craig newsome We always look forward to your comments, Craig! You're one of our favorite people. We're grateful for this connection.

I'm so sorry

Aw shucks. You're welcome! I'm so glad this was useful to you!

@@onandagus1 This is such a wonderful re conversion story, the courage to come back is fantastic. Having dug really deep into the early restoration, what are your thoughts on the Heartland Model of the Book of Mormon lands?

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Austin Chubak I was thinking the same thing. I fell away from the church and then Christ shortly after. I became an atheist and would get so angry at how sickly happy and successful everyone was as my life became stagnant. I understand where he comes from because when I began making changes to become happy again I started thinking about the existence of God. When I started in school and started learning about evolution and how it wasn’t like what everyone around me was saying. I learned that with everything we have learned about how the beginning of life developed, no one has been able to figure out how it actually started. So I decided to kneel down one day and see if I felt God. At first I felt weird but when I started talking to Him without the idea of this is dumb but please show me if you are here. I allowed myself to feel Him and it was something I honestly wouldn’t change anything for. I needed to fall away from Him to appreciate His presence. Since then, I have had a passion to share the joy He showed me with all those Christ is still fight for to bring back home. Don’t feel rushed, everything takes time and He is happy to wait as long as possible as long as you come back to Him.

@@shuttershots2188 I appreciate your response. Thank you!

Austin, I pray that you're doing well whether in our out of the church.

@@Canut0 Thank you, my friend.

I like your honesty and vulnerability. I’ve been a member my whole life but I recently went through a divorce and I’ve been somewhat apathetic towards church culture since that. For me, reading in the Book of Mormon by myself during quiet hours has given me strength and guidance.

Don is a pretty cool guy!

I must say a family centered christ is a strong positive for any single person, latter-day saint or not.

90%+ won’t/don’t come back. But, the ones who do are modern day miracles and help to strengthen the church and its members. Bradley’s story is so compelling and inspiring because it’s RARE! I’ve learned many things from him about the BoM that I didn’t know, and I’m no slouch when it comes to studying it and learning outside of it.

Love this! Gratitude is so important!

You're welcome! =)

Thank you for sharing!

Google! I don't know specifically what Don saw, but you can find a lot of it online

Came here to say this lol, looks like Tom Holland!

That's what I was thinking the whole time!

Thanks for watching!

I will watch all your programs on youtube. Thank you!

Right?

Shut up bitch

@@yuinasweakestsoldier ?

@@danh367 & @Joseph Rankin - you both realise you can delete your comments, right?

@@krysaliyah I never made a negative comment. I made a sincere comment and was responded with ad hominem attack. I have no need to delete

The Don is one of our faves!

Interesting perspective. I've had over 60 years experience in the church and see your brief point here to be unfamiliar. Could you be more specific about what exactly is discouraged.

Listen to his podcasts on Gospel Tangents, very interesting!

I think the episode with brother Hales talks about her.

Don's email is in the description of this video. Feel free to shoot him a message.

if this is a sincere - one possibility is that quantum physics points to some limits of current scientific understanding. There are many others, but It shows that scientists cannot explain everything going on even at the most fundamental level..and faith begins where certainty ends- simple as that.

I am looking at the sources you state (some pretty long videos), but just on the point of what is on the papyri and what is in the book of abraham- there are several theories that aren't mind-bending, but rather just trying to put yourself in someone else's shoes, which is necessary. Also, it is interesting to look into what has been discovered with practices of Abraham stories and Egyptian stories and how they were mixed. A jumping off point could be checking out LDS Truth Claims on youtube and look at the book of abraham episodes where he gives sources and points that you can look further into if curious. He does use the sources about the facsimiles that Ritner disagrees with, but I have yet to hear Ritner go over what is actually in the book of abraham other than just side remarks, he only addresses the pictures. And much of what Ritner states you can find other explanations for fairly easily, I imagine Don could as well. One thing Ritner brings up is how he had a big realization in finding the characters on the scrolls next to the english text- first off this has been pointed out long before Ritner as I easily found a paper on it so I don't think Ritner did too thorough of research on this particular topic, but he also is adamant that since the characters are on the left it must have been used for translation although it really appears as though the characters were squeezed in the margins after the english was written, also these characters don't match with what was described as the scroll that contained the book of abraham so it doesn't line up that necessarily Joseph printed a character and then wrote what that character meant. There are a lot of things brought up in these videos that don't really cover the opposing side very thoroughly. This mentions several of them: www.jefflindsay.com/LDSFAQ/FQ_Abraham.shtml. So, I think Don could easily find answers that I would not call mind-bending but rather being realistic in acknowledging that different people in different time periods have different perspectives.

Are you talking about your own brain when you decided to comment on this video? Because clearly if you'd listened to the episode, you'd find there was a tremendous amount of study and critical thinking that led this guy back to where he is today. Smh.

Wouldn't that be blaspheming against the Holy Ghost? The Holy Ghost is the comforter and teacher of all things and the feelings felt is the power that can be felt. Don't make a mockery of Him.

@@EMRAE_8 That's kind of the point 😅

If you felt the power of the spirit you would believe too. And maybe you have and simply didn't remember or think much about it.

Yeap can u believe it he went back 2 the cult

Joseph Rankin - He knows more than you do.

What is your response to the reality of the Egyptologists being debunked?

@@richardholmes7199 Look into it further...?

That anti-Mormon ''spiritual eyes'' crap has been debunked.

That is complete nonsense. There are so many irrefutable statements from the three witnesses, eight witnesses and the seven unofficial witnesses that to claim that there were no plates is ridiculous. Start with reading Richard Lloyd Anderson‘s book, the book of Mormon witnesses. Statements from the witnesses are bullet proof. We have witness of the three who saw the angel, the artifacts, and heard the voice of God and we have the more natural witness of the eight who only handled the plates without such supernatural witness. These witnesses together make the job of the skeptic near impossible. Yes, there were plates obviously. the work of the skeptic is to only expose a grand conspiracy. This is ridiculous to conceive of and impossible for me to believe the more I understand church history.

Majestic Liberator of the Oppressed I believe I remember that an LDS interviewer, Henry Moyle, left David Whitmer disappointed, because his account was “more spiritual” then he had been earlier led to believe.

The spiritual eyes theory has long been debunked. Aside from the 11 witnesses there was another one, I believe Whitmer’s mother, who also beheld them. None of this would be possible for ANY of us if we weren’t searching for spiritual nourishment using anything but our “spiritual eyes”.

@@majesticliberatoroftheoppr3971 Angels don't exist, so that's the first bullet in the witnesses' statements.