Apologetics With Brian O'Connell

Mormon missionaries claim that the Book of Mormon is a divinely inspired work. They claim that the Book of Mormon is more accurate and more reliable than the Bible, and will ask you if "you have prayed about whether or not the Book of Mormon is from God. Is the Book of Mormon the Result of Divine Inspiration or is it a result of Human Plagiarism? In this episode we will answer this question.

Mormon missionaries claim that Joseph Smith Jr. was a prophet of God and helped to restore the Christian church. Was Jospeh Smith a prophet of God or a false prophet? Was Joseph Smith involved in witchcraft or are these claims baseless attacks on the Mormon Church? When and how did Mormonism begin? These are the questions that are answered in this episode.

Was the Smith family involved in witchcraft and other occult practices? Did these practices have an influence on Joseph Smith Jr. and the establishment of Mormonism? These are questions that are answered in this episode. 

Are Mormons our brothers and sisters in Christ, but just members of a different Christian denomination, like the difference between Baptists, Methodists, or Lutherans, or the difference between protestants and Catholics? Over the course of several episodes we are going to answer this question by looking in depth at Mormonism. In this episode, we will look at the beliefs of the Mormon church to help us answer the question of whether or not Mormons are our brothers and sisters in Christ. 

If the events that are recorded in the Bible really happened, shouldn't we have writings from Christian and non-Christian sources that verify these events? This episode looks at several extra-biblical sources that lived during the time that the Bible was being formed to see what they wrote. Do these extra-biblical sources support the claims of the Bible? 

Can you trust the Bible? Is there anything outside of the Bible that proves that the people, places, and events, as recorded in the Bible, are real? In this episode, archeological and evidence for the New Testament is looked at to see if it supports the claims of the Bible. 

This episode continues the discussion of Old Testament archeological discoveries and how these incredible archeological finds support the events of the Bible. 

Critics have argued that the Bible is unreliable. Although there is more manuscript evidence for the Bible than for any other ancient work, it doesn't necessarily prove its reliability. One could argue that the Bible is no different than Homer's Iliad, just with more manuscripts. Is there anything outside of the Bible that proves that the people, places, and events, as recorded in the Bible, are real? In this episode, archeological evidence for the Old Testament is looked at to see if it supports the claims of the Bible. 

Can you trust the Bible? Has the Bible been altered by Christians over hundreds and even over thousands of years to make the Bible say what they want it to say? In this episode, we look at the manuscript evidence for the Bible as well as textual criticism to see if the Bible can be trusted.  

What do the prophecies that point to Jesus and mathematical probability have to do with one another? Haven't people like Nostradamus or physics made predictions or prophecies that have come true? So what makes the Christian Bible and the prophecies it contains any different? In this episode these questions will be answered.