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Today RFM sits down with Bill Reel to discuss his time in FairMormon as way into seeing how FairMormon operates. They discuss How Bill was recruited to be part of FairMormon, what his involvement was including FairMormon winning the 2013 Podcast Awards with Bill being a heavy contributor to their podcast that year. What all went into their falling out and how FairMormon operates behind the scenes. The post Radio Free Mormon: 074: FAIR is FOUL appeared first on Mormon Discussions Podcasts - Full Lineup.

Today Radio Free Mormon share with us the “Pharisee Phenomenon” as found in the LDS Church. Running through 12 examples where all the fun lies. RFM shows us what it means to be pharisaical in the LDS Church. Its not everyday you get to explore LDS Leaders practicing or advocating strict observance of external forms and ceremonies of religion or conduct without regard to the spirit. Part 3 of 3 Please consider becoming a financial supporter of the podcast by visiting here https://radiofreemormon.org/donate-radio-free-mormon/ The post Radio Free Mormon: 073: The Pharisee Phenomenon Pt 3 appeared first on Mormon Discussions Podcasts - Full Lineup.

Today Radio Free Mormon share with us the “Pharisee Phenomenon” as found in the LDS Church. Running through 12 examples where all the fun lies. RFM shows us what it means to be pharisaical in the LDS Church. Its not everyday you get to explore LDS Leaders practicing or advocating strict observance of external forms and ceremonies of religion or conduct without regard to the spirit. The post Radio Free Mormon: 072: The Pharisee Phenomenon Pt 2 appeared first on Mormon Discussions Podcasts - Full Lineup.

Today Radio Free Mormon share with us the “Pharisee Phenomenon” as found in the LDS Church. Running through 12 examples where all the fun lies. RFM shows us what it means to be pharisaical in the LDS Church. Its not everyday you get to explore LDS Leaders practicing or advocating strict observance of external forms and ceremonies of religion or conduct without regard to the spirit. The post Radio Free Mormon: 071: The Pharisee Phenomenon Pt 1 appeared first on Mormon Discussions Podcasts - Full Lineup.

Today on Radio Free Mormon RFM and Bill Reel dissect the talk Stand Forever, given on the 22nd of January 2019 by Elder Lawrence Corbridge, a member of the Seventy of the LDS Church. Several Major Points come out – Elder Corbridge seems to have had a level of faith crisis himself while on assignment from the Leadership to dig into “antagonistic material” regarding the Church. -His gloom while claimed not to be Cognitive Dissonance (Belief Bias) and instead to be the absence of the Holy Ghost is irrational and illogical. – The LDS Flow Chart regardless of your experience leads to the Church being true. If you get an answer that the Church is true, then the Church is true. If you get an answer that the Church isn’t true, you’ve been deceived and the Church is true. If you get no answer, you are to rely on the words of others who know the Church is true because the Church is true. If you decide the problematic issues (Secondary Questions) impose the Church isn’t true, then shift your focus to the the Primary Questions which you already decided point to the Church is true, because the Church is true. All Roads lead to the Church is true. The Church has given you no viable formula to arrive at the Church is false. – Elder Corbridge argues that the Divine method (Spiritual Feelings) trumps the Scientific Method, the Analytical Method, and the Academic Method (actual science) in spite of the Divine Method being historically demonstrably less effective at arriving at truth. Even Prophets when allowing the Divine Method to trump the Other three have been led to great error decades on end. – The reason the Divine Method is held up as superior and trumps the other three because the other three if allowed to be given their weight all lead the honest seeker of truth out of the Church. Meanwhile the Divine method is the only method the Church can use to manipulate the person who wants the Church to be true to believe it is true. – And they finish speaking to how much of his own faith crisis Elder Corbridge has exposed within his talk. RESOURCES: https://www.lds.org/church/leader/lawrence-e-corbridge?lang=eng https://speeches.byu.edu/talks/lawrence-corbridge_stand-for-ever/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_dissonance https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belief_bias http://mormonprimer.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/MormonPrimer7.pdf The post Radio Free Mormon: 070: The Corbridge Manuever – Part 2 appeared first on Mormon Discussions Podcasts - Full Lineup.

Today on Radio Free Mormon RFM and Bill Reel dissect the talk Stand Forever, given on the 22nd of January 2019 by Elder Lawrence Corbridge, a member of the Seventy of the LDS Church. Several Major Points come out – Elder Corbridge seems to have had a level of faith crisis himself while on assignment from the Leadership to dig into “antagonistic material” regarding the Church. -His gloom while claimed not to be Cognitive Dissonance (Belief Bias) and instead to be the absence of the Holy Ghost is irrational and illogical. – The LDS Flow Chart regardless of your experience leads to the Church being true. If you get an answer that the Church is true, then the Church is true. If you get an answer that the Church isn’t true, you’ve been deceived and the Church is true. If you get no answer, you are to rely on the words of others who know the Church is true because the Church is true. If you decide the problematic issues (Secondary Questions) impose the Church isn’t true, then shift your focus to the the Primary Questions which you already decided point to the Church is true, because the Church is true. All Roads lead to the Church is true. The Church has given you no viable formula to arrive at the Church is false. – Elder Corbridge argues that the Divine method (Spiritual Feelings) trumps the Scientific Method, the Analytical Method, and the Academic Method (actual science) in spite of the Divine Method being historically demonstrably less effective at arriving at truth. Even Prophets when allowing the Divine Method to trump the Other three have been led to great error decades on end. – The reason the Divine Method is held up as superior and trumps the other three because the other three if allowed to be given their weight all lead the honest seeker of truth out of the Church. Meanwhile the Divine method is the only method the Church can use to manipulate the person who wants the Church to be true to believe it is true. – And they finish speaking to how much of his own faith crisis Elder Corbridge has exposed within his talk. RESOURCES: https://www.lds.org/church/leader/lawrence-e-corbridge?lang=eng https://speeches.byu.edu/talks/lawrence-corbridge_stand-for-ever/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_dissonance https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belief_bias http://mormonprimer.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/MormonPrimer7.pdf The post Radio Free Mormon: 069: The Corbridge Manuever – Part 1 appeared first on Mormon Discussions Podcasts - Full Lineup.

