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- "Approaching Mormon Doctrine," LDS Newsroom (May 2007): "Not every statement made by a Church leader, past or present, necessarily constitutes doctrine"
- "Masonry," Church History Topics: "There are different ways of understanding the relationship between Masonry and the temple"
- "Recognizing the Voice of the Spirit" (Podcast): "How can I come to know that spiritual experience is not just a product of chemical processes in the brain?"
- ''Doctrine and Covenants and Church History Gospel Doctrine Teacher’s Manual'' (1999): "the Lord commanded some of the early Saints to practice plural marriage. The Prophet Joseph Smith and those closest to him...were challenged by this command"
- ''Ensign'' (1992): Emma Smith's "great trial came when the prophet revealed to Emma that they would be required to live the ancient law of Abraham—plural marriage"
- 1835 Doctrine and Covenants denies polygamy
- 1835 Doctrine and Covenants denies polygamy/Further Reading
- 1844 Succession to Joseph Smith
- 1 Nephi
- 2 Nephi
- 3 Nephi
- 4 Nephi
- A Book of Commandments, for the Government of the Church of Christ
- A critic of the Book of Mormon (1843): "the ruins of Central America...the existence of such ruins were known long before the publication of the Book of Mormon"
- Abolitionism
- Abraham lying about his wife Sarah
- Abuse and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
- Abuse and the Boy Scouts of America
- Abuse victims and lack of culpability
- Accounts of Joseph Smith's First Vision
- Accounts of Joseph Smith's First Vision/1832
- Accounts of Joseph Smith's First Vision/1835
- Accounts of Joseph Smith's First Vision/1835 (Erastus Holmes account)
- Accounts of Joseph Smith's First Vision/1840 (Orson Pratt account)
- Accounts of Joseph Smith's First Vision/1842 (Joseph Smith History of the Church)
- Accounts of Joseph Smith's First Vision/1842 (Orson Hyde account)
- Accounts of Joseph Smith's First Vision/1842 Wentworth Letter
- Accounts of Joseph Smith's First Vision/1843 (Levi Richards account)
- Accounts of Joseph Smith's First Vision/1843 (The Pittsburgh Weekly Gazette account)
- Accounts of Joseph Smith's First Vision/1844 (Alexander Neibaur account)
- Accounts of Joseph Smith's First Vision/1844 (Daniel Rupp account)
- Accounts of Joseph Smith's First Vision/1893 (Charles L. Walker account)
- Accuracy of Church art
- Accuracy of Church art/Further Reading
- Added quotes on finances
- Adding sections to the Doctrine and Covenants
- Adultery
- Alleged false prophecies of Joseph Smith
- Alleged hiding of facts in Church history
- Alleged whitewashing of Church history
- Alleged whitewashing of Church history/CriticalSources
- Alleged whitewashing of Church history/Further Reading
- 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"
- Alma
- American Revivalist (2 Feb 1833): "The Book of Mormon is a record of the forefathers of our western tribes of Indians"
- Answers to Questions All Mormons Should Ask Themselves
- Answers to Questions All Mormons Should Ask Themselves/Questions 1-28
- Answers to Questions All Mormons Should Ask Themselves/Questions 29-58
- Anthony W. Ivins (Apr 1929): "Where was the land of Zarahemla? Where was the City of Zarahemla?...There has never been anything yet set forth that definitely settles that question"
- Antiquity of the Book of Abraham
- Apostasy
- Apostasy/Evidence of
- Apostasy/Evidence of in the Bible
- Apostasy/Extent of
- Apostasy/Further Reading
- Apostasy/Not complete
- Apostasy/Not complete/CriticalSources
- Apostasy/Patristic evidence of
- Apostasy/Prediction of/CriticalSources
- Apostasy/Priesthood on earth during the apostasy
- Apostasy/Priesthood on earth during the apostasy/CriticalSources
