Richard Bushman Talks About The Gold Plates to an Evangelical! 

A wager: Bushman is secretly ashamed of his support of the mormon scam. He wants one foot in real scientific history and one foot in the big mormon fib so he doesn't have to go through the messy effort to come clean. He would serve humanity better if he got honest

@elainerooker-deputyassista9223 no. We Latter Day Saints think he’s evil

@@weirdlanguageguy He's evil to mormons? Why? He does not shout to the crowd that the mormon king has no clothes. He keeps the scam afloat like a good little LDS pretender and he has academic credentials (which he should turn in)

@@weirdlanguageguy Dr. Bushman is evil? I'm not sure I'm following.

Love this comment. Amen.

Respect beliefs and testimonies based on feelings. 😂. The fact of the matter is there were never any gold plates because there were never any Nephites. Period dot. There are no Nephites, there is zero evidence for them and they are entirely fictional. Even the LDS church is moving away from the BoM being actual history. No Nephites equals no plates. It’s that simple. Let’s not forget no culture was literate in the Americas prior to the Europeans arriving. The best we can do is secondary oral cultures like the Mayans. Secondary Oral cultures did not produce narratives and or write books. Finally, the BoM culture was millions of people who were literate and writing. So where is all the writing? Jesus, King Benjamin told them to write and distribute their sermons. Not to mention all the other things that were written as the BoM tells us. So where is it? We have thousands of Roman and Greek writing examples cultures who were literate. With the millions of Nephites and Lamanites where is all their writing? There is a reason it doesn’t exist for the same reason the golden plates don’t exist it’s because they are fictional. You don’t get to believe in something with zero evidence based on feelings and call it true. I’m sorry you don’t.

@@TheChenny73 I hate to break it to you, but there was written language in Mesoamerica. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesoamerican_writing_systems

Thank you for being a peacemaker ❤

Love ❤️ and respect Dr. Bushman. The intellect and integrity.

Shhh! The mormons don't want anyone to know how Joe copied Mo!

@@Tom-fo5ce that’s the dumbest thing I have ever heard. Joseph Smith did not have a copy of the Quran anywhere near him. He could not have copied it. It was inspired by God, just as much of the Quran was. God gave Mohommed some knowledge and wisdom to help his people. Sadly, sometimes what man receives from God they mess up and fall. But it doesn’t mean God didn’t dispense the knowledge of it. Most members of the Church think Mohammed could have been a prophet who either fell or people corrupted his memory and they fell into their own tradition based on what was dispensed, similar to how Christianity was corrupted by the political leaders of the day. God also gave Ellen G. White a vision of what looks identical to the Nauvoo temple. She was a contemporary of Joseph Smith yet they never met and never conversed. How could they have both received the same vision? Because GOD dispensed it.

​@@zionmama150Mohammed, Ellen g White, and Joseph Smith were NOT prophets

@@zionmama150 Exactly. The only logical conclusion is that God is constantly revealing truths to people and those who have much truth revealed to them are the prophets of the day.

@@zionmama150 I disagree. I think the dumbest thing you ever heard was when someone brainwashed you into thinking humans get messages from supernatural beings (sometimes but usually only thousands of years ago, in caves and always where no one can else can prove it!).

He's not LDS, but he's very fascinated with all things "Restoration." He's also not limited to just the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He's interviewed a number of people from the Community of Christ (former RLDS), the Church of Jesus Christ and several other forms of the restoration.

He's evangelical. But loves ❤️ church history. All religions. Am xlds still love ❤️ Bushman. Respect divergent cultures.

He is just more open minded

We love the bible but the Book of Mormon teaches you more of Christ than any other book. I love all truth carol

lol..really? More about Christ than the Bible? The new testament was written by the eyewitnesses of Christ and His followers. The whole New Testament is about Jesus! What are you talking about? @@wayneorr6748

Nah. The book is an obvious fraud. Beyond all the sciences (Biology, Chemistry, Anthropology, Archaeology, Geology...) proving it a fraud, the very idea of a literary society in that setting is a joke.

The Jews in Jesus's time denied that Jesus was the Messiah. We're all on our own footpaths...

Saw a video other day where 2 missionaries engaged with two Israelites of African countenance. The Israelites stomped their arguments from BOM like cigarette butt on the street. Just saying our own paths. They all believed in Christ.

Moroni page 61: Joe persuadeth many a fine young lady, and a few plain but rich ones too, so they keepeth the cash flowing as needeth

Just because both had angels no one else saw hand them convoluted scriptures, also unseen by anyone else, that gave them power over large numbers of people and women does not mean they are the same kind of prophet!

@@Tom-fo5ce pedoprophets then 😂

The fact people say muhammad and joseph smith are the same are either intellectually dishonest or not intellectual at all 😂😂😂 which one are you?

​@@mexicansmurf1538Well, they both married underage girls.