Welcome to the podcast Think Bivocally, Conversations on Faith and Culture.

I'm your host Sean McDow, Professor of Apologetics at Tauba School of Theology

Biola University. Today we're bringing to a bonus episode

of a conversation I had recently with Eric Johnson.

He works with a Mormonism research ministry,

and you might recognize his name

if you've been listening to the Think Biblical podcast for some time

because we've had him on a guest before to talk about how to reach members of the

Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Today we're doing something a little bit

differently. Over the past few years

there's been some challenges to the LDS Church in terms of like DNA studies, the

Book of Abraham, the plural wives of Joseph Smith and the church has released some responses to these

and Eric is going to come on and assess these responses historically

theologically, theologically, scientifically, etc.

Given that you listen to Think biblical podcast,

I think you're going to find this a very interesting conversation.

It was first posted on my YouTube channel,

so that was the format, but it is right in line with the topics we cover here,

so we think you'll enjoy this bonus episode, and if so, we hope you'll share it with a friend.

What are the biggest challenges being raised to the Mormon church today? And how do they respond? Whether it's the plural wives of Joseph Smith, whether it's the Book of Mormon,

DNA studies, translation of the Book of Mormon.

In the past few years, there have been a range of questions that have been raised, and the Mormon Church has been responding.

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