Interview With Mormon Apologist Rodney Meldrum

Conversation between Mormon apologist Rodney Meldrum of the FIRM Foundation and Aaron Shafovaloff of Mormonism Research Ministry.

http://www.firmlds.com/

http://mrm.org/

Meldrum holds to a "heartland" or Great Lakes geography of the Book of Mormon, whereas the major groups like FARMS (now called the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship [at BYU] and FAIR) generally hold to a Mesoamerican limited geography of the Book of Mormon:

http://www.fairlds.org/DNA_Evidence_for_Book_of_Mormon_Geography/

http://maxwellinstitute.byu.edu/publications/review/?vol=22&num=1&id=793

Regarding the last segment of our conversation, see:

http://weagreewith818.com/

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• 2011
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• Fundamentalist

[MrSoutherton]

Rodney bases much of his Heartland Model on the X lineage, claiming that Native American X lineages are closely related to Jewish X lineages.

This claim has been proven false in the last few years. Native American X lineages have been found to be distantly related to Middle Eastern X lineages. They have also been shown to have been in the Americas for the same length of time as the other 4 Asian lineages or about 15,000 years.

[godswordsheal]

I totally felt the spirit when I heard Aaron give his testimony. Amen!

[jaromsmiss]

Good job Rodney for great answers. Mr Rodney gave a powerful testimony at the end also. Im not sure if this video is a anti video or not but it sure didnt seem like it due to Mr. Rodney's great answers.

[staxplease]

good interview and good answers from Meldrum. We know that Heavenly Father loves us and that he is the same yesterday, now, and forever. There are many things that we cannot explain as humans but as long as we have faith, which means obedience to His laws for faith without work is dead according to James, we will be saved through the atonement of Jesus Christ and that all of us are saved through the grace and mercy of Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ.

[Conderman1]

I thought this was really good you can shore see he was trying to catch Rodney in and snare or trying to twist his words all and all I thought it was good

[NielsenWill]

There is eternal progression so God is always improving and that is perfection. God will always be this way and will never change.

God will always teach us to fallow and be like him.

Man is always changing, not God.

[NielsenWill]

There is eternal progression so God is always improving and that is perfection. God will always be this way and will never change.

God will always teach us to fallow and be like him.

Man is always changing, not God.

[brianmrhodes]

The interviewer isn't really OPEN to Mormonism--even though he asks what appear to be sincere questions.

If he was REALLY open, he would be eager to find out more about the NUMEROUS new discoveries the other man shared! I'm not saying he should have accepted them as truth on the spot, but a SINCERE seeker of truth welcomes new evidence--regardless of its source! It's sad this young man wastes so much of this gentleman's time acting as if he really WANTS to discover the truth about the Church.

[RPM11111]

Why do you allow tfwaters to bombard the comments section? She brushes the meaningful content of others aside with near endless lds diatribe and misuse of the Bible. She simply can't abide honest facts about her church that expose it's dark spiritual roots and leadership.

[tfwaters]

Speaking of the 10 Tribes (King:Joseph) and the Jews (King:Judah), "Moreover I will make a COVENANT of peace with them; it shall be an EVERLASTING COVENANT with them: and I will place them, and multiply them, and will set my sanctuary in the midst of them for evermore. My tabernacle also shall be with them: yea, I will be their God, and they shall be my people. And the heathen shall know that I the Lord do sanctify Israel, when my sanctuary shall be in the midst of them for evermore." Ezek 37:26