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- Marinda Nancy Johnson Hyde (4 categories)
- FAIR Study Aids/Book of Mormon Resources by chapter and verse/1 Nephi (4 categories)
- The White Horse prophecy (4 categories)
- Mormonism and church integrity (4 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith say that viewing the gold plates would result in death? (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)
- Pietro Martire d'Anghiera (1912): "the Spaniards noticed herds of deer similar to our herds of cattle" (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)
- Question: What did David Whitmer's associates say about his character? (4 categories)
- The Bible/Translations/Further Reading (4 categories)
- Gospel Topics: "Even after 1852, at least two black Mormons continued to hold the priesthood" (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)
- 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)
- FAIR Study Aids/Book of Mormon Resources by chapter and verse/Mormon (4 categories)
- Thomas Stuart Ferguson and Mormon archaeology (4 categories)
- Mormonism and Wikipedia/Joseph Smith, Jr./1838 to 1839 (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)
- Mormonism and Wikipedia/Golden plates/Witness accounts (4 categories)
- Warfare in the Book of Mormon (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)
- Question: How did the erroneous story of the attempt to sell the Book of Mormon copyright develop over time? (4 categories)
- Question: What was the nature of Joseph Smith's "polyandrous" marriages? (4 categories)
- Question: What criticisms are associated with the temple ritual and its relationship to Freemasonry? (4 categories)
- FAIR Study Aids/Book of Mormon Resources by chapter and verse/2 Nephi (4 categories)
- Johnson: "Probably it is safe to say that American Proboscidea have been extinct for a minimum of 3000 years" (4 categories)
- Question: When was Lucy Mack Smith baptized? (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)
- 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)
- Wrath of God on the Lamanites (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)
- The Bible/Cosmology/Further Reading (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: What are the "curse of Cain" and the "curse of Ham"? (4 categories)
- Source:Webb:BYUS:2011:3:Mormonism does justice to glory and majesty of Christ (4 categories)
- Question: Is any book of scripture perfect? (4 categories)
- Joseph Smith's status in Latter-day Saint belief (4 categories)
- Specific works/Faithful History (GD Smith) (4 categories)
- Question: Was the priesthood ban lifted as the result of social or government pressure? (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)
- Mormonism and Wikipedia/Golden plates/Returning the plates (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)
- Mormonism and Wikipedia/Joseph Smith, Jr./1827 to 1830/051909 (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)
- Events surrounding the death of Joseph Smith (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/3 Nephi (4 categories)
- Miller and Roper: "This was long enough to bring them (mammoths) to the time of the Jaredites" (4 categories)
- Joseph Smith's Rocky Mountain prophecy (4 categories)
- Topical Guide/Doctrinal issues/Revelation/Failed Prophecies (4 categories)
- Wikipedia: Mammoths "were members of the family Elephantidae" (4 categories)
- Barney: "three types of evidence favoring the conclusion that Joseph understood the meaning of the italicized words" (4 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith and Sidney Rigdon support the formation of a vigilante band called the Danites? (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)
- Question: What was Joseph Smith's motivation for going to the grove to pray in 1820? (4 categories)
- The Bible/Textual criticism/Further Reading (4 categories)
- Question: How much did the gold plates weigh? (4 categories)
- Question: When did a biblical curse become associated with the "Hamites?" (4 categories)
- Question: What is the date of the restoration of the Melchizedek Priesthood? (4 categories)
- Source:Webb:BYUS:2011:4:Mormons don't know where to stop giving glory to Jesus (4 categories)
- Joseph Smith's family as trustworthy and hard-working (4 categories)
- Specific works/New Approaches to the Book of Mormon (4 categories)
- Specific works/Behind the Mask (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)
- Mormonism and Wikipedia/Golden plates/Translating (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)
- Holy Ghost (4 categories)
- Question: Why does ''History of the Church'' say that Joseph Smith said "I have translated a portion of them..."? (4 categories)
- Question: What are the Nephite interpreters? (4 categories)
