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- 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: 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)
- 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: Did some of Joseph Smith's associates believe that he had an affair with Fanny Alger? (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)
- Source:Webb:BYUS:2011:15:Christian beliefs do not need to have Neo-Platonic influence to be true (6 categories)
- Source:Webb:BYUS:2011:16:Joseph Smith more coherent than Augustine on matter and the divine (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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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: Is plural marriage required in order to achieve exaltation? (6 categories)
- Failure of the Kirtland Safety Society (5 categories)
- Source:Webb:BYUS:2011:17:Creedal Christians can learn from Mormon views about Jesus and creation (5 categories)
- Question: What are the Kinderhook Plates? (5 categories)
- The Book of Mormon as history (5 categories)
- Hemispheric Geography Model of Book of Mormon geography (5 categories)
- Joseph Smith and the Word of Wisdom (5 categories)
- The witness of Hiram Page (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)
- Criticism of Mormonism/Online documents/A Letter to an Apostle/The Letter (5 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph attempt to translate the Kinderhook Plates using the "gift and power of God?" (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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith use the Nephite interpreters to translate? Or did he use his own seer stone? (5 categories)
- Mormonism and prophets (5 categories)
- Mormon ordinances/Marriage (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)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith attempt to translate the Kinderhook Plates? (5 categories)
- Criticism of Mormonism/Books/The Kingdom of the Cults (Revised)/Index (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: What are the differences between the Strangite witness statements and those of the Three and Eight Witnesses to the Book of Mormon? (5 categories)
- Source:Webb:BYUS:2011:11:Do Mormons make too much of Jesus Christ (5 categories)
- Question: Was the idea that Blacks were neutral in the "war in heaven" ever official doctrine? (5 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith incorporate his father's dream of the tree of life into the Book of Mormon? (5 categories)
- Question: What religious excitement was occurring in Palmyra in 1820? (5 categories)
- The witness of Jacob Whitmer (5 categories)
- Question: Why did the Nauvoo City Council feel it was necessary to destroy the ''Nauvoo Expositor''? (5 categories)
- The witness of Samuel Smith (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)
- 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)
- 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)
- Joseph Smith/Legal issues (5 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith state that the moon was inhabited, and that its inhabitants were dressed like Quakers? (5 categories)
- Detailed response to CES Letter, Testimony and Spiritual Witness (5 categories)
- The New Testament and the Book of Mormon (5 categories)
- The death of Shiz (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)
- 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)
- Source:Webb:BYUS:2011:2:Mormonism a mirror for other Christians (5 categories)
- Question: Did B.H. Roberts lose his faith in the Church and the Book of Mormon? (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: 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 Brigham Young believe that one could not enter the Celestial Kingdom unless they were a polygamist? (5 categories)
- Specific works/Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Mormonism (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: What happened to Josiah Stowell? Did he conclude he had been defrauded after the court hearing? (5 categories)
- Question: Was Emma aware of the possibility that Joseph could take additional wives even without her consent? (4 categories)
- Joseph Smith/Accusations of false prophecies (4 categories)
- Seminary Teacher Resource Manual: "We have no knowledge that plural marriage will be a requirement for exaltation" (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/Omni (4 categories)
- Mormonism and Wikipedia/Golden plates/Translating (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)
- 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: 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- Detailed response to CES Letter, Book of Mormon (4 categories)
- Marinda Nancy Johnson Hyde (4 categories)
- Question: Did God tell David Whitmer to leave the Church and repudiate Mormonism? (4 categories)
- Question: Who made the changes to the Doctrine and Covenants? (4 categories)
- Brigham Young's statements regarding plural marriage (4 categories)
- Specific works/Refiner's Fire (Brooke) (4 categories)
- Specific works/A Portrait of Religious Excess (4 categories)
- Mormonism and Wikipedia/Joseph Smith, Jr./1831 to 1838 (4 categories)
- Mormonism and Wikipedia/Joseph Smith, Jr./Death (4 categories)
- FAIR Study Aids/Book of Mormon Resources by chapter and verse/Words of Mormon (4 categories)
- Mormonism and Wikipedia/Three Witnesses/Importance (4 categories)
- Book of Mormon (4 categories)
- Question: Why did Brigham Young initiate the priesthood ban? (4 categories)
- Mormonism and Wikipedia/Joseph Smith, Jr./Legacy (4 categories)
- Evaluating Book of Mormon geography theories (4 categories)
- Gospel Topics: "Even after 1852, at least two black Mormons continued to hold the priesthood" (4 categories)
- The witness of Hyrum Smith (4 categories)
- Source:Rediscovering the Book of Mormon:Ch:19:1:Kingship patterns in Mosiah 1-6 (4 categories)
- Joseph Smith and the priesthood (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)
- FAIR Study Aids/Book of Mormon Resources by chapter and verse/Alma (4 categories)
- Understanding accusations of plagiarism (4 categories)
- Question: What is Adam-ondi-Ahman? (4 categories)
- Baptism in the Book of Mormon (4 categories)
- Question: Was Ezra Booth commanded to take a wife from among the Indians? (4 categories)
- Other financial topics (4 categories)
