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- Question: Did Joseph Smith plagiarize sources from the American Revolution?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith really tell Orrin Porter Rockwell 'it was right to steal'
- Question: Did Joseph Smith riff off of Hebrews 7 to produce the material discussing Melchizedek in Alma 12 and 13?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith use Paul as a template for the character Alma in the Book of Mormon?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith use entheogens to effectuate the founding of the Church?
- Question: Did Russell M. Nelson exaggerate his story about being in a falling airplane?
- Question: Did early members of the "Mormon" Church believe in witchcraft
- Question: Did the Church achieve its objectives with the City Creek Center project?
- Question: Did the Church use tithing funds to finance the purchases and buildings?
- Question: Do Joseph Smith's personality and temperament indicate that he was not a true prophet of God
- Question: Do Latter-day Saints believe in a female divine person, a "Heavenly Mother" as counterpart to God, the Heavenly Father
- Question: Do Latter-day Saints claim to be the only ones that can experience the fullness of happiness on this earth?
- 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?
- Question: Do the changes in the Book of Mormon Isaiah passages reflect a better translation of the underlying Hebrew?
- Question: Does Lehi contradict Jeremiah 27 and prove himself a false prophet?
- Question: Does Lucy Mack Smith's mention of the "faculty of Abrac" and "magic circles" evidence that "magick" played a strong role in the Smith family's early life
- Question: Does The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints prohibit its members from using playing cards?
- Question: Does the Book of Mormon’s reference to “slippery treasures” stem from Joseph Smith’s involvement in money digging and the occult
- Question: Has The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints deceived its members regarding controversial issues about its origins, history, and/or scripture?
- Question: How can Latter-day Saints reconcile having other people receive spiritual experiences that motivate them to believe in and become part of other religions?
- Question: How can a Latter-day Saint approach responding to criticism of the Church on biblical grounds?
- Question: How can a Latter-day Saint reconcile alleged failed prophecies made by prophets of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints?
- Question: How can a Latter-day Saint reconcile claimed theological anachronisms in the scriptures?
- Question: How can a Latter-day Saint reconcile the opinions of biblical scholars who say that certain figures of the Bible are not historical?
- Question: How can one reconcile the patriarchal blessings given to blacks during the priesthood and temple bans?
- Question: How can you know if an answer to prayer, a personal revelation, is true?
- Question: How could the plate text actually fit on the plates of the Book of Mormon?
- Question: How did Joseph Smith use his seer stones as a youth
- Question: How do Latter-day Saints understand the concept of love?
- 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''?
- Question: How may criticism of the Church over LGBT issues become fiercer in the future and how can members respond?
- Question: How should we collectively view the concept of harm?
- Question: How should we collectively view the concept of judgement?
- Question: How should we interpret Ezekiel 37 regarding the Book of Mormon?
- Question: How should we understand the concept of worthiness?
- Question: How should we view the concept of shame?
- Question: If gender is “enforced”, is it true that it can’t be immutable?
- Question: Is Heavenly Mother not talked about more because the prophets are sexist
- Question: Is Heavenly Mother not talked about more because the prophets are sexist?
- Question: Is Jesus the promised Messiah of the Old Testament?
- Question: Is an evangelist really a patriarch?
- Question: Is belief in the Book of Mormon’s historicity essential to Latter-day Saint theology?
- Question: Is gender a social construct?
- Question: Is it true that little is known about our Heavenly Mother because she is "protected"
- Question: Is same-gender sexual attraction immutable?
- Question: Should Latter-day Saints eat fruit seasonally?
- Question: Should there be archaeological evidence for the Book of Mormon?
- Question: Should “the plains” of Moreh in the Book of Abraham actually be “the oak” of Moreh?
- Question: Was Joseph Smith's family lazy, shiftless and seeking to make a living without performing any labor?
- Question: Was Joseph Smith’s only mission to bring forth the Book of Mormon?
- Question: Was a "magic dagger" once owned by Hyrum Smith
- Question: Was a "vagabond fortune-teller" named Walters Joseph Smith's "mentor"
- Question: Was the Book of Mormon figure Ishmael a descendant of Ephraim?
- Question: Was the JST ever completed?
- Question: Was the fact that the recovery of the Book of Mormon plates occurred on the autumnal equinox somehow significant
- Question: Was the reported weight of the plates too heavy for Joseph to run with?
- Question: Was the young Joseph Smith a teller of "tall tales"
- Question: Were Joseph Smith's spiritual experiences originally products of magic and the occult
- Question: Were Joseph and Hyrum killed by John Taylor and Willard Richards?
- Question: Were the ''Lectures on Faith'' revelations
- Question: Were there sexual relations in Joseph's marriages to women with living husbands?
- Question: What are appropriate activities for the Sabbath?
- 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?
- Question: What are the ''Lectures on Faith''
- Question: What are the Hurlbut affidavits
- Question: What did Barton Stafford claim about Joseph Smith in the Hurlbut affidavits
- Question: What did David Stafford claim about Joseph Smith in the Hurlbut affidavits
- Question: What did Henry Harris claim about Joseph Smith in the Hurlbut affidavits
- Question: What did Parley Chase claim about Joseph Smith in the Hurlbut affidavits
- Question: What did Peter Ingersoll claim about Joseph Smith in the Hurlbut affidavits
- Question: What did Willard Chase claim about Joseph Smith in the Hurlbut affidavits
- Question: What did William Stafford claim about Joseph Smith in the Hurlbut affidavits
- Question: What did the Hurlbut affidavits say about Martin Harris
- Question: What do the Hurlbut affidavits claim about the Smith family's character and reliability
- Question: What do the Hurlbut affidavits say about Joseph Smith claiming that he was "as good as Jesus Christ"
- Question: What do the Hurlbut affidavits say about the Spalding manuscript and the Book of Mormon
- Question: What do the scriptures say about the issue of abortion?
- Question: What does it mean when two people receive revelation with contradictory answers to the same question?
- Question: What does the Family Proclamation mean when it says fathers "preside" over their families?
- Question: What does the Lord intend by commanding that we refrain from “loud laughter”?
- Question: What evidence can The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints give for their possession of God's priesthood?
- Question: What is apologetics? Why are you apologizing?
- Question: What is sexism?
- Question: What is the New World Archaeological Foundation? What does it have to do with the Book of Mormon?
- Question: What is the difference between agency and freedom?
- Question: What is the distinction between belief in "folk magic" and a religious belief in the supernatural
- Question: What is the nature of the Joseph Smith Translation (JST)?
- Question: What is the probability that Joseph Smith possessed items related to "magic"
- Question: What is the relationship between the JST and biblical manuscripts?
- Question: What is the scriptural basis for the restriction on homosexual sexual behavior in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints?
- 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?
- Question: What is the source of the story about Joseph Smith possessing a Jupiter talisman
- Question: What sort of scriptural support is there for the doctrines of The Family: A Proclamation to the World?
- Question: What was the MX Missile System?
- Question: What was the translation procedure used by Joseph Smith and his scribes to produce the JST?
- Question: What were the attitudes of Joseph Smith and his contemporaries toward "magic"
- Question: When, if ever, is it okay to disagree with Church leaders?
- Question: Which sources which mention Nephi as the angelic visitor who told Joseph Smith about the gold plates?/Later Moroni labels
- Question: Who wrote the ''Lectures on Faith''
- 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?