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Ep 685 – Truth vs Fiction, Part 3: Who Wrote the Book of Mormon (Solomon Spaulding?)

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Infants on Thrones

Personal Journals, Society & Culture, Philosophy

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πŸ—“οΈ 30 September 2020

⏱️ 105 minutes

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Summary

What is truth? What is fiction? Was Joseph Smith the sole author of the Book of Mormon? Was it Solomon Spaulding? Glenn and Randy talk with professor Craig Criddle about Book of Mormon authorship.

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0:00.0

We are not required to prove that the Book of Mormon is true or is an authentic record through external evidences, though there are many many

0:13.4

nobody ever used iron in the new world nobody has ever found

0:17.8

pre-Columbian coinage ever

0:20.1

if there were coins they'd be chocolate beans.

0:22.6

Why aren't chocolate beans in the Book of Warm?

0:25.4

Copper alloys like brass.

0:27.2

In any form doesn't show up in Meso America until at the earliest 800 a.D.

0:33.0

Gold doesn't show up in any way until 7 or 800 a.

0:37.0

You've got crops mentioned in the Book of Mormon

0:40.0

that never existed in pre-Columbian America.

0:42.8

All of these things would have produced pollen

0:44.9

if they've been grown by anybody.

0:47.1

A lot of this stuff is wind-blown and would fall onto ponds and lakes

0:50.7

and get enclosed in sediments. Tremendous amounts of pollen work has been done.

0:55.0

It never has been the case, nor is it now that the studies of the learned will prove

1:02.0

that the Gormorerman true or false.

1:05.0

Silk, nothing.

1:06.4

Seven day calendar was unknown.

1:08.4

They never had chariots.

1:10.4

They had helmets all right, but they weren't made out of brass. That's for sure.

1:14.0

There's no evidence for horses. No evidence whatsoever for any kind of cattle.

1:19.0

Pig, zero. Not one pigbone has ever shown up.

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