- The Book of Mormon as the Stick of Ephraim (4 categories)
- The Bible (4 categories)
- Question: Did early Mormon leaders believe that Jesus Christ was a polygamist? (4 categories)
- David Whitmer (1887): "We were in the spirit when we had the view...but we were in the body also" (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)
- Question: How did the erroneous story of the attempt to sell the Book of Mormon copyright develop over time? (4 categories)
- Question: What does Joseph's attempt to translate the Kinderhook Plates tell us about his "gift of translation?" (4 categories)
- Joseph Smith's education (4 categories)
- Specific works/Inventing Mormonism (4 categories)
- Specific works/New Mormon Challenge (4 categories)
- Question: Is finding links between Hebrew and ancient American languages realistic? (4 categories)
- Mormonism and Wikipedia/Golden plates/Format (4 categories)
- FAIR Study Aids/Book of Mormon Resources by chapter and verse/Mosiah (4 categories)
- Mormonism and Wikipedia/First Vision/Story of the vision (4 categories)
- Church statements on Book of Mormon geography (4 categories)
- Question: What are the "curse of Cain" and the "curse of Ham"? (4 categories)
- Criticism of Mormonism/Online documents/"Questions and Answers" on Mormon Stories/Historicity of the Book of Mormon (4 categories)
- The Holy Ghost in the Book of Mormon (4 categories)
- Joseph Smith's prophecy of the Civil War (4 categories)
- Question: Was the priesthood ban lifted as the result of social or government pressure? (4 categories)
- Question: What do the italicized words in the Bible represent, and why is it relevant to the Book of Mormon? (4 categories)
- Question: What is the history of name changes of the Church? (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:Nibley:Teachings of the Book of Mormon:Vol1:430:in Lehi's day Palestine was swarming with Greeks (4 categories)
- Question: Why didn't the newspapers in Palmyra take notice of Joseph Smith's First Vision? (4 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith consummate any of these marriages with married women? (4 categories)
- Question: Of what did the Strangite witnesses testify? (4 categories)
- Question: Why was the phrase "white and delightsome" changed to "pure and delightsome" in the 1840 edition of the Book of Mormon? (4 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith join the Methodist, Presbyterian, or Baptist churches between 1820 and 1830 despite the claim made in his 1838 history that he was forbidden by Deity from joining any denomination? (4 categories)
- Joseph Smith and money digging (4 categories)
- Specific works/Decker's Complete Handbook (4 categories)
- Question: What did the Book of Mormon witnesses mean when they used the word "supernatural" to describe their experiences? (4 categories)
- Specific works/The Making of a Prophet (4 categories)
- Mormonism and Wikipedia/Golden plates/Receiving (4 categories)
- Question: Have any relationships been found between New World languages and Hebrew? (4 categories)
- Mormonism and Wikipedia/Golden plates/Location (4 categories)
- FAIR Study Aids/Book of Mormon Resources by chapter and verse/Helaman (4 categories)
- Question: When did a biblical curse become associated with the "Hamites?" (4 categories)
- Joseph Smith and the translation process (4 categories)
- The Hurlbut affidavits (4 categories)
- Prophetic statements of Joseph Smith (4 categories)
- Question: What are the two 1835 First Vision accounts that refer to angels? (4 categories)
- 1844 Succession to Joseph Smith (4 categories)
- Question: How was the wording of the "rod of nature" revelation that became Doctrine and Covenants 8:6–8 altered over time? (4 categories)
- Question: Does the doctrine that God has a physical body contradict the Bible? (4 categories)
- Native Americans and the Lamanites (4 categories)
- The name of Jesus Christ in the Book of Mormon (4 categories)
- Question: Did Lucy Mack Smith state when she joined the Presbyterians? (4 categories)
- Identity of the Lamanites in the Book of Mormon (4 categories)
- Legal codes in the Book of Mormon (4 categories)
- Source:Gospel Topics:Becoming Like God:Our theology begins with heavenly parents. Our highest aspiration is to be like them (4 categories)
- Plural marriage in the Book of Mormon (4 categories)
- Virgin birth of Jesus Christ in the Book of Mormon (4 categories)
- The Bible/Inerrancy/Further Reading (4 categories)
- Question: What did Martin Harris's non-Mormon associates say about his character? (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)
- Holy Ghost (4 categories)
- Question: What is baptism for the dead? (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)
- Specific works/One Nation Under Gods/Use of sources/D&C 98:31 justifies murder (4 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith plagiarize Josiah Priest's ''The Wonders of Nature and Providence Displayed''? (4 categories)
- Specific works/Joseph Smith's New York Reputation Reexamined (4 categories)
- Specific works/Ashamed of Joseph (4 categories)
- Mormonism and Wikipedia/Joseph Smith, Jr./Legacy/051909 (4 categories)
- Specific works/The Mormon Mirage (4 categories)
- Mormonism and Wikipedia/First Vision/Dating the First Vision (4 categories)
- FAIR Study Aids/Book of Mormon Resources by chapter and verse/Mormon (4 categories)
- Mormonism and Wikipedia/Joseph Smith, Jr./1839 - 1844 (4 categories)
- Thomas Stuart Ferguson and Mormon archaeology (4 categories)
- Mormonism and Wikipedia/Three Witnesses/The Three Witnesses (4 categories)
- Objects and artifacts in the Book of Mormon (4 categories)
- Question: When did the "mark of Cain" become associated with black skin? (4 categories)
- Question: Why did Oliver Cowdery and David Whitmer accept Hiram Page's seer stone revelations as authoritative? (4 categories)
- CitationAbuse:CES Letter:Stephen Burnett to Br. Johnson (4 categories)
- Warfare in the Book of Mormon (4 categories)
- Joseph Smith's alleged narcissism (4 categories)
- Miller and Roper: "Evidence for the survival of the elephant can be found in Native American myths and traditions" (4 categories)
- Criticism of Mormonism/Books/The Changing World of Mormonism/Chapter 13 (4 categories)
- Joseph Smith/Early Smith family history (4 categories)
- FAIR Study Aids/Book of Mormon Resources by chapter and verse/1 Nephi (4 categories)