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- Possible locations for Shazer (13:16, 12 April 2024)
- The nature of God in the Book of Mormon (13:16, 12 April 2024)
- Metals and materials in the Book of Mormon (13:16, 12 April 2024)
- The Book of Mormon as history (13:16, 12 April 2024)
- Objects and artifacts in the Book of Mormon (13:16, 12 April 2024)
- Polynesians as descendants of the Lamanites in the Book of Mormon (13:17, 12 April 2024)
- The witness of Joseph Smith Sr. (13:17, 12 April 2024)
- Statement of the Eight Witnesses (13:17, 12 April 2024)
- The witness of John Whitmer (13:17, 12 April 2024)
- The Holy Ghost in the Book of Mormon (13:17, 12 April 2024)
- Old world geography in the Book of Mormon (13:17, 12 April 2024)
- Evaluating Book of Mormon geography theories (13:17, 12 April 2024)
- Seer stones and the Urim and Thummim (13:17, 12 April 2024)
- Synagogues and churches (13:17, 12 April 2024)
- Engravings on and sealed portion of the gold plates (13:17, 12 April 2024)
- Stone box where the gold plates were deposited (13:17, 12 April 2024)
- Wrath of God on the Lamanites (13:17, 12 April 2024)
- Marinda Nancy Johnson Hyde (13:26, 12 April 2024)
- Abuse and the Boy Scouts of America (13:27, 12 April 2024)
- Book of Mormon (13:33, 12 April 2024)
- Temples & Freemasonry in the CES Letter (13:41, 12 April 2024)
- Detailed response to CES Letter, Introduction (13:41, 12 April 2024)
- First Vision in the CES Letter (13:42, 12 April 2024)
- Science in the CES Letter (13:42, 12 April 2024)
- Book of Mormon Translation in the CES Letter (13:42, 12 April 2024)
- Book of Abraham in the CES Letter (13:42, 12 April 2024)
- Polygamy and Polyandry in the CES Letter (13:42, 12 April 2024)
- Prophets in the CES Letter (13:42, 12 April 2024)
- Kinderhook Plates & Translator Claims in the CES Letter (13:42, 12 April 2024)
- Priesthood Restoration in the CES Letter (13:42, 12 April 2024)
- Testimony and Spiritual Witness in the CES Letter (13:42, 12 April 2024)
- Other in the CES Letter (13:42, 12 April 2024)
- Opposition to baptism for the dead (14:15, 12 April 2024)
- FairMormon Does Not Speak for the Church/Further Reading (20:07, 12 April 2024)
- Textual criticism of the Bible (20:43, 12 April 2024)
- Question: How can a Latter-day Saint reconcile alleged failed prophecies made by prophets of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints? (20:49, 12 April 2024)
- The temple endowment (20:53, 12 April 2024)
- Church financial reporting to the SEC (20:53, 12 April 2024)
- Mushrooms and entheogenics theory of Book of Mormon authorship (20:56, 12 April 2024)
- Tithing (20:56, 12 April 2024)
- Mandatory reporting of abuse (20:56, 12 April 2024)
- The Late War theory of Book of Mormon authorship (20:56, 12 April 2024)
- Book of Mormon in the CES Letter (20:56, 12 April 2024)
- KJV translation errors in the Book of Mormon (20:57, 12 April 2024)
- Witnesses in the CES Letter (20:57, 12 April 2024)
- Joseph Smith listed as author and proprietor of the Book of Mormon (20:57, 12 April 2024)
- The witness of Jacob Whitmer (20:57, 12 April 2024)
- The witness of Samuel Smith (20:57, 12 April 2024)
- The witness of Hyrum Smith (20:57, 12 April 2024)
- The witness of Hiram Page (20:57, 12 April 2024)
- Practice TOC page (20:57, 12 April 2024)
- Hemispheric Geography Model of Book of Mormon geography (20:57, 12 April 2024)
- Church investments and reporting of financial data (20:57, 12 April 2024)
- Joseph Smith's Rocky Mountain prophecy (20:57, 12 April 2024)
- Joseph Smith's witness of Jesus Christ (20:58, 12 April 2024)
- Use of Church funds (20:58, 12 April 2024)
- Lehi's journey in the Old World (20:58, 12 April 2024)
- Mesoamerican Model of Book of Mormon geography (20:58, 12 April 2024)
- Priesthood authority in the Book of Mormon (20:58, 12 April 2024)
- Conclusion in the CES Letter (20:58, 12 April 2024)
- Introduction in the CES Letter (20:58, 12 April 2024)
- Statement of the Three Witnesses (20:58, 12 April 2024)
- The documentary hypothesis (20:58, 12 April 2024)
- Virgin birth of Jesus Christ in the Book of Mormon (20:58, 12 April 2024)
- Baptism in the Book of Mormon (20:58, 12 April 2024)
