Editing Book of Mormon (section)

==== Joseph Smith ====
Like many other early adherents of the Latter Day Saint movement, Smith referenced Book of Mormon scriptures in his preaching relatively infrequently and cited the Bible more often.<ref name="Underwood-1984" /> In 1832, Smith dictated a [[Revelation in Mormonism|revelation]] that condemned the "whole church" for treating the Book of Mormon lightly, although even after doing so Smith still referenced the Book of Mormon less often than the Bible.<ref name="Underwood-1984">{{Cite journal |last=Underwood |first=Grant |date=Fall 1984 |title=Book of Mormon Usage in Early LDS Theology |url=https://www.dialoguejournal.com/articles/book-of-mormon-usage-in-early-lds-theology/ |url-status=live |journal=[[Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought]] |volume=17 |issue=3 |pages=36–74 |doi=10.2307/45227937 |jstor=45227937 |s2cid=254397416 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211005144623/https://www.dialoguejournal.com/wp-content/uploads/sbi/articles/Dialogue_V17N03_37.pdf |archive-date=October 5, 2021|doi-access=free }}</ref> Nevertheless, in 1841 Joseph Smith characterized the Book of Mormon as "the most correct of any book on earth, and the keystone of [the] religion".<ref>{{cite book|last=Millet|first=Robert L.|url=https://rsc.byu.edu/book/living-book-mormon-abiding-its-precepts|title=Living the Book of Mormon: Abiding by Its Precepts|publisher=[[Religious Studies Center]], [[Brigham Young University]]|year=2007|isbn=978-1-59038-799-3|editor1-last=Strathearn|editor1-first=Gaye|place=Provo, UT|pages=55–71|chapter=The Most Correct Book: Joseph Smith's Appraisal|author-link=Robert L. Millet|editor2-last=Swift|editor2-first=Charles|chapter-url=https://rsc.byu.edu/archived/living-book-mormon/most-correct-book-joseph-smiths-appraisal|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210427200002/https://rsc.byu.edu/living-book-mormon-abiding-its-precepts/most-correct-book-joseph-smiths-appraisal|archive-date=April 27, 2021|url-status=live}}</ref> Although Smith quoted the book infrequently, he accepted the Book of Mormon narrative world as his own.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Bushman|first=Richard|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=laAdRnr759gC|title=Believing History: Latter-day Saint Essays|publisher=[[Columbia University Press]]|year=2004|editor-last=Neilson|editor-first=Reid L. |pages=65–78|language=English|chapter=The Book of Mormon in Early Mormon History|isbn=9780231130073|author-link=Richard Bushman|editor-last2=Woodworth|editor-first2=Jed}}</ref>