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Mormon Stories Podcast

1083: How the Book of Mormon was Created, by John Hamer Pt. 2

Mormon Stories Podcast

Dr. John Dehlin

Religion & Spirituality

4.55.7K Ratings

🗓️ 20 March 2019

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

Join us now for this Mormon Stories Podcast episode, wherein John Hamer offers his theory as to how the Book of Mormon was created.

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One life to live, my night while I take.

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Okay.

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And then two, the context as we have it.

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I think it's pretty clear that Joseph Smith wrote at least some of the text as we have it.

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So as we've talked about, it's a modern compilation.

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It's a 19th century text.

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It's dependent on the Bible, the King James Bible.

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But it also includes a bunch of Joseph Smith isms.

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And so pretty famously, you know, we're aware that the Lee Highs dream is recorded in 1st

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Nephi, chapter 8.

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Parallels directly, one of the many, actually the principal dream of Joseph Smith's vision.

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So Joseph Smith had dreams and I'm sorry, Joseph Smith's senior that Lucy Smith recounts

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