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Standard of Truth

S5E36 Sealed Portion of the Plates

Standard of Truth

Dr. Gerrit Dirkmaat

Religion & Spirituality

4.9992 Ratings

🗓️ 28 August 2025

⏱️ 63 minutes

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In this episode, we discuss the sealed portion of the plates. Gerrit shares the accounts of Joseph Smith and Oliver Cowdery on returning the plates and go through comments from Brigham Young, Heber C. Kimball, and David Whitmer. 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: ⁠⁠questions@standardoftruthpodcast.com

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Standard of Truth podcast. In this podcast, Dr. Garrett Dirk-Mott and Dr. Richard

0:08.2

Leduc explore the early history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and the life

0:14.3

and teachings of the prophet Joseph Smith. They examine the original historical sources and provide

0:20.4

context for events of the past.

0:23.1

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

0:37.1

Hi, welcome to another episode of the Standard of Truth podcast.

0:40.7

I'm your host, Dr. Garrett Dirkmont, and I'm joined by my friend, Dr. Richard Leduke.

0:46.1

Hello, Garrett.

0:46.9

Thanks for having me back.

0:48.1

Really excited, based on the response from Christy's Corner, where we re-released four hours of previously released

0:59.9

episodes for people to prep for their Sunday school class. This week, it's going to be

1:05.7

Doctor in Covenant Section 93, which is a fan favorite. Well, it's a Garrett favorite.

1:12.3

I mean, if you had to pick a revelation that was the most important revelation

1:19.8

Joseph Smith received, man, like 76 and 93 are in competition with one another.

1:28.3

They are the ones that are the most transformative of understanding who we are and why we're here.

1:35.6

Now, of course, you know, Book of Moses and the Book of Abraham, you know, coming in on there as well.

1:40.5

I mean, there's, frankly, there's lots of really amazing stuff that Joseph Smith receives from God. And that's not even counting the translation of the Book of Mormon.

1:48.3

I mean, there's all kinds of things that he's got. But,

1:52.2

Doctor and Covenant in Section 93 is very important. And so as you study it, I mean, I don't know that you're going to listen to

2:02.9

all three of these bonus episodes. My guess is that you're not. No one listened to them in the

2:10.2

first place where we release them. Why in the world would someone listen to them now?

2:15.6

But there's two parts of this that are just radical

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