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I think someone else here has this new book, too. You can buy it on Amazon real reasonable ($23.xx: I bought some $2 tape to get free shipping). I, personally, still love the Book of Mormon. I don’t really hold to a literal/historical interpretation anymore, however that is my belief in the Bible too. I do believe the BoM is “true.” I think some changes were made that shouldn’t have been.
I really liked reading the intro part. I like how it explains the history of the manuscripts and changes and how Royal decided in some cases that were unsure. I’m a history person, so I already like this kind of thing. I do think this book is geared towards historians, scholars and students of the scriptures.
I think the book is very well done. I would love to see some of the corrections in a new edition of the Book of Mormon put out by Utah.
It’s a very large book. It does sit open nicely for study. It is an easier way to read (linear) because you don’t have all the distracting markings and footnotes (I do love footnotes, btw). You aren’t guided to interpret a certain way because it lacks the chapter headings that were added later.
I do have this book also, it is a fascinating work. I applaud the adherence to the original text – even when modern changes read more favorably to LDS doctrine. There are really only small differences – ambiguity (although some evangelist Christians may not think so). It is readable and quite enjoyable!
I do not like the additions of “the Son of” and the way we have further and further divided the Father and the Son. I guess I’m a purist. Here is one of the greatest ironies in the Book of Mormon:
1 Nephi 13:40 And the angel spake unto me, saying: These last records, which thou hast seen among the Gentiles, shall establish the truth of the first, which are of the twelve apostles of the Lamb, and shall make known the plain and precious things which have been taken away from them; and shall make known to all kindreds, tongues, and people, that the Lamb of God is
the Son ofthe Eternal Father, and the Savior of the world; and that all men must come unto him, or they cannot be saved. The underlined “the Son of” was added to this passage, I think in 1876. I think that is profound. Is this a “plain and precious thing” that has been taken away?
Was the Book of Mormon intended to convince us that Jesus Christ is the very Eternal Father or was it intended to convince us that Jesus Christ is the Son of the Eternal Father? This is something I am continually pondering.
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