Quote Originally Posted by Robert A Whit View Post
Smith would still have to kept the plates in his possession to retranslate. I never heard that story ever that you told.
I shall look up more details on the story, I'm almost certain I have books that reference it happening.


I suspect were you to have stole that many pages of the Bible from the authors of Mark, Matthew, Luke and John, they would have to also paraphrase it.
Yes but the point was that he was translating directly from the gold plates. So unless you accept that the actual translation is only a generalised, and paraphrased one, then there would be very few inconsistencies between the two texts.