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...
On September 22 of 1823, a teenager named Joseph Smith was visited by an angel named Moroni. The angel informed him of an ancient record engraved on metal plates that was buried in a hill (later called the Hill Cumorah) about three miles south of his family’s log...
Hey guys, so here’s the deal: Joseph Smith claimed that the Book of Mormon was translated from an ancient set of gold-colored metal plates. Joseph was permitted to show this ancient record to several people who then testified to the world that they were actually real....
The keystone of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is The Book of Mormon. If it’s a fraud, the rest of our truth claims come tumbling down. We know that, and critics of our faith know that as well. So, naturally, people have been studying, testing,...