50 Years Responding to Church Criticism: Why He’s More Sure Than Ever (with Daniel C. Peterson)

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Daniel C. Peterson has spent his career doing something most people would rather avoid. He goes looking for the strongest arguments against the restored gospel of Jesus Christ, not the weakest ones, and he reads them on purpose. He earned his doctorate at UCLA, reads more than a dozen languages, taught Islamic studies and Arabic at Brigham Young University for decades, led the Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, and now serves as president of the Interpreter Foundation. He can quote the Quran in Arabic and then tell you why it strengthens his witness of the Restoration rather than weakening it. After all of that searching, his faith in Jesus Christ stands as strong as it has ever been.

In this episode of Why We Believe, host Nathan Gwilliam sits down with Daniel to trace where that faith began and why it has held. Daniel describes the night he baptized his own father, just hours before leaving for a hard mission in Switzerland. He explains why reason can clear the ground for faith but can never plant the testimony itself. He walks through the evidence that moves him most, the sheer existence of a complex book dictated in roughly two months by a barely schooled farm boy. And he shares the quiet experiences that have hit him out of nowhere across a lifetime, the kind no argument ever produced and no critic could take away. Reason and faith, he says, finally point to the same Christ.

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