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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)
- Question: What events resulted in Joseph Smith's 1826 court appearance in South Bainbridge? (8 categories)
- Source:Webb:BYUS:2011:12:Mormons are not Arians (8 categories)
- Question: Was Thomas Stuart Ferguson an archaeologist? (8 categories)
- Peterson and Roper: "We know of no one who cites Ferguson as an authority, except countercultists" (8 categories)
- Specific works/Prophecies and Promises (8 categories)
- Source:Webb:BYUS:2011:21:Joseph Smith's theosis does not supplant God or veer into polytheism (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:2011:19:Vastness of Joseph Smith's theology - it is not pagan (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)
- 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:2011:9:Mormon trinitarian views are not polytheistic (8 categories)
- KJV translation errors in the Book of Mormon (8 categories)
- Question: What was the Council of Fifty? (7 categories)
- Source:Webb:BYUS:2011:5:Mormons, Nicea, and Plato (7 categories)
- Question: Does the practice of baptism for the dead have ancient roots? (7 categories)
- Source:Webb:BYUS:2011:6:Mormons retrieved early Christian beliefs rejected by creeds (7 categories)
- Source:Webb:BYUS:2011:13:Mormons reject Augustinian ideas about depravity and original sin (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)
- Source:Webb:BYUS:2011:14:Joseph Smith could hold his own in early Christian debates (7 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith prophesy that Jesus Christ would return in 1890? (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)
- Specific works/Rediscovering the Book of Mormon Remnant through DNA (7 categories)
- Multiple accounts of the First Vision/Prophet's mother said First Vision was of an "angel"/Further Reading (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: Was the ''View of the Hebrews'' theory of Book of Mormon origin advanced during the lifetime of Joseph Smith? (7 categories)
- Source:Webb:BYUS:2011:7:Mormons and creatio ex nihilo (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)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith originally identify the angel that visited him as "Nephi" instead of "Moroni"? (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)
- 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:2011:1:Sameness of Jesus' humanity (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)
- Source:Webb:BYUS:2011:16:Joseph Smith more coherent than Augustine on matter and the divine (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)
- 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)
- 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: Did some of Joseph Smith's associates believe that he had an affair with Fanny Alger? (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: 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)
- 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: 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)
- 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)
- Criticism of Mormonism/Books/No Man Knows My History: The Life of Joseph Smith/Chapter 3 (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)
- Question: Do Martin Harris's statements related to the "spiritual eye" or "eye of faith" contradict the reality of his witness? (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)
- The Lamanite curse (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)
- Question: Was the practice of polygamy general knowledge among Latter-day Saints in 1835 when the "Article on Marriage" was published? (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)
- 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)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith state that the moon was inhabited, and that its inhabitants were dressed like Quakers? (5 categories)
- Criticism of Mormonism/Online documents/A Letter to an Apostle/The Letter (5 categories)
- Question: Does the Smithsonian Institution send out a letter regarding the use of the Book of Mormon as a guide for archaeological research? (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)
- Question: Was the idea that Blacks were neutral in the "war in heaven" ever official doctrine? (5 categories)
- Mormon ordinances/Marriage (5 categories)
- Joseph Smith and the Word of Wisdom (5 categories)
- Source:Webb:BYUS:2011:2:Mormonism a mirror for other Christians (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)
- Specific works/Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Mormonism (5 categories)
- The witness of Hiram Page (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)
- Criticism of Mormonism/Books/The Kingdom of the Cults (Revised)/Index (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)
