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Several explanations for the seemingly sudden appearance of The Book of Mormon in 1829 (first published in 1830) have been put forth by historians and apologists alike. Each holds some value to its advocates while displaying obvious inconsistencies and unexplained features. However, significant new evidence necessitates the revision of all such authorship theories, including and especially the sole-authorship hypothesis—that Joseph Smith (between the ages of twenty-two and twenty-three) single-handedly composed all the sentences in The Book of Mormon through creative writing, automatic writing, or inspired dictation. Neoteric observations reveal deliberately hidden details in Mormonism’s keystone scripture that could not have been put there by Smith.
What is the real story behind how the two bookending characters (Nephi and Mormon) got their names? Where did the idea of Nephi being guided through the wilderness by a spiritually magnetic compass—a curious ball having pointers, spindles, and writing on its sides—truly come from? In this book, such details are called “Kircherisms,” a new class of anachronisms in The Book of Mormon. These Kircherisms have revealed a fresh set of influences, an undiscovered source text, and a wellspring of intriguing evidence that has never been published anywhere else.
With an infusion of new data, this book presents a novel and distinctive exegesis as well as a mutually exclusive and collectively exhaustive framework for organizing and evaluating the merits of all prior authorship theories. One mechanism, in particular, has emerged as the most comprehensive, evidence-based, and satisfying explanation for how The Book of Mormon came to pass.
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- Narrated by: Paul Brion
- Length: 22 hrs and 33 mins
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The diplomat and historian George F. Kennan (1904-2005) ranks as one of the most important figures in American foreign policy. Drawing on many previously untapped sources, Frank Costigliola's biography offers a new picture of a man of extraordinary ability and ambition whose idea of containing the Soviet Union helped ignite the Cold War but who spent the next half century trying to extinguish it. Always prescient, Kennan in the 1990s warned that the eastward expansion of NATO would spur a new cold war with Russia.
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Vanishing Act
- The Enduring Mystery Behind the Legendary Doolittle Raid Over Tokyo
- By: Dan Hampton
- Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
- Length: 9 hrs and 57 mins
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In the dark days after the devastating Pearl Harbor attacks during the spring of 1942, the United States was determined to show the world that the Axis was not invincible. Their bold plan? Bomb Tokyo. On April 18, 1942, sixteen B-25s, known as the Doolittle Raiders, hit targets across Japan before escaping to China. The eighth plane, however, did not follow the other raiders. Instead, Plane 8's pilots, Captain Edward "Ski" York and Lieutenant Bob Emmens, never attacked Tokyo, but headed across Japan to the Soviet Union, supposedly due to low fuel.
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Deep dive into the Doolittle raid and events that led up to it
- By Ethan on 05-30-24
By: Dan Hampton
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Patton's Prayer
- A True Story of Courage, Faith, and Victory in World War II
- By: Alex Kershaw
- Narrated by: Rob Shapiro
- Length: 7 hrs and 49 mins
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General George Patton needed a miracle. In December 1944, the Allies found themselves stuck. Rain had plagued the troops daily since September, turning roads into rivers of muck, slowing trucks and tanks to a crawl. A thick ceiling of clouds had grounded American warplanes, allowing the Germans to reinforce. The sprint to Berlin had become a muddy, bloody stalemate, costing thousands of American lives. Patton seethed, desperate for some change, any change, in the weather.
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Terrific listen
- By JP on 05-29-24
By: Alex Kershaw
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Paradise of the Damned
- The True Story of an Obsessive Quest for El Dorado, the Legendary City of Gold
- By: Keith Thomson
- Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon
- Length: 10 hrs and 1 min
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As early as 1530, reports of El Dorado, a city of gold in the South American interior, beckoned to European explorers. Whether there was any truth to the stories remained to be seen, but the allure of unimaginable riches was enough to ensnare dozens of would-be heroes and glory hounds in the desperate hunt. Among them was Sir Walter Raleigh: ambitious courtier, confidant to Queen Elizabeth, and, before long, El Dorado fanatic.
By: Keith Thomson
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Rebel in the Ranks
- Martin Luther, the Reformation, and the Conflicts That Continue to Shape Our World
- By: Brad S. Gregory
- Narrated by: Sean Runnette
- Length: 9 hrs and 45 mins
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For five centuries, Martin Luther has been lionized as an outspoken and fearless icon of change who ended the Middle Ages and heralded the beginning of the modern world. In Rebel in the Ranks, Brad Gregory, renowned professor of European history at Notre Dame, recasts this long-accepted portrait. Luther did not intend to start a revolution that would divide the Catholic Church and forever change Western civilization. Yet his actions would profoundly shape our world in ways he could never have imagined.
