 - 406 pages
...biblicists.217 Yet the Book of Mormon rivalled the authority of the Bible itself. According to Joseph Smith '[w]e believe the Bible to be the word of God as far...also believe the Book of Mormon to be the word of God.'218 The rise of religious print paralleled to large extent the rise of the secular press. In two... | |
 | W. D. Davies - 1999 - 352 pages
...twelve years after the organization of the church, as "The Wentworth Letter."3 The eighth article reads: "We believe the Bible to be the word of God as far as it is translated correctly." By the term "Bible" is meant the Hebrew Bible and the NT. The Apocrypha, accepted as canonical by the... | |
 | Matthew A. Paulson - 2000 - 297 pages
...Church must rely only on the authority of the Bible. The eighth LDS Article of Faith states that Mormons "...believe the Bible to be the word of God as far as it is translated correctly." The Book of Mormon seems to attack the Bible, claiming that some evil church has "taken away from the... | |
 | Frank J. Johnson, William J. Leffler - 2000 - 264 pages
...nature and finds it very confusing indeed. This is especially so because Mormonism believes the Hebrew Bible "to be the word of God as far as it is translated correctly," and also because, unlike Judaism, its tradition of biblical interpretation is based on a translation... | |
 | Ron Rhodes - 2009 - 392 pages
...the authority of the latter. Corruptions in the Bible The Mormons' eighth Article of Faith affirms, "We believe the Bible to be the Word of God, as far as it is translated correctly."" Mormons believe that because of poor transmission, large portions of the Bible have been lost down... | |
 | Paolo Bernardini, Norman Fiering - 2001 - 600 pages
...Mormon attitude to the Bible was somewhat less straightforward. As Joseph Smith explained it in 1842, "We believe the Bible to be the word of God as far as it is translated correctly."13 Believing the Bible to have been incorrectly translated, Smith began the work afresh... | |
 | Coke Newell, Clayton Newell - 2001 - 298 pages
...makes them Christian. BIBLE (SEE REVELATION/SCRIPTURE) "We believe the Bible [New and Old Testaments] to be the word of God as far as it is translated correctly." (Articles of Faith 1 :8) The Bible is one of our "standard works," and its contents are honored as... | |
 | Thomas F. Heinze - 2011 - 75 pages
...yourself, (www.irr.org/mit/changingscrips.html) The eighth article in the Mormon statement of faith is: "We believe the Bible to be the word of God as far...believe The Book of Mormon to be the word of God." While Mormons tell outsiders that they believe the Bible, and it is in the list of the four books they... | |
 | Francis Beckwith, Carl Mosser, Paul Owen - 2002 - 546 pages
...40-55 that are inconsistent with the high view of scripture affirmed in the LDS Articles of Faith: "We believe the Bible to be the word of God as far as it is translated correctly."203 The biblical evidence leads, not to a polytheistic religion, but to the Trinitarian... | |
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We believe the Bible to be the word of God, as far as it is translated correctly ; we also believe the Book of Mormon to be the word of God. 
