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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)
- 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)
- Question: What was the Lamanite curse? (8 categories)
- Question: Did Oliver Cowdery state that Joseph did not know if a "supreme being" existed in 1823? (8 categories)
- Source:Webb:BYUS:2011:19:Vastness of Joseph Smith's theology - it is not pagan (8 categories)
- Source:Nibley:CW06:Ch22:8:Greek Names (8 categories)
- Question: What criticisms are related to Oliver Cowdery's 1834-1835 history of the Church? (8 categories)
- KJV translation errors in the Book of Mormon (8 categories)
- Source:Webb:BYUS:2011:9:Mormon trinitarian views are not polytheistic (8 categories)
- Question: What events resulted in Joseph Smith's 1826 court appearance in South Bainbridge? (8 categories)
- Question: Was Thomas Stuart Ferguson an archaeologist? (8 categories)
- Source:Webb:BYUS:2011:12:Mormons are not Arians (8 categories)
- Peterson and Roper: "We know of no one who cites Ferguson as an authority, except countercultists" (8 categories)
- Source:Webb:BYUS:2011:13:Mormons reject Augustinian ideas about depravity and original sin (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:2011:14:Joseph Smith could hold his own in early Christian debates (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)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith prophesy that Jesus Christ would return in 1890? (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 would Martin Harris use the phrases "eye of faith" or "spiritual eye" to describe his visionary experience? (7 categories)
- Source:Webb:BYUS:2011:7:Mormons and creatio ex nihilo (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: 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)
- Gospel Topics: "The various accounts of the First Vision tell a consistent story, though naturally they differ in emphasis and detail" (7 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)
- 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: Did some of Joseph Smith's associates believe that he had an affair with Fanny Alger? (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)
- 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)
- Criticism of Mormonism/Books/No Man Knows My History: The Life of Joseph Smith/Chapter 3 (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)
- The Lamanite curse (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: 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)
- Question: Was the practice of polygamy general knowledge among Latter-day Saints in 1835 when the "Article on Marriage" was published? (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)
- 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)
- Source:Webb:BYUS:2011:1:Sameness of Jesus' humanity (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)
- 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: Was the idea that Blacks were neutral in the "war in heaven" ever official doctrine? (5 categories)
- Joseph Smith and the Word of Wisdom (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)
- Source:Webb:BYUS:2011:2:Mormonism a mirror for other Christians (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)
- Mormon ordinances/Marriage (5 categories)
- Bernardino de Sahagun: "Fodder was provided the deer—horses—which the Spaniards rode" (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)
- Specific works/Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Mormonism (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)
- The Book of Mormon as history (5 categories)
- Hemispheric Geography Model of Book of Mormon geography (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)
- 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)
- Question: Did Joseph attempt to translate the Kinderhook Plates using the "gift and power of God?" (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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Losing a Lost Tribe: Native Americans, DNA, and the Mormon Church/Chapter 11 (5 categories)
- The witness of Jacob Whitmer (5 categories)
- The witness of Samuel Smith (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)
- Mormonism and prophets (5 categories)
- Failure of the Kirtland Safety Society (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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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: 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 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: 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)
- Criticism of Mormonism/Online documents/"Questions and Answers" on Mormon Stories/Historicity of the Book of Mormon (4 categories)
- Question: How did Emma Hale Smith react to Joseph's practice of plural marriage? (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)
- 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)
