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- Question: Should the restoration of Book of Abraham Facsimile 1 include a phallus? (3 categories)
- Question: Why would Joseph be sealed to the wife of someone who was not only married to someone else, but pregnant with her husband's child? (3 categories)
- Question: Do Latter-day Saints believe that they will one day 'supplant' God? (3 categories)
- Martin Harris: "As sure as you see my hand so sure did I see the angel and the plates" (3 categories)
- Question: Have edits to the revelations been discussed in the present day? (3 categories)
- Question: Why is the statement of William Clayton regarding the Kinderhook Plates in ''History of the Church'' written as if Joseph Smith himself said it? (3 categories)
- Peterson (2005): The plates "are an indigestible lump in the throats of people...who contend that there were no Nephites but that Joseph Smith was nonetheless an inspired prophet" (3 categories)
- Question: How was the text of the Book of Abraham produced by Joseph Smith? (3 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith misidentify a Greek "psalter" as a containing "reformed Egyptian" hieroglyphics? (3 categories)
- Criticism of Mormonism/Online documents/Letter to a CES Director (3 categories)
- Question: What did the husband of Sylvia Sessions know about her sealing to Joseph Smith for eternity? (3 categories)
- Stephen Robinson: "In the case of the Jupiter coin, this same extrapolation error is compounded with a very uncritical acceptance of the artifact in the first place" (3 categories)
- Topical Guide/Church organization/Finances (3 categories)
- Question: How did newspaper accounts describe the nature of the witnesses experience? (3 categories)
- Question: At what age did Joseph Smith become concerned about religion? (3 categories)
- Miller and Roper: "there are sheep native to America. The most common type is the Mountain Sheep, Ovis canadensis" (3 categories)
- Question: Are there sources which identify the angel that visited Joseph as "Moroni" that date prior to the "Nephi" error? (3 categories)
- Hugh Nibley/Abuse charges/Beck husband reaction (3 categories)
- Mormonism and Wikipedia/Joseph Smith, Jr./1838 to 1839/051909 (3 categories)
- Criticism of Mormonism (3 categories)
- Topical Guide/Book of Mormon/Authorship and Evidences (3 categories)
- Mormonism and Freemasonry (3 categories)
- Topical Guide/Book of Mormon/Anachronisms (3 categories)
- Source:Charles Penrose:Improvement Era:September 1912:Do you believe in "blood-atonement"? (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)
- 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)
- Latter-day Saint Temples/Baptism for the dead (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)
- Latter-day Saint Temples (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)
- 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: Did Joseph Smith become a baptized member of the Baptist Church in 1822? (3 categories)
- Question: What changes were made to the Doctrine and Covenants? (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: Does the Book of Mormon plagiarize the King James Bible? (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)
- 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)
- Mormonism and apologetics/"ad hominem"/Case study/An attempt to discredit Hugh Nibley by accusing him of child abuse (3 categories)
- Question: Does the Bible prohibit polygamous marriages involving a mother and daughter? (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)
- 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: What do we find in Mesoamerican archaeology with respect to place names, such as city names? (3 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith claim that the Kirtland Safety Society was established by a revelation from God? (3 categories)
- Did Joseph have lustful motives for practicing polygamy? (3 categories)
- Topical Guide/Book of Mormon/Coming Forth (3 categories)