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Something to think about
- By Like Loehe on 09-19-17
By: Brad S. Gregory
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The Book of Mormon
- Another Testament of Jesus Christ
- By: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
- Narrated by: full cast
- Length: 28 hrs and 51 mins
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The Book of Mormon is a religious record of three groups of people who migrated from the Old World to the American continents. These groups were led by prophets who recorded their religious and secular histories on metal plates. The Book of Mormon records the visit of Jesus Christ to people in the Americas following his resurrection. A 200-year era of peace followed that visit of Christ.
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Good Narration
- By Andrew on 02-16-19
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To Start a War
- How the Bush Administration Took America into Iraq
- By: Robert Draper
- Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
- Length: 15 hrs and 30 mins
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Even now, after more than 15 years, it is hard to see the invasion of Iraq through the cool, considered gaze of history. For too many people, the damage is still too palpable, and still unfolding. Most of the major players in that decision are still with us, and few of them are not haunted by it, in one way or another. Perhaps it's that combination, the passage of the years and the still unresolved trauma, that explains why so many protagonists opened up so fully for the first time to Robert Draper.
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If you’ve grown weary of the current GOP administration’s incompetence...
- By Marynelle on 09-04-20
By: Robert Draper
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The Great Upheaval
- America and the Birth of the Modern World, 1788-1800
- By: Jay Winik
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
- Length: 31 hrs and 13 mins
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It is an era that redefined history. As the 1790s began, a fragile America teetered on the brink of oblivion, Russia towered as a vast imperial power, and France plunged into revolution. But in contrast to the way conventional histories tell it, none of these remarkable events occurred in isolation.
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I was crazy addicted to this book.
- By Daniel R McCloy on 12-06-17
By: Jay Winik
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The Infernal Machine
- A True Story of Dynamite, Terror, and the Rise of the Modern Detective
- By: Steven Johnson
- Narrated by: Steven Johnson
- Length: 10 hrs and 7 mins
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Steven Johnson’s engrossing account of the epic struggle between the anarchist movement and the emerging surveillance state stretches around the world and between two centuries—from Alfred Nobel’s invention of dynamite and the assassination of Czar Alexander II to New York City in the shadow of World War I.
By: Steven Johnson
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- 05-26-24
Brilliant, powerful, thorough. The Spaulding theory is solidified and expanded.
From Kircher to Spaulding to Rigdon to Smith, the layers of the Book of Mormon are analyzed thematically, stylistically and statistically. Compelling evidence is given and alternative theories are given a fair defense. there are Easter eggs of funny quips and double meanings throughout that only people especially familiar with the LDS church will get. Very much recommend.
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- 05-30-24
𝑺𝑻𝑼𝑵𝑵𝑰𝑵𝑮 & 𝑹𝑬𝑺𝑬𝑨𝑹𝑪𝑯𝑬𝑫 𝑨𝑩𝑺𝑶𝑳𝑼𝑻𝑬𝑳𝒀...
𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑛𝑎𝑙 𝑐𝑜𝑟𝑟𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑝𝑢𝑠ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑏𝑎𝑐𝑘 𝑎𝑔𝑎𝑖𝑛𝑠𝑡 𝑜𝑛𝑒𝑠
𝐺𝑜𝑑 𝑚𝑜𝑙𝑑𝑒𝑑 𝑠𝑜𝑢𝑙 𝑜𝑓 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑐ℎ 𝑠𝑎𝑖𝑑 𝑠𝑜𝑢𝑙 𝑖𝑠 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑡𝑙𝑦 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑎𝑐𝑡 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑓𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝑜𝑟 𝑓𝑙𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑝𝑜𝑛𝑠𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑖𝑠 𝑡𝑟𝑖𝑔𝑔𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑑 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑠𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑙𝑦 𝑏𝑒𝑐𝑎𝑢𝑠𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑑𝑒𝑐𝑒𝑝𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑑𝑒𝑐𝑒𝑖𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑔𝑜𝑒𝑠 𝑎𝑔𝑎𝑖𝑛𝑠𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑖𝑛𝑛𝑒𝑟 𝑝𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑐𝑖𝑝𝑙𝑒𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑝𝑎𝑟𝑡 𝑜𝑓 𝑤ℎ𝑜 𝑤𝑒 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑚𝑎𝑑𝑒 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑖𝑚𝑎𝑔𝑒 𝑜𝑓. 