Hey guys, so in the past, we’ve talked a lot about the priesthood. If that term is unfamiliar to you, go watch these episodes. Latter-day Saints believe that the lower, or Aaronic, priesthood was restored to Joseph Smith and Oliver Cowdery by the resurrected John the...
Hey guys, so every once in a while, you might run across the criticism that the Latter-day Saint prophet Joseph Smith was an arrogant and boastful man who thought he was better than Jesus Himself. To back up this claim, critics will almost always bring up the...
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 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 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...