- Apostasy/Reasons for
- Apostasy/Relationship of the Church to other branches of Christianity
- Apostasy/The "gates of hell"
- Apostasy/Visible evidence of
- Apostasy/Why did God allow it
- Apostles
- Apostles as personal witnesses of Christ
- Application of the endowment
- Approaching history
- Armitage: "It is suggested by de Ávila Blomberg that wild silk was used in Oaxaca in pre-Columbian times"
- Articles of Faith
- Articles of Faith/Differing versions
- Articles of Faith/Differing versions/CriticalSources
- Articles of Faith/Differing versions/Text of various versions
- Articles of Faith/Differing versions/Text of various versions/1834 (Cowdery)
- Articles of Faith/Differing versions/Text of various versions/1836 (Joseph Young)
- Articles of Faith/Differing versions/Text of various versions/1840 (Orson Pratt)
- Articles of Faith/Differing versions/Text of various versions/1842 (Orson Hyde)
- Articles of Faith/Differing versions/Text of various versions/1842 (Wentworth letter)
- Articles of Faith/Differing versions/Text of various versions/1849 (Flanigan)
- Articles of Faith/Differing versions/Text of various versions/1853 (Findly)
- Articles of Faith/Differing versions/Text of various versions/1853 (Haven)
- Articles of Faith/Differing versions/Text of various versions/1855-57(John Taylor)
- Articles of Faith/Fourteen Articles of Faith/CriticalSources
- Articles of Faith/Fourteen Articles of Faith/Further Reading
- Artistic depictions of the translation
- Atheism
- Attempt to sell the Book of Mormon copyright in Canada
- Attempts to steal the gold plates from Joseph Smith
- Author:Kevin Christensen
- Authorship of New Testament books
- B.H. Roberts: "Joseph Smith was a man of like passions with other men; struggling with the same weaknesses; subjected to the same temptations"
- B.H. Roberts: "we need not be surprised if we sometimes find them mistaken in their conceptions and deductions"
- B. H. Roberts
- BYU Master's Thesis (Aug 1968): Uses Mesoamerica as presumptive culture source for costumes destined for a Book of Mormon re-enactments
- BYU Studies Article: A Mother There
- Back to top test
- Backman (1985): "On at least four different occasions, Joseph Smith either wrote or dictated to scribes accounts of his sacred experience of 1820"
- Baptism for the dead in early Christianity
- Baptism in the Book of Mormon
- Barney: "three types of evidence favoring the conclusion that Joseph understood the meaning of the italicized words"
- Behind the Mask/Index
- Behind the Mask/Index/Section 1
- Behind the Mask/Index/Section 2
- Behind the Mask/Index/Section 3
- Behind the Mask/Index/Section 4
- Behind the Mask/Index/Section 5
- Behind the Mask/Index/Section 6
- Behind the Mask/Index/Section 7
- Behind the Mask/Index/Section 8
- Bell: "the questionable traces above the head of the Osiris figure are actually the remains of his right hand"
- Bell: "there would not be enough available space to restore the hand of Anubis, the erect phallus of the Osiris, and the body and wings of Isis"
- Bernardino de Sahagun: "Fodder was provided the deer—horses—which the Spaniards rode"
- Bible/Three degrees of glory not biblical/2 Corinthians 12:2-4/CriticalSources
- Bible passages in the Book of Mormon
- Biblical Keys for Discerning True and False Prophets/Authors note
- Biblical Keys for Discerning True and False Prophets/Considering Joseph Smith
- Biblical Keys for Discerning True and False Prophets/Considering Joseph Smith/Abuse of a Bible test
- Biblical Keys for Discerning True and False Prophets/Considering Joseph Smith/Jesus and Joseph Smith
- Biblical Keys for Discerning True and False Prophets/Considering Joseph Smith/Living with Differences and Uncertainty
