698: Honoring Grant Palmer Pt. 2 - Restoring Christ (Grant's New Book)
Mormon Stories Podcast
Dr. John Dehlin
4.5 • 5.7K Ratings
🗓️ 20 February 2017
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
In this three-part interview, we honor Grant Palmer, former LDS seminary/institute instructor, and author of "An Insider's View of Mormon Origins" - which provides a plausible explanation for how the Book of Mormon was authored by Joseph Smith.
This interview has three parts:
Part 1: Grant reflects on his experience authoring An Insider's View of Mormon origins, discusses his disfellowshipment and ultimate decision to resign from the LDS (after threats of excommunication). Grant also reflects upon the impact of An Insider's View on the LDS church.
Part 2: Grant discusses his new, yet-to-be-published book, "Restoring Christ." Within the book he discusses why he continues to believe, how he justifies belief in Christ and the Bible after losing faith in the LDS church and in the Book of Mormon, what the atonement does and doesn't mean to him, how he deals with the God of the Old Testament, etc. He also discusses in-depth his conversation with an LDS general authority who claims that modern LDS apostles receive $1 million once they become apostles, and that many of them do not believe the LDS church to be true (a claim that I challenge).
Part 3: Participants in the evening share with Grant what his work has meant to them. In addition, Tyler Glenn (Neon Trees) sings two songs in honor of Grant from his new album, Excommunication.
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| 0:36.0 | kindly light a myth in circling glue. |
| 0:43.0 | Leave thou me on the night is dark and light. |
| 0:50.0 | Okay, so that's the first part of the interview now we're going to the second part is around your new book. |
| 0:57.0 | Now I have the title here Restoring Christ, Riding on Christianity Mormonism but you had a little bit more lengthy of a title. |
| 1:04.0 | Yeah, a little catch your title. |
| 1:07.0 | Say one more time. |
| 1:08.0 | A little catch your title than the one you just read. |
| 1:11.0 | No, no, repeat the title. |
| 1:13.0 | Restoring Christ, |
| 1:16.0 | I've seen Mormon Jesus for |
| 1:21.0 | Gospels Jesus and I have several chapters in there where I compare the Mormon Jesus with the |
| 1:33.0 | four Gospels Jesus and I found I don't really like the Mormon Jesus very much. |
| 1:38.0 | What do you mean by that? |
| 1:40.0 | Well, I've got a chapter in there if you it was very therapeutic of me to compare the two and see the difference. |
| 1:48.0 | We're not just dealing with Joseph Smith here but Joseph Smith's Jesus and it's turned out to be a rather cathartic experience for me to make that comparison. |
| 2:00.0 | I have one chapter in the book called Two Different Jesuses and I could just |
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