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Contents 1 Criticism 1.1 Source(s) of the criticism 2 Response 3 Further reading 3.1 FAIR wiki articles 3.2 FAIR web site 3.3 External links 3.4 Printed material

Criticism

The Church insists on using the Authorized ("King James") Version as its official Bible, even though more modern translations are easier to read, are more accurate, and include more recent manuscript discoveries.

Source(s) of the criticism

Response

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints uses the Authorized (King James) Version as its official Bible.

However, there is nothing in Church policy or official Church teaching that forbids Latter-day Saints from reading other Bible translations in their personal study.

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Further reading

FAIR wiki articles

Holy Bible wiki articles

• Bible basics
• "Adding to" or "taking away" from the Bible
• Archeology and the Bible
• Being "born again"—what does the Bible mean?
• Completeness and sufficiency
• Cosmology of the Bible
• Flood, global or local
• Genealogy, condemnation of
• Hebrews 7 and the Aaronic Priesthood
• Inerrancy and the Bible
• Isaiah, multiple authors of
• Lost scripture
• Open canon vs. closed canon
• Noah's flood / Noachian deluge
• Textual criticism
• Translations

FAIR web site

• Links to articles on the FAIR web site; Topical Guide entries go first

External links

• Philip L. Barlow, "Why the King James Version? From the Common to the Official Bible of Mormonism," Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 22:2 (Summer 1989): 19–42. off-site

Printed material

• Printed resources whose text is not available online