SHOCKING Secrets of the Lost 116 Pages REVEALED! (feat. Don Bradley) 

Don Bradley is truly the Elvis of LDS history. But, what surprised me more is his biblical understanding and the connections he makes with the BoM. 116 pages is the most influential book on the BoM to date. It radically helped me appreciate the text and the translation process in new ways. I can’t recommend more Bradleys work and the game changer it is. Before anyone bails out of belief in the BoM PLEASE AT LEAST READ Don’s book. You will not be sorry!!!

How did Joseph Smith know the universe went on forever when the scientific community all believed the universe ended at the Milky Way galaxy?

This was a great episode! Wish Don could be a regular contributor to the channel!

Don Bradley is awesome. He’s the only LDS scholar that I’m aware of that rightly pointed out that 888 in Ether 3 references Jesus Christ.

I discovered your channel only two days ago, and I’ve been binge watching it. This is my favorite episode so far! I love what you guys are doing! Love Don Bradley! ❤

Such a good episode well done guys. I could listen to Don Bradley all day 👏🏽

I’m going to be sad when Don is leaves. His episodes and Reid moon’s are some of my favorites

Always love the episodes with Don Bradley!!!

This sort of content, mixed with commentary and reviews of anti Mormons, is ward radios sweet spot. Draw me a ven diagram and I will show you the middle is right here.

So cool that Don is explaining his book. I loved it.

Cardon! Thanks. Also Don, your work is much appreciated.

How did Joseph Smith predict the Civil War thirty years before it started?

Don Corleone with the low down on The Book of Mormón 🔥 this is going to be a great episode ... The book is true!❤

Love this episode. I love the literary connections as well between Asherah and the Tree of Life vision of Lehi, with its association with Mary. Fascinating stuff.

Don Bradley is the man

I’m about half way through the book. My dad read it last year and loved it. So far I love the info on the truer story of Martin Harris’ wife. I feel badly that my entire life I had a poor opinion of her but, per usual, it was based on not having all the information. ❤

❤ Don Bradley is a Rock Star! 🤩

Loved this episode! Like watching an awesome mystery unfold.

So glad Don mentioned a follow up book at the last minute I think it’s a great idea! I know he may not have been serious but I was able to help Don illustrate some of the pictures in his book and I believe that there is more that he could share in a second edition and I would love to update the artwork and add more. If you ever decide to give it a go, let me know.

14:14. My wife is a descendant of DE Harris! Married to royalty here. :) Top THAT Cardon!

I always make sure to comment on every one of your videos, even if I don’t know what to say. Just pushin' the algorithm, baby.

Love your channel. Thanks for the good program.

I've read that in the days of Lehi and Nephi there was a continuing problem with bandits and thieves. The law was interpreted in such a way that even ordinary citizens had a duty to capture or kill known bandits and thieves. Therefore, Nephi had a duty to kill Laban. It makes sense to me since Laban called Nephi and his brothers bandits and thieves to justify stealing their riches

Fascinating! Loved the information Brad revealed!

Lol, these Mormon-Haters, when will they ever get their way?!?

Reading the comments always gives me a headache… if people don’t like our religion why do they feel the need to make us all hate it? Let’s just all agree to disagree yeah?

Makes you wonder if we'll ever find those lost 116 pages like we have so many other pages🤔? That would be so epic 🥳

Don should just be a regular and a part of the cast tbh

My phone is going to break this is too 🔥🔥🔥

Cardon - when you discussed disagreement over when BCE and CE starts it reminded me of something. When I was in university I took a course on Jewish Old Testament theology. The professor gave us historical accounts, but the time in terms of years were after the destruction of the second emple in 70 CE. So to get the real AD year we had to subtract 70 years.

On the subject of dragons, it could be pointed out that the serpents which assaulted the children of Israel in the wilderness are called "fiery serpents" in Number 21:6, but are called "fiery FLYING serpents" in 1 Nephi 17:41. Dragons confirmed!!!! Also, Don Bradley's book is amazing. I really hope the lost manuscript has been preserved somewhere, because the content it had, which Don brings to the fore, seems to be extremely relevant to understanding everything from Mosiah onwards.

Thinking about President Nelson’s comments regarding the translation of the book of Mormon and comparing it to how long a whole team of scholars took to translate the Bible into English.. and how Joseph Smith was able to translate the Book of Mormon many times faster than this whole group of scholars. Translated the Bible many more pages per day…. now add to that the fact that half of the pages of the Book of Mormon that were translated we don’t have… that doubles the speed it which he translated the Book of Mormon…Astounding!

Deathbed testimony is still not considered hearsay in some contexts!

If the 116 pages weren’t burned up, why wouldn’t some one come out with them ?

The best suggestion for a name of Cardon's old-timey newspaper is "The Ward Expositor"

I remember the Thomas B. Marsh Story. There HAD to be more than milk to it.

Don Bradley! The man!

Go talk to a Dairyman about milk strippings. They are the most valuable part of the milk. Even today milk is not priced by the stuff in the jug you get at the grocery. It's priced by the fat content of the milk. That strippings is how they survived when they was deep famine. It was the butter, cream, and cheese that provided for the long term storage and health during the cold winter.

I have been wondering about the use of precious metals in the sword handles and hilts. The only reasonable answer I can come up with is that gold and silver are both more dense than lead. That would make the hilt, in particular the pommel an excellent counterbalance to a steel blade.

