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Re: What Books Should be Studied as Scripture? [message #1913 is a reply to message #1910] Fri, 11 January 2013 12:39 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
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In no place anywhere in all of the scriptures does God ever refer to the serpent as wise and worthy of emulation by His children. Joseph Smith fixed Matthew in this regard from wise as a serpent to wise as a servant. (A trusted servant sees everything, notices everything, knows what goes on in the masters house, and is given decision making authority as a member of the household.)

We can find the restored original word servant in the Joseph Smith translation of Matthew which was kept pure by the reorganized church in the wilderness. But somewhere along the line when the Doctrine and Covenants came west D&C 111:11 was changed back to wise as a "serpent" again.

Although I don't have the time to track exactly where this happened and who had a hand in it, it seems logical that Joseph would not have made the distinct effort to correct it in the King James NT, and then present the word serpent instead of servant as a direct revelation coming from the mouth of the Lord in 1836. Something's fishy.

It appears that here is direct evidence of tampering with the Doctrine and Covenants up near the organizational headwaters of the priesthood that came west. It may be that whoever (in Salt Lake) made the official change to serpent did not realize that the Joseph Smith Translation (which was held back with Emma) would eventually surface to shine light on the intentional deception. It is inconceivable that all the men professing to be prophets of God, and the doctors of divinity hatched from BYU over the years would not have caught this and rectified it. So yes, it is a big deal.

That this has not been brought to the attention of the church, to the missionaries who are out on the front lines trying to work daily in the King James, or in the world wide lesson material emanating from the church correlation committee is sad, but not surprising to me.

To realize that serpents of all sizes are depicted all over the walls in the masonic temple, and that every quad in the hands of active LDS church members all over the world, translated into every possible earthly language has the Lord Jesus Christ saying in two places that the serpent is an example of wisdom to be emulated - this just makes my spirit sick, and my heart heavy.

Joseph Smith ran out of time before he could fix everything in the King James that needed restoration. Obviously the Masons had their filth and corruption all over the entire book, but the things Joseph did touch are therefore absolutely imperative for us to know, and have.

If I had not actually got into this work and been called of God, I would back out. But I cannot back out: I have no doubt of the truth.
Joseph Smith, Jr.

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