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Old 09-25-2007, 05:08 AM   #49
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Originally Posted by Jeff Lebowski View Post
Why would that be "free-wheeling" it? For the life of me, I can't understand why that concept would be so troublesome or disturbing to people. Why reinvent the wheel? He already had access to a translation; why not use it? JS never claimed that the BOM was perfect. Quite the contrary.
I refuse to believe someone who has repeatedly accused me of being duplicitous in my views cannot see the inherent conflict of interest here. If Joseph truly lifted passages wholesale from the KJV, it lays at the very foundation of what the BofM claims to be.
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