Today RFM tackles Elder Oaks suggestion that in helping a doubting spouse overcome their doubt, that research is not the answer. RFM walks us through his own journey in the Church showing us that the LDS Church prior to the internet age encouraged its members to be scripturians and Doctrinares. RFM Shows us that when research was an impetus to faith, Research was the answer…… And only once the internet age hit and Research became a detriment to faith that the Church is revising its approach to Research is NOT the Answer.RESOURCES:https://www.lds.org/church/news/president-oaks-counsels-young-couples-defending-the-gospel-on-the-frontline-?lang=enghttps://thirdhour.org/blog/faith/president-oaks-criticism-research-is-not-the-answer/https://bycommonconsent.com/2019/02/05/research-is-not-the-answer/  The post Radio Free Mormon: 068: Research Is Not The Answer appeared first on Mormon Discussions Podcasts - Full Lineup.

Today we tackle the Elder and Sister Renlund Devotional from January 13th 2019. We dissect the Renlunds two parables and their commentary about doubts and those who have them. Along the way we tackle their comparing the Church to a Dilapidated Dinghy as well as their concept of Church Wack-A-Mole. This is a three part series and we hope you enjoy!!! The post Radio Free Mormon: 065: The Renlunds, A Dilapidated Dinghy, and Church Wack-A-Mole Part 2 appeared first on Mormon Discussions Podcasts - Full Lineup.

Today we explore the Book of Abraham in Radio Free Mormon Style. Bill Reel once again joins us and we proceed to lay out the following. – Brief overview of the History of the Book of Abraham – Why the critics say it is problematic – What workarounds apologists have created to deal with those criticisms – Why those workarounds are dead ends – Evidences Apologists share – Why those evidences have little credibility – How the Church is adapting to the Problems REASONS THE MISSING SCROLL THEORY DOES NOT WORK: – We know because of Abraham 1:12 and 1:14 itself points to Facsimile 1 and the very text in the papyri following it as the source text of the book of Abraham – We know from the Egyptian Alphabet and Grammar document that if we choose to be rational and logical the most reasonable interpretation of that document is that it represents Joseph Smith’s translation of The Book of Abraham. – An early Egyptologist named Gustavus Seyffarth viewed the missing papyrus in 1856 and described only the Hor text and Facsimile 3. He gave no indication of another text on the scroll, and in fact explicitly denied that the scroll contained a record of Abraham. – Klaus Baer predicted that the missing portion of the Hor text would be around sixty centimeters. Others who have attempted the estimate of the missing length agreed almost exactly with Baer’s estimate. In the end a Missing Scroll theory is simply a Red Herring. Why we know that a missing scroll does not matter? We know where Joseph was translating and it was on the existing papyri. There is a set of documents that the church has always had in its possession commonly referred to as the “Egyptian Alphabet and Grammar” by Joseph Smith. Most of us remember hearing a little bit about it growing up in the church but not really knowing what it was. It was only briefly and rarely mentioned in church. With the discovery of the missing papyri in 1966, critics claim that these documents show a definite link between the papyri and the actual text of the Book of Abraham. The manuscript is in the handwriting of William W. Phelps and Warren Parrish, scribes to Joseph Smith, Jr. It is a bound book with handwriting on 34 pages with about 184 blank pages remaining throughout the book. There are characters in a left hand column with English explanations to the right. Original in LDS archives. There are 4 pages in Joseph Smith’s handwriting. REASONS THE CATALYST THEORY DOES NOT WORK: – The Times and Seasons with Joseph Smith as Editor along with Mormonism’s heading to the Pearl of Great Price in the past claimed the papyri was the writings of Abraham. – The Times and Seasons with Joseph Smith as Editor along with Mormonism’s heading to the Pearl of Great Price in the past claimed it was written by Abraham’s own hand. If the Catalyst Theory is correct, then God must be responsible for misleading Smith about the identity of the author of the papyri characters. – Joseph and his scribes wrote down the very symbols from the papyri we have along with a proposed meaning of those hieroglyphics and symbols in a document named Egyptian Alphabet and Grammar indicating strongly a literal translation. – Joseph Smith‘s translation and restoration of the facsimiles was incorrect. If the Catalyst Theory is correct, then God must be responsible for instructing Smith to incorrectly translate and restore the facsimiles. – The text of the Book of Abraham itself (1:12 and 1:14) declares that the source of the Book of Abraham has the Facsimile 1 fragment at its commencement, which is the Breathing Permit of Hor. If the Catalyst Theory is correct, then God must be responsible for instructing Smith to record verses in the Book of Abraham that incorrectly refer to the Facsimile 1 fragment. – The Small Sensen (Breathing Permit of Hor) characters are copied in order into the manuscripts where they are translated into the Book of Abraham. Therefore, Smith‘s own manuscripts indicate that the source of the Book of Abraham is the Small Sensen. If the Catalyst Theory is correct, then God must be responsible for misleading Smith to believe that the source of the Book of Abraham was the Small Sensen. – The Egyptian Alphabets end with two characters which appear in the manuscripts as the beginning of the Small Sensen and which translate into Abraham 1:1. Therefore, the Egyptian Alphabets indicate that the source of the Book of Abraham is the Small Sensen. If the Catalyst Theory is correct, then God must be responsible for misleading Smith to believe that the source of the Book of Abraham was the Small Sensen. RESOURCES: Book Of Abraham conundrum simplified – https://mormondiscussionpodcast.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/04/My-Concerns-Book-of-Abraham-1.pdf Brian Hauglid on Mormon Discussion – https://mormondiscussionpodcast.org/2015/01/brian-hauglid-t

