Comments on: Changing the Sacred Word of Brother McConkie

By: Stephen M (Ethesis)

Stephen M (Ethesis) — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 05:32:39 +0000

"replacing the word ‘horse’ with ‘tapir’"

Interesting that the Book of Mormon refers to keeping "flocks" of horses rather than herds and never talks about calvary.

By: Kim Siever

Sat, 17 Nov 2007 17:05:47 +0000

See here for a reason, ltbugaf.

By: ltbugaf

ltbugaf — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 05:36:19 +0000

Jeff Lindsay has posted an excellent discussion of this topic over at Mormanity: http://mormanity.blogspot.com/2007/11/among-principal-ancestors-unpricipled.html#comments

By: ltbugaf

ltbugaf — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 05:32:49 +0000

Re: the comments on “horses.” Why deliberately ignore the obvious difference between changing the words of the actual scripture and changing the words of an explanatory introduction that has never even been represented as scripture?

By: Kim Siever

Sat, 17 Nov 2007 03:47:15 +0000

Good point, mtnnomad. Sometimes I forget that most members I know aren’t like those on the Bloggernacle. They still believe many of the traditions.

By: mtnnomad

mtnnomad — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 02:09:32 +0000

Many church leaders for years have been referring to any and all indigenous people of North and South America as Lamanites. I hope that this classification does not continue or becomes very rare.

I have been wondering if there will be any direction to the church membership or to the unit leaders to reflect this change. Again I hope so. A silent change in the introduction in the BoM may go unnoticed by most.

By: Kim Siever

Sat, 17 Nov 2007 01:40:23 +0000

. . . or “horse-like creature”.

By: rick

rick — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 23:53:09 +0000

Perhaps future editions will also be replacing the word ‘horse’ with ‘tapir’… :P

By: Kim Siever

Fri, 16 Nov 2007 22:25:06 +0000

I wonder if any other changes will eb made to those future editions. I also wonder if by saying “is printing”, Corbin is saying those editions are currently in production.

By: Jeff Milner

Jeff Milner — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 21:44:55 +0000

According to this Salt Lake Tribune article, the church is planning on making the change in its own print run:

"LDS leaders instructed Doubleday to make the change, said senior editor Andrew Corbin, so it 'would be in accordance with future editions the church is printing.'"