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- Source:Webb:BYUS:2011:1:Sameness of Jesus' humanity (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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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: 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)
- 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: 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: 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)
- 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 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- The witness of Jacob Whitmer (5 categories)
- The witness of Samuel Smith (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:2011:11: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 attempt to translate the Kinderhook Plates using the "gift and power of God?" (5 categories)
- Joseph Smith/Legal issues (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)
- 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 state that the moon was inhabited, and that its inhabitants were dressed like Quakers? (5 categories)
- Ensign (June 1994): "Highlights in the Prophet’s Life 20 Mar. 1826: Tried and acquitted on fanciful charge of being a “disorderly person,” South Bainbridge, Chenango County, New York (5 categories)
- Criticism of Mormonism/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: 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: 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)
- Source:Webb:BYUS:2011:2:Mormonism a mirror for other Christians (5 categories)
- Question: Did the three witnesses's experience of seeing the plates and the angel take place only in their minds? (5 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith attempt to translate the Kinderhook Plates? (5 categories)
- Question: Did Brigham Young believe that one could not enter the Celestial Kingdom unless they were a polygamist? (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)
- Question: Why did the Nauvoo City Council feel it was necessary to destroy the ''Nauvoo Expositor''? (5 categories)
- Question: What happened to Josiah Stowell? Did he conclude he had been defrauded after the court hearing? (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)
- Specific works/Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Mormonism (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)
- Failure of the Kirtland Safety Society (5 categories)
- Joseph Smith and the Word of Wisdom (5 categories)
- The witness of Hiram Page (5 categories)
- Source:Webb:BYUS:2011:17:Creedal Christians can learn from Mormon views about Jesus and creation (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)
- The Nephite calendar (5 categories)
- Possible locations for Nahom (5 categories)
- The Book of Mormon and the fulness of the gospel (5 categories)
- Source:Echoes:Ch12:18:Martin Harris on the translation process (5 categories)
- Question: Did 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)
- Criticism of Mormonism/Online documents/A Letter to an Apostle/The Letter (5 categories)
- Question: Did B.H. Roberts lose his faith in the Church and the Book of Mormon? (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)
- 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)
- Bernardino de Sahagun: "Fodder was provided the deer—horses—which the Spaniards rode" (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)
- 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 use the Nephite interpreters to translate? Or did he use his own seer stone? (5 categories)
- The Book of Mormon as history (5 categories)
- Hemispheric Geography Model of Book of Mormon geography (5 categories)
- Question: Did the Church suppress a revelation given to Joseph Smith in 1831 which encouraged the implementation of polygamy by intermarriage with the Indians in order to make them a “white and delightsome” people? (5 categories)
- Sorenson: Horse bones in Yucatan "considered to be pre-Columbian on the basis of depth of burial and degree of mineralization" (5 categories)
- Criticism of Mormonism/Books/The Kingdom of the Cults (Revised)/Index (5 categories)
- Question: What are the Kinderhook Plates? (5 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: 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)
- 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/Words of Mormon (4 categories)
- Mormonism and church integrity/Accusations of lying and hypocrisy on the part of the Church (4 categories)
- Book of Mormon (4 categories)
- Question: Why did Brigham Young initiate the priesthood ban? (4 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph know what the italics in the Bible meant? (4 categories)
