Editing Sola scriptura (section)

=== Views of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ===
[[The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints]] (LDS Church) states: "The official, canonized scriptures of the Church, often called the standard works, are the [[Bible]], the [[Book of Mormon]], the [[Doctrine and Covenants]], and the [[Pearl of Great Price (Mormonism)|Pearl of Great Price]]."<ref>{{Cite web |title=Scriptures |url=https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/eng/manual/gospel-topics/scriptures |access-date=2023-09-10 |website=www.churchofjesuschrist.org |language=en}}</ref> The Church accepts the Bible as the word of God "as far as it is translated correctly,"<ref>See {{lds|Articles of Faith|a_of_f|1|8}} ("We believe the ''Bible'' to be the word of God as far as it is translated correctly.") [[Joseph Smith]] wrote, "I believe the Bible as it read when it came from the pen of the original writers" (''Teachings of The Prophet Joseph Smith'', p. 327).</ref> and it regards parts of the [[Apocrypha]],<ref>{{Cite web |title=Doctrine and Covenants 91 |url=https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/eng/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/91 |access-date=2023-09-10 |website=www.churchofjesuschrist.org |language=en}}</ref> some writings of the [[Protestant Reformers]] and non-Christian religious leaders, and the non-religious writings of some philosophers – and, notably, the [[Constitution of the United States of America]]<ref name="auto">See [https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/101?lang=eng&id=80#p80 D&C 101:80]</ref> – to be ''inspired'', though ''not canonical''.<ref>{{cite web |date=1992 |title=Encyclopedia of Mormonism – World Religions (Non-Christian) and Mormonism |url=https://eom.byu.edu/index.php/World_Religions_(Non-Christian)_and_Mormonism |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080429193758/http://ldsfaq.byu.edu/emmain.asp?number=202 |archive-date=April 29, 2008 |access-date=2008-06-03}}</ref>

Regarding the Church's view on the belief held by many that the Holy Bible, as presently constituted (in any translation, or even from the extant Hebrew and Greek manuscripts), is inerrant or infallible, etc, or the doctrine of ''sola scriptura'', the Church has said the following: "The Latter-day Saints have a great reverence and love for the Bible. They study it and try to live its teachings. They treasure its witness of the life and mission of the Lord Jesus Christ. The [[Joseph Smith|Prophet Joseph Smith]] studied the Bible all his life, and he taught its precepts. He testified that a person who can 'mark the power of Omnipotence, inscribed upon the heavens, can also see God’s own handwriting in the sacred volume: and he who reads it oftenest will like it best, and he who is acquainted with it, will know the hand [of the Lord] wherever he can see it'."<ref name=":02">{{Cite web |title=Bible, Inerrancy of |url=https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/eng/manual/gospel-topics/bible-inerrancy-of |access-date=2023-09-10 |website=www.churchofjesuschrist.org |language=en}}</ref>

The Church further said on the subject of ''sola scriptura'': "Latter-day Saints believe in an open scriptural canon, which means that there are other books of scripture besides the Bible (such as the Book of Mormon) and that God continues to reveal His word through living [[prophet]]s. The argument is often made that to be a Christian means to assent to the principle of ''sola scriptura,'' or the self-sufficiency of the Bible. But to claim that the Bible is the final word of God—more specifically, the final written word of God—is to claim more for the Bible than it claims for itself. Nowhere does the Bible proclaim that all revelations from God would be gathered into a single volume to be forever closed and that no further scriptural revelation could be received."<ref name=":02" />