- Question: Did Brigham Young believe that one could not enter the Celestial Kingdom unless they were a polygamist? (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: What happened to Josiah Stowell? Did he conclude he had been defrauded after the court hearing? (5 categories)
- Detailed response to CES Letter, Testimony and Spiritual Witness (5 categories)
- Source:Webb:BYUS:2011:17:Creedal Christians can learn from Mormon views about Jesus and creation (5 categories)
- Joseph Smith/Legal issues (5 categories)
- The Book of Mormon as history (5 categories)
- Hemispheric Geography Model of Book of Mormon geography (5 categories)
- Question: Did the Church suppress a revelation given to Joseph Smith in 1831 which encouraged the implementation of polygamy by intermarriage with the Indians in order to make them a “white and delightsome” people? (5 categories)
- Sorenson: Horse bones in Yucatan "considered to be pre-Columbian on the basis of depth of burial and degree of mineralization" (5 categories)
- Question: What are 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)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith use the Nephite interpreters to translate? Or did he use his own seer stone? (5 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph attempt to translate the Kinderhook Plates using the "gift and power of God?" (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)
- 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)
- Failure of the Kirtland Safety Society (5 categories)
- The witness of Jacob Whitmer (5 categories)
- The witness of Samuel Smith (5 categories)
- Mormonism and prophets (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)
- 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 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)
- Question: When did Joseph Smith demonstrate knowledge of the elements of the endowment ritual? (5 categories)
- Question: How does David Whitmer's account of the attempt to sell the Book of Mormon copyright compare to those of the eyewitnesses? (5 categories)
- The New Testament and the Book of Mormon (5 categories)
- The death of Shiz (5 categories)
- Source:Webb:BYUS:2011:11:Do Mormons make too much of Jesus Christ (5 categories)
- Question: Was Joseph Smith's 1832 prophecy of the Civil War invalid because a civil war was "inevitable," and "anyone" could have predicted it? (4 categories)
- FAIR Study Aids/Book of Mormon Resources by chapter and verse/Mormon (4 categories)
- Thomas Stuart Ferguson and Mormon archaeology (4 categories)
- Objects and artifacts in the Book of Mormon (4 categories)
- Question: Why did Oliver Cowdery and David Whitmer accept Hiram Page's seer stone revelations as authoritative? (4 categories)
- Warfare in the Book of Mormon (4 categories)
- FAIR Study Aids/Book of Mormon Resources by chapter and verse/1 Nephi (4 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith say that viewing the gold plates would result in death? (4 categories)
- Pietro Martire d'Anghiera (1912): "the Spaniards noticed herds of deer similar to our herds of cattle" (4 categories)
- Question: What did David Whitmer's associates say about his character? (4 categories)
- Gospel Topics: "The Book of Mormon...does not claim that the peoples it describes were either the predominant or the exclusive inhabitants of the lands they occupied" (4 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith plagiarize Josiah Priest's ''The Wonders of Nature and Providence Displayed''? (4 categories)
- Specific works/Leaving the Saints (4 categories)
- Specific works/Is the Mormon My Brother (4 categories)
- Mormonism and Wikipedia/Joseph Smith, Jr./1831 to 1838 (4 categories)
- Mormonism and Wikipedia/Joseph Smith, Jr./Death (4 categories)
- Mormonism and Wikipedia/Three Witnesses/Importance (4 categories)
- Mormonism and Wikipedia/Joseph Smith, Jr./Legacy (4 categories)
- Question: Why would Joseph Smith incorporate Masonic elements into the temple ritual? (4 categories)
- Events surrounding the death of Joseph Smith (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)
- 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: What did the husband of Sarah Ann Whitney know about her sealing to Joseph Smith for eternity? (4 categories)
- Joseph Smith/Early Smith family history (4 categories)
- Plural marriage/Remarrying without civil divorce/Further Reading (4 categories)
- Plural marriage/The Law of Adoption/Further Reading (4 categories)
- Specific works/One Nation Under Gods/Use of sources/D&C 98 justifies murder (4 categories)
- Plural marriage and the Bible/Further Reading (4 categories)
- Specific works/Indian Origins and the Book of Mormon (4 categories)
- Divine manifestations to plural wives and families/Further Reading (4 categories)
- FAIR Study Aids/Book of Mormon Resources by chapter and verse/Jacob (4 categories)
- FAIR Study Aids/Book of Mormon Resources by chapter and verse/Ether (4 categories)
