By: Marvin W. Cowan; ©2012 The Mormon apologists who defend the Joseph Smith Translation (JST) claim that it clarifies the biblical message. But Bible scholars disagree and point out that…
By: Marvin W. Cowan; ©2012 The changes Joseph Smith made in Romans 7 indicate how one can serve God without sinning. But by comparing the Joseph Smith Translation with the…
By: Marvin W. Cowan; ©2012 The Apostle Paul’s letter to the Romans is his most detailed discussion of justification by faith. By contrast, Mormonism teaches that man is saved and…
By: Marvin W. Cowan; ©2012 Smith and other LDS claim deliberate changes corrupted the Bible, but they can’t prove that claim. Rather, evidence from thousands of manuscripts and from the…
By: Marvin W. Cowan; ©2012 The Joseph Smith Translation says the Pharisees sought to kill Jesus because He and His disciples baptized more disciples than John the Baptist. But that…
By: Marvin W. Cowan; ©2012 The Joseph Smith Translation is basically just the King James Version with Joseph Smith’s additions and/or deletions in various places. Smith began by making lots…
By: Marvin W. Cowan; ©2011 Most of the changes in the Joseph Smith Translation of the Bible are additions of superfluous words that do little or nothing to explain the…
By: Marvin W. Cowan; ©2011 According to Mormon sources, Joseph Smith was “translating” the JST when he said he had received revelations that made it apparent that many important points…
By: Marvin W. Cowan; ©2011 Joseph Smith claimed that all Bible translations including the King James Version (KJV) were not fully reliable because of translation errors and because “many important…
By: Marvin W. Cowan; ©2011 Our last article discussed the Sermon on the Mount through Matthew 5:28 in all Bibles with the exception of the Joseph Smith Translation where the…