- Evaluating Book of Mormon geography theories (4 categories)
- Theory of Book of Mormon place names from Comoros Islands (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)
- The witness of John Whitmer (4 categories)
- Nephite burnt offerings (4 categories)
- Joseph Smith Translation and the Book of Mormon (4 categories)
- Synagogues and churches (4 categories)
- FAIR Study Aids/Book of Mormon Resources by chapter and verse/Alma (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: 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: What is baptism for the dead? (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)
- Specific works/Ashamed of Joseph (4 categories)
- Question: Did early Mormon leaders believe that Jesus Christ was a polygamist? (4 categories)
- Mormonism and Wikipedia/Joseph Smith, Jr./Legacy/051909 (4 categories)
- Specific works/The Mormon Mirage (4 categories)
- David Whitmer (1887): "We were in the spirit when we had the view...but we were in the body also" (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)
- Question: When did the "mark of Cain" become associated with black skin? (4 categories)
- CitationAbuse:CES Letter:Stephen Burnett to Br. Johnson (4 categories)
- Joseph Smith's alleged narcissism (4 categories)
- Question: Where did 19th-Century Latter-day Saints believe that Freemasonry came from? (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)
- Criticism of Mormonism/Books/One Nation Under Gods/Use of sources/Forged Rocky Mountain prophecy (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)
- Theory of Book of Mormon place names from area around Joseph Smith's home (4 categories)
- The Holy Ghost in the Book of Mormon (4 categories)
- Statement of the Eight Witnesses (4 categories)
- Metals and materials in the Book of Mormon (4 categories)
- The Apocrypha and the Book of Mormon (4 categories)
- Mushrooms and entheogenics theory of Book of Mormon authorship (4 categories)
- Farewell to Eden (4 categories)
- The Bible/On-going divine revelation not necessary/Further Reading (4 categories)
- Question: What is the history of name changes of the Church? (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)
- Question: Why didn't the newspapers in Palmyra take notice of Joseph Smith's First Vision? (4 categories)
- Mormonism and Wikipedia/Joseph Smith, Jr./Early years (4 categories)
- Specific works/Is the Mormon My Brother (4 categories)
- Mormonism and Wikipedia/First Vision/Recorded accounts of the vision (4 categories)
- Mormonism and Wikipedia/Golden plates/Composition and weight (4 categories)
- Mormonism and Wikipedia/Joseph Smith, Jr./Distinctive views and teachings (4 categories)
- Question: How did the "curse of Ham" or "curse of Cain" become associated with Mormonism? (4 categories)
- Question: What does Joseph's attempt to translate the Kinderhook Plates tell us about his "gift of translation?" (4 categories)
- Joseph Smith fired a gun at Carthage Jail (4 categories)
- Joseph Smith's campaign for President of the United States (4 categories)
- Criticism of Mormonism/Websites/MormonThink/Kirtland Temple Dedication (4 categories)
- Question: What did the Book of Mormon witnesses mean when they used the word "supernatural" to describe their experiences? (4 categories)
- Joseph Smith and the Nauvoo Expositor (4 categories)
- The White Horse prophecy (4 categories)
- Question: Have any relationships been found between New World languages and Hebrew? (4 categories)
- Mormonism and church integrity (4 categories)
- FAIR Study Aids/Book of Mormon Resources by chapter and verse/Helaman (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)
- Hebrew and Native American languages (4 categories)
- Joseph Smith and the translation process (4 categories)
- Book of Mormon textual changes (4 categories)
- Climate in the Book of Mormon (4 categories)
- The documentary hypothesis (4 categories)
- Question: What changes were made to the 1837 edition of the Book of Mormon? (4 categories)
- Possible 19th Century influences on Book of Mormon (4 categories)
- Elephants in the Book of Mormon (4 categories)
- Question: What are the two 1835 First Vision accounts that refer to angels? (4 categories)
- Plan of salvation/Three degrees of glory/Not biblical/Further Reading (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)
- The Bible/Translations/Further Reading (4 categories)
- Question: Does the doctrine that God has a physical body contradict the Bible? (4 categories)
- Source:Gospel Topics:Becoming Like God:Our theology begins with heavenly parents. Our highest aspiration is to be like them (4 categories)
- Question: Are the dead being "baptized into the Mormon faith?" (4 categories)
