The Testing 1,2,3, testing 1,2, 3. This is Radio Free Mormon on the air, broadcasting behind enemy lines.

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

This is Radio Free Mormon, episode 352. 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 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 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

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