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In this week's podcast, we continue our discussion of the Apocrypha, and where, 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 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 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 it more

to demonstrate who is more a true Bible-believing Christian and who doesn't have any of these

fetters of old traditional Catholicism binding their Protestantism.

Well, that leads to the natural question that we ended off on, and that was, well, how do

Latter-day Saints see the Apocrypha, though?

Now, without knowing the answer, Richard, how might you think Latter-day Saints in Joseph's

time view the apocrypha?

Well, if the majority of the converts are Protestant in their nature, my guess is that the

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