"..if there are faults, they are the mistakes of men.."
@karliesukowaty
9 ай бұрын
Every time my testimony gets a little shaken or I start to doubt I always come back to your videos. Please make more content! Also fair Mormon needs to recap this with you or even saints unscripted! It’s seriously a huge thing you’ve discovered
@karliesukowaty
9 ай бұрын
@saintsunscripted
@chadwright1006
9 ай бұрын
Thank you so much! And I’m SO glad it has helped you keep your testimony strong! Don’t worry about what anybody says-it is 100% the word of God! It is literally impossible for it to have been created any other way, and when you combine all the mounting evidences TOGETHER, it is not possible to come up with ANY scenario other than that it is of God. I apologize for the lack of recent videos! I WILL do more, but I just received a call to be the Bishop in my Ward, and my head is still swimming and my time is pretty scarce. Once I get both feet back on the ground, I have some ideas for future videos. Stay tuned… :)
@danielclingen34
8 ай бұрын
President J Ruben Clark said “ If we have truth, [it] cannot be harmed by investigation. If we have not truth, it ought to be harmed” There’s layers to how demonstrably false it is. Even fair admits that Joseph was a pedo, as do the Joseph smith papers. His BOM was a plagiarized text, using his same “treasure digging” fraud of which he was previously convicted, to get rich. And of course we know his “ golden plates” where his masterpiece of treasure digging fraud, as it gained him power, wealth& sex abuse. Documented by fair, joseph smith papers& other sources, including Joseph’s co-conspirators. And the church/corporation has lived up to Joseph’s record, continuing abuse,fraud& extortion to this very day. The current leaders of the church colluded last year to hide pedo bishops instead of protecting lds kuds and of course they were fined by the government for committing fraud. They are a highly unethical business and not much more. Free yourself and don’t give it any more power.
@richardcox5649
11 ай бұрын
It seems to me that if you can't erase something you would be extremely careful to think about what you are going to write/engrave. I'm unclear how the mistakes lend support for the idea that the source material was written on metal plates. It seems that the "mistakes" and "corrections" are also consistent with storytelling and dictation. Talking is easier than engraving. Joseph Smith talking and then realizing, as he is talking and telling the story, that clarification is needed seems more plausible than someone engraving on metal without having thought out what they want to write. I'm not saying the BoM is or isn't God's word. I am saying that I don't think your argument supports the narrative that the source text was written by multiple authors on metal plates.
@johnbushman57
Ай бұрын
Fascinating! Further evidence it is scripture and why we call it The Book of Mormon (inspired) and not The Book of Joseph Smith (fiction).
@grimmy02
9 ай бұрын
Very insightful. Thanks for sharing this information!
@karliesukowaty
9 ай бұрын
Oh my goodness I love the spreadsheet data. Thank you!!!
@FromG2eminor
11 ай бұрын
Just found your channel and have been binge watching. I have always felt compassion for these authors who admit and felt their short comings as a human. But the weaknesses helped them rely on the Lord more and i need to do the same.
@chadwright1006
11 ай бұрын
Yay! I’m actually writing the script for my next video as I type this 😁 Humility and faith are necessary to overcome weaknesses. I love Nephi’s lament of HIS weaknesses in 2 Ne 33:1-4. In fact that’s going to be the subject of my NEXT one I have planned. So glad to have you along! 😊
@williamfowler709
10 ай бұрын
The Bible has mistakes and Book of Mormon has mistakes so two wrongs make a righ???
@chadwright1006
10 ай бұрын
Not exactly
@TrebizondMusic-cm6fp
Жыл бұрын
The biggest mistake is the theft of the first half of Mormon's abridgment, meaning that the book we read, while good, true and beautiful, is still broken and incomplete. I believe that Mormon included Nephi's small plates because they were meant to be read side by side with Mormon's abridgment of the fuller account of the first 400 years - kind of how we can read the Synoptic Gospels. I believe that the substitution of the Small Plates for the stolen first half was not the main purpose for Mormon including them; I think it supplied a useful Plan B. If you haven't yet read Don Bradley's book _The Lost 116 Pages,_ I can't recommend it highly enough.