- Question: Why did Joseph Smith say that the Book of Mormon was the "most correct book"? (4 categories)
- Question: What did the husband of Sarah Ann Whitney know about her sealing to Joseph Smith for eternity? (4 categories)
- Joseph Smith and legal issues (4 categories)
- Question: Why would Joseph Smith incorporate Masonic elements into the temple ritual? (4 categories)
- Joseph Smith and the priesthood (4 categories)
- FAIR Study Aids/Book of Mormon Resources by chapter and verse/4 Nephi (4 categories)
- Question: In what context are elephants mentioned in the Book of Mormon? (4 categories)
- Alleged false prophecies of Joseph Smith (4 categories)
- Question: Was Nephi's temple "similar in splendor" to Solomon's temple? (4 categories)
- Question: Did Dee F. Green say that there is no such thing as Book of Mormon archaeology? (4 categories)
- Understanding accusations of plagiarism (4 categories)
- Baptism in the Book of Mormon (4 categories)
- The Book of Mormon as the Stick of Ephraim (4 categories)
- The Bible (4 categories)
- Question: When did the "mark of Cain" become associated with black skin? (4 categories)
- Brigham Young's statements regarding plural marriage (4 categories)
- Questions: Are there contemporary witnesses that confirm that Joseph Smith didn't join any church after the First Vision? (4 categories)
- Specific works/Refiner's Fire (Brooke) (4 categories)
- Specific works/A Portrait of Religious Excess (4 categories)
- FAIR Study Aids/Book of Mormon Resources by chapter and verse/Jarom (4 categories)
- Mormonism and Wikipedia/Joseph Smith, Jr./1831 to 1838 (4 categories)
- Question: What do we know about the origin of the priesthood ban on Church members of African descent? (4 categories)
- Mormonism and Wikipedia/Joseph Smith, Jr./Death (4 categories)
- Hoaxes related to Book of Mormon geography claims (4 categories)
- Mormonism and Wikipedia/Three Witnesses/Importance (4 categories)
- Other witnesses to the Book of Mormon (4 categories)
- Mormonism and Wikipedia/Joseph Smith, Jr./Legacy (4 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith use his own seer stone to translate the Book of Mormon? (4 categories)
- Question: Was Joseph Smith married or sealed to women who were already married to other living men? (4 categories)
- Question: Where did 19th-Century Latter-day Saints believe that Freemasonry came from? (4 categories)
- Joseph Smith's prophecy of the Civil War (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)
- Question: What do the italicized words in the Bible represent, and why is it relevant to the Book of Mormon? (4 categories)
- Ensign (Sept. 1977): "If his translation was essentially the same as that of the King James version, he apparently quoted the verse from the Bible" (4 categories)
- Plants in the Book of Mormon (4 categories)
- Old world geography in the Book of Mormon (4 categories)
- Possible locations for Shazer (4 categories)
- KJV italicized text in the Book of Mormon (4 categories)
- Chiasmus in the Book of Mormon (4 categories)
- Identifying ancient DNA related to Book of Mormon people (4 categories)
- The Bible/Born again translation/Further Reading (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)
- Source:Nibley:Teachings of the Book of Mormon:Vol1:430:in Lehi's day Palestine was swarming with Greeks (4 categories)
- Question: How did the "curse of Ham" or "curse of Cain" become associated with Mormonism? (4 categories)
- Joseph Smith's education (4 categories)
- Specific works/Inventing Mormonism (4 categories)
- Specific works/New Mormon Challenge (4 categories)
- FAIR Study Aids/Book of Mormon Resources by chapter and verse/Omni (4 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith confer the priesthood on several black men? (4 categories)
- Mormonism and Wikipedia/Golden plates/Format (4 categories)
- Mormonism and Wikipedia/First Vision/Story of the vision (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)
- Criticism of Mormonism/Online documents/"Questions and Answers" on Mormon Stories/Historicity of the Book of Mormon (4 categories)
- Question: Why would the Church remove or alter elements of the temple ceremony if these ceremonies were revealed by God? (3 categories)
- Improvement Era (1946): "Did Joseph Smith Introduce Plural Marriage?...It is also possible, though the Church does not now permit it, to seal two living people for eternity only, with no association on earth" (3 categories)
- Latter-day Saint Temples/Endowment (3 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith give Brigham Young and Heber C. Kimball divining rods "as a symbol of gratitude for their loyalty"? (3 categories)
- Topical Guide/Church organization/Finances (3 categories)
- Question: Was the United Order simply a form of communism? (3 categories)
