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- Mormonism and Wikipedia/Joseph Smith, Jr./1838 to 1839/051909 (3 categories)
- Racial issues and the Church of Jesus Christ/Blacks and the priesthood (3 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith place his seer stone in his hat while looking for lost objects? (3 categories)
- Criticism of Mormonism (3 categories)
- Question: How reliable are the accounts of the discovery of Zelph? (3 categories)
- Topical Guide/Book of Mormon/Authorship and Evidences (3 categories)
- Mormonism and Freemasonry (3 categories)
- Question: Does the 14 November 1835 account reference to the "first vision of Angels" mean that Joseph Smith did not see Deity? (3 categories)
- Latter-day Saint Temples/Baptism for the dead (3 categories)
- Latter-day Saint Temples (3 categories)
- Godfrey: "Martin found a rock closely resembling the seerstone Joseph sometimes used in place of the interpreters and substituted it without the Prophet’s knowledge" (3 categories)
- Question: What changes were made to the Doctrine and Covenants? (3 categories)
- Question: How did Latter-day Saint scholars respond to the attempt to sell the Book of Mormon copyright prior to Page's letter coming to light? (3 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph use his seer stone to receive the text of the Book of Abraham in the same manner as he did for the Book of Mormon? (3 categories)
- Question: Does the Bible prohibit polygamous marriages involving a mother and daughter? (3 categories)
- Statements by Church leaders related to the identity of the Lamanites (3 categories)
- Miller and Roper: "two distinct species of peccary live in Mesoamerica....They were hunted and eaten as early as Olmec times" (3 categories)
- Sorenson: "Iron use was documented in the statements of early Spaniards, who told of the Aztecs using iron-studded clubs" (3 categories)
- Question: What did the other witnesses say regarding "spiritual" versus "natural" viewing of the plates? (3 categories)
- Question: Why did the Prophet construct the 1832 narrative in a manner such as to exclude explicit mention of the Father's appearance? (3 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith copy the name "Nephi" from the Apocrypha? (3 categories)
- Question: What do we find in Mesoamerican archaeology with respect to place names, such as city names? (3 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith claim that the Kirtland Safety Society was established by a revelation from God? (3 categories)
- Did Joseph have lustful motives for practicing polygamy? (3 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith change his stated motivation for praying in later years after he received the First Vision? (3 categories)
- Question: Does the belief by the witnesses that the experience had visionary qualities contradict the claim that the Book of Mormon plates were real? (3 categories)
- Topical Guide/Book of Mormon/Coming Forth (3 categories)
- Question: Why did several years pass before Oliver Cowdery talked about the priesthood restoration? (3 categories)
- Use of Church funds (3 categories)
- David Whitmer (1878): "I saw them just as plain as I see this bed" (3 categories)
- Mormonism and Wikipedia/Golden plates/Finding (3 categories)
- Question: What are the Lectures on Faith? (3 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith create the story of Nephi and Laban by plagiarizing concepts and phrases from the story of Judith and Holofernes in the Apocrypha? (3 categories)
- Gospel Topics on LDS.org: "Mormon and non-Mormon Egyptologists agree that the characters on the fragments do not match the translation given in the book of Abraham" (3 categories)
- The killing of Laban in the Book of Mormon (3 categories)
- Opposition to baptism for the dead (3 categories)
- Mormon ordinances (3 categories)
- Multiple accounts of the First Vision/Criticisms/Overview (3 categories)
- Brigham Young (1871): "whether the Lord...made it in six days or in as many millions of years, is and will remain a matter of speculation in the minds of men unless he give revelation on the subject" (3 categories)
- Portal:Test2/box-header (3 categories)
- Question: What did Church leaders after Brigham Young think of the priesthood ban? (3 categories)
- Joseph Smith/Other visions (3 categories)
- Question: What did the husband of Presendia L. Huntington know about her sealing to Joseph Smith for eternity? (3 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith being sealed to mothers, daughters and sisters violate a biblical prohibition? (3 categories)
- Book of Abraham (3 categories)
- Question: In what context are chariots mentioned in the Book of Mormon? (3 categories)
- Question: Did any of Joseph's scribes ever say anything about Joseph's story of the vision changing over time? (3 categories)
- Question: What references to the First Vision exist in published documents from the 1830s? (3 categories)
- Question: By what name did Joseph Smith refer to the First Vision? (3 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith have a Jupiter talisman on his person at the time of his death? (3 categories)