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  1. Eschatology‏‎ (3 categories)
  2. Question: What have Latter-day Saint leaders actually said about the method of procreation in the afterlife?‏‎ (3 categories)
  3. Question: Did Lorenzo Snow state that polygamy was actually adultery prior to 1843?‏‎ (3 categories)
  4. Question: Is Joseph Smith papyri Facsimile 1 common and similar to other such scenes?‏‎ (3 categories)
  5. Mormonism and Freemasonry/Relationship between Freemasonry and temple ceremonies‏‎ (3 categories)
  6. Mormonism and prophets/Revelation after Joseph Smith/Thomas S. Monson/Claims that President Monson doesn't bear witness of foundational doctrines‏‎ (3 categories)
  7. Mormonism and racial issues/Blacks and the priesthood‏‎ (3 categories)
  8. Question: Did Joseph Smith place his seer stone in his hat while looking for lost objects?‏‎ (3 categories)
  9. Question: How reliable are the accounts of the discovery of Zelph?‏‎ (3 categories)
  10. Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Do Christians Believe in Three Gods/Do Christians Believe in Three Gods‏‎ (3 categories)
  11. 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)
  12. 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)
  13. Question: Is there any reference to God the Father being present in Joseph Smith's 1832 account?‏‎ (3 categories)
  14. Question: Was a "vagabond fortune-teller" named Walters Joseph Smith's "mentor"?‏‎ (3 categories)
  15. Question: Did Joseph Smith's mother say that the First Vision was of an "angel"?‏‎ (3 categories)
  16. Question: What is Joseph Smith's 1832 prophecy of the Civil War?‏‎ (3 categories)
  17. 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)
  18. Question: What did Orson Hyde, the husband of Marinda Nancy Johnson, know about her sealing to Joseph Smith for eternity?‏‎ (3 categories)
  19. Question: Do Mormons believe in the "rapture"?‏‎ (3 categories)
  20. Book of Mormon/Metals/Silver‏‎ (3 categories)
  21. Mormonism and science‏‎ (3 categories)
  22. Question: Does the Bible condemn genealogical research?‏‎ (3 categories)
  23. Question: Do Mormons believe Jesus Christ was a polygamist?‏‎ (3 categories)
  24. Question: Does the Book of Mormon contain mistakes?‏‎ (3 categories)
  25. Mormonism and Wikipedia/Golden plates/Unsuccessful retrieval‏‎ (3 categories)
  26. Mormonism and Wikipedia/Golden plates/Introduction‏‎ (3 categories)
  27. Mormonism and Wikipedia/Joseph Smith, Jr./Death/051909‏‎ (3 categories)
  28. Question: How do critics of the Church portray Joseph Smith's letter to the Whitney family as a "love letter"?‏‎ (3 categories)
  29. Mormonism and Wikipedia/Joseph Smith, Jr./1839 - 1844/051909‏‎ (3 categories)
  30. Question: Are the original Temple Lot Case transcripts available online?‏‎ (3 categories)
  31. Question: Did Joseph Smith change his stated motivation for praying in later years after he received the First Vision?‏‎ (3 categories)
  32. Criticisms of Paul H. Dunn‏‎ (3 categories)
  33. 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)
  34. Criticisms related to Latter-day Saint Temples‏‎ (3 categories)
  35. Mormonism and prophets/Revelation after Joseph Smith‏‎ (3 categories)
  36. Question: Why did several years pass before Oliver Cowdery talked about the priesthood restoration?‏‎ (3 categories)
  37. Multiple accounts of the First Vision/George Q. Cannon referred to "angels"‏‎ (3 categories)
  38. 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)
  39. 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)
  40. Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Do Christians Believe in Three Gods/Relationship between Father, Son, and Holy Spirit‏‎ (3 categories)
  41. The killing of Laban in the Book of Mormon‏‎ (3 categories)
