Yes, it is the official website of the LDS Church. I spent very much time there while I was researching the LDS Church. There are numerous websites that attack the LDS Church, but when I research a Christian denomination or a pseudo-Christian cult, I concentrate on the writings of the organization itself.
The website states, in part,
All of the Presidents of the Church, beginning with the Prophet Joseph Smith, have supported the King James Version by encouraging its continued use in the Church. In light of all the above, it is the English language Bible used by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
The statement that All of the Presidents of the Church, beginning with the Prophet Joseph Smith, have supported the King James Version by encouraging its continued use in the Church is not true because Joseph Smith did not encourage its continued use in the Church, but gave the Church the
Joseph Smith Translation in which he corrected the KJV in hundreds of places. I dismissed the answer because it is based on incorrect information.
If the hundreds of corrections that Joseph Smith made to the KJV were accurate corrections, that would necessarily mean that the KJV was severely corrupted and ridiculously inaccurate. Joseph Smith did not only teach that the KJV was severely corrupted and ridiculously inaccurate, he proved that it was by producing for the Church through divine revelation the
Joseph Smith Translation!
If the
Joseph Smith Translation was what Joseph Smith claimed that it was, how could the Church responsibly use the KJV as its official translation of the Bible while relegating the hundreds of divinely inspired corrections to footnotes and an appendix?
The LDS Church claims that,
in doctrinal matters latter-day revelation supports the King James Version in preference to other English translations.
And that includes, of course, the divinely inspired Joseph Smith Translation! Did latter-day revelation proof that the divinely inspired Joseph Smith Translation was not divinely inspired? I have had some latter-day revelations myselfand one of them was about Romans 7:14-25. That was many years ago when I was a young Christian and knew next to nothing about the Bible. I compared my latter-day revelation with thirteen commentaries on Romans. Twelve of those commentaries shot my revelation to pieces, while the thirteenth was noncommittal. I prayed fervently to God for a confirmation of my latter-day revelation and God rebuked me for questioning His revelation to me. I then knew as certainly as I know my name that my latter-day revelation came from God Almighty. However, since the interpretation of Romans 7:14-25 was now so crystal clear to me, having received it from God Himself, I found it difficult to understand how so many people, including some prominent Bible scholars, could not understand it. Therefore, I studied in great detail the history of the interpretation of Romans 7:14-25 and the theological presuppositions responsible for the interpretations given by men throughout the history of the church. Today, the interpretation of Romans 7:14-25 most commonly taught by New Testament scholars is the interpretation given to me by God.
Joseph Smith could not have been more wrong in his interpretation of Romans 7:14-25. His interpretation is not only radically different than the one given to me by God Almighty, but his text of Romans 7:14-25 is radically different from every ancient Greek, Latin, Coptic, Ethiopic, Armenian, and Syriac manuscript of Pauls Epistle to the Romans (there are thousands of these ancient manuscripts). God is not a man that He should lie, but Joseph Smith
.