President Eyring…. No Not the LDS Apostle but his son Henry J Eyring, recently gave an address at BYUI titled “Gaining and Strengthening a Testimony” where he lays out logical fallacy after logical fallacy in order to justify belief in the Book of Abraham specifically and to deal with the criticisms of the Church collectively. Combine that with his having seemingly developed the same habit of reeling you in with his tears as he cries at the drop of a hat like his father and you can sense why Grandpa Eyring the Scientist is almost assuredly shaking his head in the grave. Today you see all the illogical tricks one plays in the “Crying Game” Resources: Audio of the Eyring Talk Transcript Video The post Radio Free Mormon: 61: The Crying Game Part 2 appeared first on Mormon Discussions Podcasts - Full Lineup.

President Eyring…. No Not the LDS Apostle but his son Henry J Eyring, recently gave an address at BYUI titled “Gaining and Strengthening a Testimony” where he lays out logical fallacy after logical fallacy in order to justify belief in the Book of Abraham specifically and to deal with the criticisms of the Church collectively. Combine that with his having seemingly developed the same habit of reeling you in with his tears as he cries at the drop of a hat like his father and you can sense why Grandpa Eyring the Scientist is almost assuredly shaking his head in the grave. Today you see all the illogical tricks one plays in the “Crying Game” Resources: Audio of the Eyring Talk Transcript Video The post Radio Free Mormon: 60: The Crying Game Part 1 appeared first on Mormon Discussions Podcasts - Full Lineup.

EXCLUSIVE – EXCLUSIVE – Bill Reel’s Disciplinary Council The Recording – EXCLUSIVE – EXCLUSIVE Radio Free Mormon shares that he has received the audio recording of Bill Reel’s Disciplinary Council. The audio quality has issues but a transcript has been included HERE to make it easier to know what is being said. If anyone can improve this transcript please email those improvements along with a time stamp to [email protected] and to the attention of Radio Free Mormon Resources: links on website Transcript of Bill Reel’s Disciplinary Council Outline of the presentation Bill made at the Council Timeline Run Through of Proceedings The post Radio Free Mormon: 059: Bill Reel’s Disciplinary Council – The Recording appeared first on Mormon Discussions Podcasts - Full Lineup.

RFM takes on a Radio Free Mormon After Dark interview with Bill Reel regarding his upcoming Disciplinary Council. The interview dissects all of Bill’s interactions with Leaders from Stake Presidents to Church Historians to Prophets, Seers, and Revelators. RFM also asks Bill to give a run through of his correspondence and conversations that have led up to these Disciplinary Proceedings. Sit back and enjoy as this Episode does more than read a few books and go to a pretty good school! The post Radio Free Mormon After Dark: 058: Bill Reel’s Disciplinary Council appeared first on Mormon Discussions Podcasts - Full Lineup.

In the spirit of Halloween, Radio Free Mormon today sheds light on Joseph Smith’s treasure Digging by setting the details of Joseph Smith’s Treasure Digging next to the eerie Treasure Digging of John Steinbeck’s Tortilla Flat. RFM takes on the dramatized telling of this John Steinbeck classic. See how many similarities between the treasure digging of Joseph Smith and John Steinbeck literary classic! The post Radio Free Mormon: 057: Treasure Digging with Joseph Smith and John Steinbeck appeared first on Mormon Discussions Podcasts - Full Lineup.

Today On Radio Free Mormon, RFM and Bill Reel dissect Elder Oaks October 2018 General Conference talk from Saturday Morning. In this talk Elder Oaks uses logical fallacy after logical fallacy and bad argument after bad argument in defending his Anti-Science prejudice and his Anti-LGBT bigotry. This 15 minute minute talk was a brilliant attempt to entrench the Church in stances that simply don’t hold up to the data and facts. Elder Oaks arguments are full of holes and unlike Ensign Blair’s ship, this vessel of a talk sinks faster by the minute. PART 2 The post Radio Free Mormon: 056: Elder Oaks Puts the Con into General Conference PART 2 appeared first on Mormon Discussions Podcasts - Full Lineup.

Today On Radio Free Mormon, RFM and Bill Reel dissect Elder Oaks October 2018 General Conference talk from Saturday Morning. In this talk Elder Oaks uses logical fallacy after logical fallacy and bad argument after bad argument in defending his Anti-Science prejudice and his Anti-LGBT bigotry. This 15 minute minute talk was a brilliant attempt to entrench the Church in stances that simply don’t hold up to the data and facts. Elder Oaks arguments are full of holes and unlike Ensign Blair’s ship, this vessel of a talk sinks faster by the minute. PART 1 The post Radio Free Mormon: 055: Elder Oaks Puts the Con into General Conference PART 1 appeared first on Mormon Discussions Podcasts - Full Lineup.

Today Radio Free Mormon offers a prediction for General Conference using a quote by Elder Cook from a recent General Conference. Elder Cook strangely imposed that Mormons will in fact always be “Small in number” due to “wickedness in the world”. This seemed odd in light of you and me and everyone else having grown up with a Mormonism where dynamic Growth was told to us to be an indicator of the truthfulness of the Church. As RFM goes to into detail to prove…. such seemed like blatant “Gaslighting“. And RFM postulates that if this is the new narrative of the Church that they will need to reiterate such on more than one occasion including this weeks October 2018 General Conference. The post Radio Free Mormon: 054: Gaslighting By The Numbers appeared first on Mormon Discussions Podcasts - Full Lineup.