  42. Matthew Brown (2009): "Brigham Young repeated these ideas and expounded upon them during the next 25 years. His viewpoints have been variously classified as doctrine, theory, paradox, heresy, speculation, and some of the mysteries"‏‎ (3 categories)
  43. Question: How do Church members assume that Joseph would have "used the plates" during translation?‏‎ (3 categories)
  44. 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)
  45. Question: Did Joseph Smith copy the name "Nephi" from the Apocrypha?‏‎ (3 categories)
  46. Plan of salvation/Resurrection/Mormon views regarding‏‎ (3 categories)
  47. James Strang movement‏‎ (3 categories)
  48. Mormonism and science/Book of Mormon‏‎ (3 categories)
  49. Question: Were there not enough people available in Nephi's time to build a temple "after the manner of the temple of Solomon"?‏‎ (3 categories)
  50. Criticism of Mormonism/Books/No Man Knows My History: The Life of Joseph Smith/Chapter 27‏‎ (3 categories)
  51. Source:Christofferson:The Prophet Joseph Smith:BYUI Devotional:2013:Critics have also claimed that there were no religious revivals in the Palmyra, New York, area in 1820‏‎ (3 categories)
  52. Question: Were any of the changes to the Book of Mormon made in reaction to sectarian criticism?‏‎ (3 categories)
  53. Hamblin: "there are no references to Nephite steel after 400 B.C."‏‎ (3 categories)
  54. City Creek Center in Salt Lake City‏‎ (3 categories)
  55. Mormonism and Wikipedia/Golden plates/Story‏‎ (3 categories)
  56. Question: What was the real purpose of the letter written by Joseph Smith to the parents of Sarah Ann Whitney?‏‎ (3 categories)
  57. Question: In the Kirtland Egyptian Papers, why is each Egyptian character matched to an entire paragraph of English text?‏‎ (3 categories)
  58. Question: I've seen Temple Lot court transcripts online. Are these not accurate?‏‎ (3 categories)
  59. Question: Who was Paul H. Dunn and what happened to him?‏‎ (3 categories)
  60. Question: Why does Joseph Smith's 9 November 1835 account of the First Vision mention "many angels?"‏‎ (3 categories)
  61. Church finances‏‎ (3 categories)
  62. The Bible/Scripture interpretation‏‎ (3 categories)
  63. Mormon ordinances/Marriage/Eternal marriage‏‎ (3 categories)
  64. Question: What is the Strengthening Church Members Committee?‏‎ (3 categories)
  65. Multiple accounts of the First Vision/Oliver Cowdery not aware of First Vision in 1834-35‏‎ (3 categories)
  66. Question: Were the Isaiah passages in the Book of Mormon simply plagiarized from the King James Bible?‏‎ (3 categories)
  67. Question: Is there anything wrong with early Church leaders using the term "angel" to refer to Jesus Christ?‏‎ (3 categories)
  68. Question: What is the relationship of the Joseph Smith Papyri to the Book of Abraham?‏‎ (3 categories)
  69. Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Do Christians Believe in Three Gods/Origins of Nicene Trinitarianism‏‎ (3 categories)
  70. Question: Were the changes to the revelations hidden from the Church members?‏‎ (3 categories)
  71. Question: How did Joseph Smith actually use the gold plates?‏‎ (3 categories)
  72. Question: Did any of Joseph's scribes ever say anything about Joseph's story of the vision changing over time?‏‎ (3 categories)
  73. Question: What references to the First Vision exist in published documents from the 1830s?‏‎ (3 categories)
  74. Question: Did Joseph Smith have a Jupiter talisman on his person at the time of his death?‏‎ (3 categories)
  75. Question: Is it true that the Danites were pledged to “plunder, lie, and even kill if deemed necessary?"‏‎ (3 categories)
  76. Criticism of Mormonism/Online documents/Denver Snuffer/Excommunication/Criticism of Church leaders‏‎ (3 categories)
  77. Book of Mormon/Translation/The interpreters, seer stone, hat and the "gift and power of God"/Further Reading‏‎ (3 categories)
