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The Bible/"Adding to" or "taking away from"
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Criticism
Critics claim that the Book of Mormon cannot be true because the nothing should be "added to" or "taken away from" the Holy Bible.
Source(s) of the criticism
- "[Joseph] Smith apparently was either oblivious to the expressed warning about adding to or substracting from the Word of God, or willfully disobedient to it (see Rev. 22:18,19)." - "Dr." Walter Martin, Mormonism (Minneapolis, Minnesota: Bethany House Publishers, 1984), 29.
Response
The verse often cited (as by Martin, above) is Revelation 22:18-19:
Conclusion
Endnotes
None
Further reading
FAIR wiki articles
FAIR web site
- FAIR Topical Guide:Bible Complete - no additional scripture
- Scott Gordon, "To Add To or To Take From," (Mesa, Arizona: FAIR, April 2002)*
External links
- Howard W. Hunter, "No Man Shall Add to or Take Away," Ensign (May 1981): 64. *
- Stephen E. Robinson, Are Mormons Christians? (Salt Lake City, Utah: Deseret Book Company, 1993). off-site FAIR linkChapter 6