Changing American History - feat. Hannah Stoddard 

Hannah is a young woman with strength of character and wise beyond her years.

Hannah is amazing and I love listening to her. Such a strong, intelligent woman of faith.

Hannah Stoddard is a great guest to have on. Like a breath of fresh air!

I agree with Hannah, we need to link Liberty with all the Scriptures we have. Liberty/agency is the main issue in the plan of salvation.

Hannah Stoddard you are your parent's Daughter. The family is proud of you.

I too first came across Hannah on the Hello saints summit. I was so impressed with her knowledge, passion for history, and love of the gospel of Jesus Christ. Thanks, Greg for having her on your podcast.

Oh, boy! I really appreciate her explanation of how the writing of history has changed over the past century or so. And, yes, her explanation makes perfect sense to me.

8 minutes in and we're talking about restricting access to scriptures. This is exactly what has happened in the last several years with the religion of scientism. Only experts are allowed to see the sacred scientific research and interpret it for the unwashed masses. There are so many parallels to what we're going through now and what every other religious reformation has looked like. Scientism is the new religion.

Only got a minute into the discussion and would like to add that it really needs to go back further, to the ancient Israelites. That is where the foundational doctrines were laid Cleon skousen does an excellent job in teaching the correlation between ancient Israel and America's founding. But i agree, Hannah and her work are a great source for truth!!!!

Loved the take on the RLDS connection to the issues with history. Glad to see this called out since it appears many are beginning to adopt these ideas that actually are antithetical to the Gospel and what Joseph restored.

Love seeing Hannah on different podcasts. Shes getting better with the more experience she is getting.

The BEST Episode I have ever watched on this channel.

Fantastic discussions Greg and Hannah. ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

In a world of wannabe top dogs, choose to be an underdog for the Lord.

What an insightful conversation. A big thanks to both of you!❤️❤️❤️

"A nation of well informed men who have been taught to know and prize the rights which God has given them cannot be enslaved. It is the religion of ignorance that tyranny begins." -- Benjamin Franklin

Amazing discussion! Thanks, Greg and Hannah!! ❤

The Truth Shall Set You Free!

Hannah is the best!! I’m a huge fan!!

MORE PLEASE!!! Love both of you!!! ❤️

Fascinating. I like learning. I like learning from the faithful even more. God bless.

I loved this podcast, I’ll share it with as many people as I can. Thank you for all that you do, I pray for your continued success!

Also if people would read the federalist papers, we learn more of who our Founding were. I love the Federalist papers and also Cati's letters i find are even more telling.

I appreciate every aspect of your conversation today! A wonderful summation and more of my thoughts on these topics. I could not agree with you more. All of it is important and worthy of more personal study and group discussion. Thanks! I already follow both of you.

Dissenters always seek emancipation from judgment. Liberty and accountability can’t be separated, thus, liberty must be reduced. Christ is the righteous judge. He is the law giver. Thus, to be free from judgement you must be free from the law; free from Christ. Dissenters seek to be a law unto themselves, and their own judge.

I love her so much!!! And you both!! Thank you so much for this video and all my love your way!

You hit the nail on the head with this one! Great job! Thank you! We need more simple truths like this!

Satan cant get rid of Christ but he has proven that he can get man to get rid of Christ! Satan has entered the desenters! We don’t make covenants with God… He makes the covenant and we obey his covenant. I believe wokism is the philosophies of men!

I love this episode❤

This was a fantastic topic and Hannah was a great guest. Thank you!

The Gospel being about liberty also ties in to the flood being because of the loss of free agency as several prophets have said that the problem with the days of Noah was that it would not be right for children to be born into a world where they would not be able to choose right from wrong.

I would love Hannah to come speak to my stake young adult/ youth! She’s amazing 😊

So enlightening!! So glad Hannah moved on from rough stone rolling issues.😊

The temple is absolutely the target. The gqblt and coming soon p issues are the strings being used the most and are linked to the polygamy issues, location issues and they all culminate to subvert temples and priesthood, but most importantly God. I wish Hannah could have talked more, it’s always a pleasure to have her on these channels I watch and watching her punch up at these very popular and very convincing detractors.

Amen Hannah and Greg! Amen!

Excellent! Thank you!

"What is he going after ultimately?". Fantastic question! No Temple, and the most we can hope for is the Terrestrial Kingdom, which President Oaks has taught us like the popular conception of Heaven!

Wow! Excellent video! Right up my ally of research and interest. I will be searching for more of such from the both of you. Thank you so much.

She's amazing!!!

What a great woman!

I read a book about by the three enlightenments, the French, the Scottish, and the American, which clears up the confusion.

