Hello everyone and welcome to follow him. I was excited this morning to see on our master follow him

schedule, VOR, which to the old pilots listening means VHF Omnarrange Radio. But to us, it means

voices of the restoration. And that means we get to talk to our good friend, Dr. Garrett, Dirk Mott.

Welcome back, Dr. Dirk Mott. Thanks for joining us.

Thanks for having me. I apologize. I am not a radio frequency.

You are more exciting than the VOR of Old Pilot Talk. They have GPS now, so they got a much better acronym.

We're excited today because, Hank, we're looking at Section 76, the voices of the restoration. In Section 76,

tell us, Garrett, this is a huge pivotal revelation, wasn't it? Doctor and Covering Covenant Section 76 is arguably, obviously you'd find people that would argue

with you, but it's arguably the most important revelation that Joseph Smith receives in the early

days of the church. It is also a flashpoint that changes Latter-day Saint theology

in ways that make it starkly separate from the rest of Christianity. That actually is going to be

something that is a problem for some members of the church, because for a lot of members, early members of the church, they love the idea of Zion.

Who doesn't love the idea that we're going to build a city where there's no rich and no poor and we're going to be Jesus' people?

That sounds amazing.

The Book of Mormon, that's a pretty steep hill to climb because after 2,000 years of saying that there's no other

scripture but the Bible to say that there can be other scripture, that is a pretty steep

road to cross.

But generally up to the time of the vision, many of the doctrines that are being espoused at least have

some place in traditional mainstream Christianity. Some of the more difficult ones to come to

terms with are things like, that ordinances matter. Because if you're a Protestant,

the entire point of Protestant theology

is that works have no bearing on salvation. None. Of course, you get baptized because you love Jesus,

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