- Abuse and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (20:58, 12 April 2024)
- Ritual child abuse accusations in the 1990s (20:58, 12 April 2024)
- Bishop interviews with youth (20:58, 12 April 2024)
- Bisbee, Arizona — Adams abuse case (20:58, 12 April 2024)
- KJV italicized text in the Book of Mormon (20:58, 12 April 2024)
- Question: Do the changes in the Book of Mormon Isaiah passages reflect a better translation of the underlying Hebrew? (21:15, 12 April 2024)
- Question: Are chariots an anachronism for the Book of Abraham? (21:23, 12 April 2024)
- Question: Are Latter-day Saints really commanded to avoid r-rated movies? (21:23, 12 April 2024)
- Question: Are slings anachronistic to the Book of Mormon? (21:24, 12 April 2024)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith plagiarize sources from the American Revolution? (21:28, 12 April 2024)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith riff off of Hebrews 7 to produce the material discussing Melchizedek in Alma 12 and 13? (21:28, 12 April 2024)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith's family and other Book of Mormon witnesses support James Strang's movement after Joseph's death? (21:29, 12 April 2024)
- Question: Do Latter-day Saints have to "buy their way into heaven" since the Church requires that you be a full-tithe payer to enter the temple? (21:31, 12 April 2024)
- Question: Does The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints prohibit its members from using playing cards? (21:33, 12 April 2024)
- Question: How can a Latter-day Saint approach responding to criticism of the Church on biblical grounds? (21:34, 12 April 2024)
- Question: How can a Latter-day Saint reconcile claimed theological anachronisms in the scriptures? (21:34, 12 April 2024)
- Question: How can a Latter-day Saint reconcile the opinions of biblical scholars who say that certain figures of the Bible are not historical? (21:34, 12 April 2024)
- Question: How can one address arguments from reliability against the use of spiritual experiences in Latter-day Saint epistemology? (21:34, 12 April 2024)
- Question: How can one reconcile the patriarchal blessings given to blacks during the priesthood and temple bans? (21:34, 12 April 2024)
- Question: How can you know if an answer to prayer, a personal revelation, is true? (21:34, 12 April 2024)
- Question: How could the plate text actually fit on the plates of the Book of Mormon? (21:35, 12 April 2024)
- Question: How do Latter-day Saints understand the concept of love? (21:35, 12 April 2024)
- Question: How do members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints view the concepts of spiritual experience and the obtainment of testimony? (21:35, 12 April 2024)
- Question: How do the witnesses of the Book of Mormon compare to the witnesses of Philemon Stewart's ''A Holy, Sacred and Divine Roll and Book; From the Lord God of Heaven, to the Inhabitants of Earth''? (21:35, 12 April 2024)
- Question: How should we collectively view the concept of harm? (21:36, 12 April 2024)
- Question: How should we collectively view the concept of judgement? (21:36, 12 April 2024)
- Question: How should we understand the concept of worthiness? (21:36, 12 April 2024)
- Question: How should we view the concept of shame? (21:36, 12 April 2024)
- Question: Is an evangelist really a patriarch? (21:37, 12 April 2024)
- Question: Is Heavenly Mother not talked about more because the prophets are sexist? (21:37, 12 April 2024)
- Question: Is polygamy sexist? (21:38, 12 April 2024)
- Question: Is same-gender sexual attraction immutable? (21:38, 12 April 2024)
- Question: Is the Latter-day Saint conception of testimony from the Holy Ghost threatened by neuroscience or psychology? (21:38, 12 April 2024)
- Question: Should Latter-day Saints eat fruit seasonally? (21:40, 12 April 2024)
- Question: What are appropriate activities for the Sabbath? (21:43, 12 April 2024)
- Question: What are some ways that other religious traditions may not be as loving as that of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints? (21:43, 12 April 2024)
- Question: What do the scriptures say about the issue of abortion? (21:45, 12 April 2024)
