“An Exceedingly Great Many Do Stumble”
Through the eyes of Nephi the seer, therefore we become witnesses of the fact that the world has never had a complete Bible, for it was massively corrupted before it was distributed. By extensively searching and studying the available manuscripts today, honest textual critics may succeed in recovering the Bible to the condition it was in after it was tampered with. In that sense, the worldly biblical scholars, lacking the knowledge provided by the Book of Mormon, have frequently confused the oldest extant manuscripts with the original manuscripts. The information contained on the latter documents has been and will be made known not by manuscripts and scholars but rather through modern prophets and revelators as the Lord sees fit to bring back that which had been lost.