Hello everyone and welcome to another edition of Warmestory's podcast. I'm your host John

Delin. It is March 5th, 2021. And as always, I am super excited to bring you another episode

of Warmestory's podcast. Today we have something really special and fun in store for you.

We've been having radio free Mormon on Warmestory's podcast more frequently as of late. And I've

just been so thrilled to have this brilliant mind. A company of some Warmestory's podcast

recently, R.F.M. Radio Free Mormon, decided that he was going to read the entire book,

View of the Hebrews, written by Ethan Smith, which was a book published in 1823, trying

in Vermont, in New England area, trying to advance a theory for where the Native Americans

came from and trying to tie them to the Lost and Tribes of Israel. Anyway, this book was

published, View of the Hebrews, 1823, coincidentally, perhaps the same year, the very same year

that Joseph Smith claimed to have gotten the idea to write the Book of Mormon. This

Ethan Smith character was a pastor in the same town that Oliver Caldery, who became an

eventual scribe for the Book of Mormon. Ethan Smith was the pastor in the local church

that Oliver Caldery and his family attended. Was that a coincidence or not? And of course,

by some people's account, many similarities between the Book of Mormon and View of the Hebrews

and, frankly, other books. And if you don't want to take my word for it, just read about the life

of Beat Robert's Brigham Henry Roberts, a general authority in the LDS Church in the early 1900s,

who was so troubled by the parallels between View of the Hebrews and the Book of Mormon,

that he wrote hundreds and hundreds of pages outlining the similarities and the problems

of the Book of Mormon. He, of course, shared those problems with the first presidency, LDS,

first presidency of the Court of the Twelve and all the general authorities. And what we now know

as the secret Mormon meetings of 1922, brought to us by Shannon Caldwell Montez, the amazing,

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