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- Multiple accounts of the First Vision/Criticisms
- Multiple accounts of the First Vision/Criticisms/Overview
- Multiple accounts of the First Vision/George A. Smith said First Vision was an "angel"
- Multiple accounts of the First Vision/George Q. Cannon referred to "angels"
- Multiple accounts of the First Vision/Heber C. Kimball's statements regarding the First Vision
- Multiple accounts of the First Vision/Oliver Cowdery not aware of First Vision in 1834-35
- Multiple accounts of the First Vision/Orson Hyde referred to "angels"
- Multiple accounts of the First Vision/Orson Pratt's statements regarding the First Vision
- Multiple accounts of the First Vision/Parley P. Pratt only said that "God" appeared
- Multiple accounts of the First Vision/Wilford Woodruff spoke of an "angel"
- Murder
- Nancy Maria Winchester
- No links to critical websites
- Not Before the World
- Invalid title with namespace "(Main)" and text "Official_Declaration—1"
- Old Question: Are Latter-day Saints are not true Christians because they do not use the cross and believe that the atonement occurred in the Garden of Gethsemane?
- Old Question: Why don't Mormons use the symbol of the cross?
- Old Question: Why should Latter-day Saints not wear crosses?
- Olive Grey Frost
- Oliver Cowdery and Abraham 1:2
- Omni
- One Nation Under Gods/Use of sources/Will Bagley reviews/Reeve and Parshall
- Other Resources on Brigham Young and the Mountain Meadows Massacre
- Other in the CES Letter
- Others and Mountain Meadows: Captain Stewart Van Vliet
- Others and Mountain Meadows: Colonel Thomas Kane
- Others and Mountain Meadows: George A. Smith
- Others involved in the Mountain Meadows Massacre
- Overview of changes to the Doctrine and Covenants
- Overview of the CES Letter
- Patty Bartlett Sessions
- Pauline teachings
- Pearl of Great Price/Textual changes/Further Reading
- Perpetrators of the Mountain Meadows Massacre
- Plagiarism in General Conference
- Plan of salvation/Flesh and blood cannot enter the kingdom of Heaven/CriticalSources
- Plan of salvation/Pre-mortal existence/Further Reading
- Plan of salvation/Premortal existence/Further Reading
- Plan of salvation/Three degrees of glory/Not biblical/Further Reading
- Plan of salvation/Three degrees of glory/Progression between kingdoms/Further Reading
- Plan of salvation/Three degrees of glory/Swedenborg/Further Reading
- Plan of salvation/When are children capable of sin/Further Reading
- Plural marriage/19th century attitudes toward plural marriage
- Plural marriage/19th century statements from Church leaders regarding the practice of plural marriage
- Plural marriage/Brigham Young said that the only men who become gods are those that practice polygamy
- Plural marriage/Did early Church leaders speak of plural marriage difficulties
- Plural marriage/Doctrine and Covenants Section 132
- Plural marriage/Early Christians on plural marriage
- Plural marriage/In Latter-day Saint scripture
- Plural marriage/Introduction
- Plural marriage/Lamanites to become "white and delightsome" through polygamous marriage
- Plural marriage/Lamanites to become "white and delightsome" through polygamous marriage/Further Reading
- Plural marriage/Lorenzo Snow's statements about polygamy during the Temple Lot case
- Plural marriage/Marriages involving mothers, daughters and sisters
- Plural marriage/Parley P. Pratt's marriage and murder
- Plural marriage/Polygamy as practiced anciently
- Plural marriage/Polygamy in the 19th Century
- Plural marriage/The First Manifesto
- Plural marriage/The Law of Adoption
- Plural marriage and the Bible
- Plural marriage and the law
- Plural marriage as a requirement for exaltation
- Plural marriage in early Christianity
- Plural marriage practiced after the First Manifesto
- Plural wives of Joseph Smith
- Polyandry and Joseph Smith: sealings to women with living husbands
- Polygamy and Polyandry in the CES Letter
- Possible contradictions in the Doctrine and Covenants
- Practice TOC page
- Praying about other books
- Prevalence of plural marriage in Utah
- Priesthood Restoration in the CES Letter
- Primary sources/Boyd K. Packer
- Primary sources/Eugene England
- Primary sources/Eugene England/Why the Church Is As True As the Gospel
- Primary sources/Mark E. Petersen
- Prophecy
- Prophets in the CES Letter
- Publications
- Purpose of plural marriage
- Question: Are General Authorities paid more than $300,000 per year?
- Question: Are Latter-day Saints really commanded to avoid r-rated movies?
- Question: Are Mormon women placed under covenant in temples to subjugate themselves to their husbands?
- Question: Are apologists isolated from other members because of differences in their beliefs?
