Does accepting Joseph Smith as a prophet require rejecting vast fields of science and scholarship?
Join us as we consider long-held assumptions about Joseph Smith and the truth claims of Mormonism. We highlight problematic beliefs like dark skin being a curse from God, Native Americans as a cursed and loathsome people, evolution and DNA studies being incompatible with LDS teachings, and linguistic, archaeological, and historical evidence contradicting the Book of Mormon's divine origins.
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Chapters
00:00:00 Introduction
00:06:20 Looking at the truth claims of Mormonism in two ways
00:11:40 What we need to believe for Joseph Smith to be a prophet of God
00:16:00 Treasure digging needs to be a real method of finding lost objects
00:20:30 Reformed egyptian had a literal, historical genesis are required
00:24:00 Biblical stories that must be literal for the Book of Mormon
00:26:45 What the Book of Mormon text requires to be true and ancient
00:32:40 What we need to believe for Joseph to be a prophet beyond the BOM
00:39:55 Now let’s turn everything upside down
01:01:30 If the Mormon church is true, evolution is false
01:06:50 If the Book of Mormon is historical, DNA studies are wrong
01:10:50 Everything we know about linguistics is wrong
01:13:50 The global flood really happened if the Book of Mormon is true
01:17:15 If the Book of Abraham is true, the Rosetta Stone is wrong
01:22:00 Biblical scholarship is completely wrong
01:26:50 Long records on gold plates must have existed
01:30:00 If the Word of Wisdom is true…
01:34:30 Adam and Eve lived in Missouri
01:36:30 The earth really is just 6,000 years old
01:39:30 Most major fields of science are wrong and ill-founded
01:44:15 The Masonic ceremony was the original endowment
01:50:00 Polygamy and polyandry are from God
01:54:00 God chose a man who behaved as a fraud and sexual predator to be his chose prophet
02:04:00 All non-LDS creeds and ordinances are an abomination before God
02:27:00 Why this is a worthwhile exercise
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