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#REDIRECT [[Question: Does the fact that the Bible states that nothing should be "added to" or "taken away" from the book mean that the Book of Mormon is false?]]
 
 
==Criticism==
 
Critics claim that the Book of Mormon cannot be true because the nothing should be "added to" or "taken away from" the Holy Bible.
 
 
 
===Source(s) of the criticism===
 
*"[Joseph] Smith apparently was either oblivious to the expressed warning about adding to or substracting from the Word of God, or willfully disobedient to it (see Rev. 22:18,19)." - "Dr." Walter Martin, ''Mormonism'' (Minneapolis, Minnesota: Bethany House Publishers, 1984), 29.
 
 
 
==Response==
 
 
 
The verse often cited (as by Martin, above) is Revelation 22:18-19:
 
 
 
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==Conclusion==
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
==Endnotes==
 
 
 
''None''
 
 
 
==Further reading==
 
 
 
===FAIR wiki articles===
 
 
 
 
 
===FAIR web site===
 
*FAIR Topical Guide:[http://www.fairlds.org/apol/ai104.html Bible Complete] - no additional scripture
 
*Scott Gordon, "To Add To or To Take From," (Mesa, Arizona: FAIR, April 2002)[http://www.fairlds.org/pubs/AddOrTake.pdf *]
 
 
 
===External links===
 
*{{Ensign1|author=Howard W. Hunter|article=No Man Shall Add to or Take Away|date=May 1981|start=64}} [http://library.lds.org/library/lpext.dll/ArchMagazines/Ensign/1981.htm/ensign%20may%201981.htm/no%20man%20shall%20add%20to%20or%20take%20away.htm?fn=document-frame.htm&f=templates&2.0 *]
 
*{{aremormonschristians}}[http://www.lightplanet.com/mormons/response/general/christians/ser5.htm Chapter 6]
 
 
 
===Printed material===
 

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