Radio Free Mormon and Bill Reel get together for a special Episode discussion on Elder Quentin L. Cook’s Face To Face On Church History. While Elder Cook and Church Historians Matt Grow and Kate Holbrook attempt to tell the audience that Church history is faith building and that it can withstand scrutiny, a simple look at what they say and more importantly what they don’t say seems to deeply indicate otherwise. There is even cameo Appearances by Elder Ballard, Church historian Steven Harper, and even a sound blip from the Jehovah’s Witnesses. Sit back and buckle up as we learn that when it comes to Church leaders and the Church’s historians that “Nothin’ from nothin’ leaves nothin'”. Questions to LDS Church Historian after he promised to be candid and forthright in answering any question asked of him and of which when asked he refused to respond. 1.) What is your opinion of whether President Nelson as a proclaimed prophet can reasonably do what ancient prophets have done. Can he part seas, cast curses on critics making them dumb or deaf or three day slumbers or call down fires from heaven? Or do you agree that somehow now that history is recordable and verifiable and shareable that such God magic miracles have ceased and probably never were? 2.) Do you personally think Joseph Smith wrongly manipulated girls like Lucy Walker, the partridge sisters, Fanny Alger into having relationships with him? 3.) Do you believe that the Book of Mormon is an ancient text about literal ancient historically accurate Nephites and Lamanites 4.) Do you think personally that the Church is wrong about Homosexuality? do you personally think by the nature of our policies and doctrines that our institutional church causes undue trauma on gay people? 5.) Lastly do you think Elder Ballard is being completely forthright and accurate when he said “We would have to say, as two Apostles who have covered the world and know the history of the Church and know the integrity of the First Presidency and the Quorum of the Twelve from the beginning, there has been no attempt on the part of the Church leaders to try to hide anything from anybody.”? The post Radio Free Mormon: 53: The Dissection of Elder Quentin L Cook’s Face To Face On Church History appeared first on Mormon Discussions Podcasts - Full Lineup.

BREAKING NEWS: More information has been forthcoming regarding Ensign Blair’s Miraculous rescue of his Navy Ship in a Typhoon Today RFM informs NEW additional forthcoming details along with hashing up some old ones…. ha ha ha ha ha ha muaaaahhhhhhhhhh. Ensign Frank Blair (shown in photo above) told Elder Larry Wilson a miraculous story about his inspired resolution to issues aboard his navy ship in the midst of a typhoon during the Korean War. The trouble is the details of this story are less believable than the tale of the crew of the S.S. Minnow. Below are a list of issues with Ensign Blair’s story. #1 – his story has a captain leaving the bridge during a typhoon to make way to Ensign Blair’s cabin. This seems to break navy code #2 – his story has the Captain permitting Ensign Blair to go out on the deck to “gather info” during a typhoon w/ 45′ foot waves. This would be against good judgement and dangerous. #3 – Notice the reason for the fact finding mission in #3 is made null and void by the fact that Captain and Engineer are already discussing a solution to the problem (their gauges told them the issue) when Ensign Blair shows up to the Bridge. That God in essence sent Ensign Blair on the deck to risk his life to gather info hence discovering a problem the Captain and Engineer already knew. In other words his walking the deck was unnecessary as the gauges on the bridge communicated the same info. The issue was not knowing the problem, but rather deciding a solution. Why would God put Ensign Blair in such unneeded risk to learn something already known? #4 – Also the newspaper clipping (shown above and dated August 19, 1955) has him serving on the U.S.S. Marion County. While Elder Wilson tells us the Ship has three engines, it actually only has two. #5.) Ensign Blair claims to see the propellers (also called screws) from the deck after securing himself to the the deck in a typhoon, at night, with 45′ waves. The propellers or screws as they are called are below the boat tucked away from the outside edge. Think through what angle he would have to be at leaning off the side of the boat to see the crews as they come up out of the water in a typhoon. Think about what it would take to secure himself and manually lengthen or shorten the rope he is tied to. This story is absurd and false.( See sketch below) #6 – While the newspaper (above) tells us Ensign Blair was a Chaplain, Elder Wilson tells us that there was no Chaplain and Ensign Blair, the upright religious sailor that he was, filled in. Who informed the Newspaper that Blair held the officer title of Chaplain? If Ensign Blair himself, then such is a deceptive and dishonest move as to claim a title one did not officially and legitimately hold would raise eyebrows. #7 – Elder Wilson refers to the propellers as “giant propellers” but as you can see on the image below this style ship had very small propellers, due to the need to get up on land to drop tanks off. #8 – Elder Wilson starts this story with “During the Korean War”. Except as seen in the newspaper clipping above (which was dated Aug 19, 1955), Ensign Blair did not begin his 2 year military stint until after the Korean War had ended (Korean War ended July 1953). Taken in its totality…. This faith promoting story from General Conference… well…. It simply didn’t happen. Sorry. God Magic still unconfirmed!!!   The post Radio Free Mormon: 052: A Whale of a Tale II -This Time It’s Personal! appeared first on Mormon Discussions Podcasts - Full Lineup.

