Addressing Ryan’s Questions

KJV translation errors included within the Book of Mormon

Galatians any other gospel

Galations 1

6 I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel:

7 Which is not another; but there be some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ.

8 But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed.

9 As we said before, so say I now again, If any man preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed.

I think it is necessary to get very particular about what precisely is the gospel of Christ that these verses are referring to.

This is similar to 2 Corinthians 11:4

4 For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or if ye receive another spirit, which ye have not received, or another gospel, which ye have not accepted, ye might well bear with him. Predictions of birthplace of Christ

Joseph Smith likewise taught, “…if I profess to be a witness or teacher, and have not the spirit of prophecy, which is the testimony of Jesus, I must be a false witness…. Any man who says he is a teacher or preacher of righteousness, and denies the spirit of prophecy, is a liar, and the truth is not in him; and by this key false teacher and impostors may be detected”

When Paul wrote his letter to the Galatians, the Bible as we know it didn’t even exist yet as a book. And there are numerous different versions of the Bible including some with the Aprocrypha and some without, never mind all the different translations. So please don’t let this one passage hurt your testimony

https://youth.fairmormon.org/Galatians_1:6-9

Blacks and the priesthood

Lack of evidence for an apostacy

We read in Amos about a period of time where the words of the Lord is not on the earth. It is “famine” of the word of the Lord and people will search everywhere for the word and not find it.

Amos 8

11 Behold, the days come … that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the Lord: 12 And people shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east, they shall run to and fro to seek the word of the Lord, and shall not find it.

So this is saying there was some period of time where people lacked the word of God sufficiently in their lives.

Similarities between the Quran and Book of Mormon and the stories of Mohammed and Joseph Smith Revelation 22:18-19

18 For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book:

19 And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.

That is, the prophecy contained in the book of Revelation. This is substantiated by the fact that some of the books of the New Testament had not yet been written when John wrote the book of Revelation, and even those that had been written and were in existence at that time had not yet been gathered into one compilation.

The collection of writings consisting of the sixty-six books we know as the Bible were brought together and compiled into one volume long after John wrote the prophetic book that has been placed at the end of the collection. It is clear, therefore, that the terrible judgments pronounced upon those who add to the book could not possibly apply to the whole of the Bible or even to the New Testament, but only to the book of Revelation. Secondly, the warning uses the words “the prophecy of this book” and also “the words of the book of this prophecy.” The word book in both instances is singular and could only refer to the book of prophecy written by John which is titled, in the King James Version, “The Revelation of St. John the Divine” and is often referred to as the Apocalypse—a Greek word which means revealed. Of necessity the word book would have been in the singular because when written it was not associated with any other book or books, and it was after many years and many ecclesiastical debates that it was added to the collection that became known as the new canon of scripture or the New Testament. So the verse in revelations is strictly referring to the book of revelation. It wasn’t until later when the book of revelation was added to the rest of the New Testament