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- Question: Who is the author of ''History of the Church''? (2 categories)
- Question: Does the Bible forbid plural marriage? (2 categories)
- Question: Was Brigham Young's letter ordering immigrants to be left alone "mysteriously lost"? (2 categories)
- Question: Does the Book of Mormon describe the Lamanites as being "cursed" with a "red skin"? (2 categories)
- Question: What does the Church teach on the subject of death before the Fall of Adam? (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)
- Source:Palmyra Register:28 June 1820:5 July 1820:It was far from our intention to charge the Methodists with retailing ardent spirits while professedly met for the worship of their God (2 categories)
- Question: Are Church members required to believe in a global flood? (2 categories)
- Joseph Smith's First Vision/John Taylor (2 categories)
- Answers to Questions All Mormons Should Ask Themselves (2 categories)
- Question: Did Brigham Young order that the Mount Meadows monument be destroyed? (2 categories)
- Question: Does the Book of Mormon refer to "coins"? (2 categories)
- Gospel Topics: "the Bible mentions other physical instruments used to access God’s power: the rod of Aaron, a brass serpent, holy anointing oils, the Ark of the Covenant, and even dirt from the ground mixed with saliva" (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)
- Logical fallacies/Page 3 (2 categories)
- Understanding revelation (2 categories)
- Multiple accounts of the First Vision/Brigham Young said the Lord didn't appear (2 categories)
- Question: Did ceremonies or practices ever change in the ancient Church? (2 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith violate marriage laws in Ohio by performing marriages? (2 categories)
- Criticism of Mormonism/Books/One Nation Under Gods/Use of sources/Brigham as President of the United States (2 categories)
- 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: 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)
- Question: Is the Mormon temple garment simply "magic underwear"? (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)
- Criticism of Mormonism/Books/One Nation Under Gods/Overview (2 categories)
- Detailed response to CES Letter, Polygamy and Polyandry (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: Is a man unreliable because he lived in the 19th-Century? (2 categories)
- Question: Was Joseph Smith ever charged with adultery under Illinois law? (2 categories)
- Question: What is the correct interpretation of Facsimile 3? (2 categories)
- Question: What did the husband of Patty Bartlett know about her sealing to Joseph Smith for eternity? (2 categories)
- Question: If a person faithfully practices Mormonism during this life, do they become a god after they die? (2 categories)
- Question: Was the Church forthright in identifying the rediscovered papyri prior to their examination by non-LDS Egyptologists? (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: What happens when a Mormon criticizes Church leaders? (2 categories)
- Question: Were the names "Moroni" and "Cumorah" available on maps accessible to Joseph Smith? (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)
- Criticism of Mormonism/Online documents/Denver Snuffer/Inconsistent claims/Misleading citation of Brigham Young, Heber C. Kimball, and George A. Smith (2 categories)
- Elder's Journal/1/4 (2 categories)
- Joseph Smith (1842): "surrounded with a brilliant light which eclipsed the sun at noon-day" (2 categories)
- Question: Where was the Melchizedek Priesthood restored? (2 categories)
- Question: What is "reformed Egyptian"? (2 categories)
- Question: Could Joseph Smith have utilized place names and locations from the region in which he lived to create the Book of Mormon? (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)
- Question: Were the Kirtland Egyptian Papers and Egyptian Alphabet and Grammar produced prior to the Book of Abraham? (2 categories)
- Book of Mormon/Plagiarism accusations/Comoros Islands and Moroni/Captain Kidd (2 categories)
- Question: What criticisms are raised with regard to Book of Mormon archaeology compared to that of the Bible? (2 categories)