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- Source:Oaks:Life's Lessons Learned → Oaks: "We are supposed to learn by both reason and revelation, and that does not happen when we compartmentalize science and religion"
- Source:Oaks:Life's Lessons Learned:55-60:We are supposed to learn by both reason and revelation, and that does not happen when we compartmentalize science and religion → Oaks: "We are supposed to learn by both reason and revelation, and that does not happen when we compartmentalize science and religion"
- Source:Oaks:Recent Events Involving Church History and Forged Documents:Ensign:October 1987:tools as the Urim and Thummim, the Liahona, seerstones, and other articles have been used appropriately → Dallin H. Oaks (1987): "It should be recognized that such tools as the Urim and Thummim, the Liahona, seerstones, and other articles have been used appropriately in biblical, Book of Mormon, and modern times"
- Source:Observer and Telegraph:Nov 1830:the Aborigines of America; who, as they affirm, are a part of the tribe of Manasseh, and whose ancestors landed on the coast of Chili → Observer and Telegraph (Nov 1830): "the Aborigines of America; who, as they affirm, are a part of the tribe of Manasseh, and whose ancestors landed on the coast of Chile"
- Source:Oliver Cowdery:Jul 1835:A history of the inhabitants who peopled this continent, previous to its being discovered to Europeans by Columbus → Oliver Cowdery (Jul 1835): "A history of the inhabitants who peopled this continent, previous to its being discovered to Europeans by Columbus"
- Source:Oliver Cowdery:Jul 1835:A history of the inhabitants who peopled this continent, previous to its being discovered to Europians by Columbus → Oliver Cowdery (Jul 1835): "A history of the inhabitants who peopled this continent, previous to its being discovered to Europeans by Columbus"
- Source:Oliver Cowdery Three Witness statements → Oliver Cowdery statements as one of Three Witnesses
- Source:Oliver Cowdery reaffirmed his published testimony of the Book of Mormon → Oliver Cowdery reaffirmed his published testimony of the Book of Mormon
- Source:Olson:2004:People may like to think that they're descended from some ancient group while other people are not → Olson (2004): "People may like to think that they're descended from some ancient group while other people are not. But human ancestry doesn't work that way, since we all share the same ancestors just a few millenniums ago"
- Source:Orson F. Whitney:The Divinity of Jesus Christ:Improvement Era:1926:One night I dreamed … that I was in the Garden of Gethsemane, a witness of the Savior’s agony → Orson F. Whitney (1926): "One night I dreamed … that I was in the Garden of Gethsemane, a witness of the Savior’s agony"
- Source:Orson Pratt:1840:Interesting Account:they were marvellously brought across the great deep to the shores of North America → Orson Pratt (1840): "they were marvellously brought across the great deep to the shores of North America"
- Source:Orson Pratt:A Interesting Account of Several Remarkable Visions:Pillar of light → Orson Pratt (1840): "a very bright and glorious light in the heavens...He expected to have seen the leaves and boughs of the trees consumed, as soon as the light came in contact with them"
- Source:Orson Pratt:JD 25:19:I have been blessed with some revelations and prophecies, and with dreams of things that have come to pass → Orson Pratt (1878): "I have been blessed with some revelations and prophecies, and with dreams of things that have come to pass"
- Source:Orson Spencer:2 Jan 1843:I only remark that Stevens’ Travels had some influence, as an external evidence of the truth of the Book of Mormon → Orson Spencer (2 Jan 1843): "I only remark that Stevens’ Travels had some influence, as an external evidence of the truth of the Book of Mormon"
- Source:P. Wilhelm Poulson:Deseret Evening News:6 August 1878:John Whitmer said "He handed them uncovered into our hands, and we turned the leaves sufficient to satisfy us" → P. Wilhelm Poulson (1878): John Whitmer said "He handed them uncovered into our hands, and we turned the leaves sufficient to satisfy us"
