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While 84% of Americans consider the Holy Bible to be a holy book, a whopping three percent consider the Book of Mormon to be holy too. That may be low but it’s in good company (and over the Torah!?).
Only three books were recognized as holy by at least 1 percent of Americans. The Koran trailed behind the Bible in second place with 4 percent; the Book of Mormon as labeled by 3 percent as sacred/holy; and the Torah was deemed holy by 2 percent of the public.
“Confessions of a News Junkie“ It is sobering to compare how much time I spend on email and RSS feeds compared to reading the scriptures. Urgent news that “we need to know” really isn’t that important.
Scripture is the most important tradition that man can have, and yet how few people make use of it. Instead they read the news. The news is what will be old tomorrow and without interest. Yet it becomes a narcotic that must be taken daily and that yields no lasting satisfaction but only another craving. ‘Whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst again: but whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.’ (John 4:13-14.)
Scriptures.lds.org URL Strategy, or API.
In this documentation we will use the following URL as an example. Each part of this URL will be examined to help you understand what each section means and what you can do with it.
Plus, a list of “mashups” using the scriptures.
The Salt Lake Tribune points out that the Church has made a small but significant change in the introduction to the Book of Mormon, acknowledging that today’s Native Americans may not be direct descendants from the Lamanites.
The original sentence in questionis the last sentence of the second paragraph from the Book of Mormon Introduction reads:
After thousands of years, all were destroyed except the Lamanites, and they are the principal ancestors of the American Indians.
Apparently this change first appears in Doubleday’s revised edition which reads:
After thousands of years, all were destroyed except the Lamanites, and they are among the ancestors of the American Indians.
The Trib says that the Church will be publishing scripture editions which will also have the change. So far the online edition has not been changed.
UPDATE: Mormon Wasp asks some good questions. Post seems to have been taken down.
For you fortunate Latter-day iSaints, online scriptures configured for the iPhone. A Flickr shot as they appear in all their iPhone goodness. Perhaps this will win over the wife?
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