The end of M2C is accelerating as more and more Latter-day Saints make informed decisions.
I'm fine with people believing whatever they want, but every scholar owes it to readers to provide all the relevant facts. That's why I urge people to use the FAITH model, which separates facts from assumptions, inferences, theories, and hypotheses.
The purpose of this blog parallels what Elon Musk is doing with Grok:
ELON MUSK: Grok uses massive inference compute to scan the corpus of human knowledge - books, PDFs, websites, detecting falsehoods, fixing half-truths, and adding missing context. “It’s like rewriting Wikipedia, but accurate.”
The scholars who promote M2C and SITH consistently omit important, relevant context, including fundamental historical records and extrinsic evidence. But their monopoly over LDS scholarship has eroded to the point where even ordinary Latter-day Saints like me can learn what they've tried to suppress for so long.
Basically, like many other Latter-day Saints, I believe Joseph and Oliver told the truth about the origin and setting of the Book of Mormon. Their teachings are explicit, unambiguous, and consistent. Plus their teachings are corroborated by extrinsic evidence.
Recently people have asked me to apply the FAITH model to more of the M2C/SITH narratives. Regular readers of this blog can do that for themselves because they have the information that most Latter-day Saints do not have.
One ongoing project is organizing the content of these blogs to make them more accessible. Details coming.
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The Church History Department sponsored an exceptional conference on Sept 5-6, 2025. The theme was "I Am in Your Midst" Jesus Christ at the Center of Church History.
https://churchhistory.cventevents.com/event/2025conference/speakers
I commented on the conference here with some suggestions for improvement next time:
https://www.ldshistoricalnarratives.com/2025/09/church-history-conference-sept-2025.html
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An excellent summary by Jacob Hess was published in the Deseret News:
https://www.deseret.com/faith/2025/09/07/jesus-christ-at-the-center-of-church-history/
The byline:
An exclusive focus on human struggle in the past misses the most important action taking place, say historians with the Church of Jesus Christ
I completely agree with that byline and the theme of the conference. I'm incorporating that theme into my presentations and publications going forward, and I hope everyone else does as well.
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