4.6 • 5.2K Ratings
🗓️ 10 November 2023
⏱️ 160 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Does accepting Joseph Smith as a prophet require rejecting vast fields of science and scholarship?
Join us as we consider long-held assumptions about Joseph Smith and the truth claims of Mormonism. We highlight problematic beliefs like dark skin being a curse from God, Native Americans as a cursed and loathsome people, evolution and DNA studies being incompatible with LDS teachings, and linguistic, archaeological, and historical evidence contradicting the Book of Mormon's divine origins.
Help us continue to deliver quality content by becoming a donor today:
PO Box 171085, Salt Lake City, UT 84117
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
0:00.0 | Hello everyone and welcome to another edition of Mormon Stories podcast |
0:03.3 | LDS Discussions Edition. I am your host for today John Delin. It is May 25th, |
0:09.3 | 2023 and today we are going to be answering the question, if Joseph Smith got it wrong, sorry, if |
0:16.6 | Joseph Smith got it right, who got it wrong? |
0:20.5 | Basically, we are something like 46 or 47 episodes into this LDS discussion series where with my friend Mike and with Nemo and some other special |
0:36.3 | guests we've been analyzing Mormon Church truth claims as objectively and |
0:42.2 | is neutrally and is evidence-based as claims as objectively and as |
0:42.8 | as evidence-based as we possibly could. We're nearing the end of kind of the |
0:49.0 | series as Mike envisioned it. We will be taking a break for this summer and then we may |
0:56.0 | have a few episodes to kind of close things out in the fall, but for those of you who want to check out this series we really |
1:06.0 | recommend you start from episode one and go sequentially you can access the |
1:12.3 | the LDS discussions podcast feed either on Spotify and audio or video format as its own podcast. |
1:19.0 | You can go to Apple Podcast as well. |
1:21.0 | And then it's integrated into the Mormon Stories Podcast feed or you can go to the |
1:25.7 | Mormon Stories Podcast YouTube channel. |
1:28.6 | There's a there's a playlist where you can just kind of watch these episodes sequentially. |
1:33.6 | We know that tens of thousands of people are finding a lot of value in this series. |
1:39.2 | And so if this is your first time joining us, |
1:41.7 | we hope you'll go back to the beginning |
1:43.6 | and enjoy this series like so many people are. |
1:47.2 | NEMA and I feel like this series is a game changer. |
1:50.3 | Mike tends to be a little more self-effacing and doesn't want to accept that. |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Dr. John Dehlin, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Dr. John Dehlin and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.