1057: How the Book of Mormon was Created - Dan Vogel Pt. 2
Mormon Stories Podcast
Dr. John Dehlin
4.5 • 5.7K Ratings
🗓️ 21 January 2019
⏱️ 64 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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| 0:47.0 | So what this suggests, and I've never really gotten this clear on my mind, what this suggests is |
| 0:52.6 | is he's starting with, you know, so you're saying in 1828, he's saying now with Martin, |
| 1:00.4 | is he starting out with some outline or some, you know, structure for how the story is |
| 1:06.5 | beginning, middle and end, and he's written the first 116 pages of it, but there's some source |
| 1:12.7 | document or some source outline or, you know, some plan, right? Or even finished text or whatever, |
| 1:20.3 | because this implies that he wrote the under 16 pages, they got lost, then he finishes writing the |
| 1:28.6 | book and then he has to go back and rewrite the part that he got lost, but that implies that there's |
| 1:33.8 | something pre-existing that still remains after the first 116 pages gets lost, but before he had |
| 1:41.1 | actually written it down in a manuscript form, explain that to us and me. Do you know what I'm saying? |
| 1:48.4 | Well, he knows the end, he knows the beginning, what the beginning is, he knows that they come from |
| 1:53.2 | Jerusalem. Right. He rejects the 10 tribe theory, by the way, because it's too limiting. The 10 |
| 2:00.0 | tribes are supposed to go to a land where never mankind dwelt. Well, he wants to include the Tower |
| 2:05.2 | of Babel's story. So if the Jerodites were here, the Nephites couldn't go to a land where never |
| 2:12.6 | mankind dwelt. So he had them be Jewish, but not the 10 tribes. Okay. So he freed up his |
| 2:21.7 | ability to write about two migrations. Okay. And he still fulfills the Jewish origin of the Indians |
| 2:31.8 | and links them into all the prophecies of their conversion before Jesus returns. |
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