Today we dissect the Mormon Channel’s video titled “How to Answer Questions about Church History” hosted by Amy Iverson where she interviews Steven Harper on how he as a Church Historian deals with tough issues within Church history. You might expect a Church historian who is on such a program due to his immersion and professional understanding of LDS Church History to use Church history to show that the tough questions have solid answers. You might expect him to encourage members who come across a tough issue to dive deeper, to find original sources, or refer them to the Gospel Topic Essays, or at least the Joseph Smith Papers Project as he had a major hand in it. You might expect him pick out a few tough issues and then show how a more informed understanding of Church history helps to sort these issues out. BUT…… As you will see he does anything but this. – Notice his hesitancy to discuss the specifics of Church history. He seems to, as a Church historian, not want to talk about Church history, and it feels his reason is he senses there is little there to build faith on. – Notice when asked if Church history has built faith and has resolved his questions he constantly deflects from answering such questions directly and imposes that his testimony is not based in Church history. – Notice his progression from A.) Questions always resolve themselves B.) We have some questions that are yet unresolved but We have a lot of answers and I have faith the unresolved will yet be resolved. C.) There are both several questions resolved as well as several questions unresolved. D.) I have way more questions than answers and the more I learn Church history, the unresolved questions grow exponentially. and finally where he ends up E.) I hate to burst your bubble but dealing with the data causes us to reconstruct the Church in ways that have our faith in “what the Church is” being similar to how we reconcile Christmas after deconstructing the literalness of Santa Claus. While Amy imposes that Church history has been, to Steven Harper, “an illumination to his soul”. Radio Free Mormon and Bill Reel’s analysis shows it to have been anything but. In the end it becomes obvious that not only does a Church historian avoid using Church history to resolve concerns, but also that he realizes avoiding Church history is the only way to tackle the difficult questions as to dive into the history is anything but faith promoting. The post Radio Free Mormon: 51: How To Not Answer Questions On Church History With Steven Harper Part 2 appeared first on Mormon Discussions Podcasts - Full Lineup.

Today we dissect the Mormon Channel’s video titled “How to Answer Questions about Church History” hosted by Amy Iverson where she interviews Steven Harper on how he as a Church Historian deals with tough issues within Church history. You might expect a Church historian who is on such a program due to his immersion and professional understanding of LDS Church History to use Church history to show that the tough questions have solid answers. You might expect him to encourage members who come across a tough issue to dive deeper, to find original sources, or refer them to the Gospel Topic Essays, or at least the Joseph Smith Papers Project as he had a major hand in it. You might expect him pick out a few tough issues and then show how a more informed understanding of Church history helps to sort these issues out. BUT…… As you will see he does anything but this. – Notice his hesitancy to discuss the specifics of Church history. He seems to, as a Church historian, not want to talk about Church history, and it feels his reason is he senses there is little there to build faith on. – Notice when asked if Church history has built faith and has resolved his questions he constantly deflects from answering such questions directly and imposes that his testimony is not based in Church history. – Notice his progression from A.) Questions always resolve themselves B.) We have some questions that are yet unresolved but We have a lot of answers and I have faith the unresolved will yet be resolved. C.) There are both several questions resolved as well as several questions unresolved. D.) I have way more questions than answers and the more I learn Church history, the unresolved questions grow exponentially. and finally where he ends up E.) I hate to burst your bubble but dealing with the data causes us to reconstruct the Church in ways that have our faith in “what the Church is” being similar to how we reconcile Christmas after deconstructing the literalness of Santa Claus. While Amy imposes that Church history has been, to Steven Harper, “an illumination to his soul”. Radio Free Mormon and Bill Reel’s analysis shows it to have been anything but. In the end it becomes obvious that not only does a Church historian avoid using Church history to resolve concerns, but also that he realizes avoiding Church history is the only way to tackle the difficult questions as to dive into the history is anything but faith promoting. The post Radio Free Mormon: 50: How To Not Answer Questions On Church History With Steven Harper Part 1 appeared first on Mormon Discussions Podcasts - Full Lineup.

Today, boy do we have a “Whale Of A Tale” for you. First RFM starts us off by explaining how Paul H Dunn of the seventy set a high bar for false faith promoting stories in the Church. Then Radio Free Mormon runs you through the past false faith promoting stories that have come through Mormonism in recent years. And he finishes by laying out the most recent example in Radio Free Mormon fashion, Elder Larry Y. Wilson’s Take the Holy Spirit as Your Guide Where good ole’ Ensign Blair saves the day.   The post Radio Free Mormon: 049: A Whale of A Tale appeared first on Mormon Discussions Podcasts - Full Lineup.

In the LDS Church, we have the Priesthood of God. One of the magnificent things that comes with that Priesthood is the power and authority to call upon God through the laying on of hands in blessing the sick and afflicted to be healed. Healing power is one of the evidences in the LDS Church’s truth claims. And As RFM points out, it appears to be a gift no longer present in the Church. He takes the last General Conference as a prime example and shows that in the 11 cases in conference where surely a Priesthood blessing did or should of taken place, the afflicted individual does not fare to well even with access to God’s Priesthood army. If the game were baseball – People dying would in an offensive onslaught while throwing a no-hitter against those being healed!!! The post Radio Free Mormon: 048: General Conference Death March appeared first on Mormon Discussions Podcasts - Full Lineup.

McKenna Denson found early on that she had someone who believed her story. That person was Radio Free Mormon. From that moment on RFM has sought to help her and all of us get to the bottom of what the Church and the Police continue to hide. No one has helped us understand this story like Radio Free Mormon. And tomorrow morning his 2 part interview with McKenna Denson will release to the general public!!!! On one side RFM asks questions in his lawyerly fashion to get to the bottom of this case, and McKenna tells the story from her mouth. You won’t want to miss this!!!! Radio Free Mormon—After Dark: The McKenna Denson Interview The post Radio Free Mormon—After Dark: 47: The McKenna Denson Interview Part 2 appeared first on Mormon Discussions Podcasts - Full Lineup.

