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- Sorenson: Horse bones in Yucatan "considered to be pre-Columbian on the basis of depth of burial and degree of mineralization" (5 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith use the Nephite interpreters to translate? Or did he use his own seer stone? (5 categories)
- Question: What are the Kinderhook Plates? (5 categories)
- Source:Webb:BYUS:2011:2:Mormonism a mirror for other Christians (5 categories)
- Question: Didn't Hugh Nibley claim that a record of this trial would be "the most damning evidence in existence" against Joseph Smith? (5 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph attempt to translate the Kinderhook Plates using the "gift and power of God?" (5 categories)
- Specific works/Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Mormonism (5 categories)
- Question: What happened to Josiah Stowell? Did he conclude he had been defrauded after the court hearing? (5 categories)
- Joseph Smith/Legal issues (5 categories)
- Neuenschwander (2009): "Joseph's vision was at first an intensely personal experience...it became the founding revelation of the Restoration" (5 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith attempt to "cover up" Oliver Cowdery's work with a divining rod by changing the wording of the revelation that became Doctrine and Covenants 8:6–8? (5 categories)
- Sorenson: "The Miami Indians, for example, were unfamiliar with the buffalo and simply called them 'wild cows'" (5 categories)
- Source:Webb:BYUS:2011:17:Creedal Christians can learn from Mormon views about Jesus and creation (5 categories)
- Joseph Smith and the Word of Wisdom (5 categories)
- The witness of Hiram Page (5 categories)
- Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Losing a Lost Tribe: Native Americans, DNA, and the Mormon Church/Chapter 11 (5 categories)
- Gordon B. Hinckley (1984): "I am not worried that the Prophet Joseph Smith gave a number of versions of the first vision" (5 categories)
- Question: Why did Joseph Smith say "I had not been married scarcely five minutes...before it was reported that I had seven wives"? (5 categories)
- Question: How was the decision reached to destroy the ''Nauvoo Expositor''? (5 categories)
- Question: Do Latter-day Saints believe that the scriptural terms "church of the devil," the "great and abominable church," and the "whore of all the earth" refer to a specific religion? (5 categories)
- Question: Did the three witnesses's experience of seeing the plates and the angel take place only in their minds? (5 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith attempt to translate the Kinderhook Plates? (5 categories)
- Ensign (June 1994): "Highlights in the Prophet’s Life 20 Mar. 1826: Tried and acquitted on fanciful charge of being a “disorderly person,” South Bainbridge, Chenango County, New York (5 categories)
- Criticism of Mormonism/Online documents/A Letter to an Apostle/The Letter (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 Brigham Young believe that one could not enter the Celestial Kingdom unless they were a polygamist? (5 categories)
- Question: What religious excitement was occurring in Palmyra in 1820? (5 categories)
- Question: Why did the Nauvoo City Council feel it was necessary to destroy the ''Nauvoo Expositor''? (5 categories)
- Question: Do Latter-day Saints believe in a female divine person, a "Heavenly Mother" as counterpart to God, the Heavenly Father? (5 categories)
- Journal of Book of Mormon Studies: "Pottery and other cultural materials were found in levels VII and above. But in some of those artifact-bearing strata there were horse bones, even in level II" (5 categories)
- Question: What are the differences between the Strangite witness statements and those of the Three and Eight Witnesses to the Book of Mormon? (5 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith incorporate his father's dream of the tree of life into the Book of Mormon? (5 categories)
- Source:Webb:BYUS:2011:8:Revelation vs historical guesswork about Jesus (5 categories)
- Source:Webb:BYUS:2011:20:Joseph Smith does not deny grace or claim to earn salvation (5 categories)
- Failure of the Kirtland Safety Society (5 categories)
- Martin: "no theoretical reason why a herd of mastodons, horses, or ground sloths could not have survived in some small refuge until 8000 or even 4000 years ago" (5 categories)
- Criticism of Mormonism/Books/The Kingdom of the Cults (Revised)/Index (5 categories)
