{"id":4227,"date":"2007-11-08T13:41:35","date_gmt":"2007-11-08T17:41:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/?p=4227"},"modified":"2007-11-08T13:46:13","modified_gmt":"2007-11-08T17:46:13","slug":"book-of-mormon-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/2007\/11\/book-of-mormon-stories\/","title":{"rendered":"Book of Mormon stories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A recent change in the wording of the Book of Mormon may suggests a shift in the church&#8217;s view of the relationship between Lamanites and American Indian tribes.  The prior introduction, written just 26 years ago by Elder McConkie, stated that the Lamanites were &#8220;the principal ancestors of the American Indians.&#8221;<!--more-->  The new version, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sltrib.com\/faith\/ci_7403990\">as reported in today&#8217;s Salt Lake Tribune, <\/a>states simply that the Lamanites are &#8220;among the ancestors of the American Indians.&#8221;  The Trib article is a good one, and explains why this change matters.  (It also cites Kevin Barney.)<\/p>\n<p>As Peggy notes, this change is an obvious concession to apologists who advocate a limited geography theory of the Book of Mormon.  The &#8220;principal ancestors&#8221; language, while not strictly doctrinal, had been among the most difficult statements to reconcile with a limited geography approach to the Book of Mormon.  Its removal should facilitate broader church acceptance of the limited geography approach.  The church spokesperson&#8217;s comments also point in that direction, noting that the change &#8220;takes into account details of Book of Mormon demography which are not known.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent change in the wording of the Book of Mormon may suggests a shift in the church&#8217;s view of the relationship between Lamanites and American Indian tribes. The prior introduction, written just 26 years ago by Elder McConkie, stated that the Lamanites were &#8220;the principal ancestors of the American Indians.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corn"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4227\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}