039 Are Criticisms of the Book of Mormon Witnesses Defensible?

Church History Matters

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Religion & Spirituality:christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

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🗓️ 28 November 2023

⏱️ 67 minutes

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How can we confidently discern the difference between a reliable historical claim and an unreliable one? This is what Casey and I discussed in our last episode where we introduced five source critical questions we can all ask to carefully assess the reliability of a historical truth claim. In this episode of Church History Matters, we’re going to practice putting these five questions to work by actually using them to measure and evaluate various historical truth-claims about the witnesses of the Book of Mormon—a very high stakes topic with conflicting claims in the historical record. For show notes and transcript for this and other episodes go to https://doctrineandcovenantscentral.org/church-history-matters-podcast/

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0:00.0	How can we confidently discern the difference between a reliable historical claim and one that's not so reliable.
0:13.0	This is what Casey and I discussed in our last episode
0:16.0	where we introduced five source critical questions we can all ask
0:20.0	to carefully assess the reliability of a historical truth claim.
0:23.4	In today's episode of Church History Matters, we're going to practice putting these
0:28.1	five questions to work by actually using them to measure and evaluate various historical truth claims about the
0:35.2	witnesses of the Book of Mormon, a very high stakes topic, with conflicting claims in the historical
0:40.7	record.
0:41.7	I'm Scott Woodward, and my co-host is Casey Griffiths and today
0:45.6	we dive into our fifth episode of this series dealing with truth-seeking and
0:49.7	good thinking. Now let's get into it.
0:57.0	Howdy Scott? Hello Casey, how are you?
0:59.0	Good, I'm good.
1:00.0	Well, good, man.
1:02.0	Yeah, we're in the middle of it. We're doing our series on a
1:05.2	epistemology here on clear thinking toolbox of truth. We haven't settled on the
1:08.9	title yet, have we? Seeking truth. Truth, seeking, sound thinking.
1:14.0	I like sound thinking.
1:16.0	We're gonna get there.
1:17.0	What do you call it, the toolbox of truth?
1:19.0	The toolbox of truth is my suggestion, because epistemology is an off-putting word but
1:26.3	epistemology is how you know what you know how do you know what you know yeah
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