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- 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?
- Question: Did Heber C. Kimball deny that the Father appeared in the First Vision?
- Question: Did Heber J. Grant include a strict observance of the Word of Wisdom in the temple recommend interview because of the repeal of prohibition?
- Question: Did Hosea Stout murder Joseph Smith's brother Samuel H. Smith?
- Question: Did Jacob Hambin's son Albert rape two women at the Mountain Meadows Massacre and later blame John D. Lee for this act?
- Question: Did Joseph Fielding Smith acknowledge that he was wrong when he said that Man would never walk on the Moon?
- Question: Did Joseph Fielding Smith reject the theory that the final battlefield of the Book of Mormon took place in Mesoamerica rather than New York?
- Question: Did Joseph Fielding Smith state that man would never visit the moon?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith's family and other Book of Mormon witnesses support James Strang's movement after Joseph's death?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith, Sr. practice "divination"?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith actually shoot and kill two men at Carthage Jail?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith contradict Jesus’ commandment in the Book of Mormon to not add to nor take away from Jesus' Gospel?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith copy Masonic material in order to create the Mormon temple rites?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith engage in "land speculation" in Nauvoo?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith get the word Nahom from the Biblical names Naham (1 Chron. 4:19), Nehum (Ne. 7:7) and Nahum (Na. 1:1)?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith plagiarize John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith plagiarize John Dee’s The Secret Book of Madoc for his creation of the Book of Mormon?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith plagiarize John Walker's "Key to Greek, Latin, and Scripture Proper Names"?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith plagiarize John Walker's a Key to Latin and Greek, Latin, and Scripture Proper Names?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith plagiarize Shakespeare's ''Hamlet''?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith plagiarize a book by Charles Anthon to provide names for the Book of Mormon?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith plagiarize an 1811 book of Marco Polo's travels?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith plagiarize sources from the American Revolution?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith plagiarize the History of Mexico to produce the Book of Ether?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith use entheogens to effectuate the founding of the Church?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith use his seer stone to view the location of the gold plates in the Hill Cumorah?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith violate the Word of Wisdom by drinking alcohol in Carthage Jail before he was killed?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith write in the Book of Mormon, "every error and truth discussed in New York"?
- Question: Did Joseph ever place the Nephite interpreters ("Urim and Thummim") into his hat?
- Question: Did Joseph own 144 acres of land in Kirtland?
- Question: Did LDS scholar Hugh Nibley support the "Heartland model" of Book of Mormon geography?
- Question: Did Mormon Leaders use temple recommend interviews to "bully" members into supporting Proposition 8?
- Question: Did Mormon scholar Hugh Nibley fake or distort most of his footnotes?
- Question: Did Moroni bury the gold plates in the Hill Cumorah referenced in the Book of Mormon?
- Question: Did Oliver Cowdery privately admit to his law partner that the Book of Mormon was actually a hoax?
- Question: Did Parley P. Pratt claim that only God appeared to Joseph Smith during his First Vision?
- Question: Did Parley P. Pratt make a prophecy in 1838 to La Roy Sutherland about the latter being struck dumb and coming to an untimely end?
- Question: Did Russell M. Nelson exaggerate his story about being in a falling airplane?
- Question: Did Wilford Woodruff prophesy that New York would be destroyed by earthquake, Boston by flood, and Albany by fire?
- Question: Did William Marks claim that Joseph Smith told him that plural marriage had been a mistake and that it would be abandoned?
- Question: Did William McLellin ever mention drinking in association with the Kirtland Temple?
- Question: Did certain Church leaders claim that Joseph Smith "held the office of Holy Ghost"?
- Question: Did historian Thomas Alexander claim that "the Indians" forced Mormons to commit the Mountain Meadows Massacre?
- Question: Did large numbers of people resign from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints resign because of its support of Prop 8?
- Question: Did one of King Zedekiah's sons, Mulek, escape and come to the New World?
- Question: Did the "Cochranites" influence Joseph Smith or other Mormons to introduce plural marriage into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints?