“Should I marry a non-Mormon?”

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In responding to the CES Letter’s Book of Mormon section, FairMormon makes a few critical concessions, including that errors unique to the version of the King James Version Bible are included in the current version of the Book of Mormon.

If more important historical or doctrinal alterations had been encountered in their research, it is probable those would have been mentioned first. First, these two do not seem to represent an attempt to correct sweeping contradictions or blunders in the text but rather provide clarification to potential ambiguities. Many naturalists consider Joseph Smith to have been a first-time novelist in as he created the Book of Mormon, so the lack of revisions is unexpected.

They evade the fact that every exploratory draft needs more work. The absolute necessity of revision cannot be overemphasized. All good writers rethink, rearrange, and rewrite large portions of their prose. There are those who tell their audiences that many changes have been made and provide examples like the Tanners. If the overall insignificance of the changes is not disclosed, the number of 2, or 3, changes could be used by critics to mislead their audiences, as propaganda is designed to do.

Jerald and Sandra Tanners have sold many copies of their book 3, Changes in the Book of Mormon, since first released in The title of the book is technically accurate. If transparency is sought, then adding a subtitle might be useful: But None are Really Significant. Royal Skousen summarized his research: This word count was calculated using Microsoft Word and the text from http: