Host Martin Tanner explains when the Dead Sea Scrolls were written. He explains there are 900 documents: one-third secular, one-third Old Testament books, and one-third religious books not found in the Bible. Since the Dead Sea Scrolls predate any other Old Testament manuscripts by over 1,000 years, they are useful for seeing how accurately the Bible has been reproduced over time. Hear details about forgotten Jewish prophets in the Dead Sea Scrolls that are not found in the Bible, but are found in the Book of Mormon.

Host Martin Tanner explains that the concept of the "Trinity" is not found in the Bible. The idea that the Father, Son and Holy Spirit are of one undivided substance is not found anywhere in the Bible. The only verse in the Bible which seems to support the idea of the Trinity is 1 John 5:7. But as Martin explains, 1 John 5:7 is not a genuine Bible verse. A scribe mistakenly first added it in the early Fourth Century. Hear the details in this episode.

Martin Tanner provides references to the sources supporting the authenticity of the Tower of Babel account in Genesis 11:1-9, from the Book of Jubilees, the Historian Flavius Josephus, and the Sibylline Books of ancient Rome. The location of the actual ruins of the Tower of Babel, which was named "Etemenanki" when it was built, have been found, 56 miles south of Baghdad, Iraq. It was a Ziggurat, or stepped pyramid built between 3,500 and 3,000 BC, approximately 650 feet tall, was the tallest man made structure until the Eiffel Tower was built. Hear all of the details in this episode of Religion Today.

Genesis 1:26 and 5:3 are explained to demonstrate humans look like the Gods - men and women, and have the qualities and traits of the Gods, including the ability to reason, all of the human emotions, and God-like intellect in embryo. Next, we examine evidence for the Garden of Eden location in the Middle East versus in Missouri.

Critics use a "red hearing" (untrue fact) to try to discredit the Book of Abraham. Critics say we have the papyri from which the Book of Abraham text was translated, which is factually incorrect. Egyptologists have translated it and it is not the Book of Abraham. The true facts are that we do have 11 papri fragments recovered from the New York Metropolican Museum of Art, which Egyptologists have translated. But the rest or the papyrus scrolls, according to contemporary descriptions, about 100 feet, on at least two long, were burned up in the Great Chicago Fire of 1871. The scrolls which were burned up, according to contemporary witnesses in Nauvoo, contained the Book of Abraham.

Martin describes 15 modern English Bible translations, their translation style and the pros and cons of each. Starting with the pros and cons of the King James Bible (KJV) he points out the often overlooked fact that current KJV Bible has undergone over a dozen revisions, most of which have made it decidedly Protestant leaning in its theology. Martin goes on to discuss the Contemporary English Bible (CEV), New Revised Standard Verson, updated edition (NRSVue), English Standard Version (ESV), Good News Bible (GN), New Jerusalem Bible (HJB), The Living Bible (TLB), the currently popular version The Message (MSG), New American Standard Bible (NASB), the also popular New Internation Version (NIV) which is a very slanted Protestant translation, New King James Version (NKJV), the often overlooked Names of God Bible (NOG) which Martin gives a high recommendation, and others.

Martin Tanner describes the contents and origins of the books in the Old Testament. Next he describes the ancient Jewish model of creation found in Genesis 1, and compares it with other, later creation models, including the earth as center of the universe, the sun as the center of the Universe, the Big Bang theory, and others. Next, the creation and location of the Garden of Eden is discussed. Finally, the creation of Adam and Eve were discussed, and how literal or figurative elements of Genesis 1 and 2 are discussed.

The planetariums have it wrong - the Star of Bethlehem could not be a conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn. It also could not have been a supernova or other natural star. Host Martin Tanner explains why the Bethlehem Star could only have been either a supernatural event or the 5 BC comet. You will also learn details about who the "Magi" were, where they came from, and why they came to see Jesus.