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- The Palmyra Reflector (1831): "Jo Smith had now received a commission from God...Cowdery and his friends had frequent interviews with angels" (2 categories)
- Question: Did John Whitmer, one of the Eight Witnesses, actually say that he saw the plates by a "supernatural power"? (2 categories)
- Question: What is "empirical evidence"? (2 categories)
- Question: Is a man unreliable because he lived in the 19th-Century? (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 is the correct interpretation of Facsimile 3? (2 categories)
- Question: What have been the responses to Joseph's interpretations of Facsimile 3? (2 categories)
- Question: Are there any known parallels between elements of Joseph's interpretation of Facsimile 3 with other ancient texts? (2 categories)
- Question: What are the criticisms regarding Joseph's interpretation of specific textual elements of Facsimile 3? (2 categories)
- Question: Was the Church forthright in identifying the rediscovered papyri prior to their examination by non-LDS Egyptologists? (2 categories)
- Improvement Era (January 1968): "Often the funerary texts contained passages from the 'Book of the Dead,' a book that was to assist in the safe passage of the dead person into the spirit world" (2 categories)
- Question: What did the Church announce in 1968 when the Joseph Smith papyri fragments were discovered? (2 categories)
- Question: How long did the Church know about the papyri before they published information about them? (2 categories)
- Alleged whitewashing of Church history (2 categories)
- Question: How is it possible that there were three days of darkness in the New World and not in the Old World? (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: Who was James Strang? (2 categories)
- Question: What authorship theories are proposed by non-believers to account for the authorship of the Book of Mormon? (2 categories)
- Question: Is original sin a biblical doctrine? (2 categories)
- Question: What is the origin of the doctrine of original sin? (2 categories)
- Question: Is the concept of "original sin" part of all Christian theology? (2 categories)
- Gospel Topics on LDS.org: "Some evidence suggests that Joseph studied the characters on the Egyptian papyri and attempted to learn the Egyptian language" (2 categories)
- Question: What are the Kirtland Egyptian Papers? (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)
- Question: How can you know if an answer to prayer, a personal revelation, is true? (2 categories)
- Joseph Smith's First Vision/Personages that appeared referred to by Church leaders as "angels" (2 categories)
- Criticism of Mormonism/Books/American Massacre/Chapter 2 (2 categories)
- Countercult ministries/The Interactive Bible/Difficult Questions for Mormons/Influenced by the KJV of the Bible (2 categories)
- Question: In what manner was the Melchizedek Priesthood restored? (2 categories)
- Question: Where was the Melchizedek Priesthood restored? (2 categories)
- Question: Who was the "angel" in the First Vision that Andrew Jenson was referring to? (2 categories)
- Question: Does the 1832 account of the First Vision not prohibit Joseph from joining any church? (2 categories)
- Question: Were Joseph Smith's spiritual experiences originally products of magic and the occult? (2 categories)
- Question: Did Orson Pratt state that it was an angel that appeared during the First Vision? (2 categories)
- Question: What did Orson Pratt state about Joseph Smith's First Vision? (2 categories)
- Source:Gospel Topics:Becoming Like God:Latter-day Saints see all people as children of God in a full and complete sense (2 categories)
- Question: Why does the Book of Mormon mention "synagogues" when they were not present among the Jews until after the Babylonian captivity? (2 categories)
- Question: Did Latter-day Saints wish to avoid being classified as Christians? (2 categories)
- Question: Did early Mormon leaders consider themselves Christians? (2 categories)
- Question: Did LDS leaders claim that Christians were no longer present on the earth after the apostasy? (2 categories)
- Question: What did early Mormon leaders think of Christians? (2 categories)
- Question: What happened to the papyri after Joseph's death? (2 categories)
- Question: What do the Joseph Smith papyri fragments consist of? (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: Why was Nicean Trinitarianism introduced at all? (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: Did Joseph Smith's family own "magic parchments" which suggest their involvement in the "occult"? (2 categories)
- Question: What is the probability that Joseph Smith possessed items related to "magic"? (2 categories)
- Question: Was a "magic dagger" once owned by Hyrum Smith? (2 categories)