118: The Unbelievability of Mystic Texts Throughout Time w/ Paul Toscano

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Series Title: Real Talk about the Book of Mormon [Part IV of IV]

Join Valerie and special guest Paul Toscano in this part four (last in this series) focused on untangling some of the complexities of The Book of Mormon.

In this episode Val questions Paul on a variety of topics involving The Book of Mormon, including its connection with Joseph Smith Jr., her own wrestles with the fraught relationship between leadership & followership;  the roles, expectations, and hopes of a spiritual leader, and so much more.

Here are a few teasers to get you excited to listen in to this conversation:

• All mystical texts, trancelike experiences, and visionary accounts are strange, uncomfortable, and often implausible—including the very birth, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ.
• God has shown humans mysteries through a variety of “weird” manifestations with large numbers of eye witnesses throughout time. 
• One of the greatest tests of true discipleship is to learn to forgive God…for the pain of our suffering…for Their not preventing harm to those we love at the hands of those in power
• This kind of discipleship forces us to learn how to hold the tension of opposites and demands that (if willing) we be stretched beyond our known capabilities. This process makes us holy.

Finally, Paul shares these views: Salvation is not a community experience.  Salvation is an individual experience and it happens in the act of saving wounded things.  The individual saves the church, not the other way around. The individual saves the family, not the other way around.  

You won't want to miss this conversation with one of Mormonism's great scholars.  These conversations with Paul are breathtaking.  

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