- Source:Packer:A Tribute to the Rank and File of the Church:Ensign:May 1980:We do not talk of those sacred interviews that qualify the servants of the Lord to bear a special witness of Him → Boyd K. Packer (1980): "We do not talk of those sacred interviews that qualify the servants of the Lord to bear a special witness of Him, for we have been commanded not to do so"
- Source:Padilla et al:Bees, Apiculture and the New World:The maya codex Tro-Cortesianus shows drawings of bees → Padilla et al.: "The maya codex Tro-Cortesianus shows drawings of bees and parts of honey combs"
- Source:Painesville Telegraph:16 Nov 1830:Cowdery pretends to have a divine mission and conversed with angels → 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"
- Source:Painesville Telegraph:7 Dec 1830:Cowdry claims...By this authority, they proclaim to the world → Painesville Telegraph (1830): "Cowdry claims that he and his associates are the only persons on earth who are qualified to administer in his name. By this authority, they proclaim to the world"
- Source:Painsville Telegraph:7 Dec 1830:Cowdry claims...By this authority, they proclaim to the world → Painesville Telegraph (1830): "Cowdry claims that he and his associates are the only persons on earth who are qualified to administer in his name. By this authority, they proclaim to the world"
- Source:Palmyra Register:28 June 1820:5 July 1820:It was far from our intention to charge the Methodists with retailing ardent spirits while professedly met for the worship of their God → Events leading to the First Vision
- Source:Parley P. Pratt:Aug 1840:excavating in the neighbourhood of Bahia, in Brazil...bearing a strong architectural resemblance to the ruins existing in the northern parts of Norway, in Iceland, and in Greenland → Parley P. Pratt (Aug 1840): "excavating in the neighbourhood of Bahia, in Brazil...bearing a strong architectural resemblance to the ruins existing in the northern parts of Norway, in Iceland, and in Greenland"
- Source:Parrish:Painseville Republican:1838:penned down the translation of the Egyptian Heiroglyphicks as he claimed to receive it by direct inspiration of Heaven → Parrish (1838): "I have set by his side and penned down the translation of the Egyptian Heiroglyphicks as he claimed to receive it by direct inspiration of Heaven"
- Source:Paul R. Cheesman:Nov 1968:There are those who believe that there are two Hill Cumorahs...Advocates of this theory establish their analysis primarily from the internal evidences of the Book of Mormon → Paul R. Cheesman (Nov 1968): "There are those who believe that there are two Hill Cumorahs...Advocates of this theory establish their analysis primarily from the internal evidences of the Book of Mormon"
- Source:Peace and Violence:Gospel Topics:Danites → Source:Gospel Topics:Peach and Violence:Danites
- Source:Penrose:Conference Report:1911:he was speaking of the class of people to whom the Sadducees referred...the marriages under consideration were for time only → Charles W. Penrose (1911): Jesus "was speaking of the class of people to whom the Sadducees referred. Under the law of Moses marriage for eternity was not celebrated...the marriages under consideration were for time only"
- Source:Penrose:Improvement Era:Sept 1912:Baptism for the dead—How do we know which of our deceased relatives are to be baptized for → Charles Penrose (1912): "Baptism for the dead—How do we know which of our deceased relatives are to be baptized for"?
- Source:Penrose:Peculiar Questions Briefly Answered:1912:Do you believe that the President of the Church, when speaking to the Church in his official capacity is infallible? → Charles W. Penrose (1912): "Do you believe that the President of the Church, when speaking to the Church in his official capacity is infallible?"
- Source:Peter Whitmer, Jr. Eight Witnesses statements → The witness of Peter Whitmer Jr.