- Biblical Keys for Discerning True and False Prophets/Considering Joseph Smith/Paradigm debate
- Biblical Keys for Discerning True and False Prophets/Considering Joseph Smith/Paradigm debate/A Pragmatic Approach
- Biblical Keys for Discerning True and False Prophets/Considering Joseph Smith/Paradigm debate/Between Paradigms
- Biblical Keys for Discerning True and False Prophets/Considering Joseph Smith/Paradigm debate/Critical Realism
- Biblical Keys for Discerning True and False Prophets/Considering Joseph Smith/Paradigm debate/Deciding
- Biblical Keys for Discerning True and False Prophets/Considering Joseph Smith/Paradigm debate/Defining Our Paradigms
- Biblical Keys for Discerning True and False Prophets/Considering Joseph Smith/Paradigm debate/Religious Differences
- Biblical Keys for Discerning True and False Prophets/Considering Joseph Smith/Paradigm debate/The Limits of Falsification
- Biblical Keys for Discerning True and False Prophets/Considering Joseph Smith/Paradigm debate/The Limits of Verification
- Biblical Keys for Discerning True and False Prophets/Considering Joseph Smith/Paradigm debate/Values Applied
- Biblical Keys for Discerning True and False Prophets/Considering Joseph Smith/Paradigm debate/Within a Paradigm
- Biblical Keys for Discerning True and False Prophets/Considering Joseph Smith/Preliminary test
- Biblical Keys for Discerning True and False Prophets/Rejecting true prophets
- Biblical Keys for Discerning True and False Prophets/Rejecting true prophets/Desire as an Obstacle
- Biblical Keys for Discerning True and False Prophets/Rejecting true prophets/Fear as an Obstacle
- Biblical Keys for Discerning True and False Prophets/Seeing the truth
- Biblical Keys for Discerning True and False Prophets/Seeing the truth/Be interested
- Biblical Keys for Discerning True and False Prophets/Seeing the truth/Credentials
- Biblical Keys for Discerning True and False Prophets/Seeing the truth/Listen to all witnesses
- Biblical Keys for Discerning True and False Prophets/Seeing the truth/Listen with purposeful intent
- Biblical Keys for Discerning True and False Prophets/Seeing the truth/Measuring
- Biblical Keys for Discerning True and False Prophets/Seeing the truth/Persist
- Biblical Keys for Discerning True and False Prophets/Seeing the truth/Pray
- Biblical Keys for Discerning True and False Prophets/Seeing the truth/Receive the prophets
- Biblical Keys for Discerning True and False Prophets/Seeing the truth/Study
- Biblical Keys for Discerning True and False Prophets/Seeing the truth/Works
- Biblical Keys for Discerning True and False Prophets/Tests
- Biblical Keys for Discerning True and False Prophets/Tests/Accepts the Biblical God
- Biblical Keys for Discerning True and False Prophets/Tests/Arguments fail
- Biblical Keys for Discerning True and False Prophets/Tests/Chosen by God
- Biblical Keys for Discerning True and False Prophets/Tests/Christ ordained of God
- Biblical Keys for Discerning True and False Prophets/Tests/Consistent
- Biblical Keys for Discerning True and False Prophets/Tests/Covenant
- Biblical Keys for Discerning True and False Prophets/Tests/Heavenly council
- Biblical Keys for Discerning True and False Prophets/Tests/Jesus come in the flesh
- Biblical Keys for Discerning True and False Prophets/Tests/Learn the truth
- Biblical Keys for Discerning True and False Prophets/Tests/Liable to sin
- Biblical Keys for Discerning True and False Prophets/Tests/No filthy lucre
- Biblical Keys for Discerning True and False Prophets/Tests/Ordained
- Biblical Keys for Discerning True and False Prophets/Tests/Please God
- Biblical Keys for Discerning True and False Prophets/Tests/Pray
- Biblical Keys for Discerning True and False Prophets/Tests/Preaches repentance
