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- John Whitmer: "Joseph the Seer saw these Record(s) and by the revelation of Jesus Christ could translate these records" (2 categories)
- Woodruff (1842): "The Lord is Blessing Joseph with Power to reveal the mysteries of the kingdom of God; to translate through the urim & Thummim Ancient records & Hyeroglyphics as old as Abraham or Adam" (2 categories)
- Question: How did Elder Holland respond during a BBC interview when asked how the Book of Abraham was translated? (2 categories)
- Question: Were plural wives forced into the marriage? (2 categories)
- Question: Did any woman suffer consequences for turning down Joseph's proposal? (2 categories)
- Question: Were women put under "tremendous pressure" to accept a proposal of plural marriage? (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)
- Question: Did Joseph claim that an angel threatened him with a "drawn sword" or "flaming sword" if a woman refused to marry him? (2 categories)
- Question: Was Joseph Smith ever charged with adultery under Illinois law? (2 categories)
- Question: Were there any similar cases under Illinois adultery statute which demonstrate that Joseph was not breaking the law? (2 categories)
- Joseph Smith's marriage to Helen Mar Kimball (2 categories)
- Question: Was Helen Mar Kimball's marriage to Joseph Smith ever consummated? (2 categories)
- Question: Did Helen Mar Kimball "confess" to having marital relations with Joseph? (2 categories)
- Question: What were Helen Mar Kimball's views on plural marriage? (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: Was Joseph Smith sealed or married to other men's wives without the knowledge or consent of their husband? (2 categories)
- Question: What did the husband of Ruth Vose Sayers know about her sealing to Joseph Smith for eternity? (2 categories)
- Question: What did the husband of Esther Dutcher know about her sealing to Joseph Smith for eternity? (2 categories)
- Question: What did the husband of Mary Elizabeth Rollins know about her sealing to Joseph Smith for eternity? (2 categories)
- Question: What did the husband of Sarah Kingsley know about her sealing to Joseph Smith for eternity? (2 categories)
- Question: What did the husband of Patty Bartlett know about her sealing to Joseph Smith for eternity? (2 categories)
- Question: What did the husband of Elizabeth Davis know about her sealing to Joseph Smith for eternity? (2 categories)
- Question: What did the husband of Lucinda Pendleton Morgan Harris know about her sealing to Joseph Smith for eternity? (2 categories)
- Question: What did the husband of Elvira Annie Cowles know about her sealing to Joseph Smith for eternity? (2 categories)
- Question: What did the husband of Mary Heron know about her sealing to Joseph Smith for eternity? (2 categories)
- Question: Did Gordon B. Hinckley claim that polygamy was "not doctrinal" on Larry King Live? (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)
- Gospel Topics: "Today, any person who practices plural marriage cannot become or remain a member of the Church" (2 categories)
- Question: Was the only purpose of polygamy to "multiply and replenish the earth" and "bear the souls of men"? (2 categories)
- Question: If the only purpose of polygamy was to "raise up seed," then why did Joseph not have children by his plural wives? (2 categories)
- Question: Do academic translators copy translations of other documents to use as a "base text"? (2 categories)
- Question: How could Joseph and Fanny have been married in 1831 if the sealing power had not yet been restored? (2 categories)
- Truman Madsen: "Among readers who came to the Book of Mormon with hard, skeptical assumptions, B.H. Roberts is notable" (2 categories)
- Question: Which method of translation was more "believable": seer stone or Nephite interpreters? (2 categories)
- Question: Was the revelation comprising the current Doctrine and Covenants 27 altered to include mention of the priesthood restoration? (2 categories)
- Stephen Burnett on Martin Harris: "But he never saw them only as he saw a city through a mountain" (2 categories)
- Martin Harris: "Just as plain as you see that chopping block, I saw the plates" (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: What did contemporary witnesses have to say about the Book of Mormon translation process? (2 categories)
- Question: Did Martin Harris change his religion five times prior to the Restoration? (2 categories)
- Question: Does Martin Harris' involvement with the Shakers undercut his testimony? (2 categories)
- Question: Does Martin Harris' involvement with other faiths after the Restoration discredit him? (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)
- 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: 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)
- 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: Why is confidentiality associated with the temple ordinances? (2 categories)
- Source:Echoes:Ch5:29:Lehi's desert journey and Joseph Smith (2 categories)
- Source:Ricks:Some Notes on Book of Mormon Names:Interpreter:Three altar inscriptions containing NHM (2 categories)
- Source:Brown:Nahom and the "Eastward" Turn:JBMS 12:1 (2 categories)