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- Question: What happened to the papyri after Joseph's death? (2 categories)
- Question: Did Brigham Young tell Henry Jacobs in front of hundreds of people that he needed to find another wife? (2 categories)
- Question: Do Latter-day Saints believe that no genuine Christians exist outside of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints? (2 categories)
- Question: Why does the Book of Mormon say that Jesus would be born "at Jerusalem which is the land of our forefathers" when the Bible states that he was born in Bethlehem? (2 categories)
- Question: Does the Book of Mormon support the idea that "eternal" or "endless" punishment can be temporary? (2 categories)
- Source:Echoes:Ch5:29:Lehi's desert journey and Joseph Smith (2 categories)
- Question: Did William Smith claim that a religious revival led to the Joseph's "first vision" of an angel in 1823? (2 categories)
- Question: Is original sin a biblical doctrine? (2 categories)
- Source:David Whitmer:Rebuttal to John Murphy 19 March 1881:EMD 5:69:Which has so long since been published with that book as one of the three witnesses (2 categories)
- Mormonism and apologetics/"ad hominem"/Case study/An attempt to dismiss Rosalynde Welch because of who she is related to (2 categories)
- Source:Gospel Topics:The Manifesto and the End of Plural Marriage:Joseph F. Smith broke the law (2 categories)
- Question: Did LDS leaders claim that Christians were no longer present on the earth after the apostasy? (2 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith say that he would be a "second Muhammad," threatening to spread his beliefs with the sword? (2 categories)
- Mountain Meadows Massacre/Personalities (2 categories)
- Question: Was the priest depicted in Book of Abraham Facsimile 1 holding a knife or was it some other object? (2 categories)
- Question: Did Brigham Young issue orders that no food or grain should be sold to "Gentiles" that were passing through Utah? (2 categories)
- Question: Could Joseph Smith have utilized place names and locations from the region in which he lived to create the Book of Mormon? (2 categories)
- Joseph Smith/Polygamy/Polyandry/Knowledge and consent of living husband (2 categories)
- 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 (2 categories)
- Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Do Christians Believe in Three Gods (2 categories)
- Question: Why does the Church teach that the flood was a global event? (2 categories)
- Question: Does the Book of Mormon refer to "coins"? (2 categories)
- Multiple accounts of the First Vision/George A. Smith said First Vision was an "angel" (2 categories)
- George Mantle (1888): Martin Harris said "Do you know that is the sun shining on us? Because as sure as you know that...he translated that book by the power of God" (2 categories)
- Forgeries/Mark Hofmann/Church reaction to forgeries/Church statement 31 July 1987 (2 categories)
- John S. Lewis: "Considering that Doctrine and Covenants 77:6 refers to “…this earth during the seven thousand years of its continuance, or its temporal existence,” what led Phelps to speak of Earth as 2,555 million years old?" (2 categories)
- Multiple accounts of the First Vision/Brigham Young said the Lord didn't appear (2 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith violate marriage laws in Ohio by performing marriages? (2 categories)
- Criticism of Mormonism/Books/One Nation Under Gods/Use of sources/Brigham as President of the United States (2 categories)
- Question: If Gordon B. Hinckley were a true prophet, why did he not discern the nature of the Hofmann forgeries? (2 categories)
- Question: Is the Mormon temple garment simply "magic underwear"? (2 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith send William Law, Robert D. Foster, and Henry Jacobs on missions so that he could steal their wives? (2 categories)
- Criticism of Mormonism/Books/One Nation Under Gods/Overview (2 categories)
- Question: How does the Grammar and Alphabet of the Egyptian Language (GAEL) relate to the Book of Abraham? (2 categories)
- Question: How many times was Joseph Smith involved with legal issues? (2 categories)
- The Apocalypse of Abraham: "Go out from thy father Terah, and get thee out from the house, that thou also be not slain" (2 categories)
- Detailed response to CES Letter, Book of Abraham (2 categories)
- Question: If a person faithfully practices Mormonism during this life, do they become a god after they die? (2 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph claim that an angel threatened him with a "drawn sword" or "flaming sword" if a woman refused to marry him? (2 categories)
- Question: Does the Book of Abraham state that the sun gets its photons from Kolob? (2 categories)
- Question: What happens when a Mormon criticizes Church leaders? (2 categories)
- Question: What did the husband of Sarah Kingsley know about her sealing to Joseph Smith for eternity? (2 categories)
- Question: How is the Joseph Smith Translation best understood? (2 categories)
- Question: What archaeological evidence might be considered the minimal irrefutable proof needed to convince a non-believing world of the authenticity of the Nephite scripture? (2 categories)
- Criticism of Mormonism/Online documents/Denver Snuffer/Inconsistent claims/Misleading citation of Brigham Young, Heber C. Kimball, and George A. Smith (2 categories)
- Question: Could Joseph Smith have acquired the names "Moroni" and "Cumorah" from a map of the Comoro archipelago off the coast of Africa? (2 categories)
- Question: Is there a link between Ethan Smith, author of ''View of the Hebrews'', and Oliver Cowdery? (2 categories)
- Question: How do the First Vision accounts compare on the subject of Joseph's motivation for praying? (2 categories)
- 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" (2 categories)
- Question: What is "reformed Egyptian"? (2 categories)