- Biblical Keys for Discerning True and False Prophets/Tests/Prophecy
- Biblical Keys for Discerning True and False Prophets/Tests/Remission of sins
- Biblical Keys for Discerning True and False Prophets/Tests/Revelation and Vision
- Biblical Keys for Discerning True and False Prophets/Tests/Scriptures
- Biblical Keys for Discerning True and False Prophets/Tests/Signs and gifts
- Biblical Keys for Discerning True and False Prophets/Tests/Teach by spirit
- Biblical Keys for Discerning True and False Prophets/Tests/Teaches one Lord
- Biblical Keys for Discerning True and False Prophets/Tests/Teaching with authority
- Biblical Keys for Discerning True and False Prophets/Tests/Trials
- Biblical Keys for Discerning True and False Prophets/Tests/United
- Biblical Keys for Discerning True and False Prophets/Tests/Unity of faith
- Biblical Keys for Discerning True and False Prophets/Tests/Witnesses
- Biblical Keys for Discerning True and False Prophets/Tests/Works
- Biblical archaeology compared to the Book of Mormon
- Biblical inerrancy
- Bisbee, Arizona — Adams abuse case
- Bishop interviews with youth
- Book:Bushman:Rough Stone Rolling:Short
- Book:Freedman:Anchor Bible Dictionary
- Book of Abraham
- Book of Abraham/Anachronisms
- Book of Abraham/Anachronisms/Ur of the Chaldees
- Book of Abraham/Astronomy
- Book of Abraham/Astronomy/Kolob-Sun
- Book of Abraham/Astronomy/Kolob-Sun/CriticalSources
- Book of Abraham/Astronomy/Revolution Time/Further Reading
- Book of Abraham/Book of Abraham/Church Hides Book of Abraham Info (1969-1978)
- Book of Abraham/Book of Dead Scan (full size zoom)
- Book of Abraham/Book of Joseph
- Book of Abraham/Book of the Dead/Scan (full size)
- Book of Abraham/Book of the Dead/Scan (small)
- Book of Abraham/By his own hand
- Book of Abraham/By his own hand/CriticalSources
- Book of Abraham/Church Hides Book of Abraham Info (1879-1968)
- Book of Abraham/Church Hides Book of Abraham Info (1979-1983)
- Book of Abraham/Church Hides Book of Abraham Info (1984-1989)
- Book of Abraham/Church Hides Book of Abraham Info (1990-1997)
- Book of Abraham/Church Hides Book of Abraham Info (1998-2003)
- Book of Abraham/Church Hides Book of Abraham Info (2004-Present)
- Book of Abraham/Content
- Book of Abraham/Doctrinal issues
- Book of Abraham/How was it produced
- Book of Abraham/How was it produced/CriticalSources
- Book of Abraham/Joseph Smith Papyri/Church disclosure of "Book of the Dead"
- Book of Abraham/Joseph Smith Papyri/Identity and nature
- Book of Abraham/Joseph Smith Papyri/Kirtland Egyptian Papers/Background/CriticalSources
- Book of Abraham/Joseph Smith Papyri/Kirtland Egyptian Papers/Further Reading
- Book of Abraham/Joseph Smith Papyri/Quotes
- Book of Abraham/Joseph Smith Papyri/Text
- Book of Abraham/Joseph Smith Papyri/Text/Jewish redaction
- Book of Abraham/Joseph Smith Papyri/Text/Size of missing papyrus
- Book of Abraham/Joseph Smith Papyri/Text/Size of missing papyrus/Further Reading
- Book of Abraham/Kirtland Egyptian Papers/Background
- Book of Abraham/Origin
- Book of Abraham/Papyri/Long article/CriticalSources
- Book of Abraham/Papyri/Long article/Further Reading
- Book of Abraham/Plagiarism accusations
- Book of Abraham/Plagiarism accusations/CriticalSources
- Book of Abraham/Publications on the Book of Abraham
- Book of Abraham/Timeline
- Book of Abraham facsimiles
- Book of Abraham facsimiles/Facsimile 1
- Book of Abraham facsimiles/Facsimile 1/Association with Abraham
- Book of Abraham facsimiles/Facsimile 2
- Book of Abraham facsimiles/Facsimile 2/Identification of the ithyphallic Egyptian god "Min" as "God sitting upon his throne"
- Book of Abraham facsimiles/Facsimile 3
- Book of Abraham facsimiles/Facsimile 3/Further Reading