  78. Mormonism and science/Latter-day Saint approaches‏‎ (3 categories)
  79. Question: What does The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints teach about modesty and what is its importance?‏‎ (3 categories)
  80. Sorenson: "Lumps of hematite, magnetite, and ilmenite were brought into Valley of Oaxaca"‏‎ (3 categories)
  81. Obedience to Church leaders‏‎ (3 categories)
  82. Question: How did the apostle Paul describe spiritual experiences?‏‎ (3 categories)
  83. Wikipedia: Bighorn sheep "crossed to North America over the Bering land bridge"‏‎ (3 categories)
  84. Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Mormonism Unmasked/Chapter 3‏‎ (3 categories)
  85. Brigham Young (1855): "The Lord did not come with the armies of heaven...But He did send His angel to this same obscure person, Joseph Smith jun"‏‎ (3 categories)
  86. Question: How do the goals of Freemasonry compare to those of the Latter-day Saint endowment?‏‎ (3 categories)
  87. Criticism of Mormonism/Websites/MormonThink/Could Joseph Smith have written the Book of Mormon‏‎ (3 categories)
  88. Mormonism and Wikipedia/Joseph Smith, Jr./Early years/051909‏‎ (3 categories)
  89. Mormonism and Wikipedia/Golden plates/Significance‏‎ (3 categories)
  90. Topical Guide/Book of Mormon/Plagiarism accusations‏‎ (3 categories)
  91. Miller and Roper: "Evidence of goats associated with pre-Columbian man also comes from caves in Yucatan"‏‎ (3 categories)
  92. 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)
  93. Question: Does Book of Abraham Facsimile 1 show a hand, or does it show the wing of a second bird?‏‎ (3 categories)
  94. The Bible/Interpretation‏‎ (3 categories)
  95. Question: Is there a cave in the Hill Cumorah containing the Nephite records?‏‎ (3 categories)
  96. Question: Have edits to the revelations been discussed in the present day?‏‎ (3 categories)
  97. Question: Why is the statement of William Clayton regarding the Kinderhook Plates in ''History of the Church'' written as if Joseph Smith himself said it?‏‎ (3 categories)
  98. Peterson (2005): The plates "are an indigestible lump in the throats of people...who contend that there were no Nephites but that Joseph Smith was nonetheless an inspired prophet"‏‎ (3 categories)
  99. Question: How was the text of the Book of Abraham produced by Joseph Smith?‏‎ (3 categories)
  100. Criticism of Mormonism/Online documents/Letter to a CES Director‏‎ (3 categories)
  101. Question: Did Joseph Smith give Brigham Young and Heber C. Kimball divining rods "as a symbol of gratitude for their loyalty"?‏‎ (3 categories)
  102. Question: Was the United Order simply a form of communism?‏‎ (3 categories)
  103. 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)
  104. Question: What is the source of the story about Joseph Smith possessing a Jupiter talisman?‏‎ (3 categories)
  105. Question: How were Joseph Smith's seer stones involved in the translation of the Book of Mormon?‏‎ (3 categories)
  106. Question: What did the husband of Sylvia Sessions know about her sealing to Joseph Smith for eternity?‏‎ (3 categories)
  107. Question: How were the activities of the Danite band exposed?‏‎ (3 categories)
  108. Mormonism and Freemasonry‏‎ (3 categories)
  109. Topical Guide/Book of Mormon/Anachronisms‏‎ (3 categories)
  110. Topical Guide/Church organization/Finances‏‎ (3 categories)
  111. Question: How did newspaper accounts describe the nature of the witnesses experience?‏‎ (3 categories)
  112. Question: At what age did Joseph Smith become concerned about religion?‏‎ (3 categories)
  113. Miller and Roper: "there are sheep native to America. The most common type is the Mountain Sheep, Ovis canadensis"‏‎ (3 categories)
