Hello everyone and welcome to part two of my interview with Jim Bennett

author of a faithful reply to the CES letter

This this interview is kind of subtitled

Believing after the CES letter. We just did two and a half good hours with Jim Bennett

It's December 28th. I'm John DeLin and

We just spent again two and a half hours talking to Jim about God about Jesus about his about Jim's background and about prophets and about faith and the role of the church

It was the type of conversation. I've missed. It's the type of tussle that I would do with Dan witherspoon and others

But I think it was a constructive healthy vibrant dialogue where I think we um came to a lot of common ground

I think it was a healthy constructive conversation. I'm happy with it and I'm really thrilled

Uh to have you back for part two. So Jim Bennett welcome to part two of our interview. Thank you sir. Glad to be here. Yeah

So now it's time to turn to Joseph Smith and scripture and all that stuff

And this is stuff we could you know you you obviously you already did 12 hours of bill real

I've promised to you into my listeners not that you required it

But this isn't about debating right this is about finding common ground and

coming to understand how you believe

Uh knowing all the problems. That's what this is about

So let's let's dig in. How does that sound sure? All right um

Okay, so let's begin and what I'll do is I'll lay out

The the correlated kind of orthodox understanding of a bunch of different issues

And then you can talk about uh

You know how you see things is that okay? But I'll set up kind of what I was taught or what I think the general understandings are

And or what I think the problems are and you can sort of say yes. I yes. I agree to problems

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