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Let’s talk about Enoch: Biblical, Extra Biblical & Joseph Smith’s Account.
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Psalm 145 and the Missing Verse: No Translation Is Flawless
Psalm 145 walks through the Hebrew alphabet one verse at a time, but the King James Bible has 21 verses for 22 letters. The missing nun line survives in the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Septuagint, and modern Bibles disagree about it. Here is what that means for inerrancy and for Article of Faith 8.
Psalm 145 and the Missing Verse: No Translation Is Flawless
Psalm 145 walks through the Hebrew alphabet one verse at a time, but the King James Bible has 21 verses for 22 letters. The missing nun line survives in the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Septuagint, and modern Bibles disagree about it. Here is what that means for inerrancy and for Article of Faith 8.
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Books the Bible Quotes That Aren’t in the Bible (Jasher, Enoch, and More)
Joshua cites the book of Jasher. Chronicles points to the books of Nathan, Gad, and Iddo. Jude quotes Enoch, and Paul mentions a letter from Laodicea. Here are the books the Bible quotes that it doesn’t contain, and what they mean for the claim that the Bible is all there is.
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Sola Scriptura: Which Verse Teaches It?
If the Bible alone is the only infallible rule, the Bible should say so. Here are the eight verses people quote for sola scriptura, from 2 Timothy 3:16 to Galatians 1:8, what each one actually says in context, and where the doctrine really came from.
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Book of Mormon Evidence, Part 5 of 10: One Draft
Between April 7 and about June 30, 1829, Joseph Smith dictated roughly 269,500 words, a few dozen at a time, with no notes and no rewrite. The timeline, the math, and what the text kept straight. Part 5 of 10.
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The 1826 Hearing and the 1830 Acquittals: What the Records Say
In 1826 a New York justice examined Joseph Smith as “the Glass Looker.” In 1830 two more courts heard the same charge and let him go. Here is what the surviving records prove, what they don’t, and what critics usually leave out.
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How the Book of Mormon Was Translated: The Case for the Urim and Thummim
Joseph Smith, his scribe Oliver Cowdery, and the revelations of 1828–29 all name the same instrument: the Urim and Thummim found with the plates. Here is the Joseph Smith Foundation’s case, the sources behind it, and how to weigh the later stone-in-a-hat accounts.
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