- Book of Abraham facsimiles/Missing portions
- Book of Abraham facsimiles/Missing portions/CriticalSources
- Book of Abraham in the CES Letter
- Book of Jubilees 12:1-8: "Abram said to Terah his father...What help and profit have we from those idols which thou dost worship...And his father said unto him...Keep silent, my son, lest they slay thee"
- Book of Mormon
- Book of Mormon/Anachronisms/Animals/CriticalSources
- Book of Mormon/Anachronisms/Animals/Elephants/CriticalSources
- Book of Mormon/Anachronisms/Animals/Further Reading
- Book of Mormon/Anachronisms/Animals/Horses/Loanshifting: deer and tapirs
- Book of Mormon/Anachronisms/Animals/Horses/Loanshifting: deer and tapirs/Further Reading
- Book of Mormon/Anachronisms/Animals/Story of Jaredites added to explain presence of animals in New World/CriticalSources
- Book of Mormon/Anachronisms/Animals/Story of Jaredites added to explain presence of animals in New World/Further Reading
- Book of Mormon/Anachronisms/Bethabara/CriticalSources
- Book of Mormon/Anachronisms/Biblical/Firstling sacrifices/CriticalSources
- Book of Mormon/Anachronisms/Biblical/Firstling sacrifices/Further Reading
- Book of Mormon/Anachronisms/Biblical/Holy Ghost/Further Reading
- Book of Mormon/Anachronisms/Biblical/Jeremiah in prison/Further Reading
- Book of Mormon/Anachronisms/Biblical/Jerusalem vs Bethlehem/CriticalSources
- Book of Mormon/Anachronisms/Biblical/Jerusalem vs Bethlehem/Further Reading
- Book of Mormon/Anachronisms/Biblical/Josephites and Jerusalem/CriticalSources
- Book of Mormon/Anachronisms/Biblical/New Testament text/CriticalSources
- Book of Mormon/Anachronisms/Biblical/Quoting Malachi/CriticalSources
- Book of Mormon/Anachronisms/Cement/CriticalSources
- Book of Mormon/Anachronisms/Cement/Further Reading
- Book of Mormon/Anachronisms/Chapter divisions/CriticalSources
- Book of Mormon/Anachronisms/Chariots/CriticalSources
- Book of Mormon/Anachronisms/Chariots/Further Reading
- Book of Mormon/Anachronisms/Coins/CriticalSources
- Book of Mormon/Anachronisms/Coins/Further Reading
- Book of Mormon/Anachronisms/Compass/CriticalSources
- Book of Mormon/Anachronisms/Compass/Further Reading
- Book of Mormon/Anachronisms/Demographics/Further Reading
- Book of Mormon/Anachronisms/Doctrine of Virgin Birth
- Book of Mormon/Anachronisms/Further Reading
- Book of Mormon/Anachronisms/Gadianton masons and anti-masonry/CriticalSources
- Book of Mormon/Anachronisms/Gold plates/CriticalSources
- Book of Mormon/Anachronisms/Gold plates/Further Reading
- Book of Mormon/Anachronisms/Government
- Book of Mormon/Anachronisms/Gunpowder/CriticalSources
- Book of Mormon/Anachronisms/Language/"Adieu"/CriticalSources
- Book of Mormon/Anachronisms/Language/"Adieu"/Further Reading
- Book of Mormon/Anachronisms/Language/"Adieu"/Further examples
- Book of Mormon/Anachronisms/Language/Greek words/CriticalSources
- Book of Mormon/Anachronisms/Language/Hebrew and Native American languages/CriticalSources
- Book of Mormon/Anachronisms/Language/Hebrew and Native American languages/Further Reading
- Book of Mormon/Anachronisms/Language/Reformed Egyptian/CriticalSources
- Book of Mormon/Anachronisms/Language/Reformed Egyptian/Egyptian too bulky/CriticalSources
- Book of Mormon/Anachronisms/Language/Reformed Egyptian/Egyptian too bulky/Further Reading
- Book of Mormon/Anachronisms/Language/Reformed Egyptian/Further Reading
- Book of Mormon/Anachronisms/Metal plates/CriticalSources
- Book of Mormon/Anachronisms/Metals/CriticalSources
- Book of Mormon/Anachronisms/Metals/Further Reading
- Book of Mormon/Anachronisms/Mulek
- Book of Mormon/Anachronisms/Mulek/Further Reading
- Book of Mormon/Anachronisms/Names/Com/CriticalSources
- Book of Mormon/Anachronisms/Names/CriticalSources