  114. Question: Are there sources which identify the angel that visited Joseph as "Moroni" that date prior to the "Nephi" error?‏‎ (3 categories)
  115. Hugh Nibley/Abuse charges/Beck husband reaction‏‎ (3 categories)
  116. Mormonism and Wikipedia/Joseph Smith, Jr./1838 to 1839/051909‏‎ (3 categories)
  117. Criticism of Mormonism‏‎ (3 categories)
  118. Topical Guide/Book of Mormon/Authorship and Evidences‏‎ (3 categories)
  119. Question: Does the Bible prohibit polygamous marriages involving a mother and daughter?‏‎ (3 categories)
  120. Miller and Roper: "In post-biblical Jewish literature some Jewish writers distinguished between wild and domestic cattle such as goats"‏‎ (3 categories)
  121. Question: Why did Elder Dunn exaggerate elements of these stories?‏‎ (3 categories)
  122. Bell: "the questionable traces above the head of the Osiris figure are actually the remains of his right hand"‏‎ (3 categories)
  123. Question: What did Oliver Cowdery's associates say about his character?‏‎ (3 categories)
  124. Question: Does the 14 November 1835 account reference to the "first vision of Angels" mean that Joseph Smith did not see Deity?‏‎ (3 categories)
  125. 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)
  126. Latter-day Saint Temples/Baptism for the dead‏‎ (3 categories)
  127. Latter-day Saint Temples‏‎ (3 categories)
  128. Question: Did Joseph Smith revise his account of the First Vision in 1838 to respond to a leadership crisis?‏‎ (3 categories)
  129. 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)
  130. Question: What changes were made to the Doctrine and Covenants?‏‎ (3 categories)
  131. 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)
  132. 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)
  133. Question: Did some Church leaders believe that the skin of the Lamanites would turn white?‏‎ (3 categories)
  134. Question: Could the list of items on Joseph's person at the time of his death have been incomplete?‏‎ (3 categories)
  135. Question: Did the Danite band persist even after they were exposed?‏‎ (3 categories)
  136. Statements by Church leaders related to the identity of the Lamanites‏‎ (3 categories)
  137. Miller and Roper: "two distinct species of peccary live in Mesoamerica....They were hunted and eaten as early as Olmec times"‏‎ (3 categories)
  138. Sorenson: "Iron use was documented in the statements of early Spaniards, who told of the Aztecs using iron-studded clubs"‏‎ (3 categories)
  139. Question: What did the other witnesses say regarding "spiritual" versus "natural" viewing of the plates?‏‎ (3 categories)
  140. Question: What do we find in Mesoamerican archaeology with respect to place names, such as city names?‏‎ (3 categories)
  141. Question: Did Joseph Smith claim that the Kirtland Safety Society was established by a revelation from God?‏‎ (3 categories)
  142. Did Joseph have lustful motives for practicing polygamy?‏‎ (3 categories)
  143. Topical Guide/Book of Mormon/Coming Forth‏‎ (3 categories)
  144. Use of Church funds‏‎ (3 categories)
  145. David Whitmer (1878): "I saw them just as plain as I see this bed"‏‎ (3 categories)
  146. Mormonism and Wikipedia/Golden plates/Finding‏‎ (3 categories)
  147. Question: What are the Lectures on Faith?‏‎ (3 categories)
  148. Question: What do we find when we turn to the records of the ancient (i.e. before A.D. 400) Americas?‏‎ (2 categories)
  149. Question: How could Joseph and Fanny have been married in 1831 if the sealing power had not yet been restored?‏‎ (2 categories)
  150. Question: Has the book ''View of the Hebrews'' been readily available?‏‎ (2 categories)
  151. Question: Is there a case where Joseph stated that his age was 17 rather than 14 at the time of the First Vision?‏‎ (2 categories)
