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- Question: How do critics of the Church portray Joseph Smith's letter to the Whitney family as a "love letter"? (3 categories)
- Topical Guide/Book of Mormon/Archaeology (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 were textual changes made to the Book of Mormon over the years after it was first published? (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)
- 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)
- 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: Does the Bible condemn genealogical research? (3 categories)
- Question: Was there no mention of revival activity in 1820 in the newspaper? (3 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith revise his account of the First Vision in 1838 to respond to a leadership crisis? (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)
- Question: Does the Book of Mormon contain mistakes? (3 categories)
- Latter-day Saint Temples/Endowment (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)
- Criticism of Mormonism/Books/The Mormon Hierarchy: Extensions of Power/Index (3 categories)
- Mormonism and Wikipedia/Golden plates/Sealed portion (3 categories)
- Mormonism and Wikipedia/Golden plates/Background (3 categories)
- Oliver Cowdery (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)
- Question: What is "blood atonement"? (3 categories)
- Question: What was the real purpose of the letter written by Joseph Smith to the parents of Sarah Ann Whitney? (3 categories)
- Eschatology (3 categories)
- Book of Mormon/Metals/Copper (3 categories)
- Topical Guide/Science and Religion (3 categories)
- Question: Does the Church claim that Native Americans were the exclusive descendants of Lehi or Mulek? (3 categories)
- Question: Should the restoration of Book of Abraham Facsimile 1 include a phallus? (3 categories)
- Mormonism and doctrine/Adam (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)
- Mormonism and gender issues (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: Does the Book of Mormon contain anti-Masonic language? (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)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith misidentify a Greek "psalter" as a containing "reformed Egyptian" hieroglyphics? (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)
- Question: What is Lorenzo Snow claimed to have said about plural marriages being adultery prior to 1843? (3 categories)
- Criticism of Mormonism/Books/An Insider's View of Mormon Origins/Use of sources/To copy or not to copy (2 categories)
- Question: Does the 1832 account of the First Vision not prohibit Joseph from joining any church? (2 categories)
- Question: Did Orson Pratt state that it was an angel that appeared during the First Vision? (2 categories)