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- Question: Did Joseph Smith's family own "magic parchments" which suggest their involvement in the "occult"? (2 categories)
- Similarities between ancient and modern temple rituals (2 categories)
- Southerton (2008/2014): "It's true that if a small group (say 10 people) entered a massive population (say 1 million), that it would be hard to detect their mitochondrial or Y chromosome DNA" (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: What are the problems of trying to associate Quetzalcoatl with Jesus Christ? (2 categories)
- Roper: "For example, an iron knife was found in an eleventh century Philistine tomb showed evidence of deliberate carburization" (2 categories)
- Question: What possible modern lessons can we learn from Emma and Joseph's struggle with plural marriage? (2 categories)
- Question: Did Church leaders ever teach that Blacks were neutral in the "war in heaven?" (2 categories)
- Question: Do the Joseph Smith papyri date back to the time of Abraham? (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: How did Elder Holland respond during a BBC interview when asked how the Book of Abraham was translated? (2 categories)
- Question: How valid are the names used in the Holley Map? (2 categories)
- Joseph Smith's marriage to Helen Mar Kimball (2 categories)
- Question: What is "Polyandry?" (2 categories)
- Alleged whitewashing of Church history (2 categories)
- Question: Was Joseph Smith sealed or married to other men's wives without the knowledge or consent of their husband? (2 categories)
- Question: Who was James Strang? (2 categories)
- Question: What did the husband of Lucinda Pendleton Morgan Harris know about her sealing to Joseph Smith for eternity? (2 categories)
- Question: Why does "Nahom" constitute archaeological evidence for the Book of Mormon? (2 categories)
- Question: What is the origin of the doctrine of original sin? (2 categories)
- Gospel Topics: "Today, any person who practices plural marriage cannot become or remain a member of the Church" (2 categories)
- Question: How can you know if an answer to prayer, a personal revelation, is true? (2 categories)
- Question: Did Martin Harris ever deny his Book of Mormon witness because he thought that Joseph Smith was a fallen prophet? (2 categories)
- Question: Why are people concerned about Church artwork? (2 categories)
- Question: What did contemporary witnesses have to say about the Book of Mormon translation process? (2 categories)
- Joseph Smith (14 Nov. 1835): "I received the first visitation of angels, which was when I was about fourteen years old" (2 categories)
- Question: Who was the "angel" in the First Vision that Andrew Jenson was referring to? (2 categories)
- Joseph Smith (14 Nov. 1835): "I received the first visitation of Angels which was when I was about 14" (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: 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: When and how did plural marriage begin in the Church? (2 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith produce any children by his plural wives? The case for children (2 categories)
- Question: What names did the Church go by prior to the revelation which established the correct one? (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)
- Question: What did early Mormon leaders think of Christians? (2 categories)
- Question: Has the Church hidden the fact that Joseph fired a gun while in Carthage Jail? (2 categories)
- Question: Were 19th century Utah Mormons complicit in the deaths of Judge Leonidas Shaver, John Gunnison, and Almon Babbitt? (2 categories)
- Question: What was the state of things on the Earth prior to the placement of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden? (2 categories)
- Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Becoming Gods/Use of sources/Changing Biblical text (2 categories)
- Question: Doesn't the Bible say that the continents were divided immediately after the Flood? (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)
- Joseph Smith (1843): "I am just as ready to die in defending the rights of a Presbyterian, a Baptist, or a good man of any other denomination" (2 categories)
- Question: Is prayer the only element required in the determination of truth? (2 categories)
- Question: What did William Stafford claim about Joseph Smith in the Hurlbut affidavits? (2 categories)
- Question: What do the Joseph Smith papyri fragments consist of? (2 categories)
- The Mormon Concept of God: A Philosophical Analysis (2 categories)
- Forgeries/Mark Hofmann/Church reaction to forgeries/Ensign list of Hofmann documents (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)