Comments on: Translated Correctly https://www.ourthoughts.ca/2005/03/08/translated-correctly/ Thought-provoking commentary on life, politics, religion and social issues. Tue, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000 hourly 1 By: nshumate https://www.ourthoughts.ca/2005/03/08/translated-correctly/comment-page-1/#comment-438 Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.ourthoughts.ca/?p=84#comment-438 Remember that the Book of Mormon was translated by a man with a third-grade education — it can be the word of God with lousy grammar. (It better be, or else most of the Book of Mormon and D&C get thrown out for the misuse of “wherefore.”)

The sentence makes sense, even though it’s incorrect. Here are a couple of grammatical patches for you:

“And there came also in the days of Com many prophets, WHO prophesied of the destruction of that great people except they should repent…”

Or…

“And in the days of Com many prophets came also, and prophesied of the destruction of that great people except they should repent…”

]]> By: Kim Siever https://www.ourthoughts.ca/2005/03/08/translated-correctly/comment-page-1/#comment-439 Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.ourthoughts.ca/?p=84#comment-439 With all the hundreds of corrections made to the Book of Mormon, you’d think someone would have caught this one.

]]> By: nshumate https://www.ourthoughts.ca/2005/03/08/translated-correctly/comment-page-1/#comment-440 Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.ourthoughts.ca/?p=84#comment-440 But it’s not really an impediment to understanding. You read it, you get it. There’s no great doctrinal ambiguity or horrendous misspelling to be tackled.

]]> By: Kim Siever https://www.ourthoughts.ca/2005/03/08/translated-correctly/comment-page-1/#comment-441 Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.ourthoughts.ca/?p=84#comment-441 It impedes our understanding if it wasn’t the many prophets doing the prophesying. We can infer that they are the ones prophesying, but we cannot confirm it.

]]> By: Don https://www.ourthoughts.ca/2005/03/08/translated-correctly/comment-page-1/#comment-442 Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.ourthoughts.ca/?p=84#comment-442 No one said the BOM was perfect. Obviously there have been corrections. Some corrections enough to change the meaning of certain passages.

I think the answer is yes, the BOM is the word of God as far as it is translated correctly.

]]> By: Kim Siever https://www.ourthoughts.ca/2005/03/08/translated-correctly/comment-page-1/#comment-443 Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.ourthoughts.ca/?p=84#comment-443 “No one said the BOM was perfect”

We must have had different experiences because I have met hundreds of people who have said that it was perfect; the majority of them while I was on my mission in Utah. They equate “most correct” with “perfect”.

]]> By: Mary Siever https://www.ourthoughts.ca/2005/03/08/translated-correctly/comment-page-1/#comment-444 Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.ourthoughts.ca/?p=84#comment-444 Kim,

It is the most correct book on earth. And it is mostly correct bcause it contains the truest principles of the Gospel. Not becuase of grammar or spelling.

]]> By: Kim Siever https://www.ourthoughts.ca/2005/03/08/translated-correctly/comment-page-1/#comment-445 Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.ourthoughts.ca/?p=84#comment-445 “It is the most correct book on earth.”

Or at least it was in the 1830s when Joseph Smith made the statement. Given the advancements in technology and science in the last 170+ years, I am doubtful that it is still the most correct of any other book on earth.

]]> By: Mary Siever https://www.ourthoughts.ca/2005/03/08/translated-correctly/comment-page-1/#comment-446 Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.ourthoughts.ca/?p=84#comment-446 It is now. I dont’ believe that was referring to grammar and literary ability, it was referring to the truth. It still is the msot correct book on earth.

]]> By: Kim Siever https://www.ourthoughts.ca/2005/03/08/translated-correctly/comment-page-1/#comment-447 Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.ourthoughts.ca/?p=84#comment-447 Truth is independent of the gospel. The gospel encompasses only some truths. For example, it does not encompass the truth that water boils at 100 degrees Celsius.

The Book of Mormon, as a book containing truth, is not necessarily any more correct than a scientific journal, my diary or any other book containing truth.

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