McKenna Denson found early on that she had someone who believed her story. That person was Radio Free Mormon. From that moment on RFM has sought to help her and all of us get to the bottom of what the Church and the Police continue to hide. No one has helped us understand this story like Radio Free Mormon. And tomorrow morning his 2 part interview with McKenna Denson will release to the general public!!!! On one side RFM asks questions in his lawyerly fashion to get to the bottom of this case, and McKenna tells the story from her mouth. You won’t want to miss this!!!! Radio Free Mormon—After Dark: The McKenna Denson Interview The post Radio Free Mormon—After Dark: 46: The McKenna Denson Interview Part 1 appeared first on Mormon Discussions Podcasts - Full Lineup.

Today is the audio of the hearing of Radio Free Mormon’s case against the redaction of Documents and Audio by the BYU Police in the McKenna Denson case. Enjoy The post Radio Free Mormon: 045: Radio Free Mormon Wins A Victory On Appeal!!!!! appeared first on Mormon Discussions Podcasts - Full Lineup.

Radio Free Mormon gives us a short update on where he is on the records appeal for the un-redaction of McKenna Denson’s police report as well as the audio from the audio interview by police of Joseph Bishop The post Radio Free Mormon: 044: Update on the Appeal Part 4 – State Records Commission appeared first on Mormon Discussions Podcasts - Full Lineup.

RFM takes issue with the Logical Fallacies, Deceptiveness, and Blatant Lies by LDS Apologist Dan Peterson in his article “Defending the Faith: The supposed scandal of multiple First Vision accounts”. In the article Daniel Peterson goes to great lengths to frame the public awareness of the multiple first vision accounts in a faithful context. Sadly in order to do so, Dan must avoid telling people the problematic details and even go so far as to lie about the history of how and why the 1832 account was obscured for so long. RFM even goes to show using both a personal interaction with Daniel as well as public audio from Elder Holland that obfuscation and dishonesty is par for the course when trying to defend the Church using apologetics. RESOURCES: Elder Holland lying and obfuscating with BBC interviewer Stan Larsen’s Dialogue Article (Absolute Must Read for Latter-Day Saints who want to understand the History of the First Vision Accounts) The post Radio Free Mormon: 043: Selling Your Soul for Apologetics appeared first on Mormon Discussions Podcasts - Full Lineup.

Radio Free Mormon wanting to ensure listeners are kept up to date on the MTC scandal issues another episode keeping us in the loop. This time RFM helps us make connection to the redacted police report that he has only learned in recent days. Where is he getting this info????? Who knows but we the listeners are the benefactors. This story is full of secrets and RFM Cloak and Dagger approach is going to get to the bottom of it and this is one more step along the way Document Resources: NEW – https://mormondiscussionpodcast.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/04/McKenna-Denson-Rough-Draft-of-Statement-sent-to-BYU-Police-on-12-7-17-RedactedA.pdf https://mormondiscussionpodcast.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/04/GRAMA-Appeal-4-18-18.output.pdf https://mormondiscussionpodcast.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/04/GRAMA-Clarification-Letter-on-2nd-Request-041818.pdf   The post Radio Free Mormon: 041: BYU Police Report Bombshells: MTC Sex Scandal Update appeared first on Mormon Discussions Podcasts - Full Lineup.

RFM gives us an update into his legal pursuit to un-redact the highly Redacted Provo Police report and to retrieve the Provo Police Audio evidence of their interview with Joseph Bishop. Hot on the trail RFM will not take No for an answer! Copies of requests and responses thus far https://mormondiscussionpodcast.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/04/GRAMA-Appeal-4-18-18.output.pdf https://mormondiscussionpodcast.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/04/GRAMA-Clarification-Letter-on-2nd-Request-041818.pdf The post Radio Free Mormon: 040: MTC Sex Scandal Investigation Update appeared first on Mormon Discussions Podcasts - Full Lineup.

RFM revisits the latest developments in the Joseph Bishop case, including his attempts to further unredact the the Joseph Bishop police interview report, access the Audio interview, His discovery after much work to get his hands on the “David Jordan” LDS Church dossier which was accidentally sent and used by Greg Bishop both father and legal council for Joseph Bishop….. as well as his behind the scenes recent conversations with Mckenna Denson herself and what he has learned from those. Radio Free Mormon through all of this and more helps us see that there is still much about this case that contributes to a much bigger picture……….. Especially if what we knew was on Page 4 of the Church’s dossier The post Radio Free Mormon: 39: Church Sex Scandal Cover-up Part 2 appeared first on Mormon Discussions Podcasts - Full Lineup.

In Radio Free Mormon fashion, RFM dissect the Church Sex Abuse Scandal coverup like a legal case. He shows the incredible evidence that the Joseph Layton Bishop Jr. case was an attempted cover-up by the Church throughout the entire event. The post Radio Free Mormon: 38: Church Sex Scandal Cover-up appeared first on Mormon Discussions Podcasts - Full Lineup.

RFM todays tackles the awareness of LDS Leaders that the Church is losing members in a mass apostacy. In this part 2 episode RFM how much LDS leaders know that Mormonism is no longer growing. Using Marlin Jenson’s statement that “The fifteen men really do know, and they really care. And they realize that maybe since Kirtland, we never have had a period of, I’ll call it apostasy, like we’re having right now; largely over these issues. We do have another initiative that we have called, “Answers to Gospel Questions”. We are trying to figure out exactly what channels to deliver it in and exactly what format to put it in. But we want to have a place where people can go. We have hired someone that’s in charge of search engine optimization. We realize that people get their information basically from Google. They don’t come to LDS.org. If they get there, it’s through Google. So, we are trying to create an offering that will address these issues and be available for the public at large and to the church leaders, because many of them don’t have answers either. It can be very disappointing to church members. And, for people who are losing their faith, or who have lost it, we hope to regain to the church.” and then showing all the reactions of various LDS leaders in followup. The post Radio Free Mormon: 36: Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics Pt 2 appeared first on Mormon Discussions Podcasts - Full Lineup.

