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- Question: Did early Mormon leaders teach that apostasy was the unforgivable sin, and that the only thing an apostate could do to redeem himself was to give his own life, willingly or unwillingly? (15:12, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did Elder Boyd K. Packer suggest that we should "lie our way" into obtaining a testimony? (15:12, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did Elder Boyd K. Packer's talk "To Young Men Only" encourage physical assaults on gay people? (15:13, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did Elder Dallin H. Oaks say that it’s wrong to criticize leaders of the Church, even if the criticism is true? (15:13, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did FairMormon do "more to destroy" the testimony of the author of the "Letter to a CES Director" than any "anti-Mormon" source? (15:13, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did federal officials flee Utah because they feared for their lives? (15:13, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did God tell David Whitmer to leave the Church and repudiate Mormonism? (15:13, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did Gordon B. Hinckley say that Latter-day Saints do not worship the biblical Jesus? (15:13, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did Heber C. Kimball and Orson Hyde order Nauvoo's police force to kill an apostate named Lambert Symes? (15:13, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did Heber C. Kimball claim that the apostles killed Judas? (15:13, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did Heber C. Kimball deny that the Father appeared in the First Vision? (15:13, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did Heber C. Kimball encourage violence and intimidation in order to keep followers "in line"? (15:13, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did Heber C. Kimball promise that after the Civil War ended, the Latter-day Saints would become the "sole rulers over every other government"? (15:13, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did Heber C. Kimball say that future generations would view Joseph Smith as "a god"? (15:13, 13 April 2024)
- 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? (15:13, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did historian Thomas Alexander claim that "the Indians" forced Mormons to commit the Mountain Meadows Massacre? (15:13, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did Hosea Stout have three men flogged because they "were not in good fellowship"? (15:13, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did Jacob Hambin's son Albert rape two women at the Mountain Meadows Massacre and later blame John D. Lee for this act? (15:13, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did Jedediah Grant sanction "wife swapping"? (15:13, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did Jesus and the apostles believe in pre-mortal life? (15:13, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did John Taylor believe that there was no longer a separation between Church and State? (15:13, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did Joseph ever place the Nephite interpreters ("Urim and Thummim") into his hat? (15:13, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did Joseph Fielding Smith acknowledge that he was wrong when he said that Man would never walk on the Moon? (15:13, 13 April 2024)
- 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? (15:13, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did Joseph Fielding Smith state that man would never visit the moon? (15:13, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did Joseph mention a "pillar of fire" or a "pillar of light" in his 1832 account of the First Vision? (15:13, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did Joseph own 144 acres of land in Kirtland? (15:13, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did Joseph own a Bible at the time of the Book of Mormon translation? (15:13, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith, Sr. practice "divination"? (15:13, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith actually shoot and kill two men at Carthage Jail? (15:13, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith and Sidney Rigdon support the formation of a vigilante band called the Danites? (15:13, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith attempt to "cover up" Oliver Cowdery's work with a divining rod by changing the wording of the revelation that became Doctrine and Covenants 8:6–8? (15:13, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith being sealed to mothers, daughters and sisters violate a biblical prohibition? (15:14, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith believe that Abraham wrote the text on the papyrus himself? (15:14, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith believe that the lost Ten Tribes were living under the polar ice cap? (15:14, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith boast of his "violent deeds"? (15:14, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith brag about his strength and prowess in fighting? (15:14, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith claim that all governments and religions other than Mormonism would eventually be destroyed form the earth? (15:14, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith claim that the Kirtland Safety Society was established by a revelation from God? (15:14, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith consummate any of these marriages with married women? (15:14, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith copy Masonic material in order to create the Mormon temple rites? (15:14, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith copy the name "Nephi" from the Apocrypha? (15:14, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith create the story of Nephi and Laban by plagiarizing concepts and phrases from the story of Judith and Holofernes in the Apocrypha? (15:14, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith create the temple ceremony as a way of teaching polygamy to certain members while keeping it a secret from the general public? (15:14, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith derive his religious ideas in part from a mysticism called Kabbalah? (15:14, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith develop the story of Moroni's visit based upon information contained in the story ''The Golden Pot''? (15:14, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith endorse slavery? (15:14, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith engage in "land speculation" in Nauvoo? (15:14, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith give Brigham Young and Heber C. Kimball divining rods "as a symbol of gratitude for their loyalty"? (15:14, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith have a Jupiter talisman on his person at the time of his death? (15:14, 13 April 2024)