Description: Join John, Jenn and Mike from LDS Discussions as we break down the “translation” of the Book of Mormon. Did Joseph use the “spectacles” and breastplate found with the Gold Plates? Or his seer stone and a hat? Or the “Urim & Thummim”? Or nothing at all?
Does it even matter?
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Chapters:
00:00:00 Introductions
00:02:38 Overview
00:07:04 The next piece of the puzzle: Translation of the Book of Mormon
00:13:46 How the Book of Mormon translation has been portrayed
00:27:40 Let’s Take a Closer Look at the Tape
00:29:10 Why the Book of Mormon translation portrayal is a problem
00:36:40 How the Book of Mormon was translated: David Whitmer
00:41:00 How the Book of Mormon was translated: Emma Smith
00:42:10 How the Book of Mormon was translated: Martin Harris
00:43:30 Now a look back on how Joseph Smith claimed to see treasure
00:46:00 One more quote on Joseph Smith’s treasure digging
00:47:30 The striking similarities between the Book of Mormon and treasure digging
00:51:45 Richard Bushman on the Gold Plates and Book of Mormon Translation
01:01:30 Richard Bushman’s clarification a few weeks later
01:05:20 The Book of Mormon ‘Caractors’ from the Gold Plates
01:04:30 The Martin Harris visit to Charles Anthon
01:09:00 Altering the history to “fulfill prophecy”
01:17:30 Obvious problems with the Book of Mormon Characters
01:18:30 The Tanners Illustrate the problem quite effectively
01:21:00 Even the Mormon church realizes this is a problem
01:23:45 Possible translation of reformed Egyptian Characters
01:29:55 The lost 116 pages
01:33:00 The King James Bible and the Book of Mormon
01:37:15 The mechanics of dictating the Book of Mormon
01:39:00 Dictating the Book of Mormon…How?
01:42:00 Dictating the Book of Mormon…a few final thoughts for now.
01:48:00 Apologetic responses: Joseph Smith lacked capacity to write Book of Mormon
01:49:00 The Book of Mormon as Originally Written
01:49:00 How the Book of Mormon manuscript originally Written
01:45:02 Joseph Smith was NOT an dumb as the church wants to portray
01:56:40 Joseph Smith was surrounded by educators
02:06:30 The Book of Mormon was dictated, not translated
02:08:20 No one could produce the Book of Mormon in 90 days
02:11:20 The math of the Book of Mormon
02:12:40 Near Eastern language in the Book of Mormon
02:15:15 God transmits revelations in a variety of ways
02:17:00 Taking a closer look at the Urim and Thummim
02:20:00 The Urim and Thummim Retrofitting
02:24:15 Trying to normalize the peep/seer stone
02:29:10 Why the peep/seer stone is different
02:32:00 BYU professor Brad Wilcox explains the peep/seer stone
02:36:00 Problems with apologetics and the seer stone
02:55:20 Conclusion on the Book of Mormon translation/dictation
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