Voices of the Restoration • The Witnesses of the Book of Mormon • Dr. Gerrit Dirkmaat • February 17-23 • Come Follow Me

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🗓️ 17 February 2025

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0:00.0	Hello everyone and welcome to another episode of Follow Him. I'm here today with my very faithful and diligent co-host. Therefore, it is proper that Hank Smith should be our co-host today. Is that right, Hank?
0:13.0	I know that quote, John. I know that quote. We're doing another Voices of the Restoration episode, Witnesses of the Book of Mormon. We brought with us again a familiar
0:24.0	face, if you've been watching. Dr. Garrett Dirkmont, thanks for coming back again with us, Dr. Garrett.
0:29.9	Thanks for having me back.
0:31.7	This topic can answer the question. Did Joseph really have plates and who actually saw them? Who was willing to say,
0:39.7	no, no, no, I actually saw them. And I'm glad they're doing this little voices of the restoration
0:44.3	because we get to see Dr. Dirkmont so many times. So thanks for coming back. Help us introduce
0:51.9	this witnesses of the Book of Mormon topic today.
0:56.8	Well, I love this section of the Come Follow Me Manual.
1:02.4	First of all, I love the whole idea of bringing individuals, testimonies, and voices to the events
1:07.1	that we're studying. But in particular, the selection that they've chosen here in the
1:13.3	manual is from Lucy Max Smith's book. She portrays an explanation of the aftermath of the witness
1:21.2	event that we generally don't hear. I love the fact that they said, one of the things we need to have is we need to highlight
1:29.5	the testimony of people that say, the plates are real. This is real. This is a miraculous
1:39.3	thing that's going on with the translation. But Joseph isn't just dictating it from his head.
1:46.5	He isn't reading it off of some kind of manuscript somewhere. He didn't memorize everything
1:53.3	that there was to know about something and then regurgitate it back. There are real plates.
1:59.7	There is really the gift and power of God operating through Joseph
2:03.6	in order to give this translation. And the testimony of the three and eight witnesses
2:09.1	is such that it makes refuting Joseph Smith's prophethood, incredibly difficult.
2:20.1	Especially the fact that a lot of them walk away from him, but not from their experience.
2:26.2	Yeah.
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