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How the Book of Mormon Itself Refutes the Distinctive Doctrines of Modern Mormonism A Critical Examination of the “Fullness of the Gospel” Claim From a Traditional Christian Perspective Introduction: A Promise on the Sabbath On a Sunday afternoon in late November of 1841, in the parlor of Brigham Young’s modest home in Nauvoo, Illinois, Joseph…
How the Book of Mormon Could Have Been Written Without Plates, Without Angels, and Without Divine Intervention A Literary, Historical, and Archaeological Examination ❦ ❦ ❦ Introduction: A Question of Authorship On a March evening in 1830, the press of Egbert B. Grandin in Palmyra, New York, finished setting type on a 588-page volume bound…
TWO TIMELINES: ONE CONTINENT Comparing the Book of Mormon Narrative to the Documented History and Archaeology of the Ancient Americas Introduction: A Story That Asks to Be Believed Civilizations do not pass quietly into the earth. They leave signatures—layered, stubborn, and unmistakable—pressed into stone, clay, metal, and memory. Time erodes their monuments, but it does…
Image: An AI-generated image from Google Gemini imagines a young man sitting on a park bench who has been reading the Book of Mormon, happily looking up at an angelic figure appearing out of the clouds, giving a “thumbs up” sign of affirmation. A Comprehensive Examination of Circular Reasoning, Psychological Manipulation, and Epistemological Fallacies in…
Mormon Discussions Podcasts This is one of the darkest chapters in Mormon history—the Mountain Meadows Massacre. This isn’t a surface-level retelling. We walk through what led up to it, how it unfolded, and what happened afterward… and we let the historical record speak for itself. We examine the environment in southern Utah at the time—heightened…
Photo: Behold the ultimate heavenly realm. With its gleaming white spires, peaceful waters, and crowds ascending in white gowns. This is Google Gemini’s Nano Banana Pro, imagining what The “Celestial Kingdom” might look like. THREE KINGDOMS, ONE QUESTION: What Does the Bible Teach About Heaven? A Scholarly Analysis of Latter-day Saint Afterlife Doctrine Introduction What…
Photo: From the diary of James Strang (see attached PDF). Via Archive.org. Publisher: Michigan State University Press. Copyright review: Public domain according to HathiTrust rights database. From Atheist to Angel Whisperer and His Island Empire of Fraud. The Blood of a Prophet and the Ambitions of a Pretender In the spring of 1844, Nauvoo, Illinois,…
Image: An AI-generated photo-realistic image that illustrates the text in 1 Nephi 4:9, where a young man crouches in darkness over a fallen enemy and marvels at his weapon: a sword of the most precious steel, hilted in pure gold. SWORDS, STEEL, AND SILENCE: The Metallurgical Anachronisms of the Book of Mormon A Historical and…
AI image collage created by Google Gemini. [Click here] to read the full transcript of this podcast [Click again to close] Hi, everybody. Welcome to Mormonish. I’m Rebecca. And I’m Landon. And I’m John. Exactly. I was going to say, you need to just jump in because you need no introduction. Let’s do it again….
Image: An AI-generated image illustrates a depiction of the golden plates featuring the ‘sealed portion.’ According to Latter-day Saint tradition, this secured section contains an expansive revelation given to the brother of Jared, withheld from translation until humanity demonstrates sufficient faith. THE SEALED PORTION GAMBIT How Conveniently Hidden Scripture Insulates a Fraud A Critical Analysis…