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23 July 2019
- 16:5616:56, 23 July 2019 diff hist +13,573 N The Documentary Hypothesis Created page with "{{FairMormon}} <onlyinclude> == Question: What is the Documentary Hypothesis and what do critics of Mormonism claim about it as it regards restoration scripture?== ===The Docu..."
22 July 2019
- 21:3021:30, 22 July 2019 diff hist +2 Question: What is an anachronism, and what should be borne in mind when assessing the Book of Mormon (or any other text) for supposed "anachronisms"? →Preservation
- 21:2321:23, 22 July 2019 diff hist 0 Question: What is an anachronism, and what should be borne in mind when assessing the Book of Mormon (or any other text) for supposed "anachronisms"? →Preservation
- 21:2221:22, 22 July 2019 diff hist +4,169 Question: What is an anachronism, and what should be borne in mind when assessing the Book of Mormon (or any other text) for supposed "anachronisms"? →Question: What is an anachronism, and what should be borne in mind when assessing the Book of Mormon (or any other text) for supposed "anachronisms"?
- 20:2820:28, 22 July 2019 diff hist +5,803 Question: What is an anachronism, and what should be borne in mind when assessing the Book of Mormon (or any other text) for supposed "anachronisms"? →Preservation
- 16:3016:30, 22 July 2019 diff hist +65 Question: What’s the best way to understand the ages of antediluvian patriarchs scientifically? →Question: What’s the best way to understand the ages of antediluvian patriarchs scientifically?
- 16:2916:29, 22 July 2019 diff hist −4 Question: What’s the best way to understand the ages of antediluvian patriarchs scientifically? →Andrew P. Kvasnica: The Ages of the Antedeluvian Patriarchs in Genesis 5
- 16:2816:28, 22 July 2019 diff hist −1,083 Question: What’s the best way to understand the ages of antediluvian patriarchs scientifically? →There is no consensus among biblical scholars as to how to interpret these ages.
- 16:2616:26, 22 July 2019 diff hist +13 Question: Do Mormons believe that if there is a conflict between science and religion, that the science is incorrect? →Question: Do Mormons believe that if there is a conflict between science and religion, that the science is incorrect?
21 July 2019
- 01:5901:59, 21 July 2019 diff hist +236 Question: Can Latter-day Saints have a non-literal view of the creation story, or have a somewhat more mythic view of the first five books of Moses given the Church's teaching of a historical Adam? →An Off-the-Cuff Reconciliation of Evolution with Doctrine
20 July 2019
- 23:4923:49, 20 July 2019 diff hist −11 Question: Do contemporary documents shed any light on the possible persecution of the Smith family after Joseph Smith's First Vision? No edit summary
- 23:4723:47, 20 July 2019 diff hist −1 Question: Do contemporary documents shed any light on the possible persecution of the Smith family after Joseph Smith's First Vision? No edit summary
- 23:4623:46, 20 July 2019 diff hist +1,735 Question: Do contemporary documents shed any light on the possible persecution of the Smith family after Joseph Smith's First Vision? →Question: Do contemporary documents shed any light on the possible persecution of the Smith family after Joseph Smith's First Vision?
- 23:3223:32, 20 July 2019 diff hist 0 Detailed response to CES Letter, First Vision No edit summary
- 23:2623:26, 20 July 2019 diff hist +7 Question: What is the difference between Joseph Smith's first vision and other reported visions of God at the time? →Question: What is the difference between Joseph Smith's first vision and other reported visions of God at the time?
- 23:2523:25, 20 July 2019 diff hist +1,035 Question: What is the difference between Joseph Smith's first vision and other reported visions of God at the time? →Question: What is the difference between Joseph Smith's first vision and other reported visions of God at the time?
- 23:0723:07, 20 July 2019 diff hist +1 Detailed response to CES Letter, First Vision →Response to claim: "Joseph Smith's theophany, or First Vision account, was not unprecedented or unique."
- 23:0623:06, 20 July 2019 diff hist +3 Detailed response to CES Letter, First Vision →Response to claim: "Joseph Smith's theophany, or First Vision account, was not unprecedented or unique."
- 23:0623:06, 20 July 2019 diff hist 0 Detailed response to CES Letter, First Vision →Response to claim: "Joseph Smith's theophany, or First Vision account, was not unprecedented or unique."
- 23:0523:05, 20 July 2019 diff hist −2 Detailed response to CES Letter, First Vision →Response to claim: "Joseph Smith's theophany, or First Vision account, was not unprecedented or unique."
- 23:0423:04, 20 July 2019 diff hist −6 Detailed response to CES Letter, First Vision →Response to claim: "Joseph Smith's theophany, or First Vision account, was not unprecedented or unique."
- 23:0323:03, 20 July 2019 diff hist +1 Detailed response to CES Letter, First Vision →Response to claim: "Joseph Smith's theophany, or First Vision account, was not unprecedented or unique."
- 23:0323:03, 20 July 2019 diff hist +2,795 Detailed response to CES Letter, First Vision →Response to claim: "Joseph Smith's theophany, or First Vision account, was not unprecedented or unique."
