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- Source:Gardner:Joseph the Seer:2009 FAIR Conference:long before golden plates complicated his position as a local seer (3 categories)
- Did Joseph have lustful motives for practicing polygamy? (3 categories)
- Question: What is the story of Zelph? (3 categories)
- Question: How exactly did Joseph Smith translate the gold plates? (3 categories)
- Topical Guide/Book of Mormon/Coming Forth (3 categories)
- Use of Church funds (3 categories)
- David Whitmer (1878): "I saw them just as plain as I see this bed" (3 categories)
- Mormonism and Wikipedia/Golden plates/Finding (3 categories)
- Question: Does the Book of Mormon contain mistakes? (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)
- Statements by Church leaders related to the identity of the Lamanites (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)
- Miller and Roper: "two distinct species of peccary live in Mesoamerica....They were hunted and eaten as early as Olmec times" (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: How do critics of the Church portray Joseph Smith's letter to the Whitney family as a "love letter"? (3 categories)
- Sorenson: "Iron use was documented in the statements of early Spaniards, who told of the Aztecs using iron-studded clubs" (3 categories)
- Question: What did the other witnesses say regarding "spiritual" versus "natural" viewing of the plates? (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: Does the Bible condemn genealogical research? (3 categories)
- Question: Are Mormons polytheists because they don't accept the Nicene Creed? (3 categories)
- Question: What do we find in Mesoamerican archaeology with respect to place names, such as city names? (3 categories)
- Question: What criticisms are put forth regarding the restoration of the Melchizedek Priesthood? (3 categories)
- Latter-day Saint Temples/Endowment (3 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)
- 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)
- Racial issues and the Church of Jesus Christ/Blacks and the priesthood (3 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith place his seer stone in his hat while looking for lost objects? (3 categories)
- Question: How reliable are the accounts of the discovery of Zelph? (3 categories)
- Question: Do Mormons believe Jesus Christ was married? (3 categories)
- Origin of the Book of Mormon (3 categories)
- Joseph Smith/Seer stones (3 categories)
- Question: Is there any reference to God the Father being present in Joseph Smith's 1832 account? (3 categories)
- David Whitmer (3 categories)
- Question: Was a "vagabond fortune-teller" named Walters Joseph Smith's "mentor"? (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)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith's mother say that the First Vision was of an "angel"? (3 categories)
- Question: What is Joseph Smith's 1832 prophecy of the Civil War? (3 categories)
- Book of Abraham (3 categories)
- Question: In what context are chariots mentioned in the Book of Mormon? (3 categories)
- Question: What was the real purpose of the letter written by Joseph Smith to the parents of Sarah Ann Whitney? (3 categories)
- Question: What have Latter-day Saint leaders actually said about the method of procreation in the afterlife? (3 categories)
- Question: By what name did Joseph Smith refer to the First Vision? (3 categories)
- Question: Is Joseph Smith papyri Facsimile 1 common and similar to other such scenes? (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)