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Listen at the Wordendores.org or your favorite podcast provider. The Book of Mormon, the Central Scriptures of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day

States, or the Mormons, claims itself to be another testament of Jesus Christ. Is it? Are its

historical claims verifiable in any way? What about its, well I would say it's well? I would say it's author, but he would say it's translator

Joseph Smith was he a trustworthy individual. Welcome back to issues etc. I'm Todd

Wilkin. Dr. Jordan Cooper joins us to talk about the

Book of Mormon. He is executive director of Justin Sinner, president of the American Lutheran

The The The Alumni, author of several books including his latest The Doctrine of God, creator and host of

a YouTube video, Title Five Problems with the Book of Mormon.

Dr Cooper, welcome back.

Thanks for having me back, Todd.

Christians have the Holy Scriptures, the Bible, Old and New Testament.

What authority does the Book of Mormon have among Latter-day Saints.

Yeah, I think a lot of Christians expect,

you know, when they start looking into Mormonism

or they start hearing about Mormonism,

they expect that the Book of Mormon would have kind of a similar role to the

LDS church that the Bible does for us and that's really not the case so while the

Book of Mormon certainly is a central element of the LDS and certainly people

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