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- Mormonism and church integrity/Accusations of lying and hypocrisy on the part of the Church (4 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph know what the italics in the Bible meant? (4 categories)
- Question: When did a biblical curse become associated with the "Hamites?" (4 categories)
- Theory of Book of Mormon place names from Comoros Islands (4 categories)
- The witness of John Whitmer (4 categories)
- Nephite burnt offerings (4 categories)
- Mormonism and apologetics/"ad hominem"/Case study/An attempt to discredit Hugh Nibley by accusing him of child abuse (3 categories)
- Source:Charles Penrose:Improvement Era:September 1912:Do you believe in "blood-atonement"? (3 categories)
- Question: Is the Church trying to hide something through its use of artwork? (3 categories)
- Question: Is a "burning in the bosom" simply a subjective, emotion-based, unreliable way to practice self-deception? (3 categories)
- Bell: "there would not be enough available space to restore the hand of Anubis, the erect phallus of the Osiris, and the body and wings of Isis" (3 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith and Brigham Young steal Henry Jacobs' family? (3 categories)
- Question: If the Joseph Smith Translation (JST) is Joseph Smith's 'correction' of Biblical errors, why do these corrections not match known Biblical manuscripts? (3 categories)
- Edward Stevenson (1870): Martin Harris said "my belief is swallowed up in knowledge; for I want to say to you that as the Lord lives I do know that I stood with the Prophet Joseph Smith in the presence of the angel" (3 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith become a baptized member of the Baptist Church in 1822? (3 categories)
- Question: Does the Book of Mormon plagiarize the King James Bible? (3 categories)
- Prothero (2003): "in the 1832 version, Jesus appears to Smith alone, and does all the talking himself. Such complaints, however, are much ado about relatively nothing" (3 categories)
- Question: Why do some New Testament phrases appear in the Book of Mormon? (3 categories)
- Question: Did Oliver Cowdery ever deny his Book of Mormon witness because he thought that Joseph Smith was a fallen prophet? (3 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph use his seer stone to receive the text of the Book of Abraham in the same manner as he did for the Book of Mormon? (3 categories)
- William Smith (1884): "When the plates were brought in they were wrapped up in a tow frock. My father then put them into a pillow case. Father said, 'What, Joseph, can we not see them?'" (3 categories)
- Question: Do Mormons believe Jesus Christ was married? (3 categories)
- Question: Does the Bible prohibit polygamous marriages involving a mother and daughter? (3 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith claim that the Kirtland Safety Society was established by a revelation from God? (3 categories)
- Origin of the Book of Mormon (3 categories)
- Joseph Smith/Seer stones (3 categories)
- Question: Does the 14 November 1835 account reference to the "first vision of Angels" mean that Joseph Smith did not see Deity? (3 categories)
- David Whitmer (3 categories)
- Latter-day Saint Temples/Baptism for the dead (3 categories)
- Latter-day Saint Temples (3 categories)
- Question: Why did the author of the ''Letter to a CES Director'' feel the need to make a single hostile quote appear as if it were two separate quotes? (3 categories)
- Book of Abraham (3 categories)
- Question: In what context are chariots mentioned in the Book of Mormon? (3 categories)
- Question: What are the Lectures on Faith? (3 categories)
- Godfrey: "Martin found a rock closely resembling the seerstone Joseph sometimes used in place of the interpreters and substituted it without the Prophet’s knowledge" (3 categories)
- Question: What changes were made to the Doctrine and Covenants? (3 categories)
- Question: By what name did Joseph Smith refer to the First Vision? (3 categories)
- Question: How did Latter-day Saint scholars respond to the attempt to sell the Book of Mormon copyright prior to Page's letter coming to light? (3 categories)
- Question: Did the story of Moroni's visit to Joseph Smith evolve from that of a magical spiritual treasure guardian to an "angel"? (3 categories)
- Question: Is it possible to deduce Joseph Smith's thoughts and dreams years after his death? (3 categories)
- Question: What caused William Law to apostatize from the Church and turn against Joseph Smith? (3 categories)
- Source:Gospel Topics:Peach and Violence:Danites (3 categories)
- 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? (3 categories)
- Question: Why doesn't the art match details which have been repeatedly spelled out in Church publications? (3 categories)
- Question: Was the original head of the priest in Book of Abraham Facsimile 1 actually the jackal head of Anubis? (3 categories)
- Question: Is someone unreliable because they practiced "treasure hunting" and believed in the use of seer stones to find lost objects? (3 categories)
- Question: What does the lion couch scene in Book of Abraham Facsimile 1 normally represent? (3 categories)
- Question: Are Mormons polytheists because they don't accept the Nicene Creed? (3 categories)
- Question: What criticisms are put forth regarding the restoration of the Melchizedek Priesthood? (3 categories)
- Question: Why did the Church modify the introduction to the Book of Mormon from "principal ancestors" to "among the ancestors?" (3 categories)