- Specific works/Word of God (Vogel) (4 categories)
- Question: What did Martin Harris's non-Mormon associates say about his character? (4 categories)
- Specific works/Kurt van Gorden's Mormonism (4 categories)
- Mormonism and Wikipedia/Joseph Smith, Jr./1827 to 1830 (4 categories)
- Question: Of what did the Strangite witnesses testify? (4 categories)
- Mormonism and Wikipedia/Joseph Smith, Jr./1838 to 1839 (4 categories)
- Mormonism and Wikipedia/Golden plates/Witness accounts (4 categories)
- Mormonism and Wikipedia/Joseph Smith, Jr./1831 to 1834: Kirtland/051909 (4 categories)
- Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Losing a Lost Tribe: Native Americans, DNA, and the Mormon Church/Chapter 1 (4 categories)
- 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/Politics and government (4 categories)
- Criticism of Mormonism/Online documents/"Questions and Answers" on Mormon Stories/Masonry and the temple (4 categories)
- Events surrounding the death of Joseph Smith (4 categories)
- Johnson: "Probably it is safe to say that American Proboscidea have been extinct for a minimum of 3000 years" (4 categories)
- FAIR Study Aids/Book of Mormon Resources by chapter and verse/Mormon (4 categories)
- Thomas Stuart Ferguson and Mormon archaeology (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)
- Objects and artifacts in the Book of Mormon (4 categories)
- Relationship of the Maya and the Olmec to the Lamanites and the Jaredites (4 categories)
- Question: Why did Oliver Cowdery and David Whitmer accept Hiram Page's seer stone revelations as authoritative? (4 categories)
- Warfare in the Book of Mormon (4 categories)
- 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)
- FAIR Study Aids/Book of Mormon Resources by chapter and verse/1 Nephi (4 categories)
- Possible locations for the Valley of Lemuel (4 categories)
- Topical Guide/Scripture and Influential Writings/Bible (4 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith say that viewing the gold plates would result in death? (4 categories)
- The Bible/Cosmology/Further Reading (4 categories)
- Source:Webb:BYUS:2011:3:Mormonism does justice to glory and majesty of Christ (4 categories)
- Pietro Martire d'Anghiera (1912): "the Spaniards noticed herds of deer similar to our herds of cattle" (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: What did David Whitmer's associates say about his character? (4 categories)
- Mormonism and Wikipedia/Golden plates/Returning the plates (4 categories)
- Mormonism and Wikipedia/Joseph Smith, Jr./1827 to 1830/051909 (4 categories)
- Question: How did Emma Hale Smith react to Joseph's practice of plural marriage? (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)
- 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)
- Question: Was Emma aware of the possibility that Joseph could take additional wives even without her consent? (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)
- FAIR Study Aids/Book of Mormon Resources by chapter and verse/Jacob (4 categories)
- Topical Guide/Doctrinal issues/Revelation/Failed Prophecies (4 categories)
- Wikipedia: Mammoths "were members of the family Elephantidae" (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)
- Barney: "three types of evidence favoring the conclusion that Joseph understood the meaning of the italicized words" (4 categories)
- Freemasonry and the Book of Mormon (4 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith simply conflate elements of the 1818 and 1824-25 revivals in his story of the First Vision? (4 categories)
- View of the Hebrews theory of Book of Mormon authorship (4 categories)
- The tree of life in the Book of Mormon (4 categories)
- Question: What to Latter-day Saints believe regarding the concept of "original sin"? (4 categories)
- Reformed Egyptian and the Book of Mormon (4 categories)
- Question: What are the criticisms related to Joseph Smith's accounts of the First Vision? (4 categories)
- Bible passages in the Book of Mormon (4 categories)
- Artistic depictions of the translation (4 categories)
- FAIR Study Aids/Book of Mormon Resources by chapter and verse/2 Nephi (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)
- Question: When was Lucy Mack Smith baptized? (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)
- 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)
- Mormonism and Wikipedia/Golden plates/Translating (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)
- Detailed response to CES Letter, Book of Mormon (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/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)
- Understanding accusations of plagiarism (4 categories)
- Baptism in the Book of Mormon (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)
