Hello everyone and welcome back to another episode of Mormon Stories podcast LDS discussions edition. I am your host for today John Delin. It is March 10th 2023.

And we are, I don't know, almost 40 ish plus or minus one or two episodes into the LDS discussion series where we join with our friend Mike and today with our friend Nemo to discuss a series of essays that have been published on the website LDS discussions.

And we are going to discuss the discussions.com. Our goal with this series that has been very popular and well received is to as dispassionally and as objectively and as evidence based as possible analyze.

And we are going to discuss the conversation with the audience on today's video.

One of the things I would like to be able to describe is that this is a story about people who are trying to honestly and earnestly look at the evidence and to decide for themselves.

What is it is in true about the Mormon church of truth claims. We are like I said, are like 39 episodes in at this point. And I think this is going to be episode 40, give or take one or two.

Where did Joseph Smith get his ideas? There's like different names we've been batting around for this episode. Where did Joseph Smith get his ideas if it wasn't revelation from God or the origins of unique Mormon doctrines or Joseph Smith's mix tape theory.

But basically we're going to identify where Joseph Smith got his material. I just want to remind everybody that you can enjoy this LDS discussion series integrated into the Mormon stories podcast feed or the YouTube feed.

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And yeah, without any further ado, let's bring on our illustrious panel for today. We have with us Mike from LDS discussions.

dot com. Hey, Mike. Hey everybody. How's it going? Thanks for joining us. Thanks for having me. And we've got Nimo the Mormon from the Nimo the Mormon YouTube channel. Hey, Nimo.

Hi, officially awesome. According to John Delin putting it on my headstone. Yeah. How's Daniel the taper back there behind Daniel is excellent. He is a wonderful, wonderful horse.

All right. Well, Mike, there is not an LDS discussions essay for this topic. And I'll give listeners viewers a disclaimer that a lot of the material that we covered today we have discussed in bits and pieces throughout the past 40 episodes.

But I think we decided that it would be really important in a single consolidated episode to just show one by one all the different many different sources for Joseph Smith's most described, you know, unique contributions to Mormon doctrine and theology.

And we're going to be covering some new material as well. But I think that was how this episode came to be anything you want to add about that Mike.

No, so we did we did an episode I think five or six ago kind of going over the overview of Joseph Smith's translations and it functioned in the same way as this one, which is to say that we're taking a lot of what we've done before and putting it in one episode to try to almost put a bow on all of these things we've been talking about. And so

with the translations episode was like, okay, now let's look at all of this translation projects in one episode and you can really see the patterns, especially given the fact that we spent a lot of time on each one individually.

This episode is going to be similar and we're trying to say, okay, let's look at all of the unique Mormon doctrines that Joseph Smith brought forward, whether it's whether what you want to call it a restoration or just his own ideas.

And try to see is there a thread as to where they're coming from. And so yeah, just just jump right on that side. It's the same thing. So some of this will will be completely new.

And a lot of it will be recaps. And so when it's recaps, we're going to point out what episode you can go back to from more info. But we figured this would be a really good way to look at everything under one umbrella to kind of say, okay, do we see common threads. We see patterns here that give us insight into how Joseph Smith was coming up with these ideas, whether it's from God or from

all sorts of sources around him. Yeah, and I think just for people who are searching on YouTube, I think it's just going to be handy for them to be able to see, whoa, there's an episode that talks about the sources of Joseph Smith's inspiration and revelation.

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