It is so true that many in academia do not believe in God. I remember taking a history class on religions in America at the University of California. I loved history and took quite a few classes, as I was a history minor. I do not know if the professor believed in God, as he never went into belief or faith. I remember one student, however, who said he was going to pursue a PHD in Religion at one of the Ivy League universities. We both belonged to the same study group for another class, and one day, he asked what religion I belonged to. When I told him that I belonged to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, he immediately went on a verbal attack, loudly proclaiming that I worshipped devils and demons! He did this in a public area of the University where many students gathered to eat lunch. He did not stop his raging for about an hour and never allowed me to get a word in. What was odd is that later, in private, he apologized to me, stating that he knew many of the things that he had spewed at me were from antis and probably contained a lot of untruths. He said that he did not believe in God, and though he belonged to another church, he did not believe in it. He also asked me to pray for him, because I might be right! It made me think of the scripture in the Bible where Paul says there will be many who are "ever learning but never coming to a knowledge of the truth". 2 Timothy 3:7. These professors and students of religion were very "learned" however, were barren like the seplecures Christ talked about. Spiritual truth is only revealed through the Holy Spirit to one who is humble enough to pray and ask God, with a sincere heart.

Regarding how George Washigton could have been king of the US, research the Newburgh Conspiracy, in which his officers were disillusioned with the Confederation Congress and tried to get Washington to take over and be king. Of course, he refused. A good video that describes this is "George Washington; The Man Who Wouldn't Be King" by David McCullough.

@cwicmedia Greg there is a 4th thing that has come from the RLDS church and that is women in the priesthood. There may be more but that is a pretty big one also.

Loved this!

I have that book The Story of the Latter-day Saints. The Book was written by James Allen and Glen Leonard. The forward was written by Leonard Arrington, who said the Church Historical Department had approval of the First Presidency to prepare the book.

I love this episode!! Love it ❤.

Great episode.

Excellent

Thank you for the video. A thought came to my mind when you were talking about covenants - We “enter into” a covenant. It’s something we actually move into and leave behind what we can no longer be. We say we make a covenant with God - but He created it - we choose to become a part of it or not. I am responsible to choose Him or not. There is no other choice. But it is my choice to make.

YES, YES, and YES

Thank you Greg and Hannah!!!!!!! What a great discussion, so full of good things. What is the book you are working on, how soon will it be out?

LOVE Hannah and her work. Hadn't made the RLDS "connection" before! Good catch! lol

57:49 I would love to have more discussion/podcast on this topic. I feel like there has been a lot more discourse around giving the other restorationiat groups more credential with almost this “victimhood” mentality around it. But at the same time, I never hear about (not to say that it never happens) “prog-mos” leaving our church and joining the more “progressive” Community of Christ (or any other established branches. Maybe they will start their own).

Thank you for this comment!

Satan cant get rid of Christ but he has proven that he can get man to get rid of Christ! Satan has entered into the desenters! Satan knows the end… therefore….

What are you talking about the Meso American model comes from the RLDS? Hugh Nibley and so many other prominent LDS preached this.

Yes, we are to HELP those who are being persecuted. But not allow those who are coming in armed to harm us, there is a difference. May our country wake up and again worship our Father in Heaven, worship Jesus Christ! 🙏

When I see that Hezekiah claims that God ordered the annihilation of the Amalekites, I tend to think our understanding of them has been Deuteronomized.

Brilliant approach! Reformation is poorly covered in public school. Just a footnote , really .

The ancient Catholic church only wanted the Priesthood to have and interpret the Scripture because they were zealous to keep the doctrine "pure", based on a misunderstanding of the verse that says that Scripture is not for private interpretation.

The picture of this video is hilarious

Before the mormons dunked me but after the Lutherans sprinkled me I remember playing outside a Catholic church and I listened to the service. It was in Latin and I remember thinking I wonder how many people in there understood what they were saying. As a little kid I found it very strange that people would go and listen to something they don't understand. My next encounter with holy water will be Greek orthodox.

Everyone seems to forget after the War between the States, that the English settlements began in 1607 in Virginia. It was based on English Common law. It was New England that was full of the Religious based settlements. Before people brush off Virginia, remember MANY of the founders came from Virginia. I bring this up because the early American Progressives that morphed into the modern Woke movement came from New England Churches. That is why many elected Republicans seem like left wingers using the brakes, because they are descended from 19th century Progressives. The Conservatives got crushed & the Democrats became infiltrated & flipped by the Marxists. I have always been told that the Constitution was an inspired document, well remember much of it came from Virginians, not Pilgrims. Virginia had its own religious based influences. Maybe I a just shouting at the wind, the early LDS church was based out of New York & Ohio & they were closer to New England which preferred Centralized government than Virginia which was home to Decentralized Federal government.

This’ll be interesting

Of course history is written one way. My problem is when history changes after so many years of it happening that's the problem. For example the JFK assassination. How did that change in 2023?

…to liberate the captive!!!