- Specific works/Word of God (Vogel) (4 categories)
- Joseph Smith's education (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)
- Question: Was Joseph Smith married or sealed to women who were already married to other living men? (4 categories)
- FAIR Study Aids/Book of Mormon Resources by chapter and verse/4 Nephi (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)
- Question: Did Dee F. Green say that there is no such thing as Book of Mormon archaeology? (4 categories)
- Plural marriage/Did early Church leaders speak of plural marriage difficulties/Further Reading (4 categories)
- Question: Where did 19th-Century Latter-day Saints believe that Freemasonry came from? (4 categories)
- Questions: Are there contemporary witnesses that confirm that Joseph Smith didn't join any church after the First Vision? (4 categories)
- Question: Was Emma aware of the possibility that Joseph could take additional wives even without her consent? (4 categories)
- FAIR Study Aids/Book of Mormon Resources by chapter and verse/Jarom (4 categories)
- Question: What do we know about the origin of the priesthood ban on Church members of African descent? (4 categories)
- Hoaxes related to Book of Mormon geography claims (4 categories)
- Other witnesses to the Book of Mormon (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)
- Source:Webb:BYUS:2011:3:Mormonism does justice to glory and majesty of Christ (4 categories)
- Specific works/Faithful History (GD Smith) (4 categories)
- Joseph Smith and money digging (4 categories)
- Mormonism and Wikipedia/Golden plates/Receiving (4 categories)
- Mormonism and Wikipedia/Golden plates/Location (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)
- Plural marriage/Leaders worried missionaries take best plural wives/Further Reading (4 categories)
- Question: What are the Hurlbut affidavits? (4 categories)
- Plural marriage/Relationship to the modern Church/Further Reading (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)
- Plural marriage as a requirement for exaltation/Further Reading (4 categories)
- Joseph Smith and legal issues (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)
- 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)
- DNA and the Book of Mormon (4 categories)
- CitationAbuse:CES Letter:Stephen Burnett to Br. Johnson (4 categories)
- Miller and Roper: "This was long enough to bring them (mammoths) to the time of the Jaredites" (4 categories)
- Gospel Topics: "Even after 1852, at least two black Mormons continued to hold the priesthood" (4 categories)
- Joseph Smith's prophecy of the Civil War (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)
- 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)
- Source:Webb:BYUS:2011:4:Mormons don't know where to stop giving glory to Jesus (4 categories)
- Question: What is baptism for the dead? (4 categories)
- Specific works/New Approaches to the Book of Mormon (4 categories)
- Specific works/Behind the Mask (4 categories)
- Mormonism and Wikipedia/Joseph Smith, Jr./Legacy/051909 (4 categories)
- Mormonism and Wikipedia/First Vision/Dating the First Vision (4 categories)
- Mormonism and Wikipedia/Joseph Smith, Jr./1839 - 1844 (4 categories)
- Mormonism and Wikipedia/Three Witnesses/The Three Witnesses (4 categories)
- Source:Rediscovering the Book of Mormon:Ch:19:1:Kingship patterns in Mosiah 1-6 (4 categories)
- FAIR Study Aids/Book of Mormon Resources by chapter and verse/Alma (4 categories)
- Mormonism and church integrity/Accusations of lying and hypocrisy on the part of the Church (4 categories)
- Plural marriage/Early Christians on plural marriage/Further Reading (4 categories)
- Question: What is Adam-ondi-Ahman? (4 categories)
- Question: Was Ezra Booth commanded to take a wife from among the Indians? (4 categories)
- Other financial topics (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)
- FAIR Study Aids/Book of Mormon Resources by chapter and verse/Words of Mormon (4 categories)
- Book of Mormon (4 categories)
- Question: Why did Brigham Young initiate the priesthood ban? (4 categories)
- Evaluating Book of Mormon geography theories (4 categories)
- The witness of Hyrum Smith (4 categories)
- The Hurlbut affidavits (4 categories)
- Question: In what context are elephants mentioned in the Book of Mormon? (4 categories)
- Question: What are the "curse of Cain" and the "curse of Ham"? (4 categories)
- Prophetic statements of Joseph Smith (4 categories)
- Question: Was Nephi's temple "similar in splendor" to Solomon's temple? (4 categories)
- Plural marriage/Parley P. Pratt's marriage and murder/Further Reading (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)
- 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./Early years (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)
- The Holy Ghost in the Book of Mormon (4 categories)
- Mormonism and church integrity (4 categories)
- Plural marriage/Book of Mormon condemns the practice/Further Reading (4 categories)
- Question: What is the history of name changes of the Church? (4 categories)