- Question: How did newspaper accounts describe the nature of the witnesses experience? (3 categories)
- Question: Was there an oath in a former version of the Mormon temple endowment that required vengeance upon the government of the United States? (3 categories)
- Question: What is the source of the story about Joseph Smith possessing a Jupiter talisman? (3 categories)
- Question: How were Joseph Smith's seer stones involved in the translation of the Book of Mormon? (3 categories)
- Question: How were the activities of the Danite band exposed? (3 categories)
- Question: At what age did Joseph Smith become concerned about religion? (3 categories)
- Miller and Roper: "Evidence of goats associated with pre-Columbian man also comes from caves in Yucatan" (3 categories)
- Question: Many who listened to Elder Dunn's stories felt the spirit. Why would one feel the spirit upon hearing a story that was fabricated? Doesn't this confirm a lie? (3 categories)
- Miller and Roper: "there are sheep native to America. The most common type is the Mountain Sheep, Ovis canadensis" (3 categories)
- Question: Does Book of Abraham Facsimile 1 show a hand, or does it show the wing of a second bird? (3 categories)
- Question: How would a statement that "God is a spirit" be interpreted in ancient Judasism? (3 categories)
- Question: Is there a cave in the Hill Cumorah containing the Nephite records? (3 categories)
- Question: Where can I learn more about the Sidney Rigdon/Solomon Spalding authorship theory? (3 categories)
- Hugh Nibley/Abuse charges/Beck husband reaction (3 categories)
- Question: Did Lucy Mack Smith join the Presbyterian Church after her son Alvin died in 1823? (3 categories)
- Mormonism and Wikipedia/Joseph Smith, Jr./1838 to 1839/051909 (3 categories)
- Criticism of Mormonism (3 categories)
- Topical Guide/Book of Mormon/Authorship and Evidences (3 categories)
- Mormonism and Freemasonry (3 categories)
- Topical Guide/Book of Mormon/Anachronisms (3 categories)
- Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Do Christians Believe in Three Gods/Bible and Nicea (3 categories)
- Question: What is the Adam-God Theory? (3 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph hide his plural marriages from Emma, his first wife? (3 categories)
- Question: Why does the Book of Abraham state that it was written by Abraham's "own hand upon papyrus" if the papyri date to after the Abrahamic period? (3 categories)
- Question: What is Lorenzo Snow claimed to have said about plural marriages being adultery prior to 1843? (3 categories)
- Juncker (1994): "Unknown to many, the early church fathers often referred to Jesus as an Angel....in antiquity the word 'angel' meant 'messenger'" (3 categories)
- Criticism of Mormonism/Books/American Massacre/Chapter 3 (3 categories)
- Latter-day Saint Temples/Kirtland temple (3 categories)
- Joseph Smith (9 Nov. 1835): "a personage appeard in the midst of this pillar of flame...another personage soon appeard like unto the first...and I saw many angels in this vision" (3 categories)
- Miller and Roper: "two distinct species of peccary live in Mesoamerica....They were hunted and eaten as early as Olmec times" (3 categories)
- Sorenson: "Iron use was documented in the statements of early Spaniards, who told of the Aztecs using iron-studded clubs" (3 categories)
- Question: Did some Church leaders believe that the skin of the Lamanites would turn white? (3 categories)
- Question: What did the other witnesses say regarding "spiritual" versus "natural" viewing of the plates? (3 categories)
- Question: Could the list of items on Joseph's person at the time of his death have been incomplete? (3 categories)
- Question: Did the Danite band persist even after they were exposed? (3 categories)
- Miller and Roper: "In post-biblical Jewish literature some Jewish writers distinguished between wild and domestic cattle such as goats" (3 categories)
- Question: Why did Elder Dunn exaggerate elements of these stories? (3 categories)
- Question: What do we find in Mesoamerican archaeology with respect to place names, such as city names? (3 categories)
- Bell: "the questionable traces above the head of the Osiris figure are actually the remains of his right hand" (3 categories)
- Question: What did Oliver Cowdery's associates say about his character? (3 categories)
- Painesville Telegraph (1830): "The name of the person here, who pretends to have a divine mission, and to have seen and conversed with Angels, is Cowdray" (3 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith write a "love letter" to his plural wife Sarah Ann Whitney to request a secret rendezvous? (3 categories)
- Did Joseph have lustful motives for practicing polygamy? (3 categories)