That's why it was exactly 600 years.

Yeah dude

If Don Bradley is the author of "The Lost 116 Pages," then doesn't that mean he's Lehi! 🤔

Comments for the algorithm! Love me some ward radio! I love the music! It’s super epic! Also Cardon… I love you bro! you’re the man… but not all science is bad man. Not all academics are bad man. That’s my only qualm! Everything else is great!

Interesting

I wish the host didn’t need so much attention and let Don finish his awesome points

I have his book

We understand better why the Lord was so hard on Joseph and why he was so distraught.

Is there an audiobook available for purchase somewhere of Don Bradley's "116 Pages" book?

In the last days evidence for the Book of Mormon will come forth. I recall hearing that for so many years and my little archaolgical heart exploded in hope. Seeing it happen as a flood is an amazing experience. Still, we have a flood of evidence for the bible and people still call it a book of fiction. Ignorance will alaways rear its ugly head.

And when did Joseph Smith leave Liberty Jail? Passover.

Masonry has as much in common with the Restoration as Catholicism and Protestantism has with the LDS Church. Bradley shouldn't be super-imposing Masonry onto elements of the Restoration.

26:00 xkcd, an online comic, recently did a strip about time accounting that is pertinent.

I love your stuff! But one question… why can’t you do a longer episode with Don? Like 4 hours long? Cardon, you always say you have a “hard out” coming up? Do you guys rent the podcast space? If so, just do it out of your basement and give us all what we need! Longer episodes! Or tell us how much you need to rent that bad boy out for an extended amount of time and we will pay!

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Does anyone know about what years does the lost pages span thru?

On the first episode of Jordan Peterson’s Exodus videos ~ Watch Prager’s introduction. He says something to the effect of “I’m not interesting in how the Torah came to be, only in its authorship.” I loved his boundary and transparent “I’m not here to argue how the stones did this prove how they went from this cave to this king etc. I believe God authored them and I will speak from this vantage point.” I’m kinda there w the BOM. The arguments and speculation about the origins and translation are getting less and less interesting to me. I’m more interested in the authorship.

@onandagus1 How many days passed between when Lehi received his first revelation to when Nephi beheaded Laban?

Interesting. In the future, I don't think you need four commenters, it disrupts the flow of the stories.

His gaining or loosing years wouldn't work due to seasons.

You guys should consider getting off socail media 🤣

Bring on Dan Vogel

Were the 116 pages just "lost" or did Lucy Harris throw them in the fireplace? I have heard both accounts.

That Thomas b Marsh story is not true anyway.

Read the D&C 10 in which Joseph spoke about the stolen pages. He says that god "warned him" that his enemies were going to change the lost pages and "falsely accuse" JS of mistranslation, so that is why he should not translate them again. BUT how could they do that since he wrote the missing pages in his own handwriting?

Somebody else found the lost 116 pages, and plagiarised them to found a whole other faith by writing "prophetic" books with the content of the 116 pages. Then she disposed of them. I just made that up so don't read into it.

Don relies far too much on arguments from ignorance. He wants to fill in gaps which the record cannot. He borders on the conspiratorial in order to make a niche for himself.

You guys are just straight up making stuff up 😂

A statement about the lost 116 pages, attributed to Lucy Harris: "If this be a divine communication, the same being that revealed it to you can easily replace it." *****SPOILER: Joseph couldn't replicate the translation (maybe becuase he wasn't really translating)! EVEN the LDS church aknowledges this in D&C 10 (granted with the additon of mormo spin)

BOM and View of the Hebrews share in common: Israel and restoration of the Ten Lost Tribes; people of the New World from the Old; divide the migrants into civilized and uncivilized groups with long wars between them; destruction of the civilized by the uncivilized; that Native Americans were descended from Israelites and their languages from Hebrew; preached in ancient America

If Joseph Smith was inspired to translate the gold plates as he claimed, he should have been able to reproduce the translation of the lost pages by the same inspiration. Joseph’s handling of the problem of the missing pages shows that his driving concern was to blunt any criticisms from his detractors, a concern uncharacteristic of genuine prophets of God. Joseph’s claim that he had disobeyed God in allowing Martin Harris to take the manuscript home contradicts his claim that the Lord gave him permission to do so. The problem of the missing manuscript prompted Joseph to issue his first two modern revelations, in effect transforming him from inspired translator to new prophet. The missing manuscript was in all probability destroyed, most likely by Martin’s wife, so that Joseph’s claim that wicked men had the manuscript in their possession and had altered it to make Joseph out to be a fraud is most likely false. Had wicked men actually possessed the missing manuscript, it is very unlikely that they would have altered it, since to do so would invite accusations of tampering and they had no reason to think that Joseph could possibly have reproduced the manuscript correctly. Joseph’s admission that he tried hard to find the missing manuscript but did not know who had it or where it was is not consistent with his claims that an angel revealed to him the location of the gold plates and that God spoke to him. Joseph’s claim, after the loss of the 116 pages, that God had inspired Nephi two thousand years earlier to produce a parallel account in order to circumvent the plot of Joseph’s enemies, is simply too incredible and convenient to take seriously.

I think every person on this episode is in violation and covenant breaking. The should be some reconciliation to this fact.

So WHY???? did joe say "all is lost" when he could have EASILY "translated form the "gold" plates ??. TOTAL BS ABOUT EVERYTHING LDS CONTINUES FROM THERE !