1377: Belief After the CES Letter - God, Jesus, Prophets, and the "One True Church" - Jim Bennett Pt. 1

Mormon Stories Podcast

Dr. John Dehlin

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🗓️ 31 December 2020

⏱️ 155 minutes

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Summary

Jim Bennett is the author of "A Faithful Reply to the CES Letter." He is also the son of the late Utah U.S. Senator Bob Bennett.

In Part 1 of a multi-part series with Jim, we discuss in-depth his approach to maintaining belief in the Mormon church AFTER exposure to to all of the historical and social problems currently vexing the LDS church, as highlighted in Jeremy Runnell's groundbreaking book "CES Letter: My Search for Answers to my Mormon Doubts.

Today's episode covers:

How/why to continue believing in God after a Mormon crisis of faith.
How/why to continue believing in Jesus after a Mormon crisis of faith.
What it means to Jim to be a fallible Mormon prophet.
How Jim views the claim that the Mormon church is the "one true church."
Jim's condemnation of FAIRMormon's recent YouTube videos attacking Jeremy Runnells and me.

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0:00.0	Hello everyone and welcome to another edition of Mormon stories podcast. I'm your host John DeLin. It is
0:05.7	Monday December 28th
0:08.1	2020 we are about to conclude this year that has been
0:12.2	terrible and wonderful for so many people
0:15.9	um, I am really excited for today's interview. This is someone I've wanted to interview
0:21.2	for many years. I have a dear friend named John Henderson. He lives here in holiday
0:25.1	he's been a faithful friend and even a supporter of Mormon stories podcast and at least a few years ago
0:31.9	John reached out to me and said John you got to get to know this guy named Jim Bennett. He's super
0:36.3	cool and he's the son of former Senator Bob Bennett and he's been you know responding to Jeremy
0:42.3	Reynolds CES letter and he's a great guy and you should meet him. And so I knew about Jim Bennett
0:47.6	even before he formally responded to Jeremy and then came on Bill Reels wonderful podcast and did
0:53.8	this epic multi-hour interview with Bill Reel and so I've wanted to interview Jim for a long time.
1:02.2	So today we're going to be interviewing Jim Bennett. He is the author of a response to Jeremy
1:09.2	Reynolds CES letter but he's also just a great guy and he's also a friend of another different
1:15.2	of mine Robert Reynolds and he and Robert have been working on this film that's going to be
1:21.4	released someday that's going to be super cool and important but Jim Bennett is the author of a
1:25.6	faithful reply to the CES letter from a former CES employee and we've got Jim Bennett here
1:32.8	in studios today Jim Bennett welcome to Mormon stories podcast. Thank you sir very nice to be here
1:38.8	appreciate that yeah and and I should just say I we met for the first time because recently with
1:46.7	this fair Mormon sort of release of these new videos Jeremy Reynolds got this huge barrage of
1:54.0	attacks including claiming that Jeremy never actually sent a CES letter to anyone right which
2:01.1	was outrageous to me and a Jeremy and and I just always trusted Jeremy so I reached out to Jeremy
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