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- Question: Are the descriptions of Nephi (from the Book of Mormon) and Fulton’s (from The Late War) ships similar enough to suggest authorial relationship?
- Question: Are the large population counts described in the Book of Mormon during the final battle at the Hill Cumorah accurate?
- Question: Are the mysterious "Danites" in Utah a source of Mormon power, terror, and control?
- Question: Are the scenes contained in the facsimiles anachronistic to the time of Abraham?
- Question: Are the scriptures mysoginistic/sexist?
- Question: Are theories that do not agree with the Heartland model "apostate?"
- Question: Are there any Biblical, Jewish, or early Christian teachings about marriage which lasts beyond the grave?
- Question: Are there any other witnesses to the Book of Mormon plates besides the Three and Eight witnesses?
- Question: Are there any poetic forms other than chiasmus in the Book of Mormon?
- Question: Are there biblical examples of prophets which evangelical interpretations of Deuteronomy 18 would cause one to have to reject as true prophets?
- Question: Are there obvious contradictions between the Book of Mormon and the Bible?
- Question: Are we allowed to pray to our "Heavenly Mother"
- Question: Are wine and grapes considered anachronisms for the Book of Mormon?
- 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?
- Question: Can a person receive a spiritual witness about any book?
- Question: Can it be proven that Joseph Smith claimed to have seen the Father and the Son as separate personages prior to 1835?
- Question: Can one pay tithing on only net or surplus income and still be a temple worthy and faithful Latter-day Saint?
- Question: Can one simply decide when one feels and doesn't feel the Spirit?
- Question: Can skin pores produce blood?
- Question: Can spiritual experiences be simply willed to reality?
- Question: Can the Book of Mormon be considered a genuine translation if the plates weren’t even used during the translation process?
- Question: Can the Lemba and Cohen modal haplotype be used to either prove or disprove the Book of Mormon?
- Question: Can the Spirit confirm to me that I'm okay to leave the Church?
- Question: Could Joseph Smith have acquired the names “Moroni” and “Cumorah” from stories he read as a youth, maps that he would have had access to, or other people within his local vicinity?
- Question: Could Joseph Smith have manufactured some metal plates out of tin, copper, or some other metal in order to trick witnesses into thinking he had gold plates?
- Question: Could Joseph Smith have written the Book of Mormon through a process known as "automatic writing?"
- Question: Could Joseph Smith have written the Book of Mormon under the influence of an "epileptic fit?"
- Question: Could Lehi's group have made a transoceanic crossing as described in the Book of Mormon?
- Question: Could Satan have deceived Nephi into killing Laban?
- Question: Could the Book of Mormon be a clumsy, amateurish forgery?
- Question: Could the Book of Mormon been influenced by the Late War in its use of lions in similes?
- Question: Could the angel which came to Nephi have been a demonic "angel of light" sent to deceive him?
- Question: Could the fact that Orson Pratt considered cureloms to possibly be mammoths support the theory that Joseph Smith used Gilbert Hunt's The Late War in "authoring" The Book of Mormon?
- Question: Did Abraham himself pen the Joseph Smith Papyri?
- Question: Did Bishop Warren S. Snow forcibly castrate twenty-four-year-old Thomas Lewis?
- Question: Did Boyd K. Packer say, "I have a hard time with historians because they idolize the truth"?
- Question: Did Brigham Young's preaching style induce people to perform "blood atonement"?
- Question: Did Brigham Young give the Indian chief Arapeen spoils from the Mountain Meadows Massacre?
- Question: Did Brigham Young imply that he had poisoned a gift of salt that he gave to Johnston's Army?
- Question: Did Brigham Young indicate in a speech in 1857 that the American government would fall to the Mormons?
- Question: Did Brigham Young institute slavery in Utah?
- Question: Did Brigham Young set the stage for the Mountain Meadows Massacre by teaching the concept of "blood atonement"?
- Question: Did Christ establish a Church while on the earth?
- Question: Did David O. McKay like to be "recognized, lauded, and lionized"?
- Question: Did David Whitmer believe his witness experience was "only a vision"?
- Question: Did David Whitmer ever refute his testimony of the Book of Mormon after he left the Church?
- Question: Did David Whitmer or Oliver Cowdery test Joseph's prophetic claims?
- Question: Did David Whitmer say that his encounter with the angel Moroni was not an actual visitation?
- Question: Did Elder Boyd K. Packer's talk "To Young Men Only" encourage physical assaults on gay people?
- Question: Did Harold B. Lee state that a person’s economic status or disability were the result of less valiance in the premortal existence?