- Plural marriage practiced after the First Manifesto/Further Reading (4 categories)
- Joseph Smith's campaign for President of the United States (4 categories)
- Seminary Teacher Resource Manual: "We have no knowledge that plural marriage will be a requirement for exaltation" (4 categories)
- Criticism of Mormonism/Websites/MormonThink/Kirtland Temple Dedication (4 categories)
- Question: Why didn't the newspapers in Palmyra take notice of Joseph Smith's First Vision? (4 categories)
- Question: What does Joseph's attempt to translate the Kinderhook Plates tell us about his "gift of translation?" (4 categories)
- Question: Is finding links between Hebrew and ancient American languages realistic? (4 categories)
- FAIR Study Aids/Book of Mormon Resources by chapter and verse/Mosiah (4 categories)
- Church statements on Book of Mormon geography (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's alleged narcissism (4 categories)
- Question: When did a biblical curse become associated with the "Hamites?" (4 categories)
- Criticism of Mormonism/Books/The Changing World of Mormonism/Chapter 13 (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)
- Native Americans and the Lamanites (4 categories)
- The name of Jesus Christ in the Book of Mormon (4 categories)
- Identity of the Lamanites in the Book of Mormon (4 categories)
- Legal codes in the Book of Mormon (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: Are the dead being "baptized into the Mormon faith?" (4 categories)
- Specific works/Inventing Mormonism (4 categories)
- Specific works/New Mormon Challenge (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)
- Joseph Smith and the translation process (4 categories)
- Question: What are the two 1835 First Vision accounts that refer to angels? (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)
- Joseph Smith/Polygamy/Whitney letter/Further Reading (4 categories)
- Question: Does the doctrine that God has a physical body contradict the Bible? (4 categories)
- Topical Guide/Doctrinal issues/Revelation/Failed Prophecies (4 categories)
- Purpose of plural marriage/Further Reading (4 categories)
- Joseph Smith/Politics and government (4 categories)
- Source:Gospel Topics:Becoming Like God:Our theology begins with heavenly parents. Our highest aspiration is to be like them (4 categories)
- Criticism of Mormonism/Online documents/"Questions and Answers" on Mormon Stories/Masonry and the temple (4 categories)
- Question: What did Martin Harris's non-Mormon associates say about his character? (4 categories)
- Question: Of what did the Strangite witnesses testify? (4 categories)
- Question: Did God tell David Whitmer to leave the Church and repudiate Mormonism? (4 categories)
- Holy Ghost (4 categories)
- Question: Who made the changes to the Doctrine and Covenants? (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: Why does ''History of the Church'' say that Joseph Smith said "I have translated a portion of them..."? (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)
- Question: What are the Nephite interpreters? (4 categories)
- Question: What did the Book of Mormon witnesses mean when they used the word "supernatural" to describe their experiences? (4 categories)
- Question: Why did Joseph Smith say that the Book of Mormon was the "most correct book"? (4 categories)
- Question: Have any relationships been found between New World languages and Hebrew? (4 categories)
- FAIR Study Aids/Book of Mormon Resources by chapter and verse/Helaman (4 categories)
- Detailed response to CES Letter, Book of Mormon (4 categories)
- Joseph Smith fired a gun at Carthage Jail (4 categories)
- Question: When did the "mark of Cain" become associated with black skin? (4 categories)
- Criticism of Mormonism/Books/One Nation Under Gods/Use of sources/Forged Rocky Mountain prophecy (4 categories)
- 1835 Doctrine and Covenants denies polygamy/Further Reading (4 categories)
- Theory of Book of Mormon place names from Comoros Islands (4 categories)
- The witness of John Whitmer (4 categories)
- Question: Did Lucy Mack Smith state when she joined the Presbyterians? (4 categories)
- Nephite burnt offerings (4 categories)
- Joseph Smith Translation and the Book of Mormon (4 categories)
- Synagogues and churches (4 categories)
- The Bible/"Adding to" or "taking away from"/Further Reading (4 categories)
- William Smith (1883): "he escaped to the house and brought the plates with him, wrapped up in a tow frock. He could not permit us to see them, because he said the angel told him not to do so" (4 categories)
- Question: Is any book of scripture perfect? (4 categories)
- Joseph Smith's status in Latter-day Saint belief (4 categories)
- Specific works/Decker's Complete Handbook (4 categories)
- Specific works/The Making of a Prophet (4 categories)
- Mormonism and Wikipedia/Golden plates/Returning the plates (4 categories)
- Mormonism and Wikipedia/Joseph Smith, Jr./1827 to 1830/051909 (4 categories)
