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Tonight's episode, why is the LDS plan of salvation so different from the Book of Mormon?

This is Radio Free Mormon episode 3 52. I'm also releasing

this under Mormon Sunday School episode 18. So that is the question. It's more of a

rhetorical question than anything else.

And what I want to do tonight is establish the fact that the plan of salvation as taught in the

Book of Mormon is really quite different from the plan of salvation as taught by the Mormon Church today. I've mentioned

before about my conversion to the Book of Mormon when I prayed my way through the

book the first time at the age of 18. I've also talked about the fact that I've read through it 20 probably up to as many as 30 times.

I actually kept track loosely up until I got around 20 and then after that I thought what is the point of really keeping track anymore so that was a long time ago so I'm

Estimating around 30 times I've read through the book of Mormon I remember one of those times that I read through the Book of Mormon was back in 1988.

And for whatever reason I got it into my head that it would be a good idea to read through the entire

standard works in one year. Well I counted up the total number of pages between the

New Testament the Old Testament the Book of Mormon the Doctrine and Covenants and

the Pearl of Great Price. I divided by 365 days in the year and I came up with the number of eight, eight pages

is what one must read per day, every day, not taking holidays or weekends off, every day of the year in order to read all the way through

the Four Standard Works in one year.

And that's what I did in 1988.

I was doing a lot of things at the time. I was going to law school, my firstborn was going to be born in the middle of summer.

I was in a dance company, I was working half-time clerking at a law firm. I had a full plate and on top of that I am reading through with my first wife reading through the Standard Works eight pages a day.

Now sometimes we would miss a day. We'd have to go back and make up 16 pages on the next day.

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