OK people, put your seat-belts on because we’re about to embark on a complicated journey through the world of population genetics as we explore what DNA evidence has to say about the historicity of The Book of Mormon. Here’s the deal. The Book of Mormon tells the...
Hey guys, so on this channel, we’ve talked a lot about the official witnesses of Joseph Smith Jr.’s golden plates, but we haven’t talked a lot about those people who presumably would have known Joseph even better than most of the witnesses — Joseph’s own brothers and...
Hey guys—So, members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints believe that “All men and women lived with God as His spirit children before coming to the earth as mortal beings.” We call this pre-mortal period of existence, “pre-mortal existence.” If you...
Hey guys, so the author of the first two books of the Book of Mormon was a prophet named Nephi. He tells us about some of the challenges his family faced as they journeyed from Jerusalem, across the ocean, to their promised land. But while Nephi’s ultimate purpose in...
On July 24th, 1857, a handful of riders, including Abraham Smoot and Porter Rockwell, rode into Big Cottonwood Canyon, where Brigham Young and the Latter-day Saints were celebrating Pioneer Day. The riders brought with them harrowing news from the east. An army...
