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- 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)
- The Bible/Interpretation (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)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith write a "love letter" to his plural wife Sarah Ann Whitney to request a secret rendezvous? (3 categories)
- Topical Guide/Church organization/Finances (3 categories)
- Question: What is the relationship of the Joseph Smith Papyri to the Book of Abraham? (3 categories)
- Question: How did newspaper accounts describe the nature of the witnesses experience? (3 categories)
- Question: Why is ''History of the Church'' written in first-person, as if Joseph Smith himself wrote it? (3 categories)
- Question: At what age did Joseph Smith become concerned about religion? (3 categories)
- Question: Did any of Joseph's scribes ever say anything about Joseph's story of the vision changing over time? (3 categories)
- Question: What references to the First Vision exist in published documents from the 1830s? (3 categories)
- Miller and Roper: "there are sheep native to America. The most common type is the Mountain Sheep, Ovis canadensis" (3 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith have a Jupiter talisman on his person at the time of his death? (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)
- Question: Who was Paul H. Dunn and what happened to him? (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)
- Question: Were the Isaiah passages in the Book of Mormon simply plagiarized from the King James Bible? (3 categories)
- Topical Guide/Book of Mormon/Anachronisms (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)
- Latter-day Saint Temples/Baptism for the dead (3 categories)
- Latter-day Saint Temples (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: 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 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)
- Question: Does the Bible prohibit polygamous marriages involving a mother and daughter? (3 categories)
- Question: Is there a cave in the Hill Cumorah containing the Nephite records? (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: 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: Does the Bible condemn genealogical research? (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 give Brigham Young and Heber C. Kimball divining rods "as a symbol of gratitude for their loyalty"? (3 categories)