116: Harm Done in Oversimplifying the Book of Mormon w/ Taylor Petrey
Latter Day Struggles
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The Historical Claims of the Book of Mormon
Taylor: Are Latter-day Saints believing that there are ancient Nephites and Lamenites or is this more like a biblical kind of thing where we're looking back at Old Testament myths. Do you see what I'm saying? Like, yeah, let me certainly yeah hopefully that book. Yeah, go ahead. Taylor: Many who accept the necessity of historicity of the text as it being sort of a central or essential to Joseph Smith's claims into Joseph Smith's prophetic calling,. Others who are fine to kind of accept it completely as a 19th century revelation. It's sometimes called the catalyst theory, you know, that that Joseph Smith responding to some real or perceived event or object in
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