- Book of Mormon/Anachronisms/Names/Further Reading
- Book of Mormon/Anachronisms/Names/Josh/CriticalSources
- Book of Mormon/Anachronisms/Names/Kim/CriticalSources
- Book of Mormon/Anachronisms/Names/Sam/CriticalSources
- Book of Mormon/Anachronisms/Names/Shilum
- Book of Mormon/Anachronisms/Names/Zeezrom
- Book of Mormon/Anachronisms/Nephite republicanism/CriticalSources
- Book of Mormon/Anachronisms/Plants/CriticalSources
- Book of Mormon/Anachronisms/Plants/Further Reading
- Book of Mormon/Anachronisms/Pre-Christian Christianity/CriticalSources
- Book of Mormon/Anachronisms/Pre-Christian Christianity/Further Reading
- Book of Mormon/Anachronisms/River runs into fountain/CriticalSources
- Book of Mormon/Anachronisms/Sabellianism/CriticalSources
- Book of Mormon/Anachronisms/Sabellianism/Further Reading
- Book of Mormon/Anachronisms/Sacrifice offered by non-Levites/CriticalSources
- Book of Mormon/Anachronisms/Sacrifice offered by non-Levites/Further Reading
- Book of Mormon/Anachronisms/Serpents and drought/Further Reading
- Book of Mormon/Anachronisms/Shiz struggles to breathe/CriticalSources
- Book of Mormon/Anachronisms/Shiz struggles to breathe/Further Reading
- Book of Mormon/Anachronisms/Snow/Further Reading
- Book of Mormon/Anachronisms/Sweat and skin pores/Further Reading
- Book of Mormon/Anachronisms/Synagogues/CriticalSources
- Book of Mormon/Anachronisms/Synagogues/Further Reading
- Book of Mormon/Anachronisms/Temple in New World/CriticalSources
- Book of Mormon/Anachronisms/Temple in New World/Further Reading
- Book of Mormon/Anachronisms/Temple in New World/No temple outside Jerusalem/CriticalSources
- Book of Mormon/Anachronisms/The Red Sea
- Book of Mormon/Anachronisms/Three days of darkness/CriticalSources
- Book of Mormon/Anachronisms/Three days of darkness/Further Reading
- Book of Mormon/Anachronisms/Translation Errors from the KJV/Further Reading
- Book of Mormon/Anachronisms/Two natures of Christ/CriticalSources
- Book of Mormon/Anachronisms/Weapons
- Book of Mormon/Anachronisms/Windows/CriticalSources
- Book of Mormon/Anachronisms/ /CriticalSources
- Book of Mormon/Archaeology/Compared to the Bible/Further Reading
- Book of Mormon/Archaeology/Further Reading
- Book of Mormon/Archaeology/Hill Cumorah/Further Reading
- Book of Mormon/Archaeology/Smithsonian statement/Further Reading
- Book of Mormon/Archaeology/Thomas Stuart Ferguson/CriticalSources
- Book of Mormon/Archaeology/Thomas Stuart Ferguson/Further Reading
- Book of Mormon/Attempt to sell copyright/Further Reading
- Book of Mormon/Attempt to sell copyright/Revelation
- Book of Mormon/Authorship theories/Automatic writing/CriticalSources
- Book of Mormon/Authorship theories/Clumsy or amateurish/CriticalSources
- Book of Mormon/Authorship theories/Epilepsy/CriticalSources
- Book of Mormon/Authorship theories/Further Reading
- Book of Mormon/Authorship theories/Golden Pot/Further Reading
- Book of Mormon/Authorship theories/Laying Down Heads
- Book of Mormon/Authorship theories/Overview
- Book of Mormon/Authorship theories/Sidney Rigdon/CriticalSources
- Book of Mormon/Authorship theories/Spalding manuscript/Difficult to explain before
- Book of Mormon/Authorship theories/Spalding manuscript/Difficult to explain before/CriticalSources
- Book of Mormon/Authorship theories/Spalding manuscript/Further Reading
- Book of Mormon/Authorship theories/View of the Hebrews/Analysis of non-Isaiah scripture use
- Book of Mormon/Authorship theories/View of the Hebrews/Analysis of scripture use
- Book of Mormon/Authorship theories/View of the Hebrews/Further Reading
- Book of Mormon/Authorship theories/View of the Hebrews/Non-parallels
- Book of Mormon/B.H. Roberts
- Book of Mormon/B.H. Roberts' testimony/Further Reading