- 22:3522:35, 20 July 2019 diff hist +1 Detailed response to CES Letter, First Vision →Response to claim: "Joseph Fielding Smith, upon discovering the 1832 account, ripped out the pages out of the letter book"
- 22:3322:33, 20 July 2019 diff hist +243 Tips for reading and understanding scripture →Scripture must be read holistically. Both to understand what we need to defend and to understand all that the Lord wants us to understand about any given topic.
- 22:2822:28, 20 July 2019 diff hist −3 Detailed response to CES Letter, Testimony and Spiritual Witness →Response to claim: "This thought-provoking video raises some profound questions and challenges to the Latter-day Saint concept of "testimony" and receiving a witness from the Holy Ghost..."
- 22:2122:21, 20 July 2019 diff hist +1,598 Question: Can Latter-day Saints have a non-literal view of the creation story, or have a somewhat more mythic view of the first five books of Moses given the Church's teaching of a historical Adam? →Less Core or More Negotiable Things
- 22:0422:04, 20 July 2019 diff hist +405 Detailed response to CES Letter, Science →Response to claim: "If Adam and Eve are the first humans, how do we explain the 14 other Hominin species who lived and died 35,000 – 250,000 years before Adam?"
19 July 2019
- 19:5819:58, 19 July 2019 diff hist +11,635 Question: What’s the best way to understand the ages of antediluvian patriarchs scientifically? →Andrew P. Kvasnica: The Ages of the Antedeluvian Patriarchs in Genesis 5
- 19:4119:41, 19 July 2019 diff hist +20,552 Question: What’s the best way to understand the ages of antediluvian patriarchs scientifically? →There is no consensus among biblical scholars as to how to interpret these ages.
- 19:3819:38, 19 July 2019 diff hist +24 Question: What’s the best way to understand the ages of antediluvian patriarchs scientifically? →Question: What’s the best way to understand the ages of antediluvian patriarchs scientifically?
- 19:3619:36, 19 July 2019 diff hist +881 Question: Do Mormons believe that if there is a conflict between science and religion, that the science is incorrect? →Latter-day Saints in many ways have a more liberal view of science than some of their traditional Christian brethren
- 19:3519:35, 19 July 2019 diff hist +1,421 Question: Do Mormons believe that faith and science are mutually exclusive? →Question: Do Mormons believe that faith and science are mutually exclusive?
17 July 2019
- 20:4720:47, 17 July 2019 diff hist +2,826 Question: Did Joseph Fielding Smith remove the 1832 account of Joseph Smith's First Vision from its original letterbook and hide it in his safe? →Response to the critical perspective
- 20:3220:32, 17 July 2019 diff hist +24 Events in Ether →The Final Battle
- 20:3120:31, 17 July 2019 diff hist +14 Events in Ether →Food and Water for Those on Board including Animals
- 20:2820:28, 17 July 2019 diff hist +1 Events in Ether →Jerry Grover: A More Exact Jaredite Chronology
- 16:5116:51, 17 July 2019 diff hist +5,492 Events in Ether →Question: How can one properly view events in Ether scientifically?
16 July 2019
- 19:3019:30, 16 July 2019 diff hist +9,562 Events in Ether →Coriantumr’s Age
- 19:1719:17, 16 July 2019 diff hist +11,209 Events in Ether →Question: How can one properly view events in Ether scientifically?
- 18:3418:34, 16 July 2019 diff hist −2 Events in Ether →The population sizes that fought in the battle
13 July 2019
- 10:5810:58, 13 July 2019 diff hist −1 Question: Is there any reference to God the Father being present in Joseph Smith's 1832 account? No edit summary
- 10:5710:57, 13 July 2019 diff hist +1 Question: Is there any reference to God the Father being present in Joseph Smith's 1832 account? →"The Lord opened the heavens and I saw the Lord"
- 10:5510:55, 13 July 2019 diff hist +2,189 Question: Is there any reference to God the Father being present in Joseph Smith's 1832 account? →"The Lord opened the heavens and I saw the Lord"
- 10:3410:34, 13 July 2019 diff hist +12,176 Question: Is there any reference to God the Father being present in Joseph Smith's 1832 account? →Question: Is there any reference to God the Father being present in Joseph Smith's 1832 account?
- 09:5609:56, 13 July 2019 diff hist +2,339 Question: Could Joseph Smith have acquired the names "Moroni" and "Cumorah" from a map of the Comoro archipelago off the coast of Africa? →Question: Could Joseph Smith have acquired the names "Moroni" and "Cumorah" from a map of the Comoro archipelago off the coast of Africa?
- 09:3809:38, 13 July 2019 diff hist −201 Theory of Book of Mormon place names from Comoros Islands No edit summary
- 09:3709:37, 13 July 2019 diff hist +201 Theory of Book of Mormon place names from Comoros Islands No edit summary
12 July 2019
- 09:4909:49, 12 July 2019 diff hist +26 Detailed response to CES Letter, First Vision →Response to claim: "Joseph Fielding Smith, upon discovering the 1832 account, ripped out the pages out of the letter book"
- 09:4809:48, 12 July 2019 diff hist +23 Detailed response to CES Letter, First Vision →Response to claim: "Joseph Fielding Smith, upon discovering the 1832 account, ripped out the pages out of the letter book"