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Re: What Books Should be Studied as Scripture? [message #519 is a reply to message #425] Tue, 19 June 2012 17:45 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
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Excellent history Dragon.

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The chapter headings were written by Bruce R. McConkie and included in the 1979 printing of the LDS format of the KJV. To my knowledge, there was never a vote to accept or deny these chapter headings or other footnotes and maps as canon.

This is easy to see when you are looking for it. Some of his chapter headings are harmless, but then some actually change what the scripture is saying. For example, D&C 22:2-4,

The chapter heading says these verse are saying:
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verses 24, Authoritative baptism is required.


The actual verses say:
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2 Wherefore, although a man should be baptized an hundred times it availeth him nothing, for you cannot enter in at the strait gate by the law of Moses, neither by your dead works.

3 For it is because of your dead works that I have caused this last covenant and this church to be built up unto me, even as in days of old.


This says nothing about Authorization or priesthood to baptize. McConkie was simply trying to make sense of the passages and missed the point. To the contrary, McConkie missed the fact that the the law of Moses was full of dead works and had the Aaronic Priesthood which was required to perform those dead works, including baptism by immersion.

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Therefore, he took Moses out of their midst, and the Holy Priesthood also;
26 And the lesser priesthood continued, which priesthood holdeth the key of the ministering of angels and the preparatory gospel;
27 Which gospel is the gospel of repentance and of baptism, and the remission of sins, and the law of carnal commandments, which the Lord in his wrath caused to continue with the house of Aaron among the children of Israel until John, whom God raised up, being filled with the Holy Ghost from his mother's womb.


Back to my point, the message of verses 2-4 of D&C 22 has nothing to do with authority. The Lord is making an entirely different point. If you accepted McConkie's chapter heading as authoritative, then you would miss some very important points the Lord was trying to make clear.

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Further more, the JST excerpts in the back have no more backing to them than the rest of the footnotes. If the JST were canon, we would read the JST Bible, and not the KJV.
This is also correct as there are a number of JST changes to the original bible which I have found to be flawed. It is really annoying because it pits the canonized bible against the prophet Joseph Smith. The problem is that neither is 100% correct in every doctrine. So you have to believe all things and see which ones get a witness from the spirit and also begin to support each other.

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The Book of Mormon was published in 1830, and no additions or changes have been canonized since then, other than those which are intended to correct spelling, punctuation, or grammar
That isn't entirely true. 3913 Changes have been made to the book of Mormon since its first publishing. Here is an example of one of them:

Book of Alma p.315; (1830):
"But behold, as the seed swelleth and sprouteth and beginneth to grow, and then ye must needs say, That seed is good; for behold, it swelleth and sprouteth and beginneth to grow."

Today: Alma 32:30:
"But behold, as the seed swelleth and sprouteth and beginneth to grow, and then ye must needs say, That seed is good; for behold, it swelleth and sprouteth and beginneth to grow. And now behold, will not this strengthen your faith? Yea, it will strengthen your faith: for ye will say that I know that this is a good seed; for behold, it sprouteth and beginneth to grow."

The punctuation is also not inspired and I have found places where moving a comma changes the entire meaning of a verse, which makes the verse agreeable to the witness of the spirit.
 
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