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- FAIR Study Aids/Book of Mormon Resources by chapter and verse (18 categories)
- FAIR Study Aids/Book of Mormon Resources by chapter and verse/Introduction, Title Page, Witnesses' Testimonies; Historical Studies of its Coming Forth; and Miscellaneous Items of Interest (18 categories)
- Stephen H. Webb: "Evidence That Demands Our Amazement... Joseph Smith was a remarkable person" (14 categories)
- Question: Do Mormons believe that Mary was still a virgin when Jesus was born? (11 categories)
- Question: What is Joseph Smith's 1826 South Bainbridge "trial" for "glasslooking"? (11 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith marry Fanny Alger as his first plural wife in 1833? (9 categories)
- Peterson and Roper: "We know of no one who cites Ferguson as an authority, except countercultists" (8 categories)
- Source:Webb:BYUS:2011:19:Vastness of Joseph Smith's theology - it is not pagan (8 categories)
- Question: Why did the 1835 Doctrine and Covenants include a statement of marriage that denied the practice of polygamy at a time when some were actually practicing it? (8 categories)
- Source:Webb:BYUS:2011:21:Joseph Smith's theosis does not supplant God or veer into polytheism (8 categories)
- Question: Did Oliver Cowdery state that Joseph did not know if a "supreme being" existed in 1823? (8 categories)
- Question: What was the Lamanite curse? (8 categories)
- Source:Webb:BYUS:2011:9:Mormon trinitarian views are not polytheistic (8 categories)
- Question: What criticisms are related to Oliver Cowdery's 1834-1835 history of the Church? (8 categories)
- Source:Nibley:CW06:Ch22:8:Greek Names (8 categories)
- Source:Webb:BYUS:2011:12:Mormons are not Arians (8 categories)
- KJV translation errors in the Book of Mormon (8 categories)
- Question: What events resulted in Joseph Smith's 1826 court appearance in South Bainbridge? (8 categories)
- Specific works/Prophecies and Promises (8 categories)
- Question: Was Thomas Stuart Ferguson an archaeologist? (8 categories)
- Specific works/Rediscovering the Book of Mormon Remnant through DNA (7 categories)
- Gospel Topics: "The various accounts of the First Vision tell a consistent story, though naturally they differ in emphasis and detail" (7 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith prophesy that Jesus Christ would return in 1890? (7 categories)
- Multiple accounts of the First Vision/Prophet's mother said First Vision was of an "angel"/Further Reading (7 categories)
- Question: Could Joseph Smith have used Ethan Smith's ''View of the Hebrews'' as a guideline for creating the Book of Mormon? (7 categories)
- Source:Webb:BYUS:2011:7:Mormons and creatio ex nihilo (7 categories)
- Question: Was the ''View of the Hebrews'' theory of Book of Mormon origin advanced during the lifetime of Joseph Smith? (7 categories)
- Question: Why was Joseph fined if he wasn't found guilty of anything? (7 categories)
- Question: Was the young Joseph Smith a teller of "tall tales"? (7 categories)
- Question: Was the destruction of the ''Nauvoo Expositor'' legal? (7 categories)
- Question: Why would Martin Harris use the phrases "eye of faith" or "spiritual eye" to describe his visionary experience? (7 categories)
- Source:Webb:BYUS:2011:10:Preexistent Jesus and a divinized humanity (7 categories)
- Question: Was Joseph Smith anointed to be "King over the earth" by the Council of Fifty? (7 categories)
- Source:Webb:BYUS:2011:5:Mormons, Nicea, and Plato (7 categories)
- Question: What was the Council of Fifty? (7 categories)
- Source:Webb:BYUS:2011:13:Mormons reject Augustinian ideas about depravity and original sin (7 categories)
- Source:Webb:BYUS:2011:6:Mormons retrieved early Christian beliefs rejected by creeds (7 categories)
- Question: Does the practice of baptism for the dead have ancient roots? (7 categories)
- Source:Webb:BYUS:2011:14:Joseph Smith could hold his own in early Christian debates (7 categories)
- David Whitmer (1884): "I saw with these eyes and I heard with these ears" (6 categories)
- Question: What did B.H. Roberts say about ''View of the Hebrews'' and the Book of Mormon? (6 categories)
- Question: Why does Joseph Smith state in his 1832 First Vision account that he was in his "16th year" of age? (6 categories)
- Question: What is the origin of the modern horse in the New World? (6 categories)
- Question: Why were the gold plates needed at all if they weren't used directly during the translation process? (6 categories)
- Grayson: "extinct North American mammals...losses began in Mexico and Alaska during the Pleistocene and ended in Florida perhaps as recently as 2000 years ago" (6 categories)
- Question: Is plural marriage required in order to achieve exaltation? (6 categories)
- Question: Did Martin Harris tell people that he did not see the plates with his natural eyes, but rather the "eye of faith"? (6 categories)
- Seminary Manual (2013): "Joseph Smith emphasized different aspects of his vision in his multiple accounts" (6 categories)
- Peterson: "Thomas Stuart Ferguson's biographer...makes every effort to portray Ferguson's apparent eventual loss of faith as a failure for 'LDS archaeology'" (6 categories)
- Verses in the Book of Mormon that talk about "horses" (6 categories)
- Revelations in Context on history.lds.org: "Cowdery was among those who believed in and used a divining rod" (6 categories)
