Episode 05 – Slide 112

Footnotehttp://bookofmormononline.net/ According to Ether 3, the plates and interpreters were buried together. The interpreters and plates should therefore stay together. But according to the text, King Limhi has the plates while King Mosiah II has the interpreters...

Episode 05 – Slide 111

FootnoteThe 1837 version of the Book of Mormon reads: “…and for this cause did king Mosiah keep them…” The word “them” refers to two stone interpreters used for translation of ancient records. Apologists will argue that Ether 4:1 was actually referring to Mosiah I who...

Episode 05 – Slide 106

FootnoteResearcher William L. Davis announced his theory that Smith was inspired by John Bunyan’s work in the LA Review of Books (October 30, 2012). http://lareviewofbooks.org/article.php?id=1135 Pratt references Bunyon’s “The Pilgrim’s Progress” in the following...

Episode 05 – Slide 104

FootnoteMormon 6:6 – Therefore I made this record out of the plates of Nephi, and hid up in the hill Cumorah all the records which had been entrusted to me by the hand of the Lord, save it were these few plates which I gave unto my son Moroni.