Cracking The Code: Tracing Book of Mormon Origins

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🗓️ 3 April 2025

⏱️ 196 minutes

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[Mormonism Live 225] What if one of the most foundational parts of the Book of Mormon wasn’t ancient at all—but lifted from a 19th-century Methodist Bible commentary? In this episode, Mormonism Live dives into what may be the most significant academic finding in Mormon studies in decades: compelling evidence that Joseph Smith used Adam Clarke’s… Read More »Cracking The Code: Tracing Book of Mormon Origins

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0:00.0	In 1830, Joseph Smith published the Book of Mormon to the world, claiming to have translated
0:08.3	it himself from Reformed Egyptian.
0:12.1	He also claimed to have translated it by the gift and power of God.
0:17.1	But what if some parts of the Book of Mormon appear not to have come from God,
0:22.6	but from a well-known Bible commentary of Joseph Smith's Day?
0:28.1	What would that say about the translation process itself?
0:33.2	All this and more we discuss tonight on Mormonism live.
1:02.9	Oh, God. All this and more we discuss tonight on Mormonism Live. All right.
1:05.7	I'm great. Thank you so much, Bill Real.
1:08.1	How was that intro?
1:09.0	Was that good?
1:09.5	Was that a grabber?
1:10.6	That was a nice cold open, as I guess they call it. So that was great.
1:14.1	Okay. I keep working on these. What goes on behind the scenes is we're going along
1:18.9	jauntily and merrily and then all of a sudden it's like two minutes till and one
1:23.4	of us says, oh, did you get that? Did you do your opening? And then I'm just furiously
1:27.4	typing something up so I can read it.
1:29.4	Okay.
1:30.8	Anyway, going to be a great show tonight, Bill.
1:33.0	What do you want to say before we get to the show?
1:35.6	First off, you and I had a conversation.
1:38.3	Maybe, I don't know, it was at least a week ago, maybe two weeks ago,
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