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…
By: Marvin W. Cowan; ©2011 Even though Joseph Smith claims that his translation was revealed by God, the content he added to the text usually does nothing to clarify it.…
By: Marvin W. Cowan; ©2011 Joseph Smith made changes in the King James Version of the Bible and copied some of them into his original 1830 Book of Mormon. He…
By: Marvin W. Cowan; ©2010 The Joseph Smith Translation of Genesis 50 added 12 verses that are not in any authentic ancient manuscripts of the Bible. In those 12 verses…
By: Marvin W. Cowan; ©2010 LDS historical records show that Mormonism’s founder, Joseph Smith compiled the Joseph Smith Translation [JST] of the Bible between June 1830 and July 2, 1833.…