  152. Question: Did Joseph utter a false prophecy and show disregard for the Word of Wisdom in telling Orson Hyde that he would drink wine with him in Palestine?‏‎ (2 categories)
  153. Question: Do Latter-day Saints discount the spiritual witnesses that members of other religions may receive?‏‎ (2 categories)
  154. Joseph Smith (9 Nov. 1835): "a pillar of fire appeared above my head...a personage appeard in the midst of this pillar of flame"‏‎ (2 categories)
  155. Question: Was the ''History of the Church'' falsified when "first visitation of Angels" was changed to "my first vision"?‏‎ (2 categories)
  156. Question: Does Church manual, ''The Teachings of the Presidents of the Church: Brigham Young'', attempt to "hide history" by portraying Brigham Young (a well-known polygamist) as having only one wife?‏‎ (2 categories)
  157. Question: Aren't tithing funds from "long ago" ultimately the source of all current Church funds?‏‎ (2 categories)
  158. John A. Widtsoe (1943): "The Old Testament records a flood that was just over fifteen cubits (sometimes assumed to be about twenty-six feet) deep and covered the entire landscape"‏‎ (2 categories)
  159. Multiple accounts of the First Vision/Orson Pratt's statements regarding the First Vision‏‎ (2 categories)
  160. Portal:Test2/box-footer‏‎ (2 categories)
  161. Countercult ministries/Tower to Truth Ministries‏‎ (2 categories)
  162. Jeffrey R. Holland: "All I’m saying is that what got translated got translated into the word of God"‏‎ (2 categories)
  163. Question: What have been the responses to Joseph's interpretations of Facsimile 3?‏‎ (2 categories)
  164. Improvement Era (January 1968): "Often the funerary texts contained passages from the 'Book of the Dead,' a book that was to assist in the safe passage of the dead person into the spirit world"‏‎ (2 categories)
  165. Question: How is it possible that there were three days of darkness in the New World and not in the Old World?‏‎ (2 categories)
  166. Question: Did Joseph Smith send men on missions in order to "steal" their wives while they were gone?‏‎ (2 categories)
  167. Question: Do we have all of the papyri that Joseph Smith had?‏‎ (2 categories)
  168. Muhlestein and Gee: "It is now apparent that human sacrifice did indeed occur in ancient Egypt"‏‎ (2 categories)
  169. Detailed response to CES Letter, First Vision‏‎ (2 categories)
  170. Question: Did Fanny Alger have a child by Joseph Smith?‏‎ (2 categories)
  171. Question: Did Joseph Smith give a woman only one day to decide about entering a plural marriage, and would refusal mean terrible consequences?‏‎ (2 categories)
  172. Helen Mar Kimball: "I have encouraged and sustained my husband in the celestial order of marriage because I knew it was right"‏‎ (2 categories)
  173. Question: What is the light which comes from the presence of God?‏‎ (2 categories)
  174. Question: Did Brigham Young attempt to suppress and destroy all copies of Lucy Mack Smith's ''Biographical Sketches of Joseph Smith''?‏‎ (2 categories)
  175. Matthews: "To regard the New Translation...as a product of divine inspiration given to Joseph Smith does not necessarily assume that it be a restoration of the original Bible text"‏‎ (2 categories)
  176. Question: What did the husband of Mary Heron know about her sealing to Joseph Smith for eternity?‏‎ (2 categories)
  177. Armitage: "It is suggested by de Ávila Blomberg that wild silk was used in Oaxaca in pre-Columbian times"‏‎ (2 categories)
  178. Question: Did Joseph Smith plagiarize Shakespeare?‏‎ (2 categories)
  179. Question: What did contemporary witnesses have to say about the Book of Mormon translation process?‏‎ (2 categories)
  180. Question: Did Joseph own a Bible at the time of the Book of Mormon translation?‏‎ (2 categories)
