Monday, March 20, 2017

Translation of a Translation!

Not even the LDS Church leaders can claim that their non-English Book of Mormon translations are taken from a first-generation source since the original gold plates are no longer available.  All of the dozens of foreign translations of the Book of Mormon have been derived from the admittedly second-generation English rendition (see Ensign [May 1995]:10), making these translations third-generation texts.  It would therefore appear that those who mistakenly claim that the Bible is nothing more than a translation of a translation or a translation would better apply their criticism to the Book of Mormon.


Bill McKeever and Eric Johnson, Mormonism 101, pg. 118, note 7.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

What do you mean, fool? Joseph Smith gave his golden plates to our church. Just read all the documents, and screw your bias toward anti-Mormon revisionist history. WE have the truth! WE know the way! WE know how life works, and have answers to all your empty/nonexistent objections. Read John 10:35 and 1 Corinthians 8:4-8 and 1 Corinthians 15:29 and 39-40. Our religion is clearly biblical, whereas yours in heresy.

Glenn E. Chatfield said...

Mr. Coward anonymous,

I'm publishing this comment for a few reasons.

1. Your comment is a perfect example of violating my comment policy, for which you showed total disrespect and disregard.

2. Your rant, with the verbiage used, tells my you are probably just a troll attacking my blog and not a Mormon at all.

3. If you just happened to be a real Mormon, this demonstrates the behavior of these so-called godly people.

4. You demonstrate all you can do is make assertions with no evidence for your claims.