Much of the Book of Mormon’s odd grammar isn’t King James English. It’s older, and the 1800s writers who imitated scripture almost never produced it. What Stanford Carmack found in 1.4 billion words of early English. Part 6 of 10.
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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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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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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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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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