Hello everyone and welcome to another edition of Mormon Stories podcast. I am one of your hosts for today John Dillin. It's February 3rd, 2023.

And I'm super excited for a continuation of our series from LDS discussions on examining Mormon truth claims with as much objectivity as we can.

The topic for today is Joseph Smith and back dated prophecies. So we're basically going to be talking about or examining whether or not Joseph Smith, whether in the book of Mormon or another scripture or just in his time as a prophet would back date prophecies.

But I'm excited to have with us today a very illustrious panel, a panel of podcasters that are award winning podcasters in 2023. We have Mike from LDS discussions. Hey Mike, welcome, welcome back to Mormon stories.

It's good to be back and this will be a fun one because this one this overview is our next guest fault because I was unaware of this kind of thing until I listened to his podcast. So we're going to hear a lot of what he had already done in some glad is here because this is actually a really cool one as far as we've talked in the past about how you start to see these fingerprints of Joseph Smith.

This is a cool one that kind of brings that together in a slightly different way and helps you to kind of understand a lot of what we talked about the book of Mormon as far as kind of how it could have been put together and how you can understand the dating of the text and who could have written it.

Really quickly I'll remind everyone that Mike has a wonderful website award winning website called LDS discussions calm where he has written a number of essays trying to objectively look at Mormon church truth claims as someone who joined the church as an adult convert and then after joining the Mormon church as an adult convert discovered all sorts of things about the church's truth claims that he wish he had been told before you join the church.

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It's definitely one of the most important and popular things the Mormon stories is done in 2022 and again Mike congratulations to winning an award.

Thanks it's a little weird but it's kind of nice and you know I hope that the website as a whole has been helpful to people on this particular project which I think is the best.

The most thorough part of the website I hope helps people because of the fact that it was put together with the idea of trying to just put it together like you're putting a puzzle back together and so I'm you know it's it's weird to like win an award but it's it's very cool and obviously I feel just happy that it's helpful to other people absolutely.

Alright joining us once again on Mormon stories podcast not a guest and also the winner of like the best Mormon themed podcast in the world for 2022 we have radio free Mormon good morning how are you doing John what's a like to make the rest of us kind of irrelevant radio free Mormon how's that feel great believe me and I feel kind of bad because I beat you out for best podcast.

I don't I mean I'm ecstatic it's well earned and I don't want any awards I want other targets are a fan well you've got one in me by the way it says washed up has been barely relevant podcasters that how you're identifying yourself today that's that's that that's my yeah that's myself identity these days.

Like there's someone else in the screen that's right that there's someone else that looks like that's the lovable chimney sweep and we have with us back on the discussions of Mormon.

It was an award winner for best what video Mormon video yeah best best LDS interest video channel yeah well congratulations Nemo I may as well just shut shut down more.

We're no longer right you're still good it's great to have you brother thank you okay and Mike why don't you share with us or our FM if you want we want to always give credit to the shoulders of the giants that we

stand upon Mike this work as you mentioned was inspired by an episode of our FM did our FM do you want to tell us about the episode that you've already done so that we can make sure

and plug that from the start I can barely remember it I would have forgotten it entirely except for my wanted to do a show about it and so apparently it's somewhere back there in the radio free Mormon archives is about

updating prophecies and if you're going to talk about me I got to talk about Bart Irman because he's the person that I learned about this whole thing from in relation to the Bible and then unfortunately started seeing immediately how it also was reflected in the book of Mormon particularly in first Nephi and from there it just kind of continued on.

All right well thanks for joining us today to help provide support to what Mike's put together so Mike where do you want to go from here yeah we could we could just start and you know just I'll just note that with our FM podcast it was during the COVID time and I remember I was working in listening to

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