FAIR is a non-profit organization dedicated to providing well-documented answers to criticisms of the doctrine, practice, and history of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
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- Question: Did the use of metal swords mentioned in the Book of Mormon persist?
- Question: Did the witnesses to the Book of Mormon realize that they would be ridiculed and not believed?
- Question: Didn't Joseph's 1826 Bainbridge appearance before a judge prove that he had previously been using his seer stone for nefarious purposes?
- Question: Do Hebraisms exist in the Book of Mormon?
- Question: Do Joseph Smith's personality and temperament indicate that he was not a true prophet of God?
- Question: Do Latter-day Saints believe Jesus was born 1830 years before the Church's organization on 6 April 1830?
- Question: Do Latter-day Saints believe in a female divine person, a "Heavenly Mother" as counterpart to God, the Heavenly Father
- Question: Do Latter-day Saints claim to be the only ones that can experience the fullness of happiness on this earth?
- Question: Do Latter-day Saints consider the Bible "insufficient?"
- Question: Do Latter-day Saints have to "buy their way into heaven" since the Church requires that you be a full-tithe payer to enter the temple?
- Question: Do Mormon beliefs or practices exclude them from being considered Christian?
- Question: Do Mormon scriptures portray an "impossible gospel" in which nobody can be saved?
- Question: Do Mormons believe men have the right to resurrect their spouses by a specific ordinance?
- Question: Do Mormons believe that God is limited to ruling over this planet?
- Question: Do Mormons believe that Satan can read our minds?
- Question: Do Mormons believe that faith and scientific knowledge are incompatible?
- Question: Do Mormons believe that salvation is based upon works?
- Question: Do Mormons believe that the "Jesus of Mormonism is but one of many saviors"?
- Question: Do Mormons believe that the Book of Mormon describes real historical events?
- Question: Do Mormons believe that we will have blood in our bodies when we are resurrected or will it be just flesh and bone?
- Question: Do Mormons ignore the doctrine of grace at the expense of "works"?
- Question: Do Mormons meet the definition of the word "Christian"?
- Question: Do Mormons oppose the right for same-sex couples to form families?
- Question: Do Mormons seek to impose their version of morality on others?
- Question: Do Mormons worship a "different Jesus"?
- Question: Do any of Joseph's explanations of Book of Abraham Facsimile 1 agree with what Egyptologists say about the figures?
- Question: Do apologists tell members how "scientists continue to get it wrong"?
- Question: Do modern Mormon temple rituals have analogues in early Christian practice?
- Question: Do references to "this continent" made by Joseph Smith refer to North America?
- Question: Do the Late War and the Book of Mormon describe "burned martyrs" in a similar way?
- Question: Do the Late War and the Book of Mormon describe a "Spiritual being entering hearts" in a similar way?
- Question: Do the Late War and the Book of Mormon describe their battle casualties in a similar way?
- Question: Do the Late War and the Book of Mormon share a similarity in describing women as "tender"—prey to the lusts of men?
- Question: Do the Latter-day Saint "Three Degrees of Glory" have a basis in the Bible?
- Question: Do the Latter-day Saints ("Mormons") use praise of God as part of their prayers and songs in worship?
- Question: Do the conversion narratives of the Book of Mormon resemble a Methodist conversion narrative as would have been understood in Joseph Smith's time?
- Question: Do the earliest manuscripts of the Book of Abraham demonstrate that Joseph was translating from the Grammar and Alphabet of the Egyptian Language?
- Question: Do the legal concepts in the Book of Mormon better match Joseph Smith's day, or the ancient world?
- Question: Do the names "Elkenah," "Libnah," "Mahmackrah," and "Korash" in Facsimile 1 have any correlation to known ancient deities?
- Question: Do the temple endowment's similarities to Masonic initiation rites have ancient roots?
- Question: Do the temple endowment's similarities to Masonic rites have ancient roots?
- Question: Do we do not need a mediating priesthood since it has been "fulfilled in Christ?"
- Question: Do we need to know where the Book of Mormon took place?
- Question: Does Doctrine and Covenants 5 stipulate that there be only three witnesses to the gold plates from which the Book of Mormon was translated?
- Question: Does FAIR provide "official" answers to questions?
- Question: Does Gilbert Hunt's book ''The Late War'' contain rare phrases that do not appear in other works but only appear in the Book of Mormon?
- Question: Does Izapa Stela 5 depict Lehi's vision of the Tree of Life in the Book of Mormon?
- Question: Does Jesus's statement that in the resurrection they "neither marry nor given in marriage" a refutation of the Mormon concept of eternal marriage?
- Question: Does Jesus already know who will be returning to God's presence?
- Question: Does Joseph Smith fail the "prophetic test" found in Deuteronomy 18?