- Question: Why is ''History of the Church'' written in first-person, as if Joseph Smith himself wrote it? (3 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith revise his account of the First Vision in 1838 to respond to a leadership crisis? (3 categories)
- Topical Guide/Book of Mormon/Coming Forth (3 categories)
- Use of Church funds (3 categories)
- David Whitmer (1878): "I saw them just as plain as I see this bed" (3 categories)
- Mormonism and Wikipedia/Golden plates/Finding (3 categories)
- Statements by Church leaders related to the identity of the Lamanites (3 categories)
- Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Do Christians Believe in Three Gods/Do Christians Believe in Three Gods (3 categories)
- Brigham Young (1855): "I do not even believe that there is a single revelation, among the many God has given to the Church, that is perfect in its fulness" (3 categories)
- Stephen E. Robinson: "Yet another way in which anti-Mormon critics often misrepresent LDS doctrine is in the presentation of anomalies as though they were the doctrine of the Church" (3 categories)
- The Joseph Smith Papers: "Several later documents suggest that several women who were already married to other men were, like Marinda Hyde, married or sealed to Joseph Smith" (3 categories)
- Question: What did Orson Hyde, the husband of Marinda Nancy Johnson, know about her sealing to Joseph Smith for eternity? (3 categories)
- Question: Did Lorenzo Snow state that polygamy was actually adultery prior to 1843? (3 categories)
- Mormonism and Freemasonry/Relationship between Freemasonry and temple ceremonies (3 categories)
- Mormonism and prophets/Revelation after Joseph Smith/Thomas S. Monson/Claims that President Monson doesn't bear witness of foundational doctrines (3 categories)
- Question: In what context are chariots mentioned in the Book of Mormon? (3 categories)
- Stephen Robinson: "In the case of the Jupiter coin, this same extrapolation error is compounded with a very uncritical acceptance of the artifact in the first place" (3 categories)
- Question: What is "blood atonement"? (3 categories)
- Question: By what name did Joseph Smith refer to the First Vision? (3 categories)
- Question: Does the Book of Mormon contain mistakes? (3 categories)
- Question: Does the Church claim that Native Americans were the exclusive descendants of Lehi or Mulek? (3 categories)
- Question: Did Oliver Cowdery ever deny his Book of Mormon witness because he thought that Joseph Smith was a fallen prophet? (3 categories)
- Question: Should the restoration of Book of Abraham Facsimile 1 include a phallus? (3 categories)
- Question: Why would Joseph be sealed to the wife of someone who was not only married to someone else, but pregnant with her husband's child? (3 categories)
- William Smith (1884): "When the plates were brought in they were wrapped up in a tow frock. My father then put them into a pillow case. Father said, 'What, Joseph, can we not see them?'" (3 categories)
- Question: Do Latter-day Saints believe that they will one day 'supplant' God? (3 categories)
- Martin Harris: "As sure as you see my hand so sure did I see the angel and the plates" (3 categories)
- Question: How do critics of the Church portray Joseph Smith's letter to the Whitney family as a "love letter"? (3 categories)
- Question: Do Mormons believe Jesus Christ was married? (3 categories)
- Origin of the Book of Mormon (3 categories)
- Joseph Smith/Seer stones (3 categories)
- Question: Does the Bible condemn genealogical research? (3 categories)
- David Whitmer (3 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith misidentify a Greek "psalter" as a containing "reformed Egyptian" hieroglyphics? (3 categories)
- Question: Why did the author of the ''Letter to a CES Director'' feel the need to make a single hostile quote appear as if it were two separate quotes? (3 categories)
- Book of Abraham (3 categories)
- Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Do Christians Believe in Three Gods/Relationship between Father, Son, and Holy Spirit (3 categories)
- Matthew Brown (2009): "Brigham Young repeated these ideas and expounded upon them during the next 25 years. His viewpoints have been variously classified as doctrine, theory, paradox, heresy, speculation, and some of the mysteries" (3 categories)
- Question: How do Church members assume that Joseph would have "used the plates" during translation? (3 categories)
- Question: Are the original Temple Lot Case transcripts available online? (3 categories)
- Criticisms of Paul H. Dunn (3 categories)
- Criticisms related to Latter-day Saint Temples (3 categories)
- Mormonism and prophets/Revelation after Joseph Smith (3 categories)
- Multiple accounts of the First Vision/George Q. Cannon referred to "angels" (3 categories)
- Mormonism and apologetics/"ad hominem"/Case study/An attempt to discredit Hugh Nibley by accusing him of child abuse (3 categories)