@chadwright1006
Жыл бұрын
Absolutely. Wouldn't it be great to have it to read as well?? Someday...
@fidgetthecrazy
11 ай бұрын
I wonder if Nephi was commanded by God to abridge Lehi’s book, because Lehi probably would have given the same account, but with more details and possibly other things before the events Nephi’s account starts off with. Since God would have known that something like the 116 pages getting lost would have happened, so he told Nephi to recount stuff that his father probably would have written down as well.
@karliesukowaty
9 ай бұрын
Oh my gosh the end about no corrections when God is the author just blew me out of the water
@chadwright1006
9 ай бұрын
Pretty cool huh?? It blew me away when I realized it too! So many small subtle evidences that are easy to miss unless you ASK to find them!
@karliesukowaty
5 ай бұрын
I just ran across Mormon 9:33 and if our plates had been sufficiently large we should have written in Hebrew; but the Hebrew hath been altered by us also; and if we could have written in Hebrew, behold, ye would have had no imperfection in our record. I am mind blown because it makes total sense to me!
@jameselfers9539
11 ай бұрын
Show me those golden tablets and I'll become a member of the LDS church in a heartbeat.
@chadwright1006
11 ай бұрын
Show me that resurrected Jesus? Oh wait, there were just witness accounts. It seems God has a pattern of having witnesses and requiring faith 😁
@jameselfers9539
11 ай бұрын
There is no question that Jesus actually lived. The question of the resurrection will always be debatable. Joseph Smith actually lived. He apparently had irrefutable proof of God's existence in the golden tablets but chose NOT to show it to the world so that he would be instantly believed but to a small circle of eyewitnesses who gave nothing more than the vaguest descriptions of what they saw. Just as Christianity rises or falls on the question of the resurrection, LDS rises or falls on the golden tablets and the reputation of Joseph Smith. We KNOW he was lying when he claimed to translate Egyptian hieroglyphics. That calls into question everything else about him. Joseph Smith was in his day and today often called a con man. No one, not even atheists calls Jesus a conman today nor did they during his ministry. THAT speaks volumes! @@chadwright1006
@TheBiggestRat674
11 ай бұрын
@@chadwright1006we literally have Jesus's cloths, his tomb, and all of the names of the places in the Bible unchanged because of generations of teaching. Theres no evidence that "ancient civilizations" were in the Americas, and no architectural evidence. The book of mormon says the laminates became native Americans but that has been proved false! Its proven that native Americans' ancestors are Asian
@ja-kaz
11 ай бұрын
So how many of our ancient prophets actually physically engraved on the plates that Joseph Smith translated?
@sherigraham3873
10 ай бұрын
Excellent points! I love your channel, insights and research! Keep it up.
@chadwright1006
10 ай бұрын
Thank you so much 😊
@marshaatkin6198
11 ай бұрын
Thank you for your podcast! I'm amazed by how much effort you've put into your research and the real evidence that you add to underscore the truthfulnees of the Book of Mormon! ❤
@chadwright1006
11 ай бұрын
Thank you so much! It’s been a labor of much love for a long time now 😊
@wendellsurpr4987
11 ай бұрын
What a joke
@chadwright1006
11 ай бұрын
Must have missed the punchline… 😉
@akpred
11 ай бұрын
Mormon also was the one Bridging the Book of Mormon. In doing so, he probably had the opportunity to correct mistakes that had been in other writers works.
@chadwright1006
11 ай бұрын
I’m sure in some instances you could be correct. The small plates (1 Nephi through Omni) seem to have been inserted verbatim however. The styles and voices are very different from Mormon’s style. Also epistles and letters Mormon includes have a very different feel. If he did any modifications, they are pretty minor. Also if he was correcting other writers mistakes, I would think the rates between authors would be more similar. Since Mormon made MORE wording corrections than the OTHER authors (when he was writing original material), it seems that he probably DIDN’T correct anyone else. Otherwise he would have corrected his OWN mistakes before he wrote them down!
