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The following 65 pages are in this category, out of 65 total.
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- Criticism of Mormonism/Online documents/"Questions and Answers" on Mormon Stories
- Criticism of Mormonism/Online documents/"Questions and Answers" on Mormon Stories/Book of Abraham
- Criticism of Mormonism/Online documents/"Questions and Answers" on Mormon Stories/Brigham Young and the priesthood ban
- Criticism of Mormonism/Online documents/"Questions and Answers" on Mormon Stories/First Vision
- Criticism of Mormonism/Online documents/"Questions and Answers" on Mormon Stories/Historicity of the Book of Mormon
- Criticism of Mormonism/Online documents/"Questions and Answers" on Mormon Stories/Masonry and the temple
- Criticism of Mormonism/Online documents/"Questions and Answers" on Mormon Stories/Racism and the Book of Mormon
- Criticism of Mormonism/Online documents/"Questions and Answers" on Mormon Stories/Translation of the Book of Mormon
- Criticism of Mormonism/Online documents/"Questions and Answers" on Mormon Stories/Treasure digging
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- 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"
- Gospel Topics: "The Book of Mormon...does not claim that the peoples it describes were either the predominant or the exclusive inhabitants of the lands they occupied"
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- Question: Could Joseph Smith translate Egyptian?
- Question: Did ceremonies or practices ever change in the ancient Church?
- Question: Did Joseph attempt to translate the Kinderhook Plates using the "gift and power of God?"
- Question: Did Joseph hide his plural marriages from Emma, his first wife?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith attempt to translate the Kinderhook Plates?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith confer the priesthood on several black men?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith send men on missions in order to "steal" their wives while they were gone?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith send William Law, Robert D. Foster, and Henry Jacobs on missions so that he could steal their wives?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith use his own seer stone to translate the Book of Mormon?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith use the Nephite interpreters to translate? Or did he use his own seer stone?
- 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?
- Question: Do the Joseph Smith papyri date back to the time of Abraham?
- Question: Do we have all of the papyri that Joseph Smith had?
- Question: Does the Church claim that Native Americans were the exclusive descendants of Lehi or Mulek?
- Question: Does the Joseph Smith papyri consist of Egyptian funerary documents?
- 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?
- Question: How did Joseph Smith actually use the gold plates?
- Question: How do Church members assume that Joseph would have "used the plates" during translation?
- Question: How does the Grammar and Alphabet of the Egyptian Language (GAEL) relate to the Book of Abraham?
- Question: How was the text of the Book of Abraham produced by Joseph Smith?
- Question: Is it ever allowable to modify a religious ceremony?
- Question: Was Brigham Young a racist?
- Question: Was Emma aware of the possibility that Joseph could take additional wives even without her consent?
- Question: Was the destruction of the ''Nauvoo Expositor'' legal?
- Question: Was there an oath in a former version of the Mormon temple endowment that required vengeance upon the government of the United States?
- Question: Were the characters on the papyri written by Abraham himself?
- Question: What are the Kinderhook Plates?
- Question: What are the Nephite interpreters?
- Question: What did Church leaders after Brigham Young think of the priesthood ban?
- Question: What do we know about the origin of the priesthood ban on Church members of African descent?
- Question: What does Joseph's attempt to translate the Kinderhook Plates tell us about his "gift of translation?"
- Question: What possible modern lessons can we learn from Emma and Joseph's struggle with plural marriage?
- Question: What was the Lamanite curse?
- Question: Why did Brigham Young initiate the priesthood ban?
- Question: Why did Joseph Smith say that the Book of Mormon was the "most correct book"?
- Question: Why did the Church modify the introduction to the Book of Mormon from "principal ancestors" to "among the ancestors?"
- Question: Why does ''History of the Church'' say that Joseph Smith said "I have translated a portion of them..."?
- Question: Why is the statement of William Clayton regarding the Kinderhook Plates in ''History of the Church'' written as if Joseph Smith himself said it?
- Question: Why were textual changes made to the Book of Mormon over the years after it was first published?
- Question: Why were the gold plates needed at all if they weren't used directly during the translation process?
- Question: Why would the Church remove or alter elements of the temple ceremony if these ceremonies were revealed by God?