1056: How the Book of Mormon was Created - Dan Vogel Pt. 1
Mormon Stories Podcast
Dr. John Dehlin
4.5 • 5.7K Ratings
🗓️ 21 January 2019
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
In our final segments with renowned Joseph Smith historian Dan Vogel, we focus our attention on the creation of the Book of Mormon.
Through his extensive research, Dan theorizes that the Book of Mormon is a tangible artifact giving insight into Joseph Smith's state of mind, and commentary on the cultural and spiritual influences that surrounded him in his early life. In this interview, we focus our attention on the role of the golden plates in the creation of the Book of Mormon, the 116 "lost" pages of the original Book of Mormon and how this event influenced the final product, and we discuss the different events that may have influenced the timeline in which the Book of Mormon was created.
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| 0:35.1 | This is my life you're making. There is love for the taking. Welcome back to our interview with |
| 0:49.7 | book author, 18 or so books, Dan Vogel, Joseph Smith, the making of a prophet, signature books, |
| 0:59.2 | amazing book. We have spent a couple hours talking to Dan about his upbringing and background |
| 1:05.7 | and what led him to come his story and some of his major works. We then spent a good two hours talking |
| 1:12.4 | about Joseph Smith's history as a treasuredigger and how that ended up by 1826 with him being convicted |
| 1:22.2 | likely of what being a glass liquor disorderly person or whatever the disorderly person. Yeah. |
| 1:31.6 | And and how he was kind of washed up embarrassed and and that led him to figure out what next |
| 1:42.7 | student in his life he goes back and he and he marries Emma. He alopes with her against Isaac |
| 1:50.0 | Hales wishes. Goes back to his home with Emma. They stay there for a while and then at some point |
| 1:57.5 | he's got to go back to Isaacs to get some of Emma's furniture and her dowry or whatever |
| 2:03.1 | whatever possessions. So let's pick up on this story. Last we talked about the Book of Mormon. |
| 2:09.7 | All that had been discussed was that in 1823 Joseph had in trying to resolve family disputes |
| 2:17.4 | and in this this habit of his of telling stories to his family that related to Indians and Indian |
| 2:23.4 | lore. He references golden plates that are in a local hill as the source for these stories. And so |
| 2:32.4 | Joseph is a senior and later Alvin and the whole family are sort of like believing that |
| 2:38.3 | they're golden plates in the local hill guarded by a spirit and that at some point Joseph was |
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