Hey guys, we’re talking about chiasmus in the Book of Mormon today. For those of you who don’t know what that is, “Chiasmus is a type of writing style which presents a series of keywords or phrases and then repeats them in reverse order.” For example, Matthew 10:39 in...
Hey guys, so—longer episode today on a controversial topic. Here’s the deal: Towards the beginning of the Book of Mormon, two wicked brothers (Laman and Lemuel) and those who follow them are cursed because of their wickedness. In connection with this curse, as per 2...
Hey guys, so today, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints teaches that Joseph Smith translated the ancient Book of Mormon plates by the gift and power of God through the aid of the Nephite “interpreters” and at least one of Joseph’s own personal seer stones....
Hey guys, so in past episodes, we’ve talked a lot about the official witnesses of the Book of Mormon plates — the 3 witnesses and the 8 witnesses. You can read their testimonies in the introductory pages of the Book of Mormon. A while back, we got the following...
Hey guys — so in the past, we’ve talked a lot about Joseph Smith and the gold plates he found in a stone box buried in the side of a hill later named Cumorah. But in 1871, the notoriously critical Salt Lake Tribune called attention to something we don’t talk about as...
Hey guys, so in the last episode, we talked about Joseph Smith finally obtaining the long-awaited golden plates and other Nephite relics from a hill south of his family’s farm. We talked about how he was attacked while bringing the plates home, and we talked about how...
