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- Question: What did David Whitmer's associates say about his character? (4 categories)
- Mormonism and Wikipedia/Golden plates/Composition and weight (4 categories)
- Mormonism and Wikipedia/Joseph Smith, Jr./Distinctive views and teachings (4 categories)
- Joseph Smith fired a gun at Carthage Jail (4 categories)
- Gospel Topics: "The Book of Mormon...does not claim that the peoples it describes were either the predominant or the exclusive inhabitants of the lands they occupied" (4 categories)
- Criticism of Mormonism/Books/One Nation Under Gods/Use of sources/Forged Rocky Mountain prophecy (4 categories)
- Question: Why would the Church remove or alter elements of the temple ceremony if these ceremonies were revealed by God? (3 categories)
- Improvement Era (1946): "Did Joseph Smith Introduce Plural Marriage?...It is also possible, though the Church does not now permit it, to seal two living people for eternity only, with no association on earth" (3 categories)
- Latter-day Saint Temples/Endowment (3 categories)
- Question: Why did the Church modify the introduction to the Book of Mormon from "principal ancestors" to "among the ancestors?" (3 categories)
- Sorenson: "There is an animal which they call chic, wonderfully active, as large as a small dog, with a snout like a sucking pig. The Indian women raise them" (3 categories)
- 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? (3 categories)
- Gardner: "a correct approach to a Mesoamerican battle required all three elements: king, litter, and battle beast" (3 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith become a member of the Methodist Church while he was translating the Book of Mormon? (3 categories)
- Source:Gardner:Joseph the Seer:2009 FAIR Conference:long before golden plates complicated his position as a local seer (3 categories)
- Question: What is the story of Zelph? (3 categories)
- Question: How exactly did Joseph Smith translate the gold plates? (3 categories)
- Question: Was there no mention of revival activity in 1820 in the newspaper? (3 categories)
- William Smith (1893): "I did not see them uncovered, but I handled them and hefted them while wrapped in a tow frock and judged them to have weighed about sixty pounds" (3 categories)
- Question: How would a statement that "God is a spirit" be interpreted in ancient Judasism? (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)
- Criticism of Mormonism/Books/No Man Knows My History: The Life of Joseph Smith/Chapter 5 (3 categories)
- Question: Where can I learn more about the Sidney Rigdon/Solomon Spalding authorship theory? (3 categories)
- Question: Did Lucy Mack Smith join the Presbyterian Church after her son Alvin died in 1823? (3 categories)
- Mormonism and Wikipedia/Golden plates/Claimed engravings (3 categories)
- Question: Why doesn't the art match details which have been repeatedly spelled out in Church publications? (3 categories)
- Mormonism and Wikipedia/Golden plates/Origin and historicity (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)
- Topical Guide/Book of Mormon/Archaeology (3 categories)
- Question: Why were textual changes made to the Book of Mormon over the years after it was first published? (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)
- Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Do Christians Believe in Three Gods/Bible and Nicea (3 categories)
- Question: What is the Adam-God Theory? (3 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph hide his plural marriages from Emma, his first wife? (3 categories)
- Question: Why does the Book of Abraham state that it was written by Abraham's "own hand upon papyrus" if the papyri date to after the Abrahamic period? (3 categories)
- Question: What is Lorenzo Snow claimed to have said about plural marriages being adultery prior to 1843? (3 categories)
- Juncker (1994): "Unknown to many, the early church fathers often referred to Jesus as an Angel....in antiquity the word 'angel' meant 'messenger'" (3 categories)
- Criticism of Mormonism/Books/American Massacre/Chapter 3 (3 categories)
- Latter-day Saint Temples/Kirtland temple (3 categories)
- Joseph Smith (9 Nov. 1835): "a personage appeard in the midst of this pillar of flame...another personage soon appeard like unto the first...and I saw many angels in this vision" (3 categories)
- Mormonism and doctrine/Adam (3 categories)
- Mormonism and gender issues (3 categories)
- Question: Does the Book of Mormon contain anti-Masonic language? (3 categories)