Martin Tanner's Religion Today

Martin describes 15 modern English Bible translations, their translation style and the pros and cons of each. Starting with the pros and cons of the King James Bible (KJV) he points out the often overlooked fact that current KJV Bible has undergone over a dozen revisions, most of which have made it decidedly Protestant leaning in its theology. Martin goes on to discuss the Contemporary English Bib...

Martin Tanner describes the contents and origins of the books in the Old Testament. Next he describes the ancient Jewish model of creation found in Genesis 1, and compares it with other, later creation models, including the earth as center of the universe, the sun as the center of the Universe, the Big Bang theory, and others. Next, the creation and location of the Garden of Eden is discussed. Fin...

Host Martin Tanner lists famous and infamous predictions of the Second Coming of Jesus from the Apostle Paul, a Catholic Pope, Psychics, Theologians, Scientists, Clergy, and many others, who let Matthew 24:36 slip their minds, which says, "No one knows the day or hour of the Second Coming, not the Angels or even the Son, but the Father only."

Have you wondered why we know the exact date of Jesus' crucifixion and resurrection, but not the date Jesus was born? Who is the Angel Gabriel? Why did Joseph want to divorce Mary, before they were married? Who were the Wise Men? Martin Tanner answers these and other questions about the birth of Jesus.

The planetariums have it wrong - the Star of Bethlehem could not be a conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn. It also could not have been a supernova or other natural star. Host Martin Tanner explains why the Bethlehem Star could only have been either a supernatural event or the 5 BC comet.  You will also learn details about who the "Magi" were, where they came from, and why they came to see Jesus. 

While the King James Bible is widely regarded as the most-read book in the world, especially during the Christmas season, let us also remember William Tyndale. He translated the vast majority of the text of the King James and all other modern English translations of the Bible. 

Galatians 1:8-9 condemns those who preach another, different Gospel from that preached by Paul and other New Testament writers. Host Martin Tanner demonstrates why the critics, not the LDS Church, have changed New Testament teachings on God, Jesus, salvation, scripture, and other doctrines. Evangelicals, not Latter-day Saints, are preaching another, different Gospel in violation of Galatians 1:8-9...

Host Martin Tanner explains why the "Cambrian explosion," the Punctuated Equilibria theory, the age of the oldest star, DNA, ocean mammals, and the "fine tuning" of the universe, all demonstrate the existence of God.

By reference to the Articles of Faith, 1 Corinthians 7:14 and other scriptures, and, statements of General Authorities, host Martin Tanner explains why wayward children are not lost and will be saved in the Kingdom of God.

Martin Tanner describes details about the horribly difficult life of the Prophet Jeremiah and his little-known messages about the following: (1) What happened to the Ark of the Covenant, (2) The Restoration of the Gospel in the latter-days, (3) Jewish belief in a Queen of Heaven, or Mother-in-Heaven, (4) God has a physical body, (5) pre-existence of spirits, and, (6) the Latter-day "New Covenant"...

Host Martin Tanner provides a description and details about the Jewish, Early Christian and Latter-day Saint ideas of a War in Heaven, as found in Isaiah 14:12-20; Revelation 12:7-9; D&C 29:36-38; Abraham 3:24-28; and Moses 4:14. The war was over free will, agency and the ability to act without coercion. This is also the underlying scriptural basis for the idea that Jesus and Satan are "spirit bro...

Although critics and anti-Mormons try to suggest the Kinderhook Plates demonstrate Joseph Smith was not a true prophet, the opposite is true. Joseph detected them to be fakes and never translated them. Critics also try to claim the Zelph incident shows Joseph Smith was a false prophet. During the Zion's Camp march, Joseph Smith received revelation about a large skeleton that was unearthed, saying...

Host Martin Tanner explores the origins of the ideas believed by many that:   (1) The Genesis flood covered the top of every mountain, including Mt. Everest;   (2) The Genesis flood was the baptism of the earth, because the earth needed baptism;   (3) The earth is female, and is alive.    He concludes that although some General Authorities and members take these ideas literally, there is not enoug...

In this podcast, host Martin Tanner gives just a few of the many, many indisputable evidences that the Book of Mormon is a genuine ancient work, and that its contents demonstrate that the events described within its pages happened in Central America, not North America. 

The life and legacy of Prophet, Seer and Revelator, Russell M. Nelson are summarized by host Martin Tanner.

An non-denominational Evangelical Christian, who had a burglary conviction, two DUIs, and was a heavy meth user, who had a bad break-up with a Latter-day Saint woman years earlier in Park City, Utah drove his vehicle into an LDS Church in Michigan. He then entered, shot and killed two, shot and wounded eight others, doused the chapel with gasoline and burned it down. He was killed in a shoot-out w...

In this podcast, host Martin Tanner explains why capitalism, toleration, discussion, debate and correct information are all part of God's plan of salvation, while socialism, communism, censorship, intolerance, wokeism, and cancel culture are not part of God's plan.

Martin Tanner describes the duties and stewardship of the archangel Raphael, one of the seven great archangels. Raphael's unique function is healing. Raphael was the angel who healed those with diseases and infirmities in the Pool of Bethesda, in the New Testament. In D&C 128, in Temple dedications, and the dedicatory prayer of the Endowment House in Salt Lake City, Raphael is invoked to heal thos...

Although not widely known, in this episode of  Religion Today , Martin describes how in Jewish and Christian tradition and belief, God the Father is seen as being a person in form, with an actual physical body. God is usually depicted in Jewish and Christian scripture and art as a man with a white beard. Early Jews and Christians believed, as do Latter-day Saints today, that God the Father is not...

Critics claim Jesus was just an impressive man, who over time, was turned into a God by the Christians. In this episode, Martin proves this is not true.  Martin shows Jesus was understood to be deity from the beginning, by a newly deciphered mosaic in an Early Christian church in Megiddo, Israel, which describes Jesus as a God. Martin also demonstrates that non-Christian historians of Jesus' time...

Martin Tanner answers the question, "How accurate and reliable are the Old Testament books?"  He points out that Genesis Chapter One was written to be a testimony that God created everything, not a precise scientific narrative. (No one believes the earth, light, oceans and plants were created before the sun, moon and stars). Martin provides an array of evidence, and sources, that verify the Exodus...

In this  Religion Today  episode, Martin Tanner explains why Baptism for the Dead (not of the dead) was taught by the Apostle Paul and practiced by Early Christians. He explains how its accurate practice by Latter-day Saints solves an enormous dilemma of Christianity: How could God be just if the vast majority of people who have ever lived are somehow doomed to Hell only because they never heard o...

Martin Tanner addresses the illogical, self-contradictory, false claims made by a nameless Evangelical Christian podcaster against the LDS Church and Joseph Smith. 

Martin Tanner describes the nine known first-personal accounts of Joseph Smith's First Vision.  One was in Joseph Smith's own handwriting. Three others were dictated by Joseph Smith. Five are the notes individuals made contemporaneously as they heard Joseph Smith describe his First Vision. Each account offers an emphasis not found in the other accounts. None of the accounts are self-contradictory,...

In this episode of  Martin Tanner's Religion Today , Martin examines the alleged false prophecies of Joseph Smith often made by critics. Each example of a purported false prophecy is debunked by exposing the flaws in each claim. The correct facts are presented and the difference between a prophecy, a conditional prophecy, and a prediction, is described.