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- Southerton (2008/2014): "It's true that if a small group (say 10 people) entered a massive population (say 1 million), that it would be hard to detect their mitochondrial or Y chromosome DNA" (2 categories)
- Mountain Meadows Massacre/Brigham Young (2 categories)
- Martin Harris: "Just as plain as you see that chopping block, I saw the plates" (2 categories)
- Question: Did John Whitmer, one of the Eight Witnesses, actually say that he saw the plates by a "supernatural power"? (2 categories)
- Question: How do Latter-day Saints understand the significance of the blood shed by Christ? (2 categories)
- Question: Is a man unreliable because he lived in the 19th-Century? (2 categories)
- Question: What possible modern lessons can we learn from Emma and Joseph's struggle with plural marriage? (2 categories)
- Question: Do the Joseph Smith papyri date back to the time of Abraham? (2 categories)
- Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Do Christians Believe in Three Gods (2 categories)
- Question: What is the correct interpretation of Facsimile 3? (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)
- 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)
- Detailed response to CES Letter, Witnesses (2 categories)
- Question: Were plural wives forced into the marriage? (2 categories)
- The Mormon Concept of God: A Philosophical Analysis (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: Was Helen Mar Kimball's marriage to Joseph Smith ever consummated? (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 Elvira Annie Cowles know about her sealing to Joseph Smith for eternity? (2 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith have access to materials related to Nahom at Allegheny College? (2 categories)
- Question: Was the only purpose of polygamy to "multiply and replenish the earth" and "bear the souls of men"? (2 categories)
- Question: Why does the Book of Mormon say that Jesus would be born "at Jerusalem which is the land of our forefathers" when the Bible states that he was born in Bethlehem? (2 categories)
- Question: How do non-Mormon artists treat the Nativity? (2 categories)
- Question: Does the Book of Mormon support the idea that "eternal" or "endless" punishment can be temporary? (2 categories)
- Question: Did Fanny Alger have a child by Joseph Smith? (2 categories)
- Roper: "For example, an iron knife was found in an eleventh century Philistine tomb showed evidence of deliberate carburization" (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)
- Source:Echoes:Ch5:29:Lehi's desert journey and Joseph Smith (2 categories)
- Question: Did Brigham Young attempt to suppress and destroy all copies of Lucy Mack Smith's ''Biographical Sketches of Joseph Smith''? (2 categories)
- Question: How valid are the names used in the Holley Map? (2 categories)
- Question: Why did Elder Boyd K. Packer state that "Some things that are true are not very useful"? (2 categories)
- Multiple accounts of the First Vision (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: Do Latter-day Saints discount the spiritual witnesses that members of other religions may receive? (2 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph utter a false prophecy and show disregard for the Word of Wisdom in telling Orson Hyde that he would drink wine with him in Palestine? (2 categories)
- Joseph Smith's First Vision/Lucy Mack Smith and the Presbyterians (2 categories)
- Question: Did Martin Harris ever deny his Book of Mormon witness because he thought that Joseph Smith was a fallen prophet? (2 categories)
- The Bat Creek Stone (2 categories)
- Source:Gospel Topics:The Manifesto and the End of Plural Marriage:Joseph F. Smith broke the law (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)
- Question: When and how did plural marriage begin in the Church? (2 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith produce any children by his plural wives? The case for children (2 categories)
- Olson (2004): "People may like to think that they're descended from some ancient group while other people are not. But human ancestry doesn't work that way, since we all share the same ancestors just a few millenniums ago" (2 categories)
- Mountain Meadows Massacre/Personalities (2 categories)
- Question: If a doctrine is repudiated, does that mean that it was false when it was being taught? (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: Has the Church hidden the fact that Joseph fired a gun while in Carthage Jail? (2 categories)
- Doctrine and Covenants and Church History Study Guide: "These papyri contain authentic Egyptian writings, but they do not date to the time of Abraham, nor do they contain the actual personally handwritten account of Abraham" (2 categories)
- Jeffrey R. Holland: "All I’m saying is that what got translated got translated into the word of God" (2 categories)
- Portal:Test2/box-footer (2 categories)