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- Question: What statements have Latter-day Saints leaders made regarding the location of the Garden of Eden? (2 categories)
- Question: Was the revelation comprising the current Doctrine and Covenants 27 altered to include mention of the priesthood restoration? (2 categories)
- Question: Why do Mormons use water instead of wine for their sacrament services? (2 categories)
- Question: Did federal officials flee Utah because they feared for their lives? (2 categories)
- Question: What if the "rod of nature" was indeed a physical object such as a divining rod? (2 categories)
- Question: Did Orson Hyde state that it was permissible to "steal & be influenced by the spirit of the Lord to do it" as long as it was against non-Mormons? (2 categories)
- Preach My Gospel: "As you pray for inspiration, you should also confirm your feelings...Certainly the Spirit of the Lord can bring strong emotional feelings, including tears, but that outward manifestation ought not to be confused with the presence of the (2 categories)
- Painesville Telegraph (1831): Martin Harris said that "He had seen and handled them all" (2 categories)
- Question: Is it ever allowable to modify a religious ceremony? (2 categories)
- Question: Are prophets simply "men of their time," without any special ability to guide the Church? (2 categories)
- Question: Does the Joseph Smith papyri consist of Egyptian funerary documents? (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)
- Question: Were there any similar cases under Illinois adultery statute which demonstrate that Joseph was not breaking the law? (2 categories)
- Question: What did the husband of Elizabeth Davis know about her sealing to Joseph Smith for eternity? (2 categories)
- Question: How can President Hinckley claim that polygamy is "not doctrinal" if it was a required practice in the 19th-Century Church? (2 categories)
- Question: Does Church art always reflect reality? (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)
- Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Mormonism 101/Chapter 8 (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)
- Question: How early was the story of the First Vision known among the members of the Church? (2 categories)
- Mormonism and doctrine (2 categories)
- Question: How many times was the name of the Church changed through revelation? (2 categories)
- Countercult ministries/Tower to Truth Ministries/50 Questions to Ask Mormons (2 categories)
- Joseph Smith/Polygamy/Polyandry (2 categories)
- Mormonism and doctrine/Repudiated concepts/Blood atonement (2 categories)
- Question: Was there no death on the entire earth before the Fall? (2 categories)
- Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Nauvoo Polygamy/Chapter 1 (2 categories)
- Criticism of Mormonism/Books/One Nation Under Gods/Use of sources/Brigham Young ordered MMM (2 categories)
- Question: How could the Garden of Eden have been in Missouri if the Flood was local? (2 categories)
- Question: Is it true that Joseph killed two men by firing at the mob? (2 categories)
- Forgeries/Mark Hofmann/Known forged documents (2 categories)
- Question: Did the daughter of Hugh Nibley accuse him of abusing her? (2 categories)
- Question: What was the thickness of the entire volume of gold plates? (2 categories)
- Question: Was a "magic dagger" once owned by Hyrum Smith? (2 categories)
- Painesville Telegraph (1830): "Cowdry claims that he and his associates are the only persons on earth who are qualified to administer in his name. By this authority, they proclaim to the world" (2 categories)
- Question: Do Latter-day Saints ("Mormons") actually believe that they are morally, ethically, spiritually superior to others? (2 categories)
- Question: How many seer stones did Joseph Smith have in his possession? (2 categories)
- Question: Has the Church tried to hide Joseph's use of a seer stone? (2 categories)
- Question: What is "empirical evidence"? (2 categories)
- Question: Was Joseph Smith afraid to reproduce the text of the lost 116 pages of Book of Mormon manuscript because he could not do so? (2 categories)
- Question: What are the criticisms related to Facsimile 3? (2 categories)
- Question: Were apostates secretly put to death by "blood atonement" during the administration of Brigham Young? (2 categories)
- Question: Was Heber C. Kimball concerned that missionaries would "take all the best" convert women as plural wives before they returned to Salt Lake City? (2 categories)
- Question: Do any other religious traditions view the Garden of Eden as "local"? (2 categories)
- Criticism of Mormonism/Books/American Massacre/Chapter 2 (2 categories)
- Mountain Meadows Massacre (2 categories)
- Question: In what manner was the Melchizedek Priesthood restored? (2 categories)
- Stephen Burnett on Martin Harris: "But he never saw them only as he saw a city through a mountain" (2 categories)
- Neil L. Andersen (2012): "A few question their faith when they find a statement made by a Church leader decades ago that seems incongruent with our doctrine" (2 categories)