Daniel Peterson: The Power of a Witness

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Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

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🗓️ 9 June 2021

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

David Whitmer, Martin Harris, and Oliver Cowdery. Those are the well-known names of three men whose witnesses of the Book of Mormon stood the test of time, even if their loyalty to the Church sometimes wavered. But who were they? What about these men enabled God to use them in Restoration? Why did they all, at various points, step away from the Church? And why did two of them come back? On this week’s episode, Daniel Peterson, an executive producer of the new movie “Witnesses,” discusses the significance of these men’s roles in Church history and why we should hold gratitude in our hearts for their lives.

“The Lord gave us the witnesses—the three and the eight—and I think He expects us to use them and to tell their story.”

Show Notes

3:43- "A Witness to the Witnesses”
8:09- Becoming Converted
9:38- Seer Stones
13:28- Relationships in Church History
17:57- Sidney Rigdon and the Salt Sermon
23:10- Strong Personalities
30:15- All Left, Two Came Back, All Stood By Their Testimonies
40:10- Witnesses of Women
46:58- What Does It Mean To Be All In the Gospel of Jesus Christ?

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0:00.0	Before his death, Oliver Cowdry visited with a missionary and said,
0:05.0	I want you to remember what I say to you.
0:07.8	I am a dying man and what would it profit me to tell you a lie?
0:12.0	I know that this book of Mormon was translated by the gift and power of God.
0:17.2	My eyes saw, my ears heard, and my understanding was touched.
0:21.8	And I know that whereof I testified is true.
0:24.8	It was no dream, no vain imagination of the mind.
0:28.1	It was real, end quote.
0:30.5	An acquaintance of Martin Harris wrote,
0:32.8	a few hours before his death, I asked Martin if he did not feel
0:37.0	that there was an element at least of fraudulence and deception
0:40.6	and the things that were written and told of the coming forth of the book of Mormon.
0:44.9	And he replied as he had always done and said,
0:48.2	the book of Mormon is no fake.
0:50.2	I know what I know.
0:51.4	I have seen what I have seen and I have heard what I have heard.
0:54.7	I have seen the gold plates from which the book of Mormon is written.
0:58.5	An angel appeared to me and others and testified to the truthfulness of the record
1:03.1	and had I been willing to have purgered myself and sworn falsely to the testimony I now bear.
1:09.5	I could have been a rich man, but I could not have testified other than I have done
1:14.2	and am now doing for these things are true.
1:17.6	End quote.
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