028 Q&R! Tough JST Questions with Kent Jackson

Church History Matters

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Religion & Spirituality:christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

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🗓️ 12 September 2023

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Did Joseph Smith ever consider his Bible translation work finished? Will the JST ever be canonized and replace the King James Version as the official Latter-day Saint Bible? Why haven’t any other of our prophets since Joseph Smith engaged in similar translation work? How can we reconcile Joseph Smith’s Bible revision work with Deuteronomy 4:2 and Revelation 22:19 which actually warn against adding to the Bible? Is there any evidence whatsoever that Joseph Smith consulted any outside sources in his Bible translation work? Does the fact that Joseph Smith’s Bible translation started out with massive amounts of new and significant revealed text and then tapered off at the end with only minor revisions support the narrative that Joseph became a fallen prophet? If not, how else can we make sense of this timeline? In this episode of Church History Matters, we dive into all of these questions and more with Dr. Kent Jackson, a scholar on Joseph Smith’s Bible translation. For show notes and transcript for this and other episodes go to https://doctrineandcovenantscentral.org/church-history-matters-podcast/

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0:00.0	Did Joseph Smith ever consider his Bible translation work finished?
0:09.0	Will the JST ever be canonized and replace the King James Version as the official
0:14.3	Latter-day Saint Bible?
0:16.0	Why haven't any other of our prophets since Joseph Smith engaged in similar translation
0:20.2	work?
0:21.2	How can we reconcile Joseph Smith's Bible revision work with
0:24.5	Deuteronomy 4-2 and Revelation 2-19, which actually warn against adding to
0:30.0	the Bible? Is there any evidence whatsoever that Joseph Smith consulted any outside sources
0:36.2	in his Bible translation work? Does the fact that Joseph Smith's Bible translation started
0:41.1	out with massive amounts of new and significant
0:43.8	revealed text and then tapered off at the end with only minor revisions,
0:47.6	support the narrative that Joseph became a fallen profit?
0:50.6	If not, how else can we make sense of this timeline?
0:54.0	In today's episode of Church History Matters, we dive into all of these questions and more
0:59.0	with Dr. Kent Jackson, a Premier Scholar on Joseph Smith's Bible translation.
1:04.8	I'm Scott Woodward and my co-host is Casey Griffiths.
1:08.2	And today we dive into our fourth episode in this series, dealing with Joseph Smith's non-book of Mormon translations and
1:14.1	revelations. Now let's get into it.
1:18.4	Well hello Scott. Hello Casey, how you doing? I'm doing great. I'm really excited about
1:26.7	our episode today and our guests that we have with us. Yes, we have been quoting
1:31.4	him all series long.
1:34.4	I don't know if quoting or stealing is the best word,
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