Welcome to the Standard of Truth podcast, hosted by historian Dr. Garrett Dirkmont,

where we explore the early days of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

and gain rare historical insights into how a young farm boy was able to establish a new church

and grow it by way of visions, manifestations,

and miracles.

Hi, welcome to the Standard of Truth Podcast. I'm your host, Dr. Garrett Dirkmont, and I'm joined by my friend, Professor Richard Leduke.

Hello, Garrett.

In this week's podcast, we continue our discussion of the apocrypha.

And when we started, we said, so Joseph was translating the Bible and prayed to God to know how to receive the apocrypha or how to how to understand and how to best use or

potentially not use teachings from that or readings from that. And then and then we talked about

all kinds of stuff laying the ground. I think we kind of all the history for. I mean at one point

we had an angel dragging someone around by their hair.

Yes, which was my wife's favorite.

And she said, if she was an angel,

that's the kind of angel she would be.

And no doubt she would be.

So the teachings of the Apocrypha

are already having an impact in our lives.

As we think about what types of angels we would be, we left off on the, I don't know,

the scintillating cliffhanger, the, the, the, what is the township, you know,

government style like cliffhanger of this is how Protestants in Joseph Smith's time are viewing the apocrypha very very

very negatively and it's almost a race to the bottom when it comes to the apocrypha of who hates

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