Have you ever heard about the Book of Mormon challenge? The challenge is basically given to anybody

who doubts the authenticity of the Book of Mormon to challenge them to do the same thing that

Joseph Smith did when he created the Book of Mormon to write something that big, that long,

that complex, in that short of time. That's the Book of Mormon Challenge.

And the amazing thing is that I, Radio Free Mormon,

may have actually beaten the Book of Mormon Challenge

without even knowing it.

Stay tuned and learn more, won't you? Testing one, two, three, testing one, two, three.

Testing one, two, three.

This is Radio Free Mormon on the air, broadcasting behind enemy lines.

Tonight's episode, I beat the Book of Mormon Challenge.

It's Radio Free Mormon, episode 389.

Today's date is March 22nd, 2025.

Welcome to the show.

So what do I mean specifically when I talk about the Book of Mormon Challenge?

Well, let's go into a little bit of detail on that, shall we?

Well, the earliest I ever heard of it was from Hugh Nibbley.

So this would be back 50, 60, 70 years or so ago when Hugh Nibbley originally came up with the idea of challenging people to write the Book of Mormon themselves as a defensive mechanism to defend the authenticity of the Book of Mormon.

The idea being that if you can't do it yourself, then Joseph Smith must have done it only through

revelation and by God. And the fact that you can't beat the Book of Mormon challenge means the

Book of Mormon is true. That's what it is broken down to its very most basic components. Hugh Nibbley,

famous Mormon apologist, added a bunch of bells and whistles to the challenge, though, so it runs like this.

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