Wikipedia: History of Book of Mormon

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The church considers this to be invalid because they believe that the church's doctrines are established and sustained by repeated affirmation by its leaders, not by isolated passages of scripture.

The church considers this to be invalid because they believe that the church's doctrines are established and sustained by repeated affirmation by its leaders, not by isolated passages of scripture. It also claims that the changes were a "correction" as indicated by the inclusion of this notice in the 1981 edition:

:About this edition: Some minor errors in the text have been perpetuated in past editions of the Book of Mormon. This edition contains corrections that seem appropriate to bring the material into conformity with prepublication manuscripts and early editions edited by the Prophet Joseph Smith.

	Revision 18 . . November 1, 2001 2:02 am by Dmerrill [added explanatory note on 1981 edition from that book (two sentences, under fair use)]
	Revision 17 . . October 30, 2001 11:49 pm by Dmerrill [detractors -> critics]
	Revision 16 . . October 30, 2001 2:17 am by Aristotle [Toned down the language of a refutation of outside observations due to NOPV.]