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- FAIR Study Aids/Book of Mormon Resources by chapter and verse (18 categories)
- FAIR Study Aids/Book of Mormon Resources by chapter and verse/Introduction, Title Page, Witnesses' Testimonies; Historical Studies of its Coming Forth; and Miscellaneous Items of Interest (18 categories)
- Stephen H. Webb: "Evidence That Demands Our Amazement... Joseph Smith was a remarkable person" (14 categories)
- Question: Do Mormons believe that Mary was still a virgin when Jesus was born? (11 categories)
- Question: What is Joseph Smith's 1826 South Bainbridge "trial" for "glasslooking"? (11 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith marry Fanny Alger as his first plural wife in 1833? (9 categories)
- Source:Nibley:CW06:Ch22:8:Greek Names (8 categories)
- Specific works/Prophecies and Promises (8 categories)
- Question: What criticisms are related to Oliver Cowdery's 1834-1835 history of the Church? (8 categories)
- KJV translation errors in the Book of Mormon (8 categories)
- Question: What events resulted in Joseph Smith's 1826 court appearance in South Bainbridge? (8 categories)
- Source:Webb:BYUS:2011:19:Vastness of Joseph Smith's theology - it is not pagan (8 categories)
- Question: Was Thomas Stuart Ferguson an archaeologist? (8 categories)
- Peterson and Roper: "We know of no one who cites Ferguson as an authority, except countercultists" (8 categories)
- Source:Webb:BYUS:2011:9:Mormon trinitarian views are not polytheistic (8 categories)
- Source:Webb:BYUS:2011:21:Joseph Smith's theosis does not supplant God or veer into polytheism (8 categories)
- Question: Why did the 1835 Doctrine and Covenants include a statement of marriage that denied the practice of polygamy at a time when some were actually practicing it? (8 categories)
- Source:Webb:BYUS:2011:12:Mormons are not Arians (8 categories)
- Question: What was the Lamanite curse? (8 categories)
- Question: Did Oliver Cowdery state that Joseph did not know if a "supreme being" existed in 1823? (8 categories)
- Source:Webb:BYUS:2011:10:Preexistent Jesus and a divinized humanity (7 categories)
- Source:Webb:BYUS:2011:14:Joseph Smith could hold his own in early Christian debates (7 categories)
- Question: Was Joseph Smith anointed to be "King over the earth" by the Council of Fifty? (7 categories)
- Specific works/Rediscovering the Book of Mormon Remnant through DNA (7 categories)
- Question: What was the Council of Fifty? (7 categories)
- Source:Webb:BYUS:2011:5:Mormons, Nicea, and Plato (7 categories)
- Source:Webb:BYUS:2011:7:Mormons and creatio ex nihilo (7 categories)
- Source:Webb:BYUS:2011:6:Mormons retrieved early Christian beliefs rejected by creeds (7 categories)
- Question: Does the practice of baptism for the dead have ancient roots? (7 categories)
- Gospel Topics: "The various accounts of the First Vision tell a consistent story, though naturally they differ in emphasis and detail" (7 categories)
- Question: Could Joseph Smith have used Ethan Smith's ''View of the Hebrews'' as a guideline for creating the Book of Mormon? (7 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith prophesy that Jesus Christ would return in 1890? (7 categories)
- Question: Was the young Joseph Smith a teller of "tall tales"? (7 categories)
- Question: Was the destruction of the ''Nauvoo Expositor'' legal? (7 categories)
- Question: Was the ''View of the Hebrews'' theory of Book of Mormon origin advanced during the lifetime of Joseph Smith? (7 categories)
- Question: Why was Joseph fined if he wasn't found guilty of anything? (7 categories)
- Question: Why would Martin Harris use the phrases "eye of faith" or "spiritual eye" to describe his visionary experience? (7 categories)
- Source:Webb:BYUS:2011:13:Mormons reject Augustinian ideas about depravity and original sin (7 categories)
- Question: Why did Joseph keep the doctrine of plural marriage private? (6 categories)
- Question: Do Latter-day Saints believe in a practice called "celestial sex," and that this is the manner in which "spirit children" are formed? (6 categories)
- Question: Why don't potential pre-Columbian horse remains in the New World receive greater attention from scientists? (6 categories)
- Question: Do Martin Harris's statements related to the "spiritual eye" or "eye of faith" contradict the reality of his witness? (6 categories)
- Gospel Topics: "Joseph Smith and his associates often used the term 'Urim and Thummim' to refer to the single stone as well as the interpreters" (6 categories)
- Criticism of Mormonism/Books/No Man Knows My History: The Life of Joseph Smith/Chapter 3 (6 categories)
- Question: How can the Book of Mormon contain the "fulness of the Gospel" if it does not speak of ordinances such as baptism for the dead or celestial marriage? (6 categories)
- Criticism of Mormonism/Books/The Changing World of Mormonism/Chapter 5 (6 categories)
- Miller and Roper: "Bones of domesticated cattle...have been reported from different caves in the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico" (6 categories)
- Source:Nibley:CW06:Ch6:8:Sam (6 categories)
- Question: Could ancient Americans have expanded the definition of "horse" to include new meanings? (6 categories)
- Ensign (Jan. 2013): "He...referred to it using an Old Testament term, Urim and Thummim...He also sometimes applied the term to other stones he possessed" (6 categories)