@christopherhardy8937
11 ай бұрын
Ummmm usually when something is a mistake, it means it's WRONG!!😂
@chadwright1006
11 ай бұрын
Maybe watch the whole video? You kind of missed the whole point…
@christopherhardy8937
11 ай бұрын
@@chadwright1006 I watched the whole video. I didn't miss the point. The idea of something being true or valid because it's not perfect makes no logical sense
@christopherhardy8937
9 ай бұрын
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@beefmaster4
Жыл бұрын
Interesting!
@chadwright1006
Жыл бұрын
I know! When I first started noticing it I was kind of blown away.
@tgrogan6049
Жыл бұрын
Yes and the more mistakes something has the more true it is! 🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪
@chadwright1006
Жыл бұрын
Kinda missed the whole point… 😁
@tgrogan6049
Жыл бұрын
@@chadwright1006 Then change your click bait title.
@chadwright1006
Жыл бұрын
@@tgrogan6049 Please watch the whole video carefully. It explained WHY in THIS case, complexity DOES offer proof of authenticity. It’s not clickbait. If you’ve already decided the BOM isn’t true, don’t click 😁
@tgrogan6049
Жыл бұрын
@@chadwright1006 So is some literature complex and not from God?
@chadwright1006
Жыл бұрын
@@tgrogan6049 certainly. See my previous note and have a great day 😊
@bartonbagnes4605
Жыл бұрын
Combine this with the original translation being in a form of english that hadn't been spoken or written in almost 300 years. A form of english that Joseph Smith Jr. would not have encountered or known about, since it was only in use from the 1400s A.D. to about 1550 A.D. So Joseph Smith Jr. translated The Book Of Mormon from one dead language to a virtually dead language. So what people original thought, and many still think, were mistakes in wording because of Joseph Smith Jr.'s lack of education, were in fact an archaic dead form of speaking. It wasn't until 1838 that Joseph Smith Jr. went through and made changes to bring it in line to the King James english style.
@chadwright1006
Жыл бұрын
Thanks for sharing that! There are so many layers of complexity. To think it could have ever been constructed by Joseph Smith is to literally put on blinders and yell your one theory at the top of your lungs hoping that everything else goes away. But it doesn't!
@bartonbagnes4605
Жыл бұрын
@@chadwright1006 Do you want to see something else crazy? Read Alma 5: 5 very carefully and tell me what kind of a genius could come up with that, let alone an 19th century little educated farm boy. If you don't spot it just ask and I'll point it out.
@chadwright1006
Жыл бұрын
@@bartonbagnes4605I haven’t found it. What have you got? 😁
@bartonbagnes4605
Жыл бұрын
@@chadwright1006 It's a birth announcement. Alma The Younger is recounting his father's journey. At the beginning of this verse it is They and Them, but at the end it is We.
@chadwright1006
Жыл бұрын
@@bartonbagnes4605 Huh. Wow. You might be right. That’s a great observation! So many things to discover! In my next video, one of the things I’m going to talk about is how the BoM makes it obvious that Nephi’s brother Sam was the father of only daughters. And that that fact stays consistent through the whole book. Stay tuned, and thanks for the pearl in Alma 5:5!
@logankearl8115
Жыл бұрын
You seem to take the approach that what is in the Book of Mormon is literally what the authors wrote in the plates and Joseph translated those without changing the words. So what do you make of the pattern when skins are mentioned that white skin is held as being better? Some people say the BOM is racist for that. Then some members say that "well it wasn't literally translated and joseph inserted white as his meaning of the word as pureness" or they say that the words that are used are for our understanding in our language so the words used by joseph aren't the actual words used but the general idea like in modern translating operations. Because I'm sure reformed Egyptian doesn't sound good written in English. And if it is more similar to normal translations, then wouldn't that weaken your argument? Or how would you say that these are mistakes when the English structure wouldn't exist in Egyptian? I am a member but I'm just curiousv since you didn't address that in the videos.
@chadwright1006
Жыл бұрын
Well I’m not going to get into the racism angle other than to say that we really have to be careful using modern lenses to view cultures of the past. That’s something that will likely all make sense in the hereafter, and I’m very comfortable leaving it there 😊 As for CORRECTIONS or CLARIFICATIONS, I am certain they were literally on the plates. After reading and studying the writing patterns and styles, I am BEGINNING to even feel like I can recognize the differences between writers. There is a definite and unique style to each of them. Also if you study Ether Chapter 12 and apply what Jacob says in Jacob 4:1-2, it becomes clear that the weaknesses Moroni is talking about are the “awkwardness“ of writing, which sounds a lot like mistakes that can’t be erased. Fun stuff! Not relevant to our salvation, but still fascinating!