- Biblical archaeology compared to the Book of Mormon (4 categories)
- Freemasonry and the Book of Mormon (4 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith simply conflate elements of the 1818 and 1824-25 revivals in his story of the First Vision? (4 categories)
- View of the Hebrews theory of Book of Mormon authorship (4 categories)
- Question: What to Latter-day Saints believe regarding the concept of "original sin"? (4 categories)
- Question: What are the criticisms related to Joseph Smith's accounts of the First Vision? (4 categories)
- FAIR Study Aids/Book of Mormon Resources by chapter and verse/2 Nephi (4 categories)
- Question: When was Lucy Mack Smith baptized? (4 categories)
- Question: What did the husband of Zina D. Huntington know about her sealing to Joseph Smith for eternity? (4 categories)
- Martin Harris: "The Book of Mormon is no fake. I know what I know. I have seen what I have seen and I have heard what I have heard" (4 categories)
- Question: How did Emma Hale Smith react to Joseph's practice of plural marriage? (4 categories)
- Specific works/Kurt van Gorden's Mormonism (4 categories)
- Mormonism and Wikipedia/Golden plates/Format (4 categories)
- Mormonism and Wikipedia/First Vision/Story of the vision (4 categories)
- Criticism of Mormonism/Online documents/"Questions and Answers" on Mormon Stories/Historicity of the Book of Mormon (4 categories)
- Question: Where did 19th-Century Latter-day Saints believe that Freemasonry came from? (4 categories)
- Joseph Smith's Rocky Mountain prophecy (4 categories)
- Relationship of the Maya and the Olmec to the Lamanites and the Jaredites (4 categories)
- Attempt to sell the Book of Mormon copyright in Canada (4 categories)
- Creative fiction theories of Book of Mormon authorship (4 categories)
- Question: Was Emma aware of the possibility that Joseph could take additional wives even without her consent? (4 categories)
- Wrath of God on the Lamanites (4 categories)
- Question: What changes were made to the 1837 edition of the Book of Mormon? (4 categories)
- Attempts to steal the gold plates from Joseph Smith (4 categories)
- Possible locations for the Valley of Lemuel (4 categories)
- Topical Guide/Scripture and Influential Writings/Bible (4 categories)
- Farewell to Eden (4 categories)
- The Bible/Cosmology/Further Reading (4 categories)
- Question: Was Joseph Smith married or sealed to women who were already married to other living men? (4 categories)
- Plural marriage/Deseret News 7 Nov 1855 - Polygamy never go away/Further Reading (4 categories)
- Plural marriage/Divorce in the 19th century/Further Reading (4 categories)
- 1844 Succession to Joseph Smith (4 categories)
- Plural marriage/Did early Church leaders speak of plural marriage difficulties/Further Reading (4 categories)
- Specific works/Word of God (Vogel) (4 categories)
- Joseph Smith's education (4 categories)
- FAIR Study Aids/Book of Mormon Resources by chapter and verse/Enos (4 categories)
- FAIR Study Aids/Book of Mormon Resources by chapter and verse/Moroni (4 categories)
- Gospel Topics: "During the first two decades of the Church’s existence, a few black men were ordained to the priesthood" (4 categories)
- Mesoamerican Model of Book of Mormon geography (4 categories)
- The Book of Mormon as the most correct book (4 categories)
- Question: Does Doctrine and Covenants 84 say that one cannot see God without holding the priesthood? (4 categories)
- FAIR Study Aids/Book of Mormon Resources by chapter and verse/3 Nephi (4 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith and Sidney Rigdon support the formation of a vigilante band called the Danites? (4 categories)
- Question: What was Joseph Smith's motivation for going to the grove to pray in 1820? (4 categories)
- Question: How much did the gold plates weigh? (4 categories)
- Question: What is the date of the restoration of the Melchizedek Priesthood? (4 categories)
- Mormonism and Wikipedia/Golden plates/Receiving (4 categories)
- Mormonism and Wikipedia/Golden plates/Location (4 categories)
- Johnson: "Probably it is safe to say that American Proboscidea have been extinct for a minimum of 3000 years" (4 categories)
- Joseph Smith and the priesthood (4 categories)
- Alleged false prophecies of Joseph Smith (4 categories)
- John Taylor (2 March 1879): "the Father and the Son...came to Joseph Smith" and "the Prophet Joseph asked the angel" (4 categories)
- The tree of life in the Book of Mormon (4 categories)
- Reformed Egyptian and the Book of Mormon (4 categories)
- Bible passages in the Book of Mormon (4 categories)
- Artistic depictions of the translation (4 categories)
- Lehi's journey in the Old World (4 categories)
- The Bible/Condemnation of genealogy/Further Reading (4 categories)
- The Bible/Textual criticism/Further Reading (4 categories)
- Plural marriage/Leaders worried missionaries take best plural wives/Further Reading (4 categories)