- Source:Peterson:CES Letter:the crocodile god Sobek → Peterson: "the identification of a crocodile as the idolatrous god of Pharaoh...Unas’ pyramid texts, includes the following: 'The king appears as the crocodile god Sobek'"
- Source:Peterson:FR 16:1:makes every effort to portray Ferguson's apparent eventual loss of faith as a failure for 'LDS archaeology' → Peterson: "Thomas Stuart Ferguson's biographer...makes every effort to portray Ferguson's apparent eventual loss of faith as a failure for 'LDS archaeology'"
- Source:Peterson:FR 17:2:They are an indigestible lump in the throats of people like him who contend that there were no Nephites → 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"
- Source:Peterson:Some Reflections on That Letter to a CES Director:the Book of Mormon Witnesses as empirical, rational, nineteenth-century men → Peterson (2014): "It’s rather like someone to ascribe early Christian belief to the resurrection of Jesus to the supposed fact that ancient people, unlike us, hadn’t yet realized that dead people tend to stay dead"
- Source:Peterson and Roper:FR 16:1:We know of no one who cites Ferguson as an authority, except countercultists → Peterson and Roper: "We know of no one who cites Ferguson as an authority, except countercultists"
- Source:Phelps:The Evening and The Morning Star 1:58:through the aid of a pair of Interpreters, or spectacles—(known, perhaps, in ancient days as Teraphim, or Urim and Thummim) → W.W. Phelps (1833): "through the aid of a pair of Interpreters, or spectacles—(known, perhaps, in ancient days as Teraphim, or Urim and Thummim)"
- Source:Pietro Martire d'Anghiera:Herds of deer → Pietro Martire d'Anghiera (1912): "the Spaniards noticed herds of deer similar to our herds of cattle"
- Source:Plowman:Christianity Today:1977:Mormon archivists have assembled a large amount of evidence -- some of it impressive -- to rebut the Spalding theory → The Spalding Theory of Book of Mormon authorship#Edward E. Plowman, ''Christianity Today'': "Mormon archivists have assembled a large amount of evidence—some of it impressive—to rebut the Spalding theory"
- Source:Plowman:Christianity Today:1977:Mormon archivists have assembled a large amount of evidence—some of it impressive—to rebut the Spalding theory → Source:Plowman:Christianity Today:1977:Mormon archivists have assembled a large amount of evidence -- some of it impressive -- to rebut the Spalding theory
- Source:Plural Marriage and Families in Early Utah:Gospel Topics:Divorce was therefore available to women who were unhappy in their marriages → Latter-day Saints and divorce in the nineteenth century#''Gospel Topics'': "Divorce was therefore available to women who were unhappy in their marriages"
- Source:Plural Marriage and Families in Early Utah:Gospel Topics:During the years that plural marriage was publicly taught, all Latter-day Saints were expected to accept the principle as a revelation from God → Plural marriage as a requirement for exaltation#''Gospel Topics'': "During the years that plural marriage was publicly taught, all Latter-day Saints were expected to accept the principle as a revelation from God"
- Source:Preach My Gospel:many other nations and cultures have been blessed by those who were given that portion → Preach My Gospel: "many other nations and cultures have been blessed by those who were given that portion that God 'seeth fit that they should have'"
- Source:Prothero:American Jesus: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 → 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"
- Source:Reexploring the Book of Mormon:Ch:26:1:Excavations at the Post-Classic site of Mayapan in Yucatan in 1957 → Sorenson: Horse bones in Yucatan "considered to be pre-Columbian on the basis of depth of burial and degree of mineralization"
- Source:Reexploring the Book of Mormon:Ch:36:three types of wild barley have long been known to be native to the Americas → Sorenson and Smith: "three types of wild barley have long been known to be native to the Americas"
- Source:Revelations in Context:The Word of Wisdom:Nevertheless, it required time to wind down practices that were so deeply ingrained in family tradition and culture → Revelations in Context: "Nevertheless, it required time to wind down practices that were so deeply ingrained in family tradition and culture"
- Source:Revelations in Context on history.lds.org:Oliver Cowdery's Gift:Cowdery was among those who believed in and used a divining rod → Revelations in Context on history.lds.org: "Cowdery was among those who believed in and used a divining rod"
- Source:Reverend Richmond Taggart:2 March 1833:Joe Smith...had seen Jesus Christ and the Apostles and conversed with them → Reverend Taggart (1833): "Joe Smith...told them he had seen Jesus Christ and the Apostles and conversed with them, and that he could perform miracles"
- Source:Rigdon:Manuscript found:in all of my intimacy with Joseph Smith he never told me but one story → The Spalding Theory of Book of Mormon authorship#Sidney Rigdon: "in all of my intimacy with Joseph Smith he never told me but one story"
- Source:Robinson:The Exclusion by Misrepresentation:the presentation of anomalies as though they were the doctrine of the Church → 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"
- Source:Roper:FR 16:2:Critics of the Book of Mormon have claimed that the limited geography is only a late, desperate attempt → Roper: "Critics of the Book of Mormon have claimed that the limited geography is only a late, desperate attempt to defend the Book of Mormon"