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S4E32 Questions About Joseph Smith

Standard of Truth

Dr. Gerrit Dirkmaat

Religion & Spirituality

5709 Ratings

🗓️ 8 August 2024

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

We start the episode by providing an answer to a litner’s email, if they could choose the date for their child to be born, what date from Church history would Gerrit choose. We then go on to answer the following questions about Joseph Smith from a missionary’s email: What was Joseph Smith’s education? What was Joseph’s military service? What were Joseph’s financial circumstances? What were some of the radical teachings from the Prophet Joseph Smith? Sign up for our free monthly email: ⁠ https://standardoftruthpodcast.substack.com If you have any questions or possible topics of discussion for upcoming podcasts, please email us at: ⁠[email protected] Standard of Truth Tour dates for the summer of 2025: Missouri/Nauvoo – June 22nd through June 28th Palmyra/Kirtland – August 3rd through August 9th

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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. They approach the

0:22.5

history of the church with faith, expertise, and humor.

0:36.4

Hi, welcome to another episode of the Standard of Truth podcast. I'm your host, Dr. Garrett Dirkmont,

0:42.3

and I'm joined by my friend, Professor Richard Luduke. Hello, Garrett. Thanks for having me back.

0:48.1

Excited to be here with you today. Now, we're, we are on another geological, not geological,

0:54.9

or geographical perhaps.

0:56.4

Geographical.

0:57.5

I mean, we could look for rocks too.

1:01.0

We're looking for rocks, specifically rocks, that have been built into someone's home.

1:07.0

We've talked about this before, but we received a generous fund to be able to look into

1:14.4

where Pehoran's mother-in-law's sublet apartment was. We feel like we've got a plan of attack,

1:20.3

and we're on our way to Mexico as we speak. We've received no money at all from anyone,

1:25.0

but we are actually in the middle of the ocean right now.

1:29.6

So if the cruise director happens to come on while we are sailing and, you know,

1:36.6

letting us know that there's going to be some Zumba classes, we'll decide whether or not to cut

1:43.3

that out or in.

1:44.3

But obviously we're going to have to pause the recording because we've got to go to the Zumba class.

1:48.6

Why did I bring these hammer pans if I'm not going to go to a Zumba class?

1:52.4

What's the point?

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