- Question: What does it mean when two people receive revelation with contradictory answers to the same question? (21:45, 12 April 2024)
- Question: What does the Family Proclamation mean when it says fathers "preside" over their families? (21:45, 12 April 2024)
- Question: What evidence can The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints give for their possession of God's priesthood? (21:46, 12 April 2024)
- Question: What is sexism? (21:47, 12 April 2024)
- Question: What is the difference between agency and freedom? (21:47, 12 April 2024)
- Question: What is the scriptural basis for the restriction on homosexual sexual behavior in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints? (21:47, 12 April 2024)
- Question: What is the significance of the temple garment worn by members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and what is the appropriate way to wear them? (21:47, 12 April 2024)
- Question: What sort of scriptural support is there for the doctrines of The Family: A Proclamation to the World? (21:48, 12 April 2024)
- Question: When, if ever, is it okay to disagree with Church leaders? (21:49, 12 April 2024)
- Question: Why are Latter-day Saint men encouraged to wear white shirts to Sunday services in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints? (21:49, 12 April 2024)
- Question: Why are men encouraged to wear white shirts to Sunday services in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints? (21:49, 12 April 2024)
- Question: Why did Jesus call Twelve Apostles? (21:50, 12 April 2024)
- Question: Why do Latter-day Saints not swear? (21:50, 12 April 2024)
- Question: Why do Latter-day Saints often partake of the sacrament with their right hand? (21:50, 12 April 2024)
- Question: Why do women not hold priesthood offices in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints? (21:51, 12 April 2024)
- Question: Why does God act so violently in scripture and especially the Old Testament? (21:51, 12 April 2024)
- Question: Why does the Church focus on religious freedom? (21:51, 12 April 2024)
- Question: Why does The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints consider the practice of masturbation sinful? (21:51, 12 April 2024)
- Question: Why does The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints have rules for facial hair? (21:51, 12 April 2024)
- Question: Why is the Masonic symbol of the "All Seeing Eye" present on the Salt Lake Temple? (21:51, 12 April 2024)
- Question: Why should members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints pay their tithing to it when the Church already possesses immense resources? (21:52, 12 April 2024)
- Church finances (13:32, 13 April 2024)
- Criticism of Mormonism (13:32, 13 April 2024)
- Criticism of Mormonism/Books/American Massacre/Chapter 1 (13:33, 13 April 2024)
- Criticism of Mormonism/Books/American Massacre/Chapter 14 (13:33, 13 April 2024)
- Criticism of Mormonism/Books/American Massacre/Chapter 3 (13:33, 13 April 2024)
- Criticism of Mormonism/Books/An Insider's View of Mormon Origins/Chapter 6 (13:33, 13 April 2024)
- Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Becoming Gods/Chapter 1 (13:33, 13 April 2024)
- Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Becoming Gods/Chapter 10 (13:33, 13 April 2024)
- Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Becoming Gods/Use of sources/Turn to Joseph to gain Salvation (13:33, 13 April 2024)
- Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Losing a Lost Tribe: Native Americans, DNA, and the Mormon Church/Chapter 1 (13:33, 13 April 2024)
- Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Losing a Lost Tribe: Native Americans, DNA, and the Mormon Church/Chapter 11 (13:33, 13 April 2024)
- Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Mormonism 101/Chapter 17 (13:33, 13 April 2024)
- Criticism of Mormonism/Books/No Man Knows My History: The Life of Joseph Smith/Chapter 13 (13:33, 13 April 2024)
- Criticism of Mormonism/Books/No Man Knows My History: The Life of Joseph Smith/Chapter 26 (13:33, 13 April 2024)
- Criticism of Mormonism/Books/No Man Knows My History: The Life of Joseph Smith/Chapter 27 (13:33, 13 April 2024)
