Biblical Inerrancy Question about the viewpoint of the article If Biblical text was corrupted by man made doctrine over the millenia untill the restoration why don t we see many supposed Early Church idea s reflected within the text Dosen t that seem counterproductive For example LDS are quick to state the idea of the Triune God Trinity can t be found in the Bible and is man made So if the early church was truly guilty of tampering corrupting Scripture wouldn t main ideas like the Trinity be significantly more prevelant in today s Scripture The purpose of this page is for discussion of how to approve the article Your question seems more interested in having the LDS prove its doctrinal positions to you Though gaining an understanding of the doctrines of other churches religions etc is laudable it is off purpose for this page and Wikipedia Short answer to your question Not necessarily Any corruption of the Word of God is too much Attempting to state Well we only have the Comma Johanneum to verify an actual addition was made that that is only one phrase and therefore not really a significant issue You are probably familiar with a common criticism of LDS scripture such as the Book of Mormon that it is an addition to the Bible a misapplication of the scripture In this instance the criticism is better applied in that someone actually added to the actual Bible Let s focus on the improving the article Sources of Authority All Good points about the article However I have one issue about the Biblical Authority comment It reads something like Scripture is considered accurate so long as it s translated correctly Can we expand on that What does that mean exactly are we talking about versions of the Bible ie KJV NIV etc or are we refering to the LDS proposed corruption of the orignal manuscripts In regard to the original writtings I do nt see any historical citations in the article for known origins of the Bible Perhaps a link to the Christian Bible page should be placed there So again what s meant by Scripture is considered accurate so long as it s translated correctly Translated from what We can t aurgue that even the KJV contradicts some foundational LDS teachings Here s my point if you haven t seen an undefiled manuscript of the Bible i e pre apostacy and compared it against the modern KJV how would you know it was degraded Preceding unsigned comment added by It s a little bit complicated issue I think there are several points of view within the LDS Church and no real official pronouncement by the organization Adherents used to believe and this is basically how it is portrayed in the Book of Mormon that there was some pristine original Bible that was complete and perfect but that over the years it became degraded and corrupted through repeated transcription We know historically that there never was some pristine original Bible and I think most Mormons acknowledge that The Bible didn t even exist as a single book until well after the date that we have surviving manuscripts Nevertheless most Mormons believe that each of the individual books underwent some such period of flux during the few years between when they were written and when they were standardized the way that we find them in early manuscripts Some Mormons believe that the Joseph Smith Translation represents the Bible translated correctly However other Mormons believe that Smith s translation was incomplete And then there s the fact that Smith translated some of the same material twice and came up with two different results Plus Smith s version carries over some of the known errors of the Authorized King James Version without correcting them Thus a few Mormons consider Smith s translation not to be a translation at all but an inspired reworking of the KJV I m not sure how fruitful it would be to go into all of that here in this very summary article I would explain it with slight variations First I don t think there is any concept of a perfect or pristine collection of writings known as the Bible that was lost LDS believe that there was a perfect gospel given to man by Jesus Christ Over time that gospel was changed Precepts were