- The Book of Mormon as the Stick of Ephraim (4 categories)
- The Bible (4 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith and Sidney Rigdon support the formation of a vigilante band called the Danites? (4 categories)
- Brigham Young's statements regarding plural marriage (4 categories)
- Specific works/Refiner's Fire (Brooke) (4 categories)
- Question: What was Joseph Smith's motivation for going to the grove to pray in 1820? (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)
- Question: How much did the gold plates weigh? (4 categories)
- Mormonism and Wikipedia/Three Witnesses/Importance (4 categories)
- Question: What is the date of the restoration of the Melchizedek Priesthood? (4 categories)
- Mormonism and Wikipedia/Joseph Smith, Jr./Legacy (4 categories)
- Gospel Topics: "Even after 1852, at least two black Mormons continued to hold the priesthood" (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 was the nature of Joseph Smith's "polyandrous" marriages? (4 categories)
- Joseph Smith's prophecy of the Civil War (4 categories)
- FAIR Study Aids/Book of Mormon Resources by chapter and verse/Jarom (4 categories)
- Question: Was the priesthood ban lifted as the result of social or government pressure? (4 categories)
- Question: What do we know about the origin of the priesthood ban on Church members of African descent? (4 categories)
- Question: What do the italicized words in the Bible represent, and why is it relevant to the Book of Mormon? (4 categories)
- Hoaxes related to Book of Mormon geography claims (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)
- Other witnesses to the Book of Mormon (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)
- FAIR Study Aids/Book of Mormon Resources by chapter and verse/4 Nephi (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: Did Dee F. Green say that there is no such thing as Book of Mormon archaeology? (4 categories)
- Joseph Smith's education (4 categories)
- Specific works/Inventing Mormonism (4 categories)
- Specific works/New Mormon Challenge (4 categories)
- Mormonism and Wikipedia/Golden plates/Format (4 categories)
- Mormonism and Wikipedia/First Vision/Story of the vision (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)
- Questions: Are there contemporary witnesses that confirm that Joseph Smith didn't join any church after the First Vision? (4 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith consummate any of these marriages with married women? (4 categories)
- Prophetic statements of Joseph Smith (4 categories)
- FAIR Study Aids/Book of Mormon Resources by chapter and verse/Omni (4 categories)
- 1844 Succession to Joseph Smith (4 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith confer the priesthood on several black men? (4 categories)
- DNA and the Book of Mormon (4 categories)
- Native Americans and the Lamanites (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)
- 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)
- 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 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)
- Joseph Smith and money digging (4 categories)
- Specific works/Decker's Complete Handbook (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)
- Specific works/The Making of a Prophet (4 categories)
- Mormonism and Wikipedia/Golden plates/Receiving (4 categories)
- Mormonism and Wikipedia/Golden plates/Location (4 categories)
- Question: When did a biblical curse become associated with the "Hamites?" (4 categories)
- The Hurlbut affidavits (4 categories)
- Question: Does the 14 November 1835 account reference to the "first vision of Angels" mean that Joseph Smith did not see Deity? (3 categories)
- Latter-day Saint Temples/Baptism for the dead (3 categories)
- Latter-day Saint Temples (3 categories)
- Godfrey: "Martin found a rock closely resembling the seerstone Joseph sometimes used in place of the interpreters and substituted it without the Prophet’s knowledge" (3 categories)
- Question: What changes were made to the Doctrine and Covenants? (3 categories)
- Question: How did Latter-day Saint scholars respond to the attempt to sell the Book of Mormon copyright prior to Page's letter coming to light? (3 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph use his seer stone to receive the text of the Book of Abraham in the same manner as he did for the Book of Mormon? (3 categories)
- Question: Does the Bible prohibit polygamous marriages involving a mother and daughter? (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: What did the other witnesses say regarding "spiritual" versus "natural" viewing of the plates? (3 categories)
