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- Source:Christofferson:The Prophet Joseph Smith:BYUI Devotional:2013:Critics have also claimed that there were no religious revivals in the Palmyra, New York, area in 1820 (3 categories)
- Question: Is there any reference to God the Father being present in Joseph Smith's 1832 account? (3 categories)
- Question: Were any of the changes to the Book of Mormon made in reaction to sectarian criticism? (3 categories)
- Question: Was a "vagabond fortune-teller" named Walters Joseph Smith's "mentor"? (3 categories)
- Hamblin: "there are no references to Nephite steel after 400 B.C." (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)
- Question: Were the changes to the revelations hidden from the Church members? (3 categories)
- Question: How did Joseph Smith actually use the gold plates? (3 categories)
- Question: I've seen Temple Lot court transcripts online. Are these not accurate? (3 categories)
- Question: Why does Joseph Smith's 9 November 1835 account of the First Vision mention "many angels?" (3 categories)
- Church finances (3 categories)
- The Bible/Scripture interpretation (3 categories)
- Mormon ordinances/Marriage/Eternal marriage (3 categories)
- Question: What is the Strengthening Church Members Committee? (3 categories)
- Multiple accounts of the First Vision/Oliver Cowdery not aware of First Vision in 1834-35 (3 categories)
- Question: Is there anything wrong with early Church leaders using the term "angel" to refer to Jesus Christ? (3 categories)
- Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Do Christians Believe in Three Gods/Origins of Nicene Trinitarianism (3 categories)
- Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Mormonism Unmasked/Chapter 3 (3 categories)
- Brigham Young (1855): "The Lord did not come with the armies of heaven...But He did send His angel to this same obscure person, Joseph Smith jun" (3 categories)
- Question: How do the goals of Freemasonry compare to those of the Latter-day Saint endowment? (3 categories)
- Criticism of Mormonism/Websites/MormonThink/Could Joseph Smith have written the Book of Mormon (3 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith change his stated motivation for praying in later years after he received the First Vision? (3 categories)
- Mormonism and Wikipedia/Joseph Smith, Jr./Early years/051909 (3 categories)
- Question: Does the belief by the witnesses that the experience had visionary qualities contradict the claim that the Book of Mormon plates were real? (3 categories)
- Mormonism and Wikipedia/Golden plates/Significance (3 categories)
- Question: Why did several years pass before Oliver Cowdery talked about the priesthood restoration? (3 categories)
- Topical Guide/Book of Mormon/Plagiarism accusations (3 categories)
- Criticism of Mormonism/Online documents/Denver Snuffer/Excommunication/Criticism of Church leaders (3 categories)
- Book of Mormon/Translation/The interpreters, seer stone, hat and the "gift and power of God"/Further Reading (3 categories)
- Science and the Church of Jesus Christ/Latter-day Saint approaches (3 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith create the story of Nephi and Laban by plagiarizing concepts and phrases from the story of Judith and Holofernes in the Apocrypha? (3 categories)
- Question: What does The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints teach about modesty and what is its importance? (3 categories)
- Sorenson: "Lumps of hematite, magnetite, and ilmenite were brought into Valley of Oaxaca" (3 categories)
- Gospel Topics on LDS.org: "Mormon and non-Mormon Egyptologists agree that the characters on the fragments do not match the translation given in the book of Abraham" (3 categories)
- Obedience to Church leaders (3 categories)
- Question: How did the apostle Paul describe spiritual experiences? (3 categories)
- The killing of Laban in the Book of Mormon (3 categories)
- Question: Why did the Prophet construct the 1832 narrative in a manner such as to exclude explicit mention of the Father's appearance? (3 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith copy the name "Nephi" from the Apocrypha? (3 categories)
- Wikipedia: Bighorn sheep "crossed to North America over the Bering land bridge" (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)
- 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)
- The Bible/Interpretation (3 categories)
- Question: Is it true that the Danites were pledged to “plunder, lie, and even kill if deemed necessary?" (3 categories)
- Question: In the Kirtland Egyptian Papers, why is each Egyptian character matched to an entire paragraph of English text? (3 categories)