- Question: What are the reasons for the changes to the Doctrine and Covenants? (6 categories)
- Question: Did Martin Harris tell people that he only saw the plates with his "spiritual eye"? (6 categories)
- Question: Are there any eyewitness accounts of the events that resulted in the trip to Canada to sell the Book of Mormon copyright? (6 categories)
- Backman (1985): "On at least four different occasions, Joseph Smith either wrote or dictated to scribes accounts of his sacred experience of 1820" (6 categories)
- Gee: "Ferguson is largely unknown to the vast majority of Latter-day Saints; his impact on Book of Mormon studies is minimal" (6 categories)
- Question: Is it true that Mormons believe the original Garden of Eden was located in Missouri? (6 categories)
- Question: What role do horses ''not'' play in the Book of Mormon? (6 categories)
- Question: Was Oliver Cowdery aware that some in the Church were practicing polygamy in 1835 at the time he authored the "Article on Marriage"? (6 categories)
- Question: What does it mean when it is said that the Book of Mormon contains the "fulness of the gospel?" (6 categories)
- 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" (6 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith begin his prophetic career with a "trinitarian" idea of God? (6 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith ever publicly attempt to teach the doctrine of plural marriage? (6 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith receive a revelation instructing him to to sell the copyright to the Book of Mormon in Canada and later claim that the revelation was false? (6 categories)
- Question: Have any ancient horse remains from the Nephite period been found in the New World? (6 categories)
- Question: Do Martin Harris's statements related to the "spiritual eye" or "eye of faith" contradict the reality of his witness? (6 categories)
- Criticism of Mormonism/Books/No Man Knows My History: The Life of Joseph Smith/Chapter 3 (6 categories)
- Question: Was the practice of polygamy general knowledge among Latter-day Saints in 1835 when the "Article on Marriage" was published? (6 categories)
- 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? (6 categories)
- Criticism of Mormonism/Books/The Changing World of Mormonism/Chapter 5 (6 categories)
- Question: Why did Joseph keep the doctrine of plural marriage private? (6 categories)
- Question: Do Latter-day Saints believe in a practice called "celestial sex," and that this is the manner in which "spirit children" are formed? (6 categories)
- Question: Why don't potential pre-Columbian horse remains in the New World receive greater attention from scientists? (6 categories)
- 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" (6 categories)
- The Lamanite curse (6 categories)
- Source:Webb:BYUS:2011:1:Sameness of Jesus' humanity (6 categories)
- Miller and Roper: "Bones of domesticated cattle...have been reported from different caves in the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico" (6 categories)
- Source:Nibley:CW06:Ch6:8:Sam (6 categories)
- Question: Could ancient Americans have expanded the definition of "horse" to include new meanings? (6 categories)
- Ensign (Jan. 2013): "He...referred to it using an Old Testament term, Urim and Thummim...He also sometimes applied the term to other stones he possessed" (6 categories)
- Source:Webb:BYUS:2011:15:Christian beliefs do not need to have Neo-Platonic influence to be true (6 categories)
- Question: How did Joseph Smith use his seer stones as a youth? (6 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith originally identify the angel that visited him as "Nephi" instead of "Moroni"? (6 categories)
- W.W. Phelps (1833): "through the aid of a pair of Interpreters, or spectacles—(known, perhaps, in ancient days as Teraphim, or Urim and Thummim)" (6 categories)
- Source:Webb:BYUS:2011:16:Joseph Smith more coherent than Augustine on matter and the divine (6 categories)
- Question: Did some of Joseph Smith's associates believe that he had an affair with Fanny Alger? (6 categories)
- Question: Why does Joseph Smith's 1832 account of the First Vision not mention two personages? (6 categories)
- Question: Why are horses considered an anachronism in the Book of Mormon? (6 categories)
- Question: Did B.H. Roberts lose his faith in the Church and the Book of Mormon? (5 categories)
- The Nephite calendar (5 categories)
- Possible locations for Nahom (5 categories)
- The Book of Mormon and the fulness of the gospel (5 categories)
- Source:Echoes:Ch12:18:Martin Harris on the translation process (5 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith believe that the Book of Mormon explained local legends associated with the "Mound Builders" of the Eastern United States? (5 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith or his associates attempt to reconcile with William Law before he published the ''Nauvoo Expositor''? (5 categories)
- Question: What happened to Josiah Stowell? Did he conclude he had been defrauded after the court hearing? (5 categories)
- Source:Webb:BYUS:2011:17:Creedal Christians can learn from Mormon views about Jesus and creation (5 categories)
- Detailed response to CES Letter, Testimony and Spiritual Witness (5 categories)
- Joseph Smith/Legal issues (5 categories)
- Question: Did Brigham Young believe that one could not enter the Celestial Kingdom unless they were a polygamist? (5 categories)