- Question: What do we find in Mesoamerican archaeology with respect to place names, such as city names? (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: Did Joseph Smith claim that the Kirtland Safety Society was established by a revelation from God? (3 categories)
- Question: Was the United Order simply a form of communism? (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)
- Did Joseph have lustful motives for practicing polygamy? (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)
- Topical Guide/Book of Mormon/Coming Forth (3 categories)
- Question: Does Book of Abraham Facsimile 1 show a hand, or does it show the wing of a second bird? (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)
- Question: What are the Lectures on Faith? (3 categories)
- Statements by Church leaders related to the identity of the Lamanites (3 categories)
- Question: Is there a cave in the Hill Cumorah containing the Nephite records? (3 categories)
- Opposition to baptism for the dead (3 categories)
- Mormon ordinances (3 categories)
- Multiple accounts of the First Vision/Criticisms/Overview (3 categories)
- Brigham Young (1871): "whether the Lord...made it in six days or in as many millions of years, is and will remain a matter of speculation in the minds of men unless he give revelation on the subject" (3 categories)
- Portal:Test2/box-header (3 categories)
- Question: What did Church leaders after Brigham Young think of the priesthood ban? (3 categories)
- Joseph Smith/Other visions (3 categories)
- Question: What did the husband of Presendia L. Huntington know about her sealing to Joseph Smith for eternity? (3 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith being sealed to mothers, daughters and sisters violate a biblical prohibition? (3 categories)
- Question: In what context are chariots mentioned in the Book of Mormon? (3 categories)
- Question: By what name did Joseph Smith refer to the First Vision? (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: Did some Church leaders believe that the skin of the Lamanites would turn white? (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: 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)
- Question: Do Mormons believe Jesus Christ was married? (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)
- Origin of the Book of Mormon (3 categories)
- Bell: "the questionable traces above the head of the Osiris figure are actually the remains of his right hand" (3 categories)
- Joseph Smith listed as author and proprietor of the Book of Mormon (3 categories)
- Question: What did Oliver Cowdery's associates say about his character? (3 categories)
- Joseph Smith/Seer stones (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)
- David Whitmer (3 categories)
- Question: What does Lecture 5 of the Lectures on Faith say about the nature of God? (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)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith revise his account of the First Vision in 1838 to respond to a leadership crisis? (3 categories)
- Book of Abraham (3 categories)
- Latter-day Saint Temples/Endowment (3 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)
- 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: Where can I learn more about the Sidney Rigdon/Solomon Spalding authorship theory? (3 categories)
- Question: Did Lucy Mack Smith join the Presbyterian Church after her son Alvin died in 1823? (3 categories)
- Gardner: "a correct approach to a Mesoamerican battle required all three elements: king, litter, and battle beast" (3 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith misidentify a Greek "psalter" as a containing "reformed Egyptian" hieroglyphics? (3 categories)
- Question: Was there no mention of revival activity in 1820 in the newspaper? (3 categories)
- William Smith (1893): "I did not see them uncovered, but I handled them and hefted them while wrapped in a tow frock and judged them to have weighed about sixty pounds" (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: Does the Church claim that Native Americans were the exclusive descendants of Lehi or Mulek? (3 categories)
- Criticism of Mormonism/Books/No Man Knows My History: The Life of Joseph Smith/Chapter 5 (3 categories)
- Question: Should the restoration of Book of Abraham Facsimile 1 include a phallus? (3 categories)
- Mormonism and Wikipedia/Golden plates/Claimed engravings (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)
- 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)
- Mormonism and Wikipedia/Golden plates/Origin and historicity (3 categories)
- Question: How would a statement that "God is a spirit" be interpreted in ancient Judasism? (3 categories)
- Topical Guide/Book of Mormon/Archaeology (3 categories)
