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Criticism

The Church insists on using the Authorized ("King James") Version as its official Bible, even though more modern translations are easier to read, are more accurate, and include more recent manuscript discoveries.

Response

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints uses the Authorized (King James) Version as its official Bible.

However, there is nothing in Church policy or official Church teaching that forbids Latter-day Saints from reading other Bible translations in their personal study.

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Further reading

FAIR web site

• Links to articles on the FAIR web site; Topical Guide entries go first

External links

• Philip L. Barlow, "Why the King James Version? From the Common to the Official Bible of Mormonism," Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 22 no. 2 (Summer 1989), 19–42. off-site

Printed material

• Printed resources whose text is not available online