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- 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)
- Mormonism and Wikipedia/Golden plates/Origin and historicity (3 categories)
- Question: How would a statement that "God is a spirit" be interpreted in ancient Judasism? (3 categories)
- Question: What is Lorenzo Snow claimed to have said about plural marriages being adultery prior to 1843? (3 categories)
- Juncker (1994): "Unknown to many, the early church fathers often referred to Jesus as an Angel....in antiquity the word 'angel' meant 'messenger'" (3 categories)
- Criticism of Mormonism/Books/American Massacre/Chapter 3 (3 categories)
- Latter-day Saint Temples/Kirtland temple (3 categories)
- Joseph Smith (9 Nov. 1835): "a personage appeard in the midst of this pillar of flame...another personage soon appeard like unto the first...and I saw many angels in this vision" (3 categories)
- Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Do Christians Believe in Three Gods/Bible and Nicea (3 categories)
- Question: What is the Adam-God Theory? (3 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph hide his plural marriages from Emma, his first wife? (3 categories)
- Question: Why does the Book of Abraham state that it was written by Abraham's "own hand upon papyrus" if the papyri date to after the Abrahamic period? (3 categories)
- Eschatology (3 categories)
- Question: Why is ''History of the Church'' written in first-person, as if Joseph Smith himself wrote it? (3 categories)
- Book of Mormon/Metals/Copper (3 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith become a baptized member of the Baptist Church in 1822? (3 categories)
- Topical Guide/Science and Religion (3 categories)
- Mormonism and doctrine/Adam (3 categories)
- Question: Does the Book of Mormon plagiarize the King James Bible? (3 categories)
- Mormonism and gender issues (3 categories)
- Question: Does the Book of Mormon contain anti-Masonic language? (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: Did David Whitmer ever deny his Book of Mormon witness because he thought that Joseph Smith was a fallen prophet? (3 categories)
- Source:Charles Penrose:Improvement Era:September 1912:Do you believe in "blood-atonement"? (3 categories)
- Question: Is the Church trying to hide something through its use of artwork? (3 categories)
- Criticism of Mormonism/Books/The Mormon Hierarchy: Extensions of Power/Index (3 categories)
- Question: Is a "burning in the bosom" simply a subjective, emotion-based, unreliable way to practice self-deception? (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)
- Mormonism and Wikipedia/Golden plates/Sealed portion (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)
- Mormonism and Wikipedia/Golden plates/Background (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)
- Oliver Cowdery (3 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith write a "love letter" to his plural wife Sarah Ann Whitney to request a secret rendezvous? (3 categories)
- Question: Did Lorenzo Snow state that polygamy was actually adultery prior to 1843? (3 categories)
- Mormonism and Freemasonry/Relationship between Freemasonry and temple ceremonies (3 categories)
- Prophets and Church leaders/Revelation after Joseph Smith/Thomas S. Monson/Claims that President Monson doesn't bear witness of foundational doctrines (3 categories)
- Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Do Christians Believe in Three Gods/Do Christians Believe in Three Gods (3 categories)
- Brigham Young (1855): "I do not even believe that there is a single revelation, among the many God has given to the Church, that is perfect in its fulness" (3 categories)
- Stephen E. Robinson: "Yet another way in which anti-Mormon critics often misrepresent LDS doctrine is in the presentation of anomalies as though they were the doctrine of the Church" (3 categories)
- The Joseph Smith Papers: "Several later documents suggest that several women who were already married to other men were, like Marinda Hyde, married or sealed to Joseph Smith" (3 categories)
- Question: What did Orson Hyde, the husband of Marinda Nancy Johnson, know about her sealing to Joseph Smith for eternity? (3 categories)
- Question: Were apostates secretly put to death by "blood atonement" during the administration of Brigham Young? (2 categories)
- Criticism of Mormonism/Online documents/Denver Snuffer/Inconsistent claims (2 categories)
- Question: Do Latter-day Saints believe that Quetzalcoatl was actually Jesus Christ? (2 categories)