RFM todays tackles the growth of the Church. In this part 1 episode RFM dives into how the Church used growth as a witness of the truthfulness of the Church in past decades and utilized the Book of Daniel and the Stone cut out of the mountain without hands. Then he takes multiple General Conference talks and other media soundbites to show that the Church as an institution most assuredly framed itself in this way. He concludes setting up episode 2 where now that Church growth has become stagnate and perhaps even receding, that the Church is in the process of removing such a framework and creating a new narrative. The post Radio Free Mormon: 35: Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics Pt 1 appeared first on Mormon Discussions Podcasts - Full Lineup.

Radio Free Mormon tackles the pillar of revelation. In his normal RFM fashion, he lays out like a legal case the fact that Mormonism has gone from a religion that encouraged and expected its membership to have direct revelation from God, his son, and his angels to a faith that has stripped away any real dependenace or expectation of revelation. From handshakes to discern ministering angels to being told today that such things like a angelic visit or even a real voice not only should not be expected but simply won’t happen!!!! The post Radio Free Mormon: 33: Dumbing Down Revelation appeared first on Mormon Discussions Podcasts - Full Lineup.

In today’s episode, RFM tackles the recent leak of a 1981 official manual of the Church Of Jesus Christ if Latter-day Saints on the topic of homosexuality. RFM demonstrates conclusively that the Church held many views officially that were demonstrably wrong and deeply unhealthy. RFM then, in traditional fashion, dissects the why of the Church needing to look consistent and the mechanisms of maintaining authority. So put on your headphones, grab a glass of eggnog, plug in the Christmas tree, grab a Christmas cookie, and enjoy Radio Free Mormon’s “Ghost of Homophobia’s Past” The post Radio Free Mormon: 032: The Ghost of Homophobia Past appeared first on Mormon Discussions Podcasts - Full Lineup.

Radio Free Mormon’s Thanksgiving Day Episode RFM tackles Elder Oaks and Elder Ballard in their Face to Face broadcast, from behind enemy lines. Elder Ballard says Church leaders have never, ever, never, ever, ever, hidden difficult pieces of our faith’s history. RFM then proceeds to not only show that the Church has lied on a few occasions but rather has demonstrated a pattern of continuous lying and deception since its inception. Transcript of this episode The post Radio Free Mormon: 030: Elder Ballard Blows Up The Church appeared first on Mormon Discussions Podcasts - Full Lineup.

In Radio Free Mormon fashion, RFM tackles the sentence within the The Family: A Proclamation to the World, that Gender is Eternal and does the research to show is if such was really a doctrine previously taught within Mormonism or if the Church created this Doctrine….. “Out of Nothing At All”. The solution for the LGBT issue is sitting right at their feet and RFM makes it clear to direct their attention right to it. The post Radio Free Mormon: 029: Making Doctrine Out Of Nothing At All appeared first on Mormon Discussions Podcasts - Full Lineup.

RFM tackles the 2017 October General Conference. Tackling Sunday’s Afternoon session where the only good books are those that are in the approved curriculum and only inside the Church along with several other talks in this final installment 3 part series!!!! The post Radio Free Mormon: 28: General Conference Post Mortem October 2017 Part 3 appeared first on Mormon Discussions Podcasts - Full Lineup.

Radio Free Mormon works overtime late into the evening giving us this special episode regarding the 3:42 advertisement by Elder Oaks and Elder Ballard for their upcoming Q&A with the Young Single Adults. Sadly as RFM points out, there is seemingly no desire on the part of Church leaders to attempt to answer questions for which there are no good answers. In fact, they will simply avoid the tough questions and only take on the easy ones…. Which makes the event essentially just more of the same…. With little revelation and quotes like “Gone Are The Days” seeming like lip service, lets dive into this trainwreck. The post Radio Free Mormon: 027: Table Scraps, Train Wrecks, And Information Avoidance appeared first on Mormon Discussions Podcasts - Full Lineup.

RFM tackles the 2017 October General Conference. Tackling Sunday’s Morning session where “Faith NOT To Be Healed” rears its head again along with more miracles that are not miracles in this part 2 of a 3 part series!!!! The post Radio Free Mormon: 26: General Conference Post Mortem October 2017 Part 2 appeared first on Mormon Discussions Podcasts - Full Lineup.

RFM tackles the 2017 October General Conference. Complimenting Holland, Dissecting Eyring, being a wingman for Uchtdorf, and even a Freudian Slip. Broadcasting behind enemy lines RFM covers the womens session through Saturday night’s priesthood session in this part 1 of a 3 part series!!!! The post Radio Free Mormon: 25: General Conference Post Mortem October 2017 Part 1 appeared first on Mormon Discussions Podcasts - Full Lineup.

The Family: A Proclamation To The World – How was it created? Why was it created? What is the timeline for its creation? Today in a special joint episode Radio Free Mormon and Bill Reel from Mormon Discussion tackle these questions and more. Want to know the backdrop and context of the creation of the LDS Proclamation on the family? Well here it is and we hope you enjoy!!!!! RESOURCES: https://mormondiscussions.org/discussion/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/oaks_paper1984.pdf http://rationalfaiths.com/from-amici-to-ohana/ https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2017/10/the-plan-and-the-proclamation?lang=eng https://www.lds.org/broadcasts/archive/worldwide-leadership-training/2008/02?lang=eng https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2010/10/cleansing-the-inner-vessel?lang=eng http://www.mormonnewsroom.org/article/interview-oaks-wickman-same-gender-attraction www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFCWUoXr1Dg https://www.dialoguejournal.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/sbi/articles/Dialogue_V45N01_CO.pdf https://www.lds.org/topics/family-proclamation?lang=eng&old=true https://www.lds.org/general-conference/1995/10/the-family-a-proclamation-to-the-world?lang=eng http://www.scotusblog.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/01/16-273-amicus-petitioner-major_religious_organizations.pdf The post Radio Free Mormon: 24: The Backdrop and Context of The Family A Proclamation to the World appeared first on Mormon Discussions Podcasts - Full Lineup.

