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- Question: Did Gordon B. Hinckley say that Latter-day Saints do not worship the biblical Jesus? (21:13, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did Heber C. Kimball and Orson Hyde order Nauvoo's police force to kill an apostate named Lambert Symes? (21:13, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did Heber C. Kimball claim that the apostles killed Judas? (21:13, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did Heber C. Kimball encourage violence and intimidation in order to keep followers "in line"? (21:13, 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"? (21:13, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did Heber C. Kimball say that future generations would view Joseph Smith as "a god"? (21:13, 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? (21:13, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did historian Thomas Alexander claim that "the Indians" forced Mormons to commit the Mountain Meadows Massacre? (21:13, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did Hosea Stout have three men flogged because they "were not in good fellowship"? (21:13, 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? (21:13, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did Jedediah Grant sanction "wife swapping"? (21:13, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did Jesus and the apostles believe in pre-mortal life? (21:13, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did John Taylor believe that there was no longer a separation between Church and State? (21:13, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did Joseph ever place the Nephite interpreters ("Urim and Thummim") into his hat? (21:13, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did Joseph Fielding Smith acknowledge that he was wrong when he said that Man would never walk on the Moon? (21:13, 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? (21:13, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did Joseph Fielding Smith remove the 1832 account of Joseph Smith's First Vision from its original letterbook and hide it in his safe? (21:13, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did Joseph Fielding Smith state that man would never visit the moon? (21:13, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did Joseph know what the italics in the Bible meant? (21:13, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did Joseph mention a "pillar of fire" or a "pillar of light" in his 1832 account of the First Vision? (21:13, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did Joseph own 144 acres of land in Kirtland? (21:13, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did Joseph own a Bible at the time of the Book of Mormon translation? (21:13, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith, Sr. practice "divination"? (21:13, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith actually shoot and kill two men at Carthage Jail? (21:13, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith and Sidney Rigdon support the formation of a vigilante band called the Danites? (21:13, 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? (21:13, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith being sealed to mothers, daughters and sisters violate a biblical prohibition? (21:14, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith believe that Abraham wrote the text on the papyrus himself? (21:14, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith believe that the lost Ten Tribes were living under the polar ice cap? (21:14, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith boast of his "violent deeds"? (21:14, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith brag about his strength and prowess in fighting? (21:14, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith claim that all governments and religions other than Mormonism would eventually be destroyed form the earth? (21:14, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith claim that the Kirtland Safety Society was established by a revelation from God? (21:14, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith consummate any of these marriages with married women? (21:14, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith copy Masonic material in order to create the Mormon temple rites? (21:14, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith copy the name "Nephi" from the Apocrypha? (21:14, 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? (21:14, 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? (21:14, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith derive his religious ideas in part from a mysticism called Kabbalah? (21:14, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith develop the story of Moroni's visit based upon information contained in the story ''The Golden Pot''? (21:14, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith endorse slavery? (21:14, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith engage in "land speculation" in Nauvoo? (21:14, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith give Brigham Young and Heber C. Kimball divining rods "as a symbol of gratitude for their loyalty"? (21:14, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith have a Jupiter talisman on his person at the time of his death? (21:14, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith have access to materials related to Nahom at Allegheny College? (21:14, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith have any children through any of his polyandrous marriages? (21:14, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith hit a Baptist preacher and throw him to the ground? (21:14, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith identify any elements of Facsimile 2 that are in agreement with what Egyptologists say they represent? (21:14, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith issue a prophecy that the Nauvoo House would stand forever and ever? (21:14, 13 April 2024)
- Elias and Elijah at the Kirtland Temple (21:14, 13 April 2024)