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑖𝑛𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑡 𝑚𝑜𝑑𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑎 𝑑𝑒𝑓𝑒𝑛𝑠𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑡𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑑 𝑖𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑟𝑜𝑤𝑛 𝑢𝑝 𝑖𝑛 𝑟𝑒𝑓𝑙𝑒𝑥 𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒 𝑎𝑑𝑗𝑢𝑠𝑡𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝑟𝑒𝑝𝑒𝑙 𝑎𝑛𝑦 𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑑 𝑜𝑓 𝑜𝑝𝑝𝑜𝑠𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑡𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐿𝐷𝑆 𝑝𝑟𝑒-𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑐𝑖𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑑 𝑑𝑜𝑐𝑡𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑒. 𝑇ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑖𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑛 𝑙𝑎𝑏𝑒𝑙𝑒𝑑 𝑎𝑠 "𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑒𝑐𝑢𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛"... 𝐸𝑣𝑒𝑛 𝑖𝑓 𝑠𝑎𝑖𝑑 𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑒𝑐𝑢𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑖𝑠 𝑎𝑏𝑠𝑜𝑙𝑢𝑡𝑒 𝑢𝑛𝑚𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑔𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑟𝑢𝑡ℎ 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑒𝑣𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒. 𝑇ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑖𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑜𝑢𝑙 𝑡𝑟𝑦𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡𝑜 𝑤𝑎𝑟𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑏𝑒 𝑤𝑎𝑟𝑦 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑖𝑠 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑟𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝑡𝑜 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑐𝑙𝑎𝑖𝑚 𝑙𝑜𝑦𝑎𝑙𝑡𝑦 𝑡𝑜 𝑎𝑛𝑦 𝑖𝑛𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑡𝑢𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛, 𝑜𝑟𝑔𝑎𝑛𝑖𝑧𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛, 𝑔𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑝, 𝑜𝑟𝑔𝑎𝑛𝑖𝑧𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛, 𝑑𝑒𝑛𝑜𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛, 𝑜𝑟 𝑓𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑖𝑓 𝑎 𝑓𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑖𝑠 𝑟𝑒𝑞𝑢𝑖𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑠𝑢𝑐ℎ 𝑙𝑜𝑦𝑎𝑙𝑡𝑦 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑛 𝑖𝑡 𝑖𝑠 𝑐𝑜𝑟𝑟𝑢𝑝𝑡 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑖𝑡𝑠 𝑖𝑛𝑐𝑒𝑝𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑂𝑁𝐿𝑌 𝑂𝑁𝐸... 𝐴𝑁𝐷 𝐈 𝐌𝐄𝐀𝐍 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐎𝐍𝐋𝐘 𝐂𝐎𝐔𝐍𝐂𝐈𝐋 𝐎𝐑 𝐎𝐍𝐄 𝐓𝐎 𝐒𝐖𝐄𝐀𝐑 𝐋𝐎𝐘𝐀𝐋𝐓𝐘 𝐓𝐎 𝐈𝐒 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐆𝐎𝐃 𝐎𝐅 𝐀𝐁𝐑𝐀𝐇𝐀𝐌,𝐈𝐒𝐀𝐀𝐂 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐉𝐀𝐂𝐎𝐁 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐇𝐈𝐒 𝐒𝐎𝐍 𝐂𝐇𝐑𝐈𝐒𝐓 𝐉𝐄𝐒𝐔𝐒..𝐂𝐋𝐄𝐀𝐑𝐋𝐘 𝐒𝐌𝐈𝐓𝐇 𝐃𝐈𝐃𝐍'𝐓 𝐆𝐄𝐓 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐌𝐄𝐌𝐎 𝐓𝐇𝐀𝐓 𝐆𝐎𝐃'𝐒 𝐊𝐈𝐍𝐆𝐃𝐎𝐌 𝐈𝐒 𝐍𝐎𝐓 𝐍𝐄𝐄𝐃𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐔𝐒𝐇𝐄𝐑𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐈𝐍 𝐎𝐑 𝐑𝐄𝐒𝐓𝐎𝐑𝐄𝐃 𝐁𝐘 𝐀𝐍𝐘𝐎𝐍𝐄 𝐁𝐔𝐓 𝐉𝐄𝐒𝐔𝐒 𝐂𝐇𝐑𝐈𝐒𝐓 𝐇𝐈𝐌𝐒𝐄𝐋𝐅. 𝐓𝐎 𝐬𝐚𝐲 𝐢𝐭 𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐝𝐞𝐝 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐢𝐭𝐬 𝐰𝐚𝐲 𝐬𝐚𝐲𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐆𝐨𝐝 𝐦𝐚𝐝𝐞 𝐚 𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐤𝐞 ... 𝐀𝐧𝐝 𝐎𝐥' 𝐉𝐨𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐤𝐞. 𝐏𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐲
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- 05-22-24
Wow, Stunning!
Sitting here stunned as the final words are read from this book. This is one of few books that I will need to go back over multiple times to fully grasp as it is rich in scholarly research and so beautifully and even poetically written while maintaining balance and consideration and explanation for multiple perspectives. I deeply respect the authors ultimate desire for TRUTH not only for himself and his posterity but for all to receive.
Thank you Lars Nielsen for the many sacrifices made to bring about this book that is needed at this time more than ever as many lives have been greatly affected by Mormonism and are looking for answers and healing.
This is also a great historical resource for those that are interested in better understanding this niche of American history.
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