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Podcast: Mormon Land
Episode: Scholar Dan McClellan on LDS approval of new Bible translations | Episode 420
Description: Embedded in the oft-cited Articles of Faith, written by church founder Joseph Smith, is this statement: “We believe the Bible to be the word of God as far as it is translated correctly.”
To the minds of many, even most, English-speaking members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, this has long meant one thing and one thing only — the King James Version, including some of Smith’s edits, collectively known as the Joseph Smith Translation.
That is changing. Although still officially the “preferred” edition, the 1611 KJV is now one of several that church leade...