1905: Witnesses Roundup & Finale - LDS Discussions Ep 55
Mormon Stories Podcast
Dr. John Dehlin
4.5 • 5.7K Ratings
🗓️ 7 June 2024
⏱️ 121 minutes
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Summary
Julia joins the team again to examine the fates of the alleged witnesses to the golden plates of the Book of Mormon, revealing a trail of broken testimonies, apostasies and bizarre offshoots. Nearly all the witnesses later followed eccentric claimants like James Strang, raising serious credibility issues. By scrutinizing discrepancies in accounts, shifting narratives around Joseph Smith's "translating power," and the rich local history of buried plate legends, Julia builds a powerful case challenging the orthodox story behind Mormonism's foundational scripture.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome back to another episode of Mormon Stories Podcast, |
| 0:03.0 | LDS Edition. I am your host John Delinn, it's May 22nd, 2024. |
| 0:07.0 | And we are, I don't know, 54, 55 episodes into an amazing series called LDS discussions where we talk about the |
| 0:16.3 | Mormon Church truth claims as dispassionately and as objectively as possible so |
| 0:21.3 | that you the listener and viewer can decide how you think and how you feel |
| 0:25.6 | about the Mormon Church's truth claims. Today's episode it's part four in our |
| 0:30.6 | series on the witnesses to the Book of Mormon to the Gold Plates and we're |
| 0:35.1 | going to be talking about what happened to the eight witnesses to the gold plates |
| 0:38.9 | to the Book of Mormon and to the other witnesses. This is part four in that series. The first episode |
| 0:45.2 | was the three witnesses, the second was the eight witnesses, the third was the |
| 0:48.9 | other witnesses to the gold plates, and this is part four. I say this every LDS discussions episode but these |
| 0:55.1 | episodes are in a series they're best understood and they're best appreciated in |
| 1:01.0 | succession which means what we recommend is you go back to the |
| 1:04.2 | beginning, watch all 50 whatever, and then watch this one, you'll get much more out of |
| 1:08.8 | it. Of course you're welcome if you don't want to do that. You can access LDS discussion series as a standalone podcast on |
| 1:16.5 | Spotify on Apple Podcasts and there's a YouTube playlist on the Mormon stories |
| 1:22.0 | podcast YouTube channel where you can just watch the and there's a YouTube playlist on the Mormon stories podcast, |
| 1:23.0 | YouTube channel where you can just watch them all in succession as well. |
| 1:26.8 | Millions of views and listens now |
| 1:29.6 | have come about from this series. |
| 1:32.1 | I'm hearing in the past year that this is one of the most important things |
| 1:35.6 | we've ever done. And of course it's based on the amazing work of Mike from LDS Discussions.com website. |
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