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Question: How did Elder Holland respond during a BBC interview when asked how the Book of Abraham was translated?
Question: How did Elder Holland respond during a BBC interview when asked how the Book of Abraham was translated?
Elder Holland responded that he did not know the method of translation, but that it was translated into the word of God
During a BBC interview with John Sweeney in March 2012, Elder Jeffrey R. Holland was asked about the Book of Abraham:
Sweeney: Mr. Smith got this papyri and he translated them and subsequently as the Egyptologists cracked the code something completely different...
Holland: All I'm saying...all I'm saying is that what got translated got translated into the word of God. The vehicle for that I do not understand and don't claim to know and know Egyptian.
Critics of the Church accuse Elder Holland of lying on this point.
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