- Gospel Topics: "Today, the Church disavows the theories advanced in the past that black skin is a sign of divine disfavor or curse, or that it reflects actions in a premortal life" (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: Did B.H. Roberts lose his faith in the Church and the Book of Mormon? (5 categories)
- Source:Webb:BYUS:2011:11:Do Mormons make too much of Jesus Christ (5 categories)
- The witness of Jacob Whitmer (5 categories)
- The witness of Samuel Smith (5 categories)
- Question: After the end of the rebellion in South Carolina, did the Church not mention the Civil War prophecy for many years? (5 categories)
- Question: When was the Danite band formed and why? (5 categories)
- Question: What are the similarities and differences between ''View of the Hebrews'' and the Book of Mormon? (5 categories)
- Bernardino de Sahagun: "Fodder was provided the deer—horses—which the Spaniards rode" (5 categories)
- Specific works/One Nation Under Gods/Use of sources/D&C 98 justifies murder (4 categories)
- Specific works/Indian Origins and the Book of Mormon (4 categories)
- Specific works/Leaving the Saints (4 categories)
- Mormonism and Wikipedia/Joseph Smith, Jr./Early years (4 categories)
- Specific works/Is the Mormon My Brother (4 categories)
- Mormonism and Wikipedia/First Vision/Recorded accounts of the vision (4 categories)
- Mormonism and Wikipedia/Golden plates/Composition and weight (4 categories)
- Mormonism and Wikipedia/Joseph Smith, Jr./Distinctive views and teachings (4 categories)
- Joseph Smith fired a gun at Carthage Jail (4 categories)
- Criticism of Mormonism/Books/One Nation Under Gods/Use of sources/Forged Rocky Mountain prophecy (4 categories)
- Theory of Book of Mormon place names from area around Joseph Smith's home (4 categories)
- Statement of the Eight Witnesses (4 categories)
- Metals and materials in the Book of Mormon (4 categories)
- The Apocrypha and the Book of Mormon (4 categories)
- Mushrooms and entheogenics theory of Book of Mormon authorship (4 categories)
- Farewell to Eden (4 categories)
- The Bible/On-going divine revelation not necessary/Further Reading (4 categories)
- Question: When did the "mark of Cain" become associated with black skin? (4 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith confer the priesthood on several black men? (4 categories)
- DNA and the Book of Mormon (4 categories)
- Question: Did Martin Harris claim that he only saw the gold plates as they were covered "as a city through a mountain"? (4 categories)
- Question: What are the Hurlbut affidavits? (4 categories)
- Question: Did the Church cover up the fact that the Civil War prophecy was made during the 1832 rebellion in South Carolina? (4 categories)
- Source:Gospel Topics:The Manifesto and the End of Plural Marriage:The Second Manifesto (4 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith decide that all churches were wrong before he received the First Vision? (4 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith consummate any of these marriages with married women? (4 categories)
- FAIR Study Aids/Book of Mormon Resources by chapter and verse/Omni (4 categories)
- Question: Are the dead being "baptized into the Mormon faith?" (4 categories)
- Specific works/Word of God (Vogel) (4 categories)
- Specific works/Kurt van Gorden's Mormonism (4 categories)
- Mormonism and Wikipedia/Joseph Smith, Jr./1827 to 1830 (4 categories)
- Mormonism and Wikipedia/Joseph Smith, Jr./1838 to 1839 (4 categories)
- Mormonism and Wikipedia/Golden plates/Witness accounts (4 categories)
- Mormonism and Wikipedia/Joseph Smith, Jr./1831 to 1834: Kirtland/051909 (4 categories)
- Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Losing a Lost Tribe: Native Americans, DNA, and the Mormon Church/Chapter 1 (4 categories)
- Joseph Smith and the Nauvoo Expositor (4 categories)
- The White Horse prophecy (4 categories)
- Mormonism and church integrity (4 categories)
- Hebrew and Native American languages (4 categories)
- Book of Mormon textual changes (4 categories)
- Climate in the Book of Mormon (4 categories)
- The documentary hypothesis (4 categories)
- Question: What changes were made to the 1837 edition of the Book of Mormon? (4 categories)
- Possible 19th Century influences on Book of Mormon (4 categories)
- Elephants in the Book of Mormon (4 categories)
- Plan of salvation/Three degrees of glory/Not biblical/Further Reading (4 categories)
- The Bible/Translations/Further Reading (4 categories)
- Question: How did the "curse of Ham" or "curse of Cain" become associated with Mormonism? (4 categories)
- Book of Mormon (4 categories)