Doesn't king noah and the priests explicitly say they'll let him go not if he denies the christ and his blasphemy but the "mean things" he said of them? That indicates to me that's what they took issue with and the blasphemy charges were their way of getting him...if my kid is kidnapped in my car and I have him arrested for kidnapping but instead of making a plea deal for the whereabouts of my child i instead say we'll let him go if i get my car back I feel like you'd be hard pressed to claim the reason I got him arrested was for my kid. (While technically true it was a means to the greater end of my car not my kid)

Book of Tephi address this stuff

I don't think anyone is denying polygamy. Polygamy happened and still does. The question is, did Joseph start it or did Brigham. If you just take current events of Joseph's lifetime. Believe what he said, what Hyrum said and what Emma said. Discount others reflective accounts. Know that Joseph didn't father any other children than with Emma. There are no letters to any other wives other than Emma's letters. There are affidavits of Joseph denying polygamy or multiple wives. I do not believe Joseph to be a liar. The first two printings of the Doctrine and Covenant teach one husband one wife doctrine. Hyrum's speech at the conference, a few months before the martyrdom, strongly teaches against plural wives. Which I might add the Church took down off the Joseph Smith Papers website. How can you say it is insane to believe this? And this is not all. The first-time polygamy was preached publicly was 1852, eight years after Joseph's death in General Conference. 132 was put in the D and C in the 1870's. Read the section out loud. It's crazy. And the polygamist didn't even follow it! There is an increase of multiple wife marriages and children after the death of Joseph and Hyrum 1844. If it was so unsafe for it to be practiced, they all of a sudden got brave after their leaders were murdered. Even the judge in the Temple Lot Case didn't believe Joseph was a polygamist after hearing the "supposable wives" of Joseph, testimonies. I love Jacob's sermon in the Book of Mormon. I believe polygamy is an abomination, a grosser crime and that Heavenly Father wouldn’t want that for his daughters. I believe the Bible. Abram's wife asked him to sleep with their slave to conceive a child for them. I believe Jacob's father-in-law tricked him to marry Leah. How can this be a stretch? Please go be on Michelle Stone's program and set us all straight. She asks for others to come and share all the time. I would love to be set straight. I have been wrestling with this for a long time and I would love to let it go. But it all comes up again when I hear that it is crazy, insane or a stretch to believe that way. No, it is not. I'm a sane individual who has a testimony of Jesus Christ, of the Book of Mormon, of this Church, of Joseph Smith, of President Nelson. Please don't discount this without looking at original sources. Michelle shears her sources. Whitney Horning shares her sources. That is how I know that the Church took down the teaching of Hyrum's. Because Whitney encouraged me to look up the sources myself, so I did. Michelle would come on your program. I have seen her on a lot of other programs. Yes, I can believe it was Brigham who did this. Along with blood atonement, priesthood band, Adam God theory, disbanding the Relief Society for 20 years, his words to women over the pulpit, taking more than sufficient tithing for his and his families gain, ordaining his son's to be Apostles without other apostles knowing, and then sending the one sons crazy amount of money to him in New York (No he wasn't on a mission and in today's money it would be $200,000 a year), not following the Word of Wisdom, being convicted of adultery with Augusta Cobs, a Cochranite. Which brings us to the Cochran religion where I think Brigham learned their teaching of spiritual wifery.

Just wait until you learn about the real history of ww2...

Jefferson was a Christian only in the same way that Richard Dawkins is a Christian. Jefferson recognized value in some of the moral teachings of Jesus, but he rejected Jesus's divinity and his purported miracles. Jefferson was considered an atheist by many in his time, so much so that his lack of standard religious faith was a major contention point in the election of 1800 where the main anti-Jefferson point of the Federalist party was that Jefferson was a radical atheist who would lead the US into a new French Revolution. For example, during the 1800 presidential campaign, the New England Palladium wrote, ""Should the infidel Jefferson be elected to the Presidency, the seal of death is that moment set on our holy religion, our churches will be prostrated, and some infamous 'prostitute', under the title of goddess of reason, will preside in the sanctuaries now devoted to the worship of the most High." Jefferson is also well known for his push to separate Church and State. The "Wall of Separation" was his project that began in Virginia and carried through to the Presidency. As Jefferson wrote in 1802, "religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legislative powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should "make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof", thus building a wall of separation between church and State."

No such thing as a "Christain Nation" as long as most "Christains" believe in the "Trinity" which does not exist any more than Walker, Texas Ranger or Batman exist. To be a real Christian you must believe in Christ as he actually is. Just getting the name right doesn't mean much.

Overall good discussion. However I disagree with Greg's comment about the reason those in Jerusalem tried to kill Lehi (saying it wasn't because he told them to repent but because the prophecy of Christ was blasphemy to them). That's contrary to the account. Go back and read 1 Nephi 1:18-20 and 1 Nephi 2:13), which clearly show that his testimony about their wickedness and the impending destruction of Jerusalem were things that they didn't believe and angered them. The messiah testimony is mentioned there but it never says the Jews called that blasphemy. That's made up.

Sorry guys, I dedicated 25 yrs of research in all the Americas searching for evidences of the peoples that are in the Book of Mormon. What I found leads greatly to Meso America, including Joseph's own publications on more than one occasion, stating such. Even the Church has recently acknowledged these writings as very most likely coming from Joseph himself. These facts cannot be denied. The boundaries of America today,we're not here then, so America plays a role, but a secondary role and not a primary role. My book will disclose all of this. The purpose is to simply fortify testimonies gained through faith