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- Question: Can the Newark "Holy Stones" be used as evidence to support the Book of Mormon? (14:11, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Can the Spirit confirm to me that I'm okay to leave the Church? (14:11, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Could Gilbert Hunt's ''The Late War'' have given Joseph Smith the idea of using brass plates as a way of recording information? (14:11, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Could Joseph have used a Bible during and simply dictated from it during Book of Mormon translation? (14:11, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Could Joseph Smith have acquired the names "Moroni" and "Cumorah" from a map of the Comoro archipelago off the coast of Africa? (14:11, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Could Joseph Smith have acquired the names "Moroni" and "Cumorah" from stories of Captain Kidd that he read in his youth? (14:11, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Could Joseph Smith have heard the names "Moroni" and "Cumorah" from American whalers? (14:11, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Could Joseph Smith have hypnotized the witnesses to the Book of Mormon? (14:11, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Could Joseph Smith have learned about Hebraisms from Gilbert Hunt's "The Late War"? (14:11, 13 April 2024)
- 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? (14:11, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Could Joseph Smith have modeled the "wicked character" named "Lemuel" in the Book of Mormon upon the Smith's landlord, Lemuel Durfee? (14:11, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Could Joseph Smith have used Ethan Smith's ''View of the Hebrews'' as a guideline for creating the Book of Mormon? (14:11, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Could Joseph Smith have utilized place names and locations from the region in which he lived to create the Book of Mormon? (14:11, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Could Joseph Smith have written the Book of Mormon through a process known as "automatic writing?" (14:11, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Could Moroni have been an "angel of Satan"? (14:11, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Could the angel which came to Nephi have been a demonic "angel of light" sent to deceive him? (14:11, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Could the Book of Mormon been influenced by the Late War in its use of lions in similes? (14:11, 13 April 2024)
- 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? (14:11, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Could the list of items on Joseph's person at the time of his death have been incomplete? (14:11, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Couldn't the "Egyptian Alphabet" have referred to the "reformed Egyptian" characters on the Anthon transcript? (14:11, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did Abraham himself pen the Joseph Smith Papyri? (14:11, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did any publications prior to 1870 mention the phrase "This is My Beloved Son" in connection with the First Vision? (14:11, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did B.H. Roberts lose his faith in the Church and the Book of Mormon? (14:11, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did B.H. Roberts state that it was possible for Joseph Smith to have come up with the Book of Mormon on his own? (14:11, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did Bishop Warren S. Snow forcibly castrate twenty-four-year-old Thomas Lewis? (14:11, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did Boyd K. Packer say, "I have a hard time with historians because they idolize the truth"? (14:11, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did Brigham Young "proudly admit" to being a dictator? (14:12, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did Brigham Young advocate that apostates have their throats cut? (14:12, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did Brigham Young and Heber C. Kimball encourage members to kill apostates in an attempt to save their souls? (14:12, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did Brigham Young call for blood atonement in order to punish Washington politicians? (14:12, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did Brigham Young claim that the Kingdom of God was already organized on earth, and that the inhabitants of the earth did not know it? (14:12, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did Brigham Young create a 'culture of violence' in 19th century Utah with his incendiary speeches? (14:12, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did Brigham Young give the Indian chief Arapeen spoils from the Mountain Meadows Massacre? (14:12, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did Brigham Young imply that he had poisoned a gift of salt that he gave to Johnston's Army? (14:12, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did Brigham Young indicate in a speech in 1857 that the American government would fall to the Mormons? (14:12, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did Brigham Young institute slavery in Utah? (14:12, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did Brigham Young issue orders that no food or grain should be sold to "Gentiles" that were passing through Utah? (14:12, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did Brigham Young order that the Mount Meadows monument be destroyed? (14:12, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did Brigham Young plan to "rule over all the earth"? (14:12, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did Brigham Young set the stage for the Mountain Meadows Massacre by teaching the concept of "blood atonement"? (14:12, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did Brigham Young state the Joseph Smith's character was easily on par with that of Jesus Christ? (14:12, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did Brigham Young tell Ettie V. Smith that he was her savior? (14:12, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did Brigham Young's preaching style induce people to perform "blood atonement"? (14:12, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did Bruce R. McConkie claim in Mormon Doctrine that our heavenly parents created our spirits "through some kind of sexual union"? (14:12, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did Bruce R. McConkie discourage people from attempting to form a "personal relationship" with Christ? (14:12, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did ceremonies or practices ever change in the ancient Church? (14:12, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did certain Church leaders claim that Joseph Smith "held the office of Holy Ghost"? (14:12, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did Charles Anthon validate the characters that Martin Harris brought to him that had been copied from the Book of Mormon plates? (14:12, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did Christ establish a Church while on the earth? (14:12, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did David O. McKay like to be "recognized, lauded, and lionized"? (14:12, 13 April 2024)