Join ExMormon G.O.A.T. Sandra Tanner, U.K. ExMormon YouTube sensation @NemotheMormon, and John Dehlin as we review Top 5 of Sandra and Jerald Tanner’s top contributions to Mormon history.
Today we are re-introducing Sandra Tanner to a new generation of Mormons, exMormons, and never-Mormons. Both Sandra and her husband Jerald have strong Mormon backgrounds. When he was only eighteen, Jerald began to have doubts about his faith. When they began dating, Sandra Tanner also began to doubt. Throughout the 60s, 70s and 80s Jerald and Sandra Tanner were among the first to begin publishing on the problems with Mormon history and its truth claims. They opened a bookstore called the Utah Lighthouse Ministry and began publishing their research. Today we are going to talk about their discoveries on topics such as changes to the Book of Mormon, the problems with the Book of Abraham translation, the Kinderhook plates, how the Church covered up problematic parts of its history, and how they impacted hundreds of people in and out of the Mormon church. You won’t want to miss this episode!
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The catalyst theory is nonsensical. If the scrolls were only a catalyst, why did Joseph need a scroll of Egyptian characters? Instead, why didn’t he just use a rod of nature, or a rock, or meditate on his navel as the catalyst? Bunch of b.s!! He used the freaking scrolls because he was “translating”. Joseph himself would have called complete b.s.on the catalyst theory.
Are we supposed to believe that the Golden plates were a catalyst too?
These apologetics require that Joseph didn’t even know what he was doing. So we’re supposed.to believe that Joseph didn’t even know what he was doing (even though he explicitly stated what he was doing), and simultaneously, we’re supposed to accept the content he produced as revelation?!
On another topic, Joseph was quoted as saying that, in the old world, Lehi’s party traveled south to the 19th parallel and then turned east (this would be the location for Nahom).
Yet, somehow Joseph was wrong about the 19th parallel but RIGHT about Nahom? WTAF?!
Let’s take Joseph at his word…..ALL his words. And quit with the cherry picking.
I wish I could be there to hear Joseph rebuke the catalyst theory proponents:
“Ye fiends of the infernal pit!!! You will cease such talk immediately or you or I die this instant! Mark it, Elder Rigdon!”