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- 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)
- Joseph Smith (9 Nov. 1835): "a pillar of fire appeared above my head...a personage appeard in the midst of this pillar of flame" (2 categories)
- Orson Pratt (1840): "a very bright and glorious light in the heavens...He expected to have seen the leaves and boughs of the trees consumed, as soon as the light came in contact with them" (2 categories)
- Joseph Smith (1842): "surrounded with a brilliant light which eclipsed the sun at noon-day" (2 categories)
- Question: Why did Joseph Smith state the he was visited by two personages and then just five days later say that he was visited by angels? (2 categories)
- Joseph Smith (14 Nov. 1835): "I received the first visitation of Angels which was when I was about 14" (2 categories)
- Question: Does the use of the capitalized word "Angel" in the 14 November 1835 account refer to Deity? (2 categories)
- Question: Was the ''History of the Church'' falsified when "first visitation of Angels" was changed to "my first vision"? (2 categories)
- Question: How early was the story of the First Vision known among the members of the Church? (2 categories)
- Question: Does Church manual, ''The Teachings of the Presidents of the Church: Brigham Young'', attempt to "hide history" by portraying Brigham Young (a well-known polygamist) as having only one wife? (2 categories)
- Question: Aren't tithing funds from "long ago" ultimately the source of all current Church funds? (2 categories)
- Question: How many times was the name of the Church changed through revelation? (2 categories)
- Question: What names did the Church go by prior to the revelation which established the correct one? (2 categories)
- Question: Why did Elder Boyd K. Packer state that "Some things that are true are not very useful"? (2 categories)
- Question: Does the Strengthening Church Members Committee still exist? (2 categories)
- Question: What does the Church teach on the subject of death before the Fall of Adam? (2 categories)
- Question: Was there no death on the entire earth before the Fall? (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)
- 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)
- Question: Is the concept of no death before the fall on the ''entire earth'' Church doctrine? (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)
- John A. Widtsoe (1943): "The Old Testament records a flood that was just over fifteen cubits (sometimes assumed to be about twenty-six feet) deep and covered the entire landscape" (2 categories)
- Question: Why does the Church teach that the flood was a global event? (2 categories)
- Question: Are Church members required to believe in a global flood? (2 categories)
- Question: How could the Garden of Eden have been in Missouri if the Flood was local? (2 categories)
- Question: Doesn't the Bible say that the continents were divided immediately after the Flood? (2 categories)
- Question: Was Martin Harris a gullible witness who would simply believe anything he was told? (2 categories)
- George Mantle (1888): Martin Harris said "Do you know that is the sun shining on us? Because as sure as you know that...he translated that book by the power of God" (2 categories)
- Question: Did one of the Book of Mormon witnesses actually only handle the plates while they were covered in a "tow frock"? (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)
- Question: How can we accept David Whitmer as a valid Book of Mormon witness if God told him to leave the Saints? (2 categories)
- Understanding revelation (2 categories)
- Question: If a doctrine is repudiated, does that mean that it was false when it was being taught? (2 categories)
- Question: If Gordon B. Hinckley were a true prophet, why did he not discern the nature of the Hofmann forgeries? (2 categories)
- Question: Are prophets simply "men of their time," without any special ability to guide the Church? (2 categories)
- Muhlestein and Gee: "It is now apparent that human sacrifice did indeed occur in ancient Egypt" (2 categories)
- The Apocalypse of Abraham: "Go out from thy father Terah, and get thee out from the house, that thou also be not slain" (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)
- 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)