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- Question: How do we reconcile the actual age of the earth to the "seven thousand years of its continuance" mentioned in D&C 77:6? (2 categories)
- Elder's Journal/1/2 (2 categories)
- Turley claimed that John Whitmer said: "I now say I handled those plates. there was fine engravings on both sides. I handled them...and they were shown to me by a supernatural power" (2 categories)
- Woodruff (1842): "The Lord is Blessing Joseph with Power to reveal the mysteries of the kingdom of God; to translate through the urim & Thummim Ancient records & Hyeroglyphics as old as Abraham or Adam" (2 categories)
- Detailed response to CES Letter, Science (2 categories)
- Source:Penrose:Peculiar Questions Briefly Answered:Improvement Era:Sept 1912:We do not know anything about Jesus Christ being married (2 categories)
- Question: Were women put under "tremendous pressure" to accept a proposal of plural marriage? (2 categories)
- Question: What were Helen Mar Kimball's views on plural marriage? (2 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith have any children through any of his polyandrous marriages? (2 categories)
- Question: What did the husband of Mary Elizabeth Rollins know about her sealing to Joseph Smith for eternity? (2 categories)
- Question: Why are many of the quotes from Isaiah in the Book of Mormon identical to those in the King James Bible? (2 categories)
- Question: How would Book of Mormon archaeology compare to that of the Bible? (2 categories)
- Truman Madsen: "Among readers who came to the Book of Mormon with hard, skeptical assumptions, B.H. Roberts is notable" (2 categories)
- Logical fallacies/Page 2 (2 categories)
- Question: Are the ages stated in Joseph's accounts of the First Vision 'all over the place?' (2 categories)
- Joseph Smith (1832): "a piller of fire light above the brightness of the sun at noon day come down from above" (2 categories)
- Question: How do Latter-day Saints reconcile scriptural accounts of the Flood of Noah with scientific evidence of continuous human habitation on the earth? (2 categories)
- Multiple accounts of the First Vision/Heber C. Kimball's statements regarding the First Vision (2 categories)
- Joseph Smith's First Vision/Did Joseph Smith join other churches/Methodist membership procedures (2 categories)
- Question: Did the Church repudiate the idea of neutrality in the "war in heaven?" (2 categories)
- Questions: Are Mormons Christians (2 categories)
- Joseph Smith/Polygamy/Essays/Illegal marriages in Ohio (2 categories)
- Question: Which sources mention Nephi as the angelic visitor who told Joseph Smith about the gold plates? (2 categories)
- Question: Do Mormon men believe that they will become "gods of their own planets" and rule over others? (2 categories)
- Brigham Young and the Mountain Meadows Massacre (2 categories)
- Question: Who is the author of ''History of the Church''? (2 categories)
- Moroni's visit/Nephi or Moroni (2 categories)
- 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" (2 categories)
- Question: Does the Bible forbid plural marriage? (2 categories)
- Question: Do Mormons believe that the temple garment will protect them from physical harm? (2 categories)
- Question: What about those who pray and don't receive a confirmation the Book of Mormon is true? (2 categories)
- Question: How could Joseph Smith come to the conclusion that all churches were wrong on his own? (2 categories)
- Question: Was Brigham Young's letter ordering immigrants to be left alone "mysteriously lost"? (2 categories)
- Question: What was the thickness of the entire volume of gold plates? (2 categories)
- Question: Was a "magic dagger" once owned by Hyrum Smith? (2 categories)
- 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" (2 categories)
- Question: Do Mormons who do not eat meat "sparingly" violate the Word of Wisdom? (2 categories)
- Question: What is "empirical evidence"? (2 categories)
- Question: Was Joseph Smith afraid to reproduce the text of the lost 116 pages of Book of Mormon manuscript because he could not do so? (2 categories)
- Question: What are the criticisms related to Facsimile 3? (2 categories)
- Question: What did Joseph Capron claim about Joseph Smith in the Hurlbut affidavits? (2 categories)
- Question: Where is the Hill Cumorah? (2 categories)
- Question: Were revivals and religious excitement too common to be noticed in the newspapers? (2 categories)
- Criticism of Mormonism/Books/American Massacre/Chapter 2 (2 categories)
- Source:Nibley:CW06:Ch19:9:Mourning by the daughters of Ishmael (2 categories)
- Question: In what manner was the Melchizedek Priesthood restored? (2 categories)
- Question: Is the Spalding theory of Book of Mormon authorship credible? (2 categories)
- Neil L. Andersen (2012): "A few question their faith when they find a statement made by a Church leader decades ago that seems incongruent with our doctrine" (2 categories)
- Source:Nicholson:The Spectacles, The Stone:This essay focuses primarily on the methods and instruments used in the translation process (2 categories)
- Elder's Journal/1/3 (2 categories)