- Warfare in the Book of Mormon (4 categories)
- Question: What was the nature of Joseph Smith's "polyandrous" marriages? (4 categories)
- FAIR Study Aids/Book of Mormon Resources by chapter and verse/1 Nephi (4 categories)
- Prevalence of plural marriage in Utah/Further Reading (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)
- Question: What criticisms are associated with the temple ritual and its relationship to Freemasonry? (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: How did the erroneous story of the attempt to sell the Book of Mormon copyright develop over time? (4 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith use his own seer stone to translate the Book of Mormon? (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)
- Miller and Roper: "Evidence for the survival of the elephant can be found in Native American myths and traditions" (4 categories)
- Joseph Smith and the Nauvoo Expositor (4 categories)
- Question: How did the "curse of Ham" or "curse of Cain" become associated with Mormonism? (4 categories)
- The White Horse prophecy (4 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph know what the italics in the Bible meant? (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)
- Question: Was the priesthood ban lifted as the result of social or government pressure? (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)
- The Bible/On-going divine revelation not necessary/Further Reading (4 categories)
- Specific works/One Nation Under Gods/Use of sources/D&C 98:31 justifies murder (4 categories)
- Specific works/Joseph Smith's New York Reputation Reexamined (4 categories)
- Joseph Smith's family as trustworthy and hard-working (4 categories)
- Specific works/Ashamed of Joseph (4 categories)
- Specific works/The Mormon Mirage (4 categories)
- Mormonism and Wikipedia/Golden plates/Translating (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: Did Joseph Smith consummate any of these marriages with married women? (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)
- Plural marriage/Brigham Young said that the only men who become gods are those that practice polygamy/Further Reading (4 categories)
- Question: When was Lucy Mack Smith baptized? (4 categories)
- Joseph Smith/Accusations of false prophecies (4 categories)
- Joseph Smith/Polygamy/Essays/Early womanizer/Further Reading (4 categories)
- Marinda Nancy Johnson Hyde (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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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: What did the husband of Sarah Ann Whitney know about her sealing to Joseph Smith for eternity? (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)
- 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)
- Plural marriage and the Bible/Further Reading (4 categories)
- Divine manifestations to plural wives and families/Further Reading (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: Why would Joseph Smith incorporate Masonic elements into the temple ritual? (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)
- 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)
- Book of Mormon/Translation/The interpreters, seer stone, hat and the "gift and power of God"/Further Reading (3 categories)
- Question: Why were textual changes made to the Book of Mormon over the years after it was first published? (3 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith write a "love letter" to his plural wife Sarah Ann Whitney to request a secret rendezvous? (3 categories)
- Mormonism and science (3 categories)
- Sorenson: "There is an animal which they call chic, wonderfully active, as large as a small dog, with a snout like a sucking pig. The Indian women raise them" (3 categories)
- Question: Why is ''History of the Church'' written in first-person, as if Joseph Smith himself wrote it? (3 categories)
- Gardner: "a correct approach to a Mesoamerican battle required all three elements: king, litter, and battle beast" (3 categories)
- Question: Was there no mention of revival activity in 1820 in the newspaper? (3 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith claim that the Kirtland Safety Society was established by a revelation from God? (3 categories)
- Criticism of Mormonism/Websites/MormonThink/Could Joseph Smith have written the Book of Mormon (3 categories)
- Mormonism and Wikipedia/Joseph Smith, Jr./Early years/051909 (3 categories)
- Mormonism and Wikipedia/Golden plates/Significance (3 categories)
- Topical Guide/Book of Mormon/Plagiarism accusations (3 categories)
- Question: What did the husband of Presendia L. Huntington know about her sealing to Joseph Smith for eternity? (3 categories)
- Question: Why did the Prophet construct the 1832 narrative in a manner such as to exclude explicit mention of the Father's appearance? (3 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith copy the name "Nephi" from the Apocrypha? (3 categories)