@TrebizondMusic-cm6fp
Жыл бұрын
We shouldn't hold the Nephites up as paragons of virtue just because of an overly-simplistic identification of them as "the righteous ones." That identification was unstable: they went through patterns of apostasy and showed their human vices from the very beginning all the way through. If one of those vices was racial prejudice, then we are free to criticize them for that. And we'd be in good company: Jacob preaches against racial prejudice. Nephi reports on the skin of blackness but then goes above and beyond to say that God doesn't discriminate by color. Mormon goes out of his way to downplay the skin color too. When Mormon reports on converted Lamanites becoming white, I don't see any reason to take that as some kind of instantaneous magical change. If early Mormons had that kind of simplistic thinking, we can be wiser than them. I think Mormon was ignorant of genetics - anyway, remember that he's abridging from other records; he's not an omniscient narrator. It's also worth considering that, while the Nephites carried on the technologies of metal working and weaving, the Lamanites seem to have lost them at first: the darkness of their skins could simply be a suntan from preferring to go naked. I'm totally ok with the Nephites being snobs and looking down on the Lamanites as less civilized, including viewing their tanned skins as less attractive. This attitude isn't just a European one: consider India, Arabia, Japan...
@chadwright1006
Жыл бұрын
@@TrebizondMusic-cm6fp All good points! Thanks for sharing your insights on it.
@Canut0
11 ай бұрын
This helps greatly clarify the "mistakes of man" scripture 👍
@chadwright1006
11 ай бұрын
I'm convinced this is exactly what Moroni is lamenting about in Ether 12
@rconger24
11 ай бұрын
And ".. mistakes of men.. " is on the title page of The Book of Mormon.
@ThirdBrainLives
Жыл бұрын
Nonsense.
@chadwright1006
Жыл бұрын
Interesting. I spent about 5 years diving in to all of it. Have you read the Book of Mormon in its entirety? How can you explain what I found? I’d love to get your perspective on it. I’ve got more, so stay tuned!! 😁
@tgrogan6049
Жыл бұрын
@@chadwright1006 I am quite sure a Muslim has done the same thing with the Koran. Amazing that you presupposed that these characters actually existed.
@chadwright1006
Жыл бұрын
@@tgrogan6049 have you read the Book of Mormon cover to cover? I have at least 50 times. It’s not until you know something like the back of your hand that the subtleties and nuances start to make themselves known. Give it a try! What do you have to lose? Either way I don’t know what your beliefs are, but I surely don’t have any interest in tearing them down. All I can do is invite you to pay the price to learn what you don’t yet know. Have a great day!
@tgrogan6049
Жыл бұрын
@@chadwright1006 Every cultist in the world says the same thing. They have the "secret decoder key" to whatever their sect specific book "really says". Because you have read the BOM 50 -100-1000 times has no bearing on it's truth value.
@samwright3601
Жыл бұрын
Hate to be the one to tell you, but that doesn’t exactly refute what @chadwright1006 is saying either. It sure is a weird coincidence that the more time passes, the more The Book of Mormon is supported by history, by archeology, by psychology, and by Hebrew culture. Don’t fakes usually work the other way around?
@For-Goodness-Sake
Жыл бұрын
Joseph had a distinctive dictation style that comes across in both the BoM and the D&C, which includes these corrections and clarifications. He was also smart enough to use different voices for different characters, just like any author of fiction.
@chadwright1006
Жыл бұрын
Interesting. Is that your opinion, or do you have data and research to back that up, as I’ve shown? Because my years of looking at EXACTLY THAT shows the complete opposite. Please set aside any bias, read it prayerfully, and let the work speak for itself. Have a great day!
@germanslice
11 ай бұрын
@@chadwright1006 The Book was translated from author who lived in a different time period. God gave Joseph access into the timeline to translate it while everybody in the world is all too busy running around chasing after authors from Joseph's own time period.
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