Today Behind enemy lines, Radio Free Mormon dives into what it means to have “Faith Not To Be Healed”. RFM explores what we have taught about healing, its principles, how healing take place, what it means when the healing doesn’t occur, and how central healing power is to the Restored Gospel. Do you have faith not to be healed? The post Radio Free Mormon: 023: Faith Not To Be Healed appeared first on Mormon Discussions Podcasts - Full Lineup.

Today Behind enemy lines, Radio Free Mormon dives into what it means to be a “True Believing Mormon”. To do this RFM dives into How we define a TBM today and then takes us back in time to help us see How Joseph Smith defined a TBM and along the way tells us a story or two to emphasize the point. Are you TBM? take a listen and let’s see. The post Radio Free Mormon: 022: True Believing Mormon appeared first on Mormon Discussions Podcasts - Full Lineup.

Today Radio Free Mormon, finds himself deep behind enemy lines, as he tackles the recent retraction of the faith promoting story told by Elder Jeffrey R Holland about one brother finding his long lost sibling while on his mission. Take a deep breath, grab your ice cold herbal tea, and enjoy an intellectual walk though the history of this episode in LDS History. Resources: Elder Holland Shares Account of “Missionary Speech of All Time” with New Mission Presidents – Google Cache Deseret News – Elder Holland releases statement regarding missionary story Desert News – Elder Holland withdraws Church News missionary story Church News – Elder Holland Releases Statement Regarding Missionary Story http://rogerwilco-ldsreport.blogspot.com/ http://www.texashoustonsouthmission.com/weekly-presidents-pen/2016/4/25/presidents-pen-4-25-16 this link is now broken (site removed this page) – here is cached version = https://web.archive.org/web/20170801050830/http://www.texashoustonsouthmission.com/weekly-presidents-pen/2016/4/25/presidents-pen-4-25-16 http://eldercowansouthafrica.blogspot.com/ http://savvysmissionaryblog.blogspot.com/2015/11/carry-on.html http://hermanaalisonknight.blogspot.com/2015/11/one-month-down-17-to-go.html http://eldergideonbenge.blogspot.com/2017/07/an-invitation-to-come-home.html https://stareshinagee.wordpress.com/2015/11/30/18-nov-2015-letter-to-his-mother-the-time-is-at-hand/ http://shiningmissionary.blogspot.com/2016/06/56.html?m=1 https://www.flickr.com/photos/nickleus/sets/72157623567278714/ https://mormoncurtain.com/topic_jeffreyrholland.html http://www.exmormon.org/mormon/mormon587.htm The post Radio Free Mormon: 021: Make Way For Dodos appeared first on Mormon Discussions Podcasts - Full Lineup.

Today we delve into Part 2 regarding the process by which Apostles became the ruling body in the LDS Church. The different leadership bodies, who had a higher authority and stewardship, what happened at Joseph Smith’s death, who he had appointed as his successor, and how the Quorum of the twelve removed every other possible contender to take leadership upon Joseph’s death. And finally the suspicious death of Samuel Smith which some believe was just one more step taken by the 12 to usurp any possible claim outside of themselves that aspired to leading the Church. TRANSCRIPT The post Radio Free Mormon: 020: Apostolic Coup-D- Etat pt 2 appeared first on Mormon Discussions Podcasts - Full Lineup.

Today we delve into the process by which Apostles became the ruling body in the LDS Church. The different leadership bodies, who had a higher authority and stewardship, what happened at Joseph Smith’s death, who he had appointed as his successor, and how the Quorum of the twelve removed every other possible contender to take leadership upon Joseph’s death. TRANSCRIPT The post Radio Free Mormon: 019: Apostolic Coup-D- Etat appeared first on Mormon Discussions Podcasts - Full Lineup.

Today Radio Free Mormon throws us a curveball and shows us things are not so easy to brush off. That while there are many contradiction in Mormonism that work against its claims, there are also other sides to that coin. Namely paradoxes that call us to take the another look at Mormonism including today’s look into the Book of Mormon. Just as we thought we might be heading down a wrong road, he points us to a road sign that suggests it may actually be a right road. The road sign? ……… Numerology in the Book of Mormon. No not your weird cousins type of numerology where one deciphers the numbers in your life as if reading a palm. Rather what numbers meant to the Israelites and Jews and the Middle Eastern cultures and why strangely, those systems show up in great explainable yet statistically significant ways. RESOURCES: rationalfaiths.com/hebrew-numerology-book-mormon/ https://archive.bookofmormoncentral.org/node/8   The post Radio Free Mormon: 018: New Evidence for The Book Of Mormon appeared first on Mormon Discussions Podcasts - Full Lineup.

Today Radio Free Mormon releases his newest episode newest episode “Murder Most Foul”. Today RFM explores the slaying of Laban and all the motives and correlations that the Book of Mormon puts on display giving insight into it as a text and into the mind of Nephi. After just taking us down the wrong roads, RFM now walks us back into a serious consideration of the Book of Mormon!!! The post Radio Free Mormon: 017: Murder Most Foul appeared first on Mormon Discussions Podcasts - Full Lineup.