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Mormon Stories Podcast

1381: Belief After the CES Letter Pt. 5 - A Passionate Q&A with Jim Bennett

Mormon Stories Podcast

Dr. John Dehlin

Religion & Spirituality

4.65.2K Ratings

🗓️ 5 January 2021

⏱️ 256 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 5 of a multi-part series with Jim, I bring to Jim listener/viewer questions, along with several questions/observations of my own, into a passionate, 4 hour final conversation.

If you were frustrated that I gave Jim "a pass" in the previous episodes, you may be more satisfied with this episode.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hi everyone. Welcome back to part five of my epic interview with Jim Bennett, son of former US Senator Bob Bennett and

0:12.0

author of a faithful

0:14.2

reply response to the CES letter.

0:17.0

We have spent four three to four sit downs, probably 12 hours at this point,

0:24.0

talking about all sorts of issues, polygamy racism,

0:26.9

Joseph Smith, all the issues book and more and book of Abraham.

0:31.6

And I've gotten so much positive feedback. I hope Jim you've gotten really good feedback.

0:36.9

I've gotten some wonderful feedback. Yes.

0:39.4

I've also gotten some other feedback, but I'm sure you have too.

0:43.6

Yeah, yeah, but overall people are really grateful for this exchange and for your time.

0:50.7

And so thank you for that. And

0:52.9

one of the criticisms I've received is that I haven't held your feet to the fire,

0:58.4

meaning that I've accorded in many people, let you gotten, let you get away with making a bunch of assertions

1:04.8

that we could argue with or that I could

1:08.4

make a response to or even nail you down on. And you know, in a way, that's what today's about

1:13.9

and in a way it's not. And I'm just going to say that

1:17.2

now that we've covered the main topics, what we're going to do today is

1:20.8

I'm going to raise a bunch of questions that you listeners have

1:26.0

have erased for Jim. And a lot of these are

1:31.0

responses to his, his answers. But and so in that sense, we will be quote holding Jim's feet to the

1:39.6

fire, but but not because I don't believe that's

1:42.9

constructive. I don't believe that like trying to pin someone down or score points,

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