FAIR is a non-profit organization dedicated to providing well-documented answers to criticisms of the doctrine, practice, and history of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
The Bible/Joseph Smith Translation/Was the translation complete
- REDIRECTTemplate:Test3
Contents
Was the Joseph Smith Translation of the Bible ever completed?
Questions
It is not known for certain whether or not Joseph Smith completed his revisions to the Bible.
- One critical website poses the question: "Why didn’t the next prophet, or any subsequent prophet, finish the inspired version of the Bible that the church thought was so important that they altered our version of the King James Bible to include the portions that Joseph did retranslate? Does it make any sense that the inspired version of the Bible should not be finished merely with the death of the first prophet of the restoration? If we really did have a succession of prophets since Joseph Smith, this important work would have been finished and published as God commanded Joseph to do." [1]
Answer
Detailed Analysis
Notes
- ↑ "JST Bible Translation," MormonThink.com http://mormonthink.com/jst.htm#full