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- Source:Webb:BYUS:2011:13:Mormons reject Augustinian ideas about depravity and original sin (7 categories)
- Source:Webb:BYUS:2011:10:Preexistent Jesus and a divinized humanity (7 categories)
- Source:Webb:BYUS:2011:14:Joseph Smith could hold his own in early Christian debates (7 categories)
- Question: Was Joseph Smith anointed to be "King over the earth" by the Council of Fifty? (7 categories)
- Specific works/Rediscovering the Book of Mormon Remnant through DNA (7 categories)
- Source:Webb:BYUS:2011:5:Mormons, Nicea, and Plato (7 categories)
- Question: What was the Council of Fifty? (7 categories)
- Source:Webb:BYUS:2011:7:Mormons and creatio ex nihilo (7 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith prophesy that Jesus Christ would return in 1890? (7 categories)
- Source:Webb:BYUS:2011:6:Mormons retrieved early Christian beliefs rejected by creeds (7 categories)
- Question: Does the practice of baptism for the dead have ancient roots? (7 categories)
- Gospel Topics: "The various accounts of the First Vision tell a consistent story, though naturally they differ in emphasis and detail" (7 categories)
- Question: Could Joseph Smith have used Ethan Smith's ''View of the Hebrews'' as a guideline for creating the Book of Mormon? (7 categories)
- Question: Was the ''View of the Hebrews'' theory of Book of Mormon origin advanced during the lifetime of Joseph Smith? (7 categories)
- Question: Why was Joseph fined if he wasn't found guilty of anything? (7 categories)
- Question: Was the young Joseph Smith a teller of "tall tales"? (7 categories)
- Question: Was the destruction of the ''Nauvoo Expositor'' legal? (7 categories)
- Question: Why would Martin Harris use the phrases "eye of faith" or "spiritual eye" to describe his visionary experience? (7 categories)
- Gospel Topics: "Joseph Smith and his associates often used the term 'Urim and Thummim' to refer to the single stone as well as the interpreters" (6 categories)
- Question: Why don't potential pre-Columbian horse remains in the New World receive greater attention from scientists? (6 categories)
- Question: Do Martin Harris's statements related to the "spiritual eye" or "eye of faith" contradict the reality of his witness? (6 categories)
- Criticism of Mormonism/Books/No Man Knows My History: The Life of Joseph Smith/Chapter 3 (6 categories)
- Question: How can the Book of Mormon contain the "fulness of the Gospel" if it does not speak of ordinances such as baptism for the dead or celestial marriage? (6 categories)
- Criticism of Mormonism/Books/The Changing World of Mormonism/Chapter 5 (6 categories)
- Question: Why did Joseph keep the doctrine of plural marriage private? (6 categories)
- Question: Do Latter-day Saints believe in a practice called "celestial sex," and that this is the manner in which "spirit children" are formed? (6 categories)
- Ensign (Jan. 2013): "He...referred to it using an Old Testament term, Urim and Thummim...He also sometimes applied the term to other stones he possessed" (6 categories)
- Question: Could ancient Americans have expanded the definition of "horse" to include new meanings? (6 categories)
- The Lamanite curse (6 categories)
- Miller and Roper: "Bones of domesticated cattle...have been reported from different caves in the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico" (6 categories)
- Source:Nibley:CW06:Ch6:8:Sam (6 categories)
- W.W. Phelps (1833): "through the aid of a pair of Interpreters, or spectacles—(known, perhaps, in ancient days as Teraphim, or Urim and Thummim)" (6 categories)
- Question: Was Oliver Cowdery aware that some in the Church were practicing polygamy in 1835 at the time he authored the "Article on Marriage"? (6 categories)
- Source:Webb:BYUS:2011:15:Christian beliefs do not need to have Neo-Platonic influence to be true (6 categories)
- Question: How did Joseph Smith use his seer stones as a youth? (6 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith originally identify the angel that visited him as "Nephi" instead of "Moroni"? (6 categories)
- Question: Was the practice of polygamy general knowledge among Latter-day Saints in 1835 when the "Article on Marriage" was published? (6 categories)
- Source:Webb:BYUS:2011:16:Joseph Smith more coherent than Augustine on matter and the divine (6 categories)
- Question: Why does Joseph Smith's 1832 account of the First Vision not mention two personages? (6 categories)
- Question: Why are horses considered an anachronism in the Book of Mormon? (6 categories)
- Grayson: "extinct North American mammals...losses began in Mexico and Alaska during the Pleistocene and ended in Florida perhaps as recently as 2000 years ago" (6 categories)
- David Whitmer (1884): "I saw with these eyes and I heard with these ears" (6 categories)
- Question: What did B.H. Roberts say about ''View of the Hebrews'' and the Book of Mormon? (6 categories)
- Question: Why does Joseph Smith state in his 1832 First Vision account that he was in his "16th year" of age? (6 categories)
- Question: What is the origin of the modern horse in the New World? (6 categories)
- Question: Why were the gold plates needed at all if they weren't used directly during the translation process? (6 categories)
- Revelations in Context on history.lds.org: "Cowdery was among those who believed in and used a divining rod" (6 categories)
- Question: Is plural marriage required in order to achieve exaltation? (6 categories)
- Question: Did Martin Harris tell people that he did not see the plates with his natural eyes, but rather the "eye of faith"? (6 categories)
- Seminary Manual (2013): "Joseph Smith emphasized different aspects of his vision in his multiple accounts" (6 categories)