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- Question: Did Mormons only recently claim to be Christian? (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: What did the husband of Mary Heron know about her sealing to Joseph Smith for eternity? (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)
- Elder's Journal/1/1 (2 categories)
- Question: How could Joseph and Fanny have been married in 1831 if the sealing power had not yet been restored? (2 categories)
- Question: Has the book ''View of the Hebrews'' been readily available? (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)
- 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)
- Question: Was the ''History of the Church'' falsified when "first visitation of Angels" was changed to "my first vision"? (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)
- Jeffrey R. Holland: "All I’m saying is that what got translated got translated into the word of God" (2 categories)
- Question: What have been the responses to Joseph's interpretations of Facsimile 3? (2 categories)
- Criticism of Mormonism/Books/One Nation Under Gods/Chapter 8 (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)
- 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)
- Criticism of Mormonism/Articles/Mormon Women, Prozac(R) and Therapy (2 categories)
- Multiple accounts of the First Vision/Orson Pratt's statements regarding the First Vision (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)
- Question: Did Fanny Alger have a child by Joseph Smith? (2 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith send men on missions in order to "steal" their wives while they were gone? (2 categories)
- Question: Do we have all of the papyri that Joseph Smith had? (2 categories)
- Muhlestein and Gee: "It is now apparent that human sacrifice did indeed occur in ancient Egypt" (2 categories)
- Detailed response to CES Letter, First Vision (2 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith give a woman only one day to decide about entering a plural marriage, and would refusal mean terrible consequences? (2 categories)
- Helen Mar Kimball: "I have encouraged and sustained my husband in the celestial order of marriage because I knew it was right" (2 categories)
- Question: Do Latter-day Saints discount the spiritual witnesses that members of other religions may receive? (2 categories)
- Question: What is the light which comes from the presence of God? (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)
- Armitage: "It is suggested by de Ávila Blomberg that wild silk was used in Oaxaca in pre-Columbian times" (2 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith plagiarize Shakespeare? (2 categories)
- Question: What did contemporary witnesses have to say about the Book of Mormon translation process? (2 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph own a Bible at the time of the Book of Mormon translation? (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)
- Source:Benajah Williams:July 1820:Had a two Days meeting at Sq Bakers in Richmond (2 categories)
- John Welch (1999): "This sidelight in the book of Alma contains enough facts to support meaningful parallels between King Mosiah's weights and measures and those used in other ancient cultures" (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: 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)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith have a long history of "womanizing" before practicing plural marriage? (2 categories)
- Question: What did William Stafford claim about Joseph Smith in the Hurlbut affidavits? (2 categories)
- Question: Can you summarize what we know about whether or not Joseph Smith fathered any children by his plural wives? (2 categories)
- Criticism of Mormonism/Books/One Nation Under Gods/Use of sources/Orders to Starve Gentiles (2 categories)
- Question: How do Latter-day Saints understand the significance of the blood shed by Christ? (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)
- Source:Damrosch:The Narrative Covenant:Naham means "to mourn" (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: Did Church leaders ever teach that Blacks were neutral in the "war in heaven?" (2 categories)
- David Whitmer (1887): "'He that hath an ear to hear, let him hear;' it was no delusion!" (2 categories)