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- Question: Did Joseph Smith send men on missions in order to "steal" their wives while they were gone? (2 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith send William Law, Robert D. Foster, and Henry Jacobs on missions so that he could steal their wives? (2 categories)
- Question: What possible modern lessons can we learn from Emma and Joseph's struggle with plural marriage? (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: Do we have all of the papyri that Joseph Smith had? (2 categories)
- Question: How does the Grammar and Alphabet of the Egyptian Language (GAEL) relate to the Book of Abraham? (2 categories)
- Question: Were the characters on the papyri written by Abraham himself? (2 categories)
- Question: Does the Joseph Smith papyri consist of Egyptian funerary documents? (2 categories)
- Question: Do the Joseph Smith papyri date back to the time of Abraham? (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: How many times was Joseph Smith involved with legal issues? (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)
- 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)
- Detailed response to CES Letter, First Vision (2 categories)
- Detailed response to CES Letter, Book of Abraham (2 categories)
- Detailed response to CES Letter, Polygamy and Polyandry (2 categories)
- Detailed response to CES Letter, Witnesses (2 categories)
- Detailed response to CES Letter, Science (2 categories)
- Question: How does archaeology in the Old World compare to the first chapters in the Book of Mormon? (2 categories)
- Question: What is "Polyandry?" (2 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith have any children through any of his polyandrous marriages? (2 categories)
- Question: What is the light which comes from the presence of God? (2 categories)
- Question: Does the Book of Abraham state that the sun gets its photons from Kolob? (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)
- Matthews: "To regard the New Translation...as a product of divine inspiration given to Joseph Smith does not necessarily assume that it be a restoration of the original Bible text" (2 categories)
- Question: How is the Joseph Smith Translation best understood? (2 categories)
- Question: Why does "Nahom" constitute archaeological evidence for the Book of Mormon? (2 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith have access to materials related to Nahom at Allegheny College? (2 categories)
- Question: How does archaeology in the New World fit with the Book of Mormon? (2 categories)
- Question: How would Book of Mormon archaeology compare to that of the Bible? (2 categories)
- Question: What do we find when we turn to the records of the ancient (i.e. before A.D. 400) Americas? (2 categories)
- Question: What archaeological evidence might be considered the minimal irrefutable proof needed to convince a non-believing world of the authenticity of the Nephite scripture? (2 categories)
- Question: How would an archaeologist distinguish a Christian's pot from that of a non-Christian? (2 categories)
- Question: Could Joseph Smith have acquired the names "Moroni" and "Cumorah" from a map of the Comoro archipelago off the coast of Africa? (2 categories)
- Question: Were the names "Moroni" and "Cumorah" available on maps accessible to Joseph Smith? (2 categories)
- Question: Has the book ''View of the Hebrews'' been readily available? (2 categories)
- Question: Is there a link between Ethan Smith, author of ''View of the Hebrews'', and Oliver Cowdery? (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)
- Question: Does Church art always reflect reality? (2 categories)
- Question: Why are people concerned about Church artwork? (2 categories)
- Question: How do non-Mormon artists treat the Nativity? (2 categories)
- Question: What message does the Book of Mormon translation painting convey? (2 categories)
- Question: Are the ages stated in Joseph's accounts of the First Vision 'all over the place?' (2 categories)
- Question: Is there a case where Joseph stated that his age was 17 rather than 14 at the time of the First Vision? (2 categories)
- Question: How do the First Vision accounts compare on the subject of Joseph's motivation for praying? (2 categories)
- Joseph Smith: "Jesus Christ became a ministering spirit (while his body was lying in the sepulcher)...After His resurrection He appeared as an angel to His disciples" (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: Did the actual words "God the Father" and "Jesus Christ" appear in Joseph's 1838 account of the First Vision? (2 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph mention a "pillar of fire" or a "pillar of light" in his 1832 account of the First Vision? (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)