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Church responds to one-word change in Book of Mormon Introduction
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Course if one is unwilling to take the time to do that, one is probably not going to ever know what it is or is not. And probably does not really care.
Maybe my intent isn't "sincere" enough -- like Linus's pumpkin patch -- but I sincerely can't see what more I could have done to be sincere. I've been the Mormon version of a "Hebrew of the Hebrews," to paraphrase Paul, and have read the Book of Mormon through at least a dozen times, and it does grate a bit to hear people whose moral conduct has been quite a bit slipperier than mine suggest that there must be something wrong with the character of anyone who's followed the Moroni 10 formula and not gotten the "right" answer.
I think the Book of Mormon is a minor change. Nothing to huff and puff about. There are far more important things to be concerned about.
Since Joseph Smith's time so=called Lamanites were said by Joseph Smith and other LDS leaders to be the principle ancestors of the Native Americans.
That Bruce McConkie introduced it, and the LDS church agreed to put it in the first page of the Book of Mormon leaves no room for doubt how well observed this principle was.
Joseph Smith Jr. actually claimed that God told him that the Native Americans were Lamanites, specifically the ones near the Canadian border.
Opps.... (again)
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After all the Book of Mormon came when many said God doesn't reveal things to man anymore. As long as
that belief still is there among many believers in God, there will always be that desire to "disprove"
the text of the Book of Mormon any way possible. I can understand the agnostic or atheist questioning, but believers in the Resurrection, the First Easter story saying it can't happen in our day, seems rather in-consistent to me. Whether Joseph Smith actually had this ability of communication is a matter of Faith and the Book does make a promise to find out, but for a "believer" in God and Jesus to say "totally impossible" is Questionable..