- Criticism of Mormonism/Books/One Nation Under Gods/Use of sources/Mormon Doctrine and race issues/Further Reading (3 categories)
- The Bible/Interpretation (3 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith change his stated motivation for praying in later years after he received the First Vision? (3 categories)
- Question: Does the belief by the witnesses that the experience had visionary qualities contradict the claim that the Book of Mormon plates were real? (3 categories)
- Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Do Christians Believe in Three Gods/Do Christians Believe in Three Gods (3 categories)
- Question: Why did several years pass before Oliver Cowdery talked about the priesthood restoration? (3 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith create the story of Nephi and Laban by plagiarizing concepts and phrases from the story of Judith and Holofernes in the Apocrypha? (3 categories)
- Gospel Topics on LDS.org: "Mormon and non-Mormon Egyptologists agree that the characters on the fragments do not match the translation given in the book of Abraham" (3 categories)
- The killing of Laban in the Book of Mormon (3 categories)
- Mormonism and Freemasonry (3 categories)
- Topical Guide/Book of Mormon/Anachronisms (3 categories)
- Question: How do critics of the Church portray Joseph Smith's letter to the Whitney family as a "love letter"? (3 categories)
- Mormonism and science/Book of Mormon (3 categories)
- Question: Does the Bible prohibit polygamous marriages involving a mother and daughter? (3 categories)
- Question: Does the Book of Mormon contain anti-Masonic language? (3 categories)
- Question: Does the Bible condemn genealogical research? (3 categories)
- Question: Did David Whitmer ever deny his Book of Mormon witness because he thought that Joseph Smith was a fallen prophet? (3 categories)
- Criticism of Mormonism/Books/The Mormon Hierarchy: Extensions of Power/Index (3 categories)
- Mormonism and Wikipedia/Joseph Smith, Jr./1838 to 1839/051909 (3 categories)
- Joseph Smith listed as author and proprietor of the Book of Mormon (3 categories)
- Criticism of Mormonism (3 categories)
- Topical Guide/Book of Mormon/Authorship and Evidences (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)
- Question: Did any of Joseph's scribes ever say anything about Joseph's story of the vision changing over time? (3 categories)
- Question: What references to the First Vision exist in published documents from the 1830s? (3 categories)
- Mormonism and gender issues (3 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith have a Jupiter talisman on his person at the time of his death? (3 categories)
- Question: Is it true that the Danites were pledged to “plunder, lie, and even kill if deemed necessary?" (3 categories)
- Question: In the Kirtland Egyptian Papers, why is each Egyptian character matched to an entire paragraph of English text? (3 categories)
- Latter-day Saint Temples/Baptism for the dead (3 categories)
- Latter-day Saint Temples (3 categories)
- Question: Who was Paul H. Dunn and what happened to him? (3 categories)
- Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Do Christians Believe in Three Gods/Relationship between Father, Son, and Holy Spirit (3 categories)
- Question: Were the Isaiah passages in the Book of Mormon simply plagiarized from the King James Bible? (3 categories)
- Question: How do Church members assume that Joseph would have "used the plates" during translation? (3 categories)
- Question: What is the relationship of the Joseph Smith Papyri to the Book of Abraham? (3 categories)
- Book of Mormon/Anachronisms/Language/Reformed Egyptian/Further Reading (3 categories)
- Question: What was the real purpose of the letter written by Joseph Smith to the parents of Sarah Ann Whitney? (3 categories)
- Mormonism and science/Latter-day Saint approaches (3 categories)
- Question: What does The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints teach about modesty and what is its importance? (3 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith being sealed to mothers, daughters and sisters violate a biblical prohibition? (3 categories)
- Question: Did Lucy Mack Smith join the Presbyterian Church after her son Alvin died in 1823? (3 categories)
- Hamblin: "there are no references to Nephite steel after 400 B.C." (3 categories)
- Did Joseph have lustful motives for practicing polygamy? (3 categories)
- Topical Guide/Book of Mormon/Coming Forth (3 categories)
- Use of Church funds (3 categories)
- Mormonism and Wikipedia/Golden plates/Finding (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: Did Joseph Smith give Brigham Young and Heber C. Kimball divining rods "as a symbol of gratitude for their loyalty"? (3 categories)
- Question: Was the United Order simply a form of communism? (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)
- 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)
- Opposition to baptism for the dead (3 categories)
- Mormon ordinances (3 categories)