Objection

The Bible Lost Plain and Precious Truths

Plain and precious truths were removed from the Bible, so the Bible is incomplete without Latter-day Saint restoration scripture.

The Bible has a real manuscript history, but the public textual record does not show that the apostolic gospel disappeared and had to be restored by later scripture.

Separate manuscript history from restoration claim

Christians can acknowledge textual variants and transmission history without accepting the stronger claim that necessary apostolic truth vanished from the Bible.

Ask for public evidence

A claim that plain and precious truths were removed needs public textual and historical evidence. The manuscript tradition instead gives readers a way to evaluate variants and recover the text.

Sources

Official source

The Book of Mormon

Official Latter-day Saint scripture presented as another testament of Jesus Christ.

The Book of Mormon, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, accessed June 16, 2026.

Open source

Official source

Gospel Topics Essays

Official Latter-day Saint essays addressing doctrine, history, and difficult questions.

Gospel Topics Essays, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, accessed June 16, 2026.

Open source

Reference

The Text of the New Testament

Reference work on New Testament textual transmission.

Bruce M. Metzger and Bart D. Ehrman, The Text of the New Testament: Its Transmission, Corruption, and Restoration, 4th ed., Oxford University Press, 2005.

Secondary context

Jesus and the Eyewitnesses

Scholarly work on Gospel testimony and eyewitness memory.

Richard Bauckham, Jesus and the Eyewitnesses: The Gospels as Eyewitness Testimony, 2nd ed., Eerdmans, 2017.

Reference

BibleRef

Reference pages used for BibleRef-first links to Scripture passages.

BibleRef, accessed June 16, 2026.

Open source