- Criticism of Mormonism/Books/No Man Knows My History: The Life of Joseph Smith/Chapter 3 (13:33, 13 April 2024)
- Criticism of Mormonism/Books/No Man Knows My History: The Life of Joseph Smith/Chapter 4 (13:33, 13 April 2024)
- Criticism of Mormonism/Books/No Man Knows My History: The Life of Joseph Smith/Chapter 5 (13:33, 13 April 2024)
- Criticism of Mormonism/Books/One Nation Under Gods/Appendix B (13:33, 13 April 2024)
- Criticism of Mormonism/Books/One Nation Under Gods/Chapter 1 (13:33, 13 April 2024)
- Criticism of Mormonism/Books/One Nation Under Gods/Chapter 18 (13:33, 13 April 2024)
- Criticism of Mormonism/Books/One Nation Under Gods/Chapter 2 (13:33, 13 April 2024)
- Criticism of Mormonism/Books/One Nation Under Gods/Chapter 3 (13:33, 13 April 2024)
- Criticism of Mormonism/Books/One Nation Under Gods/Chapter 9 (13:33, 13 April 2024)
- Criticism of Mormonism/Books/One Nation Under Gods/Use of sources/Forged Rocky Mountain prophecy (13:33, 13 April 2024)
- Criticism of Mormonism/Books/The Changing World of Mormonism/Chapter 1 (13:33, 13 April 2024)
- Criticism of Mormonism/Books/The Changing World of Mormonism/Chapter 13 (13:33, 13 April 2024)
- Criticism of Mormonism/Books/The Changing World of Mormonism/Chapter 17 (13:33, 13 April 2024)
- Criticism of Mormonism/Books/The Changing World of Mormonism/Chapter 4 (13:33, 13 April 2024)
- Criticism of Mormonism/Books/The Changing World of Mormonism/Chapter 5 (13:33, 13 April 2024)
- Criticism of Mormonism/Books/The Kingdom of the Cults (Revised)/Index (13:33, 13 April 2024)
- Criticism of Mormonism/Video/The God Makers/Cartoon (13:33, 13 April 2024)
- Criticism of Mormonism/Websites/MormonThink/Could Joseph Smith have written the Book of Mormon (13:33, 13 April 2024)
- Criticism of Mormonism/Websites/MormonThink/Translation of the Book of Mormon (13:33, 13 April 2024)
- David Whitmer (13:33, 13 April 2024)
- Eschatology (13:33, 13 April 2024)
- Farewell to Eden (13:33, 13 April 2024)
- Jesus Christ (13:33, 13 April 2024)
- Jesus Christ/Accusations that Latter-day Saints aren't Christians (13:33, 13 April 2024)
- Jesus Christ/Atonement/Latter-day Saint perspective (13:33, 13 April 2024)
- Joseph Smith (13:33, 13 April 2024)
- Joseph Smith/Accusations of false prophecies (13:34, 13 April 2024)
- Joseph Smith/Early Smith family history (13:34, 13 April 2024)
- Latter-day Saint Temples (13:34, 13 April 2024)
- Mormon ordinances (13:34, 13 April 2024)
- Mormon ordinances/Marriage (13:34, 13 April 2024)
- Mormonism and Freemasonry (13:34, 13 April 2024)
- Mormonism and Wikipedia/Golden plates/Background (13:34, 13 April 2024)
- Mormonism and Wikipedia/Golden plates/Claimed engravings (13:34, 13 April 2024)
- Mormonism and Wikipedia/Golden plates/Composition and weight (13:34, 13 April 2024)
- Mormonism and Wikipedia/Golden plates/Finding (13:34, 13 April 2024)
- Mormonism and Wikipedia/Golden plates/Format (13:34, 13 April 2024)
- Mormonism and Wikipedia/Golden plates/Location (13:34, 13 April 2024)
- Mormonism and Wikipedia/Golden plates/Origin and historicity (13:34, 13 April 2024)
- Mormonism and Wikipedia/Golden plates/Receiving (13:34, 13 April 2024)
- Mormonism and Wikipedia/Golden plates/Returning the plates (13:34, 13 April 2024)
- Mormonism and Wikipedia/Golden plates/Sealed portion (13:34, 13 April 2024)
- Mormonism and Wikipedia/Golden plates/Significance (13:34, 13 April 2024)
- Mormonism and Wikipedia/Golden plates/Story (13:34, 13 April 2024)
- Mormonism and Wikipedia/Golden plates/Translating (13:34, 13 April 2024)
- Mormonism and Wikipedia/Golden plates/Unsuccessful retrieval (13:34, 13 April 2024)
- Mormonism and Wikipedia/Golden plates/Witness accounts (13:34, 13 April 2024)
- Mormonism and Wikipedia/Joseph Smith, Jr./1827 to 1830/051909 (13:34, 13 April 2024)
- Mormonism and Wikipedia/Joseph Smith, Jr./1831 to 1834: Kirtland/051909 (13:34, 13 April 2024)
- Mormonism and Wikipedia/Joseph Smith, Jr./1838 to 1839/051909 (13:34, 13 April 2024)
- Mormonism and Wikipedia/Joseph Smith, Jr./1839 - 1844/051909 (13:34, 13 April 2024)
- Mormonism and Wikipedia/Joseph Smith, Jr./Death/051909 (13:35, 13 April 2024)
- Mormonism and Wikipedia/Joseph Smith, Jr./Early years/051909 (13:35, 13 April 2024)
