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Who Are the Two Prophets Who Die in Jerusalem?

We respond to a listener’s inquiry about the identity of the two prophets whose deaths in Jerusalem are prophesied of in Revelation.  They ask a question about a talk from our favorite speaker and theologian, Truman Madsen.  We provide sources from Joseph Smith and even read another non-canonical early Christian gospel to explain where the ideas come from.

Truman G. Madsen’s talk on Elijah’s Mission: https://speeches.byu.edu/talks/truman-g-madsen/elijahs-mission/

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Brigham Young and John Taylor “Never Friends”

In this episode we discuss the relationship between Brigham Young and John Taylor. We read an email from a descendant of John Taylor who shares a story from her family history that the two of them were never friends.

Link to Sunstone Conference discussion mentioned by Gerrit: https://sunstone.org/never-friends-brigham-young-and-john-taylor/

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Jesus’ Family

A recent internet post about the mother of Mary and a question about whether or not Jesus had brothers and sisters led to a discussion that examined early Christian noncanonical gospels and Catholic tradition.

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The Trinity and the Nature of God

Welcome to Season 3 of the Standard of Truth Podcast. In this episode we continue our discussion on the nature of God, the Trinity, and the question “Are Mormon’s Christian?”. We do a deeper theological dive into the nature of Jesus and try to find common ground on the idea of salvation ultimately coming through the Atonement of Jesus Christ.

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Are ”Mormons” Christian? Part 3

We wrap up our foray into early Christian theology (for now) and discuss some of the unique aspects of Latter-day Saint theology that are different from traditional Christians.  Again, we apologize for the poor audio quality.

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Are ”Mormons” Christian? Part 2

The discussion about Latter-day Saint beliefs about Christ and early Christian history continues from the previous week. Because we were traveling outside of our “studio” but wanted to deliver a podcast, the audio quality is poor on this and the next episode.  We apologize for that.  The content is the same level of quality you get every week; we will let you determine what that is.

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Are ”Mormons” Christian? Part 1

A recent uptick in social media conversations about whether or not Latter-day Saints (Mormons) are really Christians causes Gerrit and Richard to wade into early Christian theology. You have not lived until you have had a discussion about Arianism.

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The Problem with Punctuation

In this episode Gerrit examines the claims that particular emphasis was given to part of Joseph Smith History by way of punctuation.  Few things are more exciting than punctuation.

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Mormon Battalion Part 4

In this episode, Gerrit finally gets to the Mormon Battalion and exposes James K. Polk as the liar he is. Controversial we know, we only hope that Gerrit’s aggressive attacks on President Polk will not offend our Polkite listeners. We also discuss the temple work done for the Founding Fathers and Wilford Woodruff’s vision.

Link to Wilford Woodruff’s journal:

https://catalog.churchofjesuschrist.org/assets/eb07ddd8-d258-43b3-82fd-1b0bc186b269/0/275

Link to conference address (end of page 89):

https://archive.org/stream/conferencereport1898a/conferencereport681chur_djvu.txt

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Mormon Battalion Part 3

In this episode, we continue with our discussion of the context for the Mormon Battalion as the Federal Government continues its disinformation campaign with the Saints. We share some specific conversations that Jesse Little has with Thomas Kane and President James Polk. 

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