- Question: Are chariots an anachronism for the Book of Abraham?
- Question: Are slings anachronistic to the Book of Mormon?
- Question: Are the scriptures mysoginistic/sexist?
- Question: Are we allowed to pray to our "Heavenly Mother"
- Question: Could Joseph Smith have acquired the names “Moroni” and “Cumorah” from stories he read as a youth, maps that he would have had access to, or other people within his local vicinity?
- Question: Could the list of items on Joseph's person at the time of his death have been incomplete
- Question: Did Adam Clarke's Bible Commentary significanly influence the JST?
- Question: Did B.H. Roberts state that it was possible for Joseph Smith to have come up with the Book of Mormon on his own
- Question: Did Brigham Young or the Church interfere with the trial of John D. Lee?
- Question: Did Brigham Young order the Mountain Meadows Massacre?
- Question: Did Elder Boyd K. Packer's talk "To Young Men Only" encourage physical assaults on gay people?
- Question: Did Elder Richard G. Scott teach that victims of abuse are responsible for their abuse?
- Question: Did Harold B. Lee state that a person’s economic status or disability were the result of less valiance in the premortal existence?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith, Sr. practice "divination"
- Question: Did Joseph Smith derive his religious ideas in part from a mysticism called Kabbalah
- Question: Did Joseph Smith engage in "land speculation" in Nauvoo
- Question: Did Joseph Smith have a Jupiter talisman on his person at the time of his death
- Question: Did Joseph Smith plagiarize John Walker's a Key to Latin and Greek, Latin, and Scripture Proper Names?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith really tell Orrin Porter Rockwell 'it was right to steal'
- 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 apologists tell members how "scientists continue to get it wrong"?
- Question: Do the temple endowment's similarities to Masonic initiation rites have ancient roots?
- 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 1845 Proclamation say some would live to see Second Coming
- Question: Does the Book of Mormon’s reference to “slippery treasures” stem from Joseph Smith’s involvement in money digging and the occult
- Question: Does the Church claim that Native Americans were the ''exclusive'' descendants of Lehi or Mulek?
- Question: For Latter-day Saints, when our leaders speak, has the thinking been done?
- 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 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 does FAIR respond to criticism?
- Question: How does the Church view apologists and apologetics?
- 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: If people receive false positives in personal revelation, does this make spiritual epistemology unreliable?
- 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 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 plural marriage the same as eternal marriage?
- Question: Is same-gender sexual attraction immutable?
- Question: Is the hat the Joseph Smith used to place his seer stone in mentioned or portrayed in Church publications and artwork?
- Question: Must Joseph Smith approve anyone who gets into heaven
- Question: Must we turn to Joseph Smith to gain salvation
- Question: Should Latter-day Saints eat fruit seasonally?
- Question: Should “the plains” of Moreh in the Book of Abraham actually be “the oak” of Moreh?
- Question: Since there are people that are born intersex, experience gender dysphoria, or identify as transgender, does this invalidate the Latter-day Saint doctrine of eternal gender?
- Question: Was Joseph Smith, Jr. known as a "disreputable person"
- 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 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 common ways that critics attempt to dismiss the work of FAIR?
- 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 The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints teach about modesty and what is its importance?
- 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"?
- Question: What is apologetics? Why are you apologizing?
- Question: What is known about possible children through Joseph Smith's polygamous marriages?
- 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: Who wrote the ''Lectures on Faith''
- Question: Who wrote the book of Revelation?
- 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?
- Question: Why are men encouraged to wear white shirts to Sunday services in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints?
- Question: Why did Jesus call Twelve Apostles?
- Question: Why did the Church get involved in a shopping center?
- Question: Why do Latter-day Saints not swear?
- Question: Why do Latter-day Saints often partake of the sacrament with their right hand?
- Question: Why do apologetics?
- Question: Why does God act so violently in scripture and especially the Old Testament?
- Question: Why does The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints consider the practice of masturbation sinful?
- Question: Why does The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints have rules for facial hair?
- Question: Why does The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints strongly discourage their members from getting tattoos?
- Question: Why does the Book of Mormon contain 'New Testament' language and phrases?
- Question: Why does the Church continue to use the KJV instead of the JST as its official bible?
- Question: Why does the Church focus on religious freedom?
- Question: Why does the JST translation of Genesis (the Pearl of Great Price's Book of Moses) contain New Testament language?
- 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?
- Question: Why was Nicean Trinitarian introduced at all?
- Question: Why were the ''Lectures on Faith'' removed from the Doctrine and Covenants in 1921
- Question: Why would the Church put tithing into investment portfolios?
- Questions: Are Mormons Christians
- Quotes
- Rebutting Top Ten Lies by Current LDS Apostles
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