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- Question: What did the husband of Esther Dutcher know about her sealing to Joseph Smith for eternity? (2 categories)
- Question: How does archaeology in the New World fit with the Book of Mormon? (2 categories)
- Question: If the only purpose of polygamy was to "raise up seed," then why did Joseph not have children by his plural wives? (2 categories)
- Question: Do academic translators copy translations of other documents to use as a "base text"? (2 categories)
- Roper: "archaeologists have discovered a carburized iron sword near Jericho" (2 categories)
- Question: Are the names on the Holley Map in the correct locations relative to one another? (2 categories)
- Question: Were apostates secretly put to death by "blood atonement" during the administration of Brigham Young? (2 categories)
- Question: Could Joseph have used a Bible during and simply dictated from it during Book of Mormon translation? (2 categories)
- Question: Was Heber C. Kimball concerned that missionaries would "take all the best" convert women as plural wives before they returned to Salt Lake City? (2 categories)
- Question: Do any other religious traditions view the Garden of Eden as "local"? (2 categories)
- Question: Is the concept of "original sin" part of all Christian theology? (2 categories)
- Mountain Meadows Massacre (2 categories)
- Stephen Burnett on Martin Harris: "But he never saw them only as he saw a city through a mountain" (2 categories)
- Joseph Smith's First Vision/Personages that appeared referred to by Church leaders as "angels" (2 categories)
- Sorenson: The grain "Amaranth" in Mexico (2 categories)
- Initiation of the practice of plural marriage (2 categories)
- Polyandry and Joseph Smith: sealings to women with living husbands (2 categories)
- Criticism of Mormonism/Books/One Nation Under Gods/Use of sources/Brigham Young orders MMM monument demolished (2 categories)
- Question: Is it possible that Joseph Smith is not a martyr because, while in jail, he had a gun and he had the temerity to defend himself? (2 categories)
- FAIR Study Aids/Seminary/Old Testament/Week 31 (2 categories)
- Question: Do Mormons believe that the Bible has less value because it contains errors? (2 categories)
- Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Becoming Gods/Use of sources/Madsen-B.H. Roberts and the Book of Mormon (2 categories)
- Question: Did federal officials flee Utah because they feared for their lives? (2 categories)
- Question: What if the "rod of nature" was indeed a physical object such as a divining rod? (2 categories)
- Question: What is the nature of "endless" or "eternal" punishment? (2 categories)
- Preach My Gospel: "As you pray for inspiration, you should also confirm your feelings...Certainly the Spirit of the Lord can bring strong emotional feelings, including tears, but that outward manifestation ought not to be confused with the presence of the (2 categories)
- Painesville Telegraph (1831): Martin Harris said that "He had seen and handled them all" (2 categories)
- Question: Do Latter-day Saints ("Mormons") actually believe that they are morally, ethically, spiritually superior to others? (2 categories)
- Question: How many seer stones did Joseph Smith have in his possession? (2 categories)
- Question: What was the thickness of each gold plate? (2 categories)
- Question: Has the Church tried to hide Joseph's use of a seer stone? (2 categories)
- Criticism of Mormonism/Online documents/Denver Snuffer/Excommunication/Sustaining Church leaders (2 categories)
- Question: What is the probability that Joseph Smith possessed items related to "magic"? (2 categories)
- Truman Madsen: "Among readers who came to the Book of Mormon with hard, skeptical assumptions, B.H. Roberts is notable" (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: Are the Michigan Artifacts evidence for the Book of Mormon? (2 categories)
- 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)
- Logical fallacies/Page 4 (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)
- 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)