Oh interesting. I am very curious if they would have published and committed to a full JST bible as the standard without the RLDS constraint. That said, I suppose they could have used the RLDS version but I suppose that would lend them some credibility, which the LDS leaders would not want to do.

How so?

Story Time! Story Time!

"Listen to me, Truman. There's no more truth out there than there is in the world I created for you. Same lies. The same deceit. But in my world, you have nothing to fear. I know you better than you know yourself."

Apologists regularly defend the church based on the assumption that whatever *should* be happening (according to church policy or best practices) is happening what *is* happening…and yet here is another glaring example of that clearly not happening. The removal of the annotation should be criminal.

Right, it is a recipe for disaster to give good-hearted, well-meaning people the illusion that they have and should use qith confidence the-emporers-new-qualifications to provide advice and direction to people on nearly any given topic.

I know Steven pretty well, and have found him to be a very good dude. I don't see him as the problem here, but rather that he is a perfect example of how faith can lead very good people to very bad conclusions.

Articulate and thoughtful as always

I forgot about that...but I am pretty sure you are right.