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- Question: Was George A. Smith unaware that the Father and Son appeared to Joseph Smith during the First Vision? (2 categories)
- Question: What did Isaac Hale claim about Joseph Smith in the Hurlbut affidavits? (2 categories)
- Source:Gospel Topics:Book of Mormon Translation:According to these accounts, Joseph placed either the interpreters or the seer stone in a hat (2 categories)
- Question: Is interracial marriage prohibited or condemned within the Church? (2 categories)
- Question: In what way did Joseph Smith implement the Word of Wisdom during his lifetime? (2 categories)
- Criticism of Mormonism/Online documents/Denver Snuffer/Excommunication/Sustaining Church leaders (2 categories)
- Source:James H. Reeves:Palmyra Courier:24 May 1872:Martin Harris "quite skeptical, as well as superstitious" (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: Do Latter-day Saints believe in a "different" Jesus than "mainstream" Christians? (2 categories)
- Question: Could Joseph have used a Bible during and simply dictated from it during Book of Mormon translation? (2 categories)
- Question: Does Martin Harris' involvement with the Shakers undercut his testimony? (2 categories)
- Sorenson: The grain "Amaranth" in Mexico (2 categories)
- Initiation of the practice of plural marriage (2 categories)
- Question: Was the Joseph Smith Translation intended to be a restoration of original Bible text? (2 categories)
- Polyandry and Joseph Smith: sealings to women with living husbands (2 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith mislead investors in the Kirtland Safety Society by collecting boxes full of sand with money placed on top, in order to make it appear that the bank had more hard money than it did? (2 categories)
- Criticism of Mormonism/Books/One Nation Under Gods/Use of sources/Brigham Young orders MMM monument demolished (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)
- Question: Did Fanny Alger have a child by Joseph Smith? (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: Did Brigham Young attempt to suppress and destroy all copies of Lucy Mack Smith's ''Biographical Sketches of Joseph Smith''? (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)
- Question: How would Book of Mormon archaeology compare to that of the Bible? (2 categories)
- Question: Do Latter-day Saints discount the spiritual witnesses that members of other religions may receive? (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)
- Question: Did Joseph utter a false prophecy and show disregard for the Word of Wisdom in telling Orson Hyde that he would drink wine with him in Palestine? (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)
- Jeffrey R. Holland: "All I’m saying is that what got translated got translated into the word of God" (2 categories)
- Portal:Test2/box-footer (2 categories)
- Joseph Smith's First Vision/Did Joseph Smith join other churches/Methodist membership procedures (2 categories)
- Countercult ministries/Tower to Truth Ministries (2 categories)
- Question: What have been the responses to Joseph's interpretations of Facsimile 3? (2 categories)
- Question: Are the Michigan Artifacts evidence for the Book of Mormon? (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: 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)
- Question: How is it possible that there were three days of darkness in the New World and not in the Old World? (2 categories)
- Moroni's visit/Nephi or Moroni (2 categories)
- Source:Brown:Nahom and the "Eastward" Turn:JBMS 12:1 (2 categories)
- Question: Do Mormons believe that the temple garment will protect them from physical harm? (2 categories)
- Source:Nelson:A Treasured Testament:Ensign:July 1993:The details of this miraculous method of translation are still not fully known. Yet we do have a few precious insights (2 categories)
- Question: Did Mormons only recently claim to be Christian? (2 categories)