And Testing one, two three, testing one, two one two three this is radio free Mormon on the air

broadcasting behind enemy lines once again tonight I am joined by Bill Reel for part two of our examination of Book of

Abraham apologetics.

In part one we went over in some detail but I hope with some clarity regarding the two main theories

that faithful Mormons still maintain regarding the book of Abraham.

They are divided primarily into two camps, one of which, excuse me, one of which is the

missing scroll theory camp, and the other one is the catalyst theory camp and both camps both theories suffer from being

untenable but they are untenable in different ways in the missing scroll theory they honor the fact that Joseph

Smith clearly stated that he was translating the book of Abraham from

papayri that he had in his possession and they believe it is a

literal translation from the papyrry in his possession but the fact that the

book of Abraham does not match the papiry that was found makes them claim

that there is a missing scroll.

They claim that in spite of the fact that the papiry that has been discovered indisputably shows that Joseph Smith was

using the papyrae that was discovered to translate what we have today as the Book of

Abraham and that coupled with the Egyptian

alphabet and grammar makes the case solid. So it's untenable in that way the

missing scroll theory. On the other hand the catalyst theory on that

the missing scroll theory. On the other hand, the catalyst theory honors the evidence that

Joseph Smith obviously was translating from the papayry that has been recovered. They honor the historical and obvious

textual evidence that he was doing that. But they say that even though he thought he was translating from that,

he was actually getting inspiration from God through a separate but direct pipeline

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