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049: Richard Bushman Part 3 - Joseph Smith and the Translation of the Book of Mormon Pt. 1

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Is the Diction of the Book of Warmon the Dictation of the God?

i've read the accounts where it says the words would appear and he'd read em, and then they'd disappear. But if that were the case, then that would make one ask why changes were then made to the book of mormon in subsequent editions. How does god get these words into his mind? And i just think mormons instinctively feel that somehow god is working through the mind of the prophet. That's the way we receive revelation ourselves. I believe very strongly that the lord hs giving me words to save people. When i go home and transcribe it, boy, i straighten up the grammar. I may change a word here there to make t the sense clearer.

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