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- Question: Did Joseph Smith being sealed to mothers, daughters and sisters violate a biblical prohibition? (3 categories)
- Question: How were Joseph Smith's seer stones involved in the translation of the Book of Mormon? (3 categories)
- Question: How were the activities of the Danite band exposed? (3 categories)
- Miller and Roper: "Evidence of goats associated with pre-Columbian man also comes from caves in Yucatan" (3 categories)
- Question: Many who listened to Elder Dunn's stories felt the spirit. Why would one feel the spirit upon hearing a story that was fabricated? Doesn't this confirm a lie? (3 categories)
- Question: Does Book of Abraham Facsimile 1 show a hand, or does it show the wing of a second bird? (3 categories)
- Opposition to baptism for the dead (3 categories)
- Mormon ordinances (3 categories)
- Multiple accounts of the First Vision/Criticisms/Overview (3 categories)
- Question: Is there a cave in the Hill Cumorah containing the Nephite records? (3 categories)
- Brigham Young (1871): "whether the Lord...made it in six days or in as many millions of years, is and will remain a matter of speculation in the minds of men unless he give revelation on the subject" (3 categories)
- Portal:Test2/box-header (3 categories)
- Question: Does the Bible condemn genealogical research? (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)
- David Whitmer (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)
- Book of Abraham (3 categories)
- Question: In what context are chariots mentioned in the Book of Mormon? (3 categories)
- Question: Does the Book of Mormon contain mistakes? (3 categories)
- Question: By what name did Joseph Smith refer to the First Vision? (3 categories)
- Question: How do critics of the Church portray Joseph Smith's letter to the Whitney family as a "love letter"? (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)
- 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)
- 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)
- Question: Did some Church leaders believe that the skin of the Lamanites would turn white? (3 categories)
- Question: Could the list of items on Joseph's person at the time of his death have been incomplete? (3 categories)
- Question: Did the Danite band persist even after they were exposed? (3 categories)
- Miller and Roper: "In post-biblical Jewish literature some Jewish writers distinguished between wild and domestic cattle such as goats" (3 categories)
- Question: Why did Elder Dunn exaggerate elements of these stories? (3 categories)
- Bell: "the questionable traces above the head of the Osiris figure are actually the remains of his right hand" (3 categories)
- Question: What did Oliver Cowdery's associates say about his character? (3 categories)
- Latter-day Saint Temples/Endowment (3 categories)
- Painesville Telegraph (1830): "The name of the person here, who pretends to have a divine mission, and to have seen and conversed with Angels, is Cowdray" (3 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith revise his account of the First Vision in 1838 to respond to a leadership crisis? (3 categories)
- Criticism of Mormonism/Books/No Man Knows My History: The Life of Joseph Smith/Chapter 5 (3 categories)
- Mormonism and Wikipedia/Golden plates/Claimed engravings (3 categories)
- Mormonism and Wikipedia/Golden plates/Origin and historicity (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)
- 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)
- Gardner: "a correct approach to a Mesoamerican battle required all three elements: king, litter, and battle beast" (3 categories)
- Question: Was there no mention of revival activity in 1820 in the newspaper? (3 categories)
- Question: What was the real purpose of the letter written by Joseph Smith to the parents of Sarah Ann Whitney? (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)
- Improvement Era (January 1968): "Often the funerary texts contained passages from the 'Book of the Dead,' a book that was to assist in the safe passage of the dead person into the spirit world" (2 categories)
- Question: Did ceremonies or practices ever change in the ancient Church? (2 categories)
- Question: How is it possible that there were three days of darkness in the New World and not in the Old World? (2 categories)