<img width="150" height="150" src="https://mormondiscussionpodcast.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/05/RFM-Thumbnail-150x150.png" class="webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image" alt="" style="display: block; margin-bottom: 5px; clear:both;max-width: 100%;" link_thumbnail="" decoding="async" /><p>I had a faith crisis in my mid-twenties. A big faith crisis. It involved a salamander and it involved a letter. It made me question everything I thought I knew about Joseph Smith, the book he produced, and the religion he founded. The LDS religion. MY religion! And in that time of despair, I clung to the most significant single evidence that the Book of Mormon is ancient, and therefore authentic, and therefore true. I clung to the presence of &#8220;chiasmus&#8221; in the Book of Mormon; that incredible ancient Hebrew literary form that shows up in such abundance in the Nephite record. But had I been told everything there was to tell about chiasmus? Or had information been withheld from me to make &#8220;chiasmus&#8221; look like a much more impressive evidence for the Book of Mormon? Was it a solid evidence, or was it fool&#8217;s gold? And if I had known it was fool&#8217;s gold in my twenties, would I have clung to it as such strong evidence for the Book of Mormon? And if I had not clung to &#8220;chiasmus,&#8221; as proof of the Restoration, might I have left the church in my mid-twenties and lived a very different life; a life lived on my own terms as opposed to the terms dictated to me by Mormonism? These are the thoughts that I try to work through in this podcast. I hope you will join me on this journey.</p>
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