Hi, everybody. This is Radio Free Mormon, broadcasting behind enemy lines.

Tonight's episode is how the Book of Mormon actually ends up destroying Mormonism.

Now, it's a strange thing because the Book of Mormon is touted by the Mormon church as being the foundation,

and even the chief cornerstone of Mormonism, And yet there are a number of ways, actually,

in which the Book of Mormon destroys, contradicts, undermines modern Mormonism,

the religion that is based upon the Book of Mormon.

It's an interesting fact, and yet it appears to be true.

Now, there are a number of ways in which the Book of Mormon undermines

Mormonism, but we're just going to go after one issue in this episode, and that issue has to do

with spiritual gift. Let me go ahead and put up the title slide for tonight's episode. It is called

Spiritual Gifts in the Book of Mormon. The Book of Mormon condemns Mormonism.

So there is the title slide. Now, this particular podcast and this particular study, because this is

going to be a textual analysis of the Book of Mormon as compared with the Bible, you may remember

that we did a very similar thing. Only a few weeks ago with David P. Wright's paper that was published in 1993 talking about how the book of Hebrews or the epistle to the Hebrews was used in the book Mormon. It's the paper that got him excommunicated. And a number of the things I learned from studying that paper. The tools that were presented by David P. Wright, in his paper, all of a sudden, I'm able to start seeing things in the book of Mormon that I had not really seen or seen so clearly before. And that's one of the things I'm going to be talking about tonight. You remember that his paper was called, in plain terms that we may understand,

Joseph Smith's transformation of Hebrews in Alma 12 through 13. Well, here is going to be my paper

tonight. The Book of Mormon condemns Mormonism, Joseph Smith's transformation of 1st

Corinthians 13 in Moronai 7 by Radio

Free Mormon. So this paper, this study, this podcast has been inspired really by my reading

of David P. Wright's paper. If I had not read that paper, if I had not studied it, deeply enough to be

able to present it to you in a podcast, which I did a few weeks ago. If I had not done that, if I had

not learned those things, this podcast would not be happening. So I've got to dedicate this podcast to

David P. Wright. Now, I am not for a second trying to say that I am anywhere near his level, his caliber at all. Okay, I am an amateur. So I sort of feel like the little drummer boy going to give my gift to Jesus and playing my drums for David P. Right. But I'm going to play it the best I can, damn it. And here he goes, all right. I think that I found something of significant, something that is a contribution to Mormon studies.

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