- Mormonism and Wikipedia/Joseph Smith, Jr./Legacy/051909 (13:35, 13 April 2024)
- Mormonism and gender issues (13:35, 13 April 2024)
- Mormonism and prophets (13:35, 13 April 2024)
- Oliver Cowdery (13:35, 13 April 2024)
- Origin of the Book of Mormon (13:35, 13 April 2024)
- Question: How do Mormons view the extent of the atonement of Jesus Christ? (13:35, 13 April 2024)
- Statements by Church leaders related to the identity of the Lamanites (13:35, 13 April 2024)
- Topical Guide/Book of Mormon/Anachronisms (13:36, 13 April 2024)
- Topical Guide/Book of Mormon/Archaeology (13:36, 13 April 2024)
- Topical Guide/Book of Mormon/Authorship and Evidences (13:36, 13 April 2024)
- Topical Guide/Book of Mormon/Coming Forth (13:36, 13 April 2024)
- Topical Guide/Book of Mormon/Plagiarism accusations (13:36, 13 April 2024)
- Topical Guide/Church organization/Finances (13:36, 13 April 2024)
- Topical Guide/Doctrinal issues/Atonement (13:36, 13 April 2024)
- Topical Guide/Doctrinal issues/Revelation/Failed Prophecies (13:36, 13 April 2024)
- Topical Guide/Science and Religion (13:36, 13 April 2024)
- Topical Guide/Scripture and Influential Writings/Bible (13:36, 13 April 2024)
- Book of Abraham (13:36, 13 April 2024)
- City Creek Center in Salt Lake City (13:36, 13 April 2024)
- Hoaxes related to Book of Mormon geography claims (13:36, 13 April 2024)
- Joseph Smith and legal issues (13:37, 13 April 2024)
- Other witnesses to the Book of Mormon (13:38, 13 April 2024)
- The Bible (13:38, 13 April 2024)
- A Book of Commandments, for the Government of the Church of Christ (13:59, 13 April 2024)
- Abolitionism (13:59, 13 April 2024)
- Abraham lying about his wife Sarah (13:59, 13 April 2024)
- Accounts of Joseph Smith's First Vision/1832 (13:59, 13 April 2024)
- Accounts of Joseph Smith's First Vision/1835 (13:59, 13 April 2024)
- Accounts of Joseph Smith's First Vision/1835 (Erastus Holmes account) (13:59, 13 April 2024)
- Accounts of Joseph Smith's First Vision/1840 (Orson Pratt account) (13:59, 13 April 2024)
- Accounts of Joseph Smith's First Vision/1842 (Joseph Smith History of the Church) (13:59, 13 April 2024)
- Accounts of Joseph Smith's First Vision/1842 (Orson Hyde account) (13:59, 13 April 2024)
- Accounts of Joseph Smith's First Vision/1842 Wentworth Letter (13:59, 13 April 2024)
- Accounts of Joseph Smith's First Vision/1843 (Levi Richards account) (13:59, 13 April 2024)
- Accounts of Joseph Smith's First Vision/1843 (The Pittsburgh Weekly Gazette account) (13:59, 13 April 2024)
- Accounts of Joseph Smith's First Vision/1844 (Alexander Neibaur account) (14:00, 13 April 2024)
- Accounts of Joseph Smith's First Vision/1844 (Daniel Rupp account) (14:00, 13 April 2024)
- Accounts of Joseph Smith's First Vision/1893 (Charles L. Walker account) (14:00, 13 April 2024)
- Accuracy of Church art (14:00, 13 April 2024)
- Adultery (14:00, 13 April 2024)
- 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" (14:00, 13 April 2024)
- American Revivalist (2 Feb 1833): "The Book of Mormon is a record of the forefathers of our western tribes of Indians" (14:00, 13 April 2024)
- Answers to Questions All Mormons Should Ask Themselves (14:00, 13 April 2024)
- Answers to Questions All Mormons Should Ask Themselves/Questions 1-28 (14:00, 13 April 2024)
- 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" (14:00, 13 April 2024)
- Apostasy (14:00, 13 April 2024)
- Apostasy/Evidence of (14:00, 13 April 2024)
- Apostasy/Evidence of in the Bible (14:00, 13 April 2024)
- Apostasy/Extent of (14:00, 13 April 2024)
- Apostasy/Patristic evidence of (14:00, 13 April 2024)
- Apostasy/Reasons for (14:00, 13 April 2024)
- Apostasy/Relationship of the Church to other branches of Christianity (14:00, 13 April 2024)
- Apostasy/Visible evidence of (14:00, 13 April 2024)
- Apostasy/Why did God allow it (14:00, 13 April 2024)
- Apostles (14:00, 13 April 2024)
- Application of the endowment (14:00, 13 April 2024)
- Armitage: "It is suggested by de Ávila Blomberg that wild silk was used in Oaxaca in pre-Columbian times" (14:00, 13 April 2024)
- Articles of Faith (14:00, 13 April 2024)
- Articles of Faith/Differing versions/Text of various versions (14:00, 13 April 2024)