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- Elder's Journal/1/2 (2 categories)
- Question: Could Joseph Smith have acquired the names "Moroni" and "Cumorah" from a map of the Comoro archipelago off the coast of Africa? (2 categories)
- Question: Is there a link between Ethan Smith, author of ''View of the Hebrews'', and Oliver Cowdery? (2 categories)
- Question: How do the First Vision accounts compare on the subject of Joseph's motivation for praying? (2 categories)
- Orson Pratt (1840): "a very bright and glorious light in the heavens...He expected to have seen the leaves and boughs of the trees consumed, as soon as the light came in contact with them" (2 categories)
- Source:Penrose:Peculiar Questions Briefly Answered:Improvement Era:Sept 1912:We do not know anything about Jesus Christ being married (2 categories)
- Question: Did Martin Harris ever deny his Book of Mormon witness because he thought that Joseph Smith was a fallen prophet? (2 categories)
- Question: Did Fanny Alger have a child by Joseph Smith? (2 categories)
- Question: When and how did plural marriage begin in the Church? (2 categories)
- Question: What did Joseph Capron claim about Joseph Smith in the Hurlbut affidavits? (2 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith produce any children by his plural wives? The case for children (2 categories)
- Question: Has the Church hidden the fact that Joseph fired a gun while in Carthage Jail? (2 categories)
- Source:Nibley:CW06:Ch19:9:Mourning by the daughters of Ishmael (2 categories)
- Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Becoming Gods/Use of sources/Changing Biblical text (2 categories)
- Question: Is the Spalding theory of Book of Mormon authorship credible? (2 categories)
- Question: Do Latter-day Saints discount the spiritual witnesses that members of other religions may receive? (2 categories)
- Source:Nicholson:The Spectacles, The Stone:This essay focuses primarily on the methods and instruments used in the translation process (2 categories)
- The Mormon Concept of God: A Philosophical Analysis (2 categories)
- Question: Did the Church repudiate the idea of neutrality in the "war in heaven?" (2 categories)
- Question: Which sources mention Nephi as the angelic visitor who told Joseph Smith about the gold plates? (2 categories)
- Question: Who is the author of ''History of the Church''? (2 categories)
- Question: Does the Bible forbid plural marriage? (2 categories)
- Roper: "For example, an iron knife was found in an eleventh century Philistine tomb showed evidence of deliberate carburization" (2 categories)
- Jeffrey R. Holland: "All I’m saying is that what got translated got translated into the word of God" (2 categories)
- Question: Was Brigham Young's letter ordering immigrants to be left alone "mysteriously lost"? (2 categories)
- Question: What have been the responses to Joseph's interpretations of Facsimile 3? (2 categories)
- Improvement Era (January 1968): "Often the funerary texts contained passages from the 'Book of the Dead,' a book that was to assist in the safe passage of the dead person into the spirit world" (2 categories)
- Question: How valid are the names used in the Holley Map? (2 categories)
- Question: How is it possible that there were three days of darkness in the New World and not in the Old World? (2 categories)
- Question: What does the Church teach on the subject of death before the Fall of Adam? (2 categories)
- Question: Are Church members required to believe in a global flood? (2 categories)
- Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Covering Up the Black Hole in the Book of Mormon/Index (2 categories)
- Joseph Smith's First Vision/John Taylor (2 categories)
- Logical fallacies/Page 1 (2 categories)
- Mormonism and the nature of God/Corporeality of God (2 categories)
- Forgeries/Mark Hofmann/Church reaction to forgeries/Dallin H. Oaks 6 August 1987 remarks on Hofmann (2 categories)
- John Whitmer (1876): "I have never heard that any one of the three or eight witnesses ever denied the testimony that they have borne to the Book as published in the first edition of the Book of Mormon" (2 categories)
- Understanding revelation (2 categories)
- Question: Did ceremonies or practices ever change in the ancient Church? (2 categories)
- Question: Were the characters on the papyri written by Abraham himself? (2 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith make an error by claiming that Elias and Elijah are two different people, when they are in fact one and the same? (2 categories)
- Book of Jubilees 12:1-8: "Abram said to Terah his father...What help and profit have we from those idols which thou dost worship...And his father said unto him...Keep silent, my son, lest they slay thee" (2 categories)
- Detailed response to CES Letter, Polygamy and Polyandry (2 categories)
- Question: Was Joseph Smith ever charged with adultery under Illinois law? (2 categories)
- Question: What did the husband of Patty Bartlett know about her sealing to Joseph Smith for eternity? (2 categories)
- Question: Did Gordon B. Hinckley claim that polygamy was "not doctrinal" on Larry King Live? (2 categories)
- Question: How would an archaeologist distinguish a Christian's pot from that of a non-Christian? (2 categories)
- Elder's Journal/1/3 (2 categories)
- Question: Were the names "Moroni" and "Cumorah" available on maps accessible to Joseph Smith? (2 categories)
- Question: Why did Joseph Smith make changes to the Book of Mormon such as modifying "God" to read "the Son of God"? (2 categories)