Gospel Tangents Podcast

Jim Lucas & Jonathan Neville explain why they think David Whitmer's description of the translation process of Book of Mormon isn't reliable. Check out our conversation... https://youtu.be/TYPzopAsWyM Don’t miss our other conversations with Jim Lucas: https://gospeltangents.com/people/jim-lucas/ Joseph’s Magic Show GT  00:32  Did you finish what you wanted to say about David Whitmer? Jim  00:34  No, we've got to finish David Whitmer. Jonathan  00:36  We got sidetracked a little bit. Jim  00:38  So anyway. GT  00:38  That's what tangents are all about. Right? Jim  00:39  Right. So David Whitmer, I'll make it quick. He's in Fayette, where 78% of the Book of Mormon is translated. But he's not a translator. He's not a scribe. He was never a scribe. He never really says explicitly that he was present for the translation, except for maybe this one time when he describes everybody was there in this one account where he says, "Oh, everybody was there; all of my family, the Smiths came over, and bunch of other p