The Bible and Mormonism

How do Mormons view the Bible? At the lay level in Mormonism there is a deep distrust of it. It is thought to be corrupted by evil men in the Great Apostasy and further corrupted by a two-thousand-year-old telephone game. But there is a larger spectrum of belief: some Mormons try to default to a more trusting attitude of the Bible, while others wait for a more confirmatory emotional epiphany or at least confirmation from outside LDS sources that a given Biblical scripture is correct.

The "as far as it is translated correctly" creedal affirmation ends up, at the lay level, functioning as a kind of free pass for rejecting what seems to challenge Mormon beliefs, while more educated Mormons try to insist this isn't the case.