- Question: Why were textual changes made to the Book of Mormon over the years after it was first published? (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)
- 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)
- Mormonism and doctrine/Adam (3 categories)
- Question: Does the Book of Mormon plagiarize the King James Bible? (3 categories)
- Mormonism and gender issues (3 categories)
- Question: Does the Book of Mormon contain anti-Masonic language? (3 categories)
- Prothero (2003): "in the 1832 version, Jesus appears to Smith alone, and does all the talking himself. Such complaints, however, are much ado about relatively nothing" (3 categories)
- Question: Why do some New Testament phrases appear in the Book of Mormon? (3 categories)
- Mormonism and apologetics/"ad hominem"/Case study/An attempt to discredit Hugh Nibley by accusing him of child abuse (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)
- Source:Charles Penrose:Improvement Era:September 1912:Do you believe in "blood-atonement"? (3 categories)
- Question: Is the Church trying to hide something through its use of artwork? (3 categories)
- Criticism of Mormonism/Books/The Mormon Hierarchy: Extensions of Power/Index (3 categories)
- Question: Is a "burning in the bosom" simply a subjective, emotion-based, unreliable way to practice self-deception? (3 categories)
- Bell: "there would not be enough available space to restore the hand of Anubis, the erect phallus of the Osiris, and the body and wings of Isis" (3 categories)
- Mormonism and Wikipedia/Golden plates/Sealed portion (3 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith and Brigham Young steal Henry Jacobs' family? (3 categories)
- Question: If the Joseph Smith Translation (JST) is Joseph Smith's 'correction' of Biblical errors, why do these corrections not match known Biblical manuscripts? (3 categories)
- Mormonism and Wikipedia/Golden plates/Background (3 categories)
- Edward Stevenson (1870): Martin Harris said "my belief is swallowed up in knowledge; for I want to say to you that as the Lord lives I do know that I stood with the Prophet Joseph Smith in the presence of the angel" (3 categories)
- Oliver Cowdery (3 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith write a "love letter" to his plural wife Sarah Ann Whitney to request a secret rendezvous? (3 categories)
- Eschatology (3 categories)
- Question: Why is ''History of the Church'' written in first-person, as if Joseph Smith himself wrote it? (3 categories)
- Book of Mormon/Metals/Copper (3 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith become a baptized member of the Baptist Church in 1822? (3 categories)
- Topical Guide/Science and Religion (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)
- 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)
- Source:Gardner:Joseph the Seer:2009 FAIR Conference:long before golden plates complicated his position as a local seer (3 categories)
- Question: What is the story of Zelph? (3 categories)
- Question: How exactly did Joseph Smith translate the gold plates? (3 categories)
- Question: Does the Bible condemn genealogical research? (3 categories)
- Question: Did the story of Moroni's visit to Joseph Smith evolve from that of a magical spiritual treasure guardian to an "angel"? (3 categories)
- Question: Is it possible to deduce Joseph Smith's thoughts and dreams years after his death? (3 categories)
- Question: What caused William Law to apostatize from the Church and turn against Joseph Smith? (3 categories)
- Source:Gospel Topics:Peach and Violence:Danites (3 categories)
- Question: Did early Mormon leaders teach that apostasy was the unforgivable sin, and that the only thing an apostate could do to redeem himself was to give his own life, willingly or unwillingly? (3 categories)
- Question: Why doesn't the art match details which have been repeatedly spelled out in Church publications? (3 categories)
- Question: Do Mormons believe Jesus Christ was a polygamist? (3 categories)
- Question: Does the Book of Mormon contain mistakes? (3 categories)
- Question: Was the original head of the priest in Book of Abraham Facsimile 1 actually the jackal head of Anubis? (3 categories)
- Question: Is someone unreliable because they practiced "treasure hunting" and believed in the use of seer stones to find lost objects? (3 categories)
- Mormonism and Wikipedia/Golden plates/Unsuccessful retrieval (3 categories)
- Question: What does the lion couch scene in Book of Abraham Facsimile 1 normally represent? (3 categories)
- Mormonism and Wikipedia/Golden plates/Introduction (3 categories)
- Mormonism and Wikipedia/Joseph Smith, Jr./Death/051909 (3 categories)
- Question: Are Mormons polytheists because they don't accept the Nicene Creed? (3 categories)