In the this installment of our series “Is Mormonism Absurd” we cover the chapter on Angels and the chapter on animals. We explore whether why John the Baptist didn’t baptize Joseph Smith and Oliver Cowdery. We hit on Joseph Smith referring to the angel who visited him as Nephi instead of Moroni. We look at D&C 129 and evaluate whether handshakes as a tool to discern good angels and bad angels makes rational sense. We cover the Joseph Smith bible translation as a plagiarism of Adam Clark’s commentary. We discuss the Mormon theology of Enoch (sorry but I referred to him as Elijah in the episode) and his people being taken up into space. And we finish by discussing Animal and plant anachronisms in the Book of Mormon

RESOURCES:

https://mormondiscussionpodcast.org/2015/04/shaking-hands-and-drawn-sword/

mormondiscussionpodcast.org/2015/09/159-handshakes-and-drawn-swords-ii/

https://www.fairlatterdaysaints.org/answers/Moroni%27s_visit/Nephi_or_Moroni

http://jur.byu.edu/?p=21296

mormondiscussionpodcast.org/2018/05/haley-lemmon-joseph-smith-translation-revelation-plagiarism/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anachronisms_in_the_Book_of_Mormon

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