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The Holy Bible

Latter-day Saints consider the Bible to be holy scripture. The 8th Article of Faith states:

"We believe the Bible to be the word of God as far as it is translated correctly; we also believe the Book of Mormon to be the word of God."

The proviso that the LDS believe the Bible to be the word of God as far as it is translated correctly seems to shake some persons' confidence in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints as a Bible-believing church. There is no reason that this should be, for it is hardly a matter of dispute that when men translate words from one language to another they can easily err, and have often done so. Simply comparing different English-language versions of the Bible should demonstrate conclusively that some people understand ancient Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek (the source languages of the Old and New Testaments) quite differently in some cases.

• Click here for a free copy of the King James Version (KJV) Holy Bible
• Old Testament - KJV, with LDS footnotes and cross-references on-line
• New Testament - KJV, with LDS footnotes and cross-references on-line
• FAIRWiki scripture study links