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- 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)
- Book of Mormon/Plagiarism accusations/Comoros Islands and Moroni/Captain Kidd (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)
- Source:Damrosch:The Narrative Covenant:Naham means "to mourn" (2 categories)
- Source:Nibley:CW06:Ch19:9:Mourning by the daughters of Ishmael (2 categories)
- Question: What criticisms are raised with regard to Book of Mormon archaeology compared to that of the Bible? (2 categories)
- Question: Is the Spalding theory of Book of Mormon authorship credible? (2 categories)
- Question: What do the Hurlbut affidavits say about the Spalding manuscript and the Book of Mormon? (2 categories)
- Question: Does Jesus Christ's statement "they neither marry, nor are given in marriage" contradict the Latter-day Saint doctrine of eternal marriage? (2 categories)
- Question: Has the Church tried to hide Joseph's use of a seer stone? (2 categories)
- Source:Gospel Topics:Book of Mormon Translation:According to these accounts, Joseph placed either the interpreters or the seer stone in a hat (2 categories)
- Source:Nelson:A Treasured Testament:Ensign:July 1993:The details of this miraculous method of translation are still not fully known. Yet we do have a few precious insights (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)
- Source:Nicholson:The Spectacles, The Stone:This essay focuses primarily on the methods and instruments used in the translation process (2 categories)
- Source:Gardner:The Gift and the Power:it’s stone that becomes the trigger that allows the seer to do what the seer does (2 categories)
- Question: Did Church leaders ever teach that Blacks were neutral in the "war in heaven?" (2 categories)
- Question: Did the Church repudiate the idea of neutrality in the "war in heaven?" (2 categories)
- Question: In what way did Joseph Smith implement the Word of Wisdom during his lifetime? (2 categories)
- Source:Revelations in Context:The Word of Wisdom:it required time to wind down practices that were so deeply ingrained (2 categories)
- Question: Was the "Pentecost" at the Kirtland Temple dedication actually a drunken orgy? (2 categories)
- Question: Who is the author of ''History of the Church''? (2 categories)
- Source:Gospel Topics:The Manifesto and the End of Plural Marriage:Reed Smoot hearings (2 categories)
- Source:Gospel Topics:The Manifesto and the End of Plural Marriage:Joseph F. Smith broke the law (2 categories)
- Question: Does the Bible forbid plural marriage? (2 categories)