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The primary claim of Joseph Smith Jr. was that God used him to restore the true gospel which was “lost” through mistranslation(”we believe the Bible insomuch as it is translated correctly”).
The issue the LDS church has to contend with is that today we have Old Testament manuscripts dating to as early as 150 BC (the Dead Sea Scrolls) which concur with what modern copies say.
Regarding the New Testament: There are more than 4,000 different ancient Greek manuscripts containing all or portions of the New Testament that have survived to our time. It has been observed that if all of the New Testament manuscripts and Versions mentioned above were to disappear overnight, it would still be possible to reconstruct the entire New Testament with quotes from the Church Fathers, with the exception of fifteen to twenty verses.
The wealth of materials for the New Testament becomes even more significant when we compare it with other ancient documents which have been accepted without question.
In his book, “The Bible and Archaeology”, Sir Frederic G. Kenyon, former director and principal librarian of the British Museum, stated about the New Testament, “The interval between the dates of original composition and the earliest extant evidence becomes so small as to be in fact negligible, and the last foundation for any doubt that the Scriptures have come down to us substantially as they were written has now been removed. Both the authenticity and the general integrity of the books of the New Testament may be regarded as finally established.”
In short, there was no necessity to “restore the gospel”, as Joseph Smith claimed. The texts we have today are unquestionably reliable.
The Restoration is about so much more than scriptures. Even with the Bible available to all, there are hundreds of different churches. Without modern revelation to teach us, we are left to interpret the scriptures and guess how they apply today. Examples are smoking, pornography, holidays, Church organization. Even whether or not to use motor vehicles is in question when we only have ancient scriptures. The restoration of the Priesthood and modern revelation are the most important aspects of the Restoration.