Does the Book of Mormon Teach the Bible Was Preserved in Purity?

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Does the Book of Mormon Teach the Bible Was Preserved in Purity?

“And after they go forth by the hand of the twelve apostles … that great and abominable church … the

1 Nephi 13:24-26 - “Thou hast beheld the book … and when it proceeded forth … it contained the fulness of the gospel ... these things go forth from the Jews in purity … And AFTER they go forth by the hand of the twelve apostles of the Lamb, from the Jews unto the Gentiles, thou seeth the formation of that great and abominable church … for behold, they have taken away from the gospel of the Lamb many parts which are plain and most precious.”

If the Book of Mormon admits that the Bible was at least preserved until the formation of the Catholic Church, and the evidence proves that the Catholic Church could not have corrupted the Scriptural manuscripts as the Church could not obtain all of the copies of the text of Scripture available at the time they came into power, then shouldn’t we believe Jesus’ words over the words of Joseph Smith? “Heaven and Earth will pass away but my word will never pass away” (Matthew 24:35).

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