Top Scholar Explains How the Book of Mormon Was Created - The Mosiah Priority w/ Brent Metcalfe | Ep. 1971
Mormon Stories Podcast
Dr. John Dehlin
4.5 • 5.7K Ratings
🗓️ 11 December 2024
⏱️ 188 minutes
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Summary
Join us as we welcome scholar Brent Metcalfe for the 30th anniversary of his excommunication from the Mormon Church. We cover not only his excommunication but also his famous discovery of the “Mosiah First Priority” in the Book of Mormon translation.
00:08:00 New Approaches to the Book of Mormon00:10:25 Brent’s background00:16:50 Getting hired by Mark Hoffman00:25:00 Realizing the Book of Mormon was not historical00:31:30 How the Book of Mormon was created?00:34:10 A miracle book from God?00:46:55 Which essay are contained in the book and what they’re about01:01:40 Response to the book01:09:05 Negative review mocking Brent Metcalfe01:16:05 Questions for Brent Metcalfe01:24:30 Members who view the Book of MOrmon as historical? 01:32:50 How people maintain belief01:34:55 The Mosiah Priority01:38:20 The 600 year prophecy of Jesus’s coming01:46:00 The lost 116 pages01:52:29 Wall around Jerusalem02:01:30 Not depending on literary works02:08:55 Four main voices independent of Joseph Smith’s voice02:16:05 The title page to the Book of Mormon, no mention of the replacement text 02:17:55 Who knows the name of Jesus Christ?02:24:30 The writings of Malachi02:36:19 Picturing the golden plates02:44:12 Phone calls
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| 0:00.0 | Wow, good evening, everybody. |
| 0:02.1 | It's like everybody just left the building right there, right at the end. |
| 0:04.8 | We can pretty much end with that intro. |
| 0:09.0 | Ending ovation. |
| 0:09.9 | Who are you, strange man in black ball cap? |
| 0:13.1 | Hi, everyone. |
| 0:14.5 | It's John DeLynn. |
| 0:15.8 | How are you, John DeLynn? |
| 0:17.4 | Hey, it's good to be back on Mormonism live. |
| 0:19.8 | It's been a hot minute. It has. Bill, |
| 0:26.4 | good to see you too. Hey, it's just the thing is, I don't know what that means. I was going to ask |
| 0:31.6 | what it means, but then I thought, I don't care enough to ask. So then I went to bed. That was what |
| 0:36.3 | was going on upstairs. If there are any ill feelings in this circle, how are you doing? |
| 0:41.8 | I'm doing good. And we have our very special guest star on tonight's show, |
| 0:47.5 | Brent Metcalf, LDS scholar and historian whom everyone should know and hopefully everyone will know who doesn't know after tonight's show. |
| 1:00.2 | Thank you. |
| 1:01.3 | I think they do know. |
| 1:03.1 | Everybody should know. |
| 1:05.4 | Yes. |
| 1:06.4 | So what I want to say is, first off, I don't know if I got through everything. |
| 1:12.3 | I talked about today's date. It's December 11th 2024 or is that in the first time we did it that it wasn't recording |
| 1:18.9 | is that it were we weren't live at that time you had fooled me into thinking it was so tonight is |
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