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- Alleged whitewashing of Church history (2 categories)
- Question: Did the Church repudiate the idea of neutrality in the "war in heaven?" (2 categories)
- Question: Who was James Strang? (2 categories)
- Question: What is the origin of the doctrine of original sin? (2 categories)
- Question: How can you know if an answer to prayer, a personal revelation, is true? (2 categories)
- Question: Which sources mention Nephi as the angelic visitor who told Joseph Smith about the gold plates? (2 categories)
- Question: Who is the author of ''History of the Church''? (2 categories)
- Question: Who was the "angel" in the First Vision that Andrew Jenson was referring to? (2 categories)
- Question: Does the Bible forbid plural marriage? (2 categories)
- Question: Was the fact that the recovery of the Book of Mormon plates occurred on the autumnal equinox somehow significant? (2 categories)
- Question: Were Joseph Smith's spiritual experiences originally products of magic and the occult? (2 categories)
- Question: Was Brigham Young's letter ordering immigrants to be left alone "mysteriously lost"? (2 categories)
- Answers to Questions All Mormons Should Ask Themselves (2 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith have a long history of "womanizing" before practicing plural marriage? (2 categories)
- Logical fallacies/Page 3 (2 categories)
- Question: What does the Church teach on the subject of death before the Fall of Adam? (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: Are Church members required to believe in a global flood? (2 categories)
- Joseph Smith's First Vision/John Taylor (2 categories)
- Question: How do Latter-day Saints understand the significance of the blood shed by Christ? (2 categories)
- Forgeries/Mark Hofmann/Church reaction to forgeries/Dallin H. Oaks 6 August 1987 remarks on Hofmann (2 categories)
- John Whitmer (1876): "I have never heard that any one of the three or eight witnesses ever denied the testimony that they have borne to the Book as published in the first edition of the Book of Mormon" (2 categories)
- Understanding revelation (2 categories)
- David Whitmer (1887): "'He that hath an ear to hear, let him hear;' it was no delusion!" (2 categories)
- Question: Did ceremonies or practices ever change in the ancient Church? (2 categories)
- Question: Were the characters on the papyri written by Abraham himself? (2 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith make an error by claiming that Elias and Elijah are two different people, when they are in fact one and the same? (2 categories)
- Book of Jubilees 12:1-8: "Abram said to Terah his father...What help and profit have we from those idols which thou dost worship...And his father said unto him...Keep silent, my son, lest they slay thee" (2 categories)
- Detailed response to CES Letter, Polygamy and Polyandry (2 categories)
- Armitage: "It is suggested by de Ávila Blomberg that wild silk was used in Oaxaca in pre-Columbian times" (2 categories)
- Question: Was Joseph Smith ever charged with adultery under Illinois law? (2 categories)
- Elder's Journal/1/4 (2 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith plagiarize Shakespeare? (2 categories)
- Question: What did the husband of Patty Bartlett know about her sealing to Joseph Smith for eternity? (2 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph own a Bible at the time of the Book of Mormon translation? (2 categories)
- Question: Did Gordon B. Hinckley claim that polygamy was "not doctrinal" on Larry King Live? (2 categories)
- Question: How would an archaeologist distinguish a Christian's pot from that of a non-Christian? (2 categories)
- Question: Were the names "Moroni" and "Cumorah" available on maps accessible to Joseph Smith? (2 categories)
- Source:Benajah Williams:July 1820:Had a two Days meeting at Sq Bakers in Richmond (2 categories)
- Question: Why did Joseph Smith make changes to the Book of Mormon such as modifying "God" to read "the Son of God"? (2 categories)
- John Welch (1999): "This sidelight in the book of Alma contains enough facts to support meaningful parallels between King Mosiah's weights and measures and those used in other ancient cultures" (2 categories)
- Joseph Smith (1842): "surrounded with a brilliant light which eclipsed the sun at noon-day" (2 categories)
- Question: Was the revelation comprising the current Doctrine and Covenants 27 altered to include mention of the priesthood restoration? (2 categories)
- Question: Why do Mormons use water instead of wine for their sacrament services? (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)
- 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: Did Orson Hyde state that it was permissible to "steal & be influenced by the spirit of the Lord to do it" as long as it was against non-Mormons? (2 categories)