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- Question: Did Oliver Cowdery privately admit to his law partner that the Book of Mormon was actually a hoax? (21:16, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did one of King Zedekiah's sons, Mulek, escape and come to the New World? (21:16, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did Orson Hyde state that it was permissible to "steal & be influenced by the spirit of the Lord to do it" as long as it was against non-Mormons? (21:16, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did Orson Pratt state that it was an angel that appeared during the First Vision? (21:16, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did other Church leaders believe that plural marriage was a requirement for exaltation? (21:16, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did Parley P. Pratt claim that only God appeared to Joseph Smith during his First Vision? (21:16, 13 April 2024)
- 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? (21:16, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did Porter Rockwell admit to shooting Lilburn Boggs? (21:16, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did some Church leaders believe that the skin of the Lamanites would turn white? (21:16, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did swords exist in Pre-Columbian America during the Book of Mormon time period? (21:16, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did the "Cochranites" influence Joseph Smith or other Mormons to introduce plural marriage into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints? (21:16, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did the actual words "God the Father" and "Jesus Christ" appear in Joseph's 1838 account of the First Vision? (21:16, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did the Book of Mormon witnesses hold to their published testimonies? (21:16, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did the Church attempt to hide Brigham Young's practice of plural marriage in the ''Teachings of the Presidents of the Church: Brigham Young'' manual? (21:16, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the Mormons) contribute money to the "Yes on 8" campaign? (21:16, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the Mormons) invest more money in Proposition 8 than in all of its combined humanitarian efforts? (21:16, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the Mormons) violate its tax-exempt status by participating in the "Yes on 8" campaign? (21:16, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints send a large number of out-of-state people in to assist with the California "Yes-on-8" campaign? (21:16, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did the Church purchase documents such as Mark Hofmann's "Salamander letter" with the intent of hiding and suppressing them? (21:16, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did the Church refute the "neutral in the pre-existence" teaching only to preserve their public image? (21:16, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did the Church suppress a revelation given to Joseph Smith in 1831 which encouraged the implementation of polygamy by intermarriage with the Indians in order to make them a “white and delightsome” people? (21:16, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did the Council of Fifty order homicides to be committed? (21:16, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did the Danite band persist even after they were exposed? (21:16, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did the daughter of Hugh Nibley accuse him of abusing her? (21:16, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did the early Christian fathers express a belief in a pre-mortal life? (21:17, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did the First Presidency identify the New York "Hill Cumorah" as the site of the Nephite final battles? (21:17, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did the Mormons send thousands of missionaries door to door in California handing out fliers about Proposition 8? (21:17, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did the Mormons use their facilities or donation processing system to collect money destined for the "Yes on 8" campaign? (21:17, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did the Nauvoo police commit "many murders, vicious beatings, and intimidating assaults" against people that they thought to be enemies of the Church? (21:17, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did the prophet Nephi visit Joseph at some point in time? (21:17, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did the Three Witnesses consider Joseph Smith a "fallen prophet" after they left the Church? (21:17, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did the Three Witnesses each add their own signature to the original Book of Mormon manuscript? (21:17, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did the Three Witnesses have personal, subjective experiences? (21:17, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did the three witnesses's experience of seeing the plates and the angel take place only in their minds? (21:17, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did the use of metal swords mentioned in the Book of Mormon persist? (21:17, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did the witnesses disagree with their testimony after it was printed in the Book of Mormon? (21:17, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did the witnesses make clear statements regarding their testimonies? (21:17, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did the witnesses to the Book of Mormon realize that they would be ridiculed and not believed? (21:17, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did Wilford Woodruff have knowledge of the First Vision prior to his 1855 remarks about an angel? (21:17, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did Wilford Woodruff prophesy that New York would be destroyed by earthquake, Boston by flood, and Albany by fire? (21:17, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did Wilford Woodruff teach something other than the traditional story of the First Vision? (21:17, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did William Marks claim that Joseph Smith told him that plural marriage had been a mistake and that it would be abandoned? (21:17, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did William McLellin ever mention drinking in association with the Kirtland Temple? (21:17, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Didn't Joseph's 1826 Bainbridge appearance before a judge prove that he had previously been using his seer stone for nefarious purposes? (21:17, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Do all other religions confirm their beliefs through spiritual witness? (21:17, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Do any of Joseph's explanations of Book of Abraham Facsimile 1 agree with what Egyptologists say about the figures? (21:17, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Do any other religious traditions view the Garden of Eden as "local"? (21:17, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Do both the Book of Mormon and Gilbert Hunt's ''The Late War'' talk about people maintaining a "standard of liberty"? (21:17, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Do Christian critics of the Book of Mormon have a double standard regarding DNA evidence? (21:17, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Do Hebraisms exist in the Book of Mormon? (21:17, 13 April 2024)