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- Question: Were revivals and religious excitement too common to be noticed in the newspapers? (2 categories)
- Question: Is the concept of "original sin" part of all Christian theology? (2 categories)
- Question: How is the Joseph Smith Translation best understood? (2 categories)
- Question: Did Heber C. Kimball claim that the apostles killed Judas? (2 categories)
- Question: Was the "Pentecost" at the Kirtland Temple dedication actually a drunken orgy? (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)
- 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 did contemporary witnesses have to say about the Book of Mormon translation process? (2 categories)
- Question: Did Charles Anthon validate the characters that Martin Harris brought to him that had been copied from the Book of Mormon plates? (2 categories)
- Question: Why does the Church teach that the flood was a global event? (2 categories)
- Multiple accounts of the First Vision/George A. Smith said First Vision was an "angel" (2 categories)
- Joseph Smith (9 Nov. 1835): "I saw many angels in this vision...I was about 14 years old when I received this first communication" (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)
- Question: Do Latter-day Saints believe that they were the only ones with a "legitimate right to be stewards" of all property on the earth? (2 categories)
- Question: What did William Stafford claim about Joseph Smith in the Hurlbut affidavits? (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: Did Joseph Smith send William Law, Robert D. Foster, and Henry Jacobs on missions so that he could steal their wives? (2 categories)
- Question: Was Isaac McWithy brought before the High Council on charges of "insolence" because he refused to sell his land to Joseph Smith for $3000? (2 categories)
- Source:Damrosch:The Narrative Covenant:Naham means "to mourn" (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)
- Source:Marcus B. Nash:Joseph Smith Memorial Devotional:June 2013:This was dictated, word by word, as he looked into instruments the Lord prepared for him, using a hat to shield his eyes from extraneous light (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: Did Church leaders ever teach that Blacks were neutral in the "war in heaven?" (2 categories)
- Question: Does the Book of Abraham state that the sun gets its photons from Kolob? (2 categories)
- Question: What did the husband of Sarah Kingsley know about her sealing to Joseph Smith for eternity? (2 categories)
- Criticism of Mormonism/Books/American Massacre/Chapter 2 (2 categories)
- Question: In what manner was the Melchizedek Priesthood restored? (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)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith have a long history of "womanizing" before practicing plural marriage? (2 categories)
- Elder's Journal/1/3 (2 categories)
- Question: Can you summarize what we know about whether or not Joseph Smith fathered any children by his plural wives? (2 categories)
- Criticism of Mormonism/Books/One Nation Under Gods/Use of sources/Orders to Starve Gentiles (2 categories)
- Question: How do Latter-day Saints understand the significance of the blood shed by Christ? (2 categories)
- Question: Do Mormon men believe that they will become "gods of their own planets" and rule over others? (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)
- Criticism of Mormonism/Books/One Nation Under Gods/Chapter 17 (2 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith set up a bar to sell liquor in Nauvoo? (2 categories)
- Question: What about those who pray and don't receive a confirmation the Book of Mormon is true? (2 categories)
- David Whitmer (1887): "'He that hath an ear to hear, let him hear;' it was no delusion!" (2 categories)
- Question: How could Joseph Smith come to the conclusion that all churches were wrong on his own? (2 categories)
- Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Covering Up the Black Hole in the Book of Mormon/Index (2 categories)
- Question: What was the thickness of the entire volume of gold plates? (2 categories)