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- Question: Was Joseph Smith anointed to be "King over the earth" by the Council of Fifty? (7 categories)
- Question: What was the Council of Fifty? (7 categories)
- Source:Webb:BYUS:2011:5:Mormons, Nicea, and Plato (7 categories)
- Question: Does the practice of baptism for the dead have ancient roots? (7 categories)
- Source:Webb:BYUS:2011:6:Mormons retrieved early Christian beliefs rejected by creeds (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)
- Source:Webb:BYUS:2011:13:Mormons reject Augustinian ideas about depravity and original sin (7 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: Are there any eyewitness accounts of the events that resulted in the trip to Canada to sell the Book of Mormon copyright? (6 categories)
- Backman (1985): "On at least four different occasions, Joseph Smith either wrote or dictated to scribes accounts of his sacred experience of 1820" (6 categories)
- Gee: "Ferguson is largely unknown to the vast majority of Latter-day Saints; his impact on Book of Mormon studies is minimal" (6 categories)
- Question: Is it true that Mormons believe the original Garden of Eden was located in Missouri? (6 categories)
- Question: What role do horses ''not'' play in the Book of Mormon? (6 categories)
- Question: What are the reasons for the changes to the Doctrine and Covenants? (6 categories)
- Question: Did Martin Harris tell people that he only saw the plates with his "spiritual eye"? (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)
- Question: What does it mean when it is said that the Book of Mormon contains the "fulness of the gospel?" (6 categories)
- Allen (1970): "the Prophet described his experience to friends and acquaintances at least as early as 1831-32...he continued to do so in varying detail until the year of his death" (6 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith begin his prophetic career with a "trinitarian" idea of God? (6 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith ever publicly attempt to teach the doctrine of plural marriage? (6 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith receive a revelation instructing him to to sell the copyright to the Book of Mormon in Canada and later claim that the revelation was false? (6 categories)
- Question: Have any ancient horse remains from the Nephite period been found in the New World? (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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- Question: Could ancient Americans have expanded the definition of "horse" to include new meanings? (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)
- Source:Webb:BYUS:2011:15:Christian beliefs do not need to have Neo-Platonic influence to be true (6 categories)
- Question: Did some of Joseph Smith's associates believe that he had an affair with Fanny Alger? (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)
- Source:Webb:BYUS:2011:16:Joseph Smith more coherent than Augustine on matter and the divine (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)
- Source:Webb:BYUS:2011:1:Sameness of Jesus' humanity (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)
- 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)