About this episode

The episode explores Joseph Smith's tendency to provide detailed answers to mysterious questions during his prophetic career.

Tonight on Mormonism Live, we examine a recurring pattern in Joseph Smith’s prophetic career: when he encountered something mysterious, incomplete, inaccessible, or simply unknown, he rarely seemed content to say, “I don’t know.” Instead, he supplied an answer—and often an extraordinarily detailed one. A skeleton becomes Zelph, complete with a name, identity, history, and ancient…  Read More » How Did Joseph Smith Know All This?

Topics covered

• Joseph Smith
• prophecy
• Mormonism
• spirituality
• history

Keywords

• Joseph Smith
• prophetic career
• Mormonism
• spiritual answers
• history

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