S4E11 Witnesses of the Book of Mormon Part 5 (we finally get to it)

Standard of Truth

Dr. Gerrit Dirkmaat

Religion & Spirituality

5 • 709 Ratings

🗓️ 14 March 2024

⏱️ 60 minutes

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We finally get back to the Witnesses of the Book of Mormon. Sure, we first spend a little time talking about the Book of Abraham and the characters copied from the gold plates, but then we jump right into the Whitmer family being baptized. After much “teasing” by Martin, Oliver, and David Joseph Smith goes to the Lord and receives D&C 17 as a revelation. The Angel Moroni shows the gold plates to Oliver, David, and Martin, and the voice of the Lord commands them to testify of the Book of Mormon. Kirtland Temple architecture plans used to hold part of the papyrus together: https://www.josephsmithpapers.org/paper-summary/plan-of-the-house-of-the-lord-in-kirtland-ohio-fragments-circa-june-1833/1 Image of Book of Mormon characters copied by John Whitmer: https://www.josephsmithpapers.org/paper-summary/appendix-2-document-1-characters-copied-by-john-whitmer-circa-1829-1831/1 For details about our live studio audience recording on Saturday, March 16th please sign up for our free newsletter: ⁠https://standardoftruthpodcast.substack.com/⁠ If you would like to join us on a Standard of Truth Tour in Palmyra and Kirtland on June 7 spots are still available: https://standardoftruth.com/tours/ If you have any questions or possible topics of discussion for upcoming podcasts, please email us at: ⁠[email protected] Please visit our website at ⁠www.standardoftruth.com⁠

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Standard of Truth podcast. In this podcast, Dr. Garrett Dirkmont and Professor Richard
0:07.8	Luduke explore the early history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and the
0:13.2	life and teachings of Prophet Joseph Smith. They examine the original historical sources and
0:18.8	provide context for events of the past.
0:21.7	They approach the history of the church with faith, expertise, and humor.
0:34.1	Hi, welcome to another episode of the Standard of Truth podcast.
0:37.7	I'm your host, Dr. Garrett Dirkmont, and I am joined by my friend, Professor Richard Leduc.
0:43.6	Hello, Garrett.
0:44.8	In this week's podcast, we're going to get back to Witnesses of the Book of Mormon.
0:48.5	We think.
0:49.1	We are.
0:50.0	We have one email to read, and the email that we are going to read leads into.
0:55.1	I feel like over the last several weeks, Richard has deliberately baited and switched things.
1:02.2	He's, I think this is all part of his plan to take over the podcast, actually.
1:07.7	What he wants to do is send me down so many tangents that people are like,
1:12.6	I just don't know where we can get any discussion on the witnesses.
1:16.1	And then Richard will swoop in with his podcast.
1:18.9	It'll be called the gold standard of truth.
1:22.9	Yeah, that's good.
1:24.1	And then he'll talk about about 70s Nixon policies on the gold standard.
1:28.6	It'll be all about whether or not Roosevelt takes us off the gold standard during the Great Depression.
1:35.2	Well, so now this one, now you know it's serious because instead of just calling it the Phoebe Draper mailbag, this is the Phoebe Draper Palmer Brown mailbag.
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