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- Question: Was the only purpose of polygamy to "multiply and replenish the earth" and "bear the souls of men"? (2 categories)
- Alleged whitewashing of Church history (2 categories)
- Question: How do non-Mormon artists treat the Nativity? (2 categories)
- Question: Who was James Strang? (2 categories)
- Question: Did the actual words "God the Father" and "Jesus Christ" appear in Joseph's 1838 account of the First Vision? (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: Why did Elder Boyd K. Packer state that "Some things that are true are not very useful"? (2 categories)
- Question: Who was the "angel" in the First Vision that Andrew Jenson was referring to? (2 categories)
- Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Mormonism 101/Chapter 8 (2 categories)
- Multiple accounts of the First Vision (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: What changes have been made to the ''Gospel Principles'' manual regarding the question of death on the earth before the Fall of Adam? (2 categories)
- Joseph Smith's First Vision/Lucy Mack Smith and the Presbyterians (2 categories)
- Question: What did early Mormon leaders think of Christians? (2 categories)
- Countercult ministries/Tower to Truth Ministries/50 Questions to Ask Mormons (2 categories)
- Question: Were 19th century Utah Mormons complicit in the deaths of Judge Leonidas Shaver, John Gunnison, and Almon Babbitt? (2 categories)
- The Bat Creek Stone (2 categories)
- Question: How can we accept David Whitmer as a valid Book of Mormon witness if God told him to leave the Saints? (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 do the Joseph Smith papyri fragments consist of? (2 categories)
- Olson (2004): "People may like to think that they're descended from some ancient group while other people are not. But human ancestry doesn't work that way, since we all share the same ancestors just a few millenniums ago" (2 categories)
- Question: If a doctrine is repudiated, does that mean that it was false when it was being taught? (2 categories)
- Doctrine and Covenants and Church History Study Guide: "These papyri contain authentic Egyptian writings, but they do not date to the time of Abraham, nor do they contain the actual personally handwritten account of Abraham" (2 categories)
- Question: Why was Nicean Trinitarianism introduced at all? (2 categories)
- Question: What was the size of each of the gold plates? (2 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith's family own "magic parchments" which suggest their involvement in the "occult"? (2 categories)
- Criticism of Mormonism/Books/By His Own Hand upon Papyrus: A New Look at the Joseph Smith Papyri/Larson "restoration" of Facsimile 1 (2 categories)
- Parrish (1838): "I have set by his side and penned down the translation of the Egyptian Heiroglyphicks as he claimed to receive it by direct inspiration of Heaven" (2 categories)
- Detailed response to CES Letter, Witnesses (2 categories)
- Source:Gospel Topics:The Manifesto and the End of Plural Marriage:Joseph F. Smith broke the law (2 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith issue a prophecy that the Nauvoo House would stand forever and ever? (2 categories)
- Question: What was known about steel in ancient America? (2 categories)
- Mountain Meadows Massacre/Personalities (2 categories)
- Question: Was the priest depicted in Book of Abraham Facsimile 1 holding a knife or was it some other object? (2 categories)
- Question: Did Martin Harris change his religion five times prior to the Restoration? (2 categories)
- Mormonism and doctrine (2 categories)
- Question: Why does the Book of Mormon say that Jesus would be born "at Jerusalem which is the land of our forefathers" when the Bible states that he was born in Bethlehem? (2 categories)
- Joseph Smith/Polygamy/Polyandry (2 categories)
- Mormonism and doctrine/Repudiated concepts/Blood atonement (2 categories)
- Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Nauvoo Polygamy/Chapter 1 (2 categories)
- Question: Does the Book of Mormon support the idea that "eternal" or "endless" punishment can be temporary? (2 categories)
- Criticism of Mormonism/Books/One Nation Under Gods/Use of sources/Brigham Young ordered MMM (2 categories)
- Question: Is it true that Joseph killed two men by firing at the mob? (2 categories)
- Source:Echoes:Ch5:29:Lehi's desert journey and Joseph Smith (2 categories)
- Question: Did the daughter of Hugh Nibley accuse him of abusing her? (2 categories)
- Question: Did any woman suffer consequences for turning down Joseph's proposal? (2 categories)
- Question: How does archaeology in the Old World compare to the first chapters in the Book of Mormon? (2 categories)