  181. Question: Did Charles Anthon validate the characters that Martin Harris brought to him that had been copied from the Book of Mormon plates?‏‎ (2 categories)
  182. Source:Benajah Williams:July 1820:Had a two Days meeting at Sq Bakers in Richmond‏‎ (2 categories)
  183. John Welch (1999): "This sidelight in the book of Alma contains enough facts to support meaningful parallels between King Mosiah's weights and measures and those used in other ancient cultures"‏‎ (2 categories)
  184. Joseph Smith (9 Nov. 1835): "I saw many angels in this vision...I was about 14 years old when I received this first communication"‏‎ (2 categories)
  185. Question: Do Latter-day Saints believe that they were the only ones with a "legitimate right to be stewards" of all property on the earth?‏‎ (2 categories)
  186. Question: Did Joseph Smith have a long history of "womanizing" before practicing plural marriage?‏‎ (2 categories)
  187. Question: Are the Gadianton robbers in the Book of Mormon actually references to the anti-Masonic panic of Joseph Smith's era?‏‎ (2 categories)
  188. Question: Can you summarize what we know about whether or not Joseph Smith fathered any children by his plural wives?‏‎ (2 categories)
  189. Criticism of Mormonism/Books/One Nation Under Gods/Use of sources/Orders to Starve Gentiles‏‎ (2 categories)
  190. Question: How do Latter-day Saints understand the significance of the blood shed by Christ?‏‎ (2 categories)
  191. Source:Damrosch:The Narrative Covenant:Naham means "to mourn"‏‎ (2 categories)
  192. Source:Marcus B. Nash:Joseph Smith Memorial Devotional:June 2013:This was dictated, word by word, as he looked into instruments the Lord prepared for him, using a hat to shield his eyes from extraneous light‏‎ (2 categories)
  193. Question: Did Church leaders ever teach that Blacks were neutral in the "war in heaven?"‏‎ (2 categories)
  194. Question: Did Mormons only recently claim to be Christian?‏‎ (2 categories)
  195. David Whitmer (1887): "'He that hath an ear to hear, let him hear;' it was no delusion!"‏‎ (2 categories)
  196. Question: Was the "Pentecost" at the Kirtland Temple dedication actually a drunken orgy?‏‎ (2 categories)
  197. Question: What archaeological evidence might be considered the minimal irrefutable proof needed to convince a non-believing world of the authenticity of the Nephite scripture?‏‎ (2 categories)
  198. Elder's Journal/1/1‏‎ (2 categories)
  199. Question: Could Joseph Smith have acquired the names "Moroni" and "Cumorah" from a map of the Comoro archipelago off the coast of Africa?‏‎ (2 categories)
  200. Question: Is there a link between Ethan Smith, author of ''View of the Hebrews'', and Oliver Cowdery?‏‎ (2 categories)
  201. Question: Do Mormons believe that other religions can be inspired by God?‏‎ (2 categories)
  202. Question: How do the First Vision accounts compare on the subject of Joseph's motivation for praying?‏‎ (2 categories)
  203. Orson Pratt (1840): "a very bright and glorious light in the heavens...He expected to have seen the leaves and boughs of the trees consumed, as soon as the light came in contact with them"‏‎ (2 categories)
  204. Criticism of Mormonism/Books/One Nation Under Gods/Chapter 8‏‎ (2 categories)
  205. Question: Why does the Church teach that the flood was a global event?‏‎ (2 categories)
  206. Criticism of Mormonism/Articles/Mormon Women, Prozac(R) and Therapy‏‎ (2 categories)
  207. Multiple accounts of the First Vision/George A. Smith said First Vision was an "angel"‏‎ (2 categories)
  208. George Mantle (1888): Martin Harris said "Do you know that is the sun shining on us? Because as sure as you know that...he translated that book by the power of God"‏‎ (2 categories)
  209. Forgeries/Mark Hofmann/Church reaction to forgeries/Church statement 31 July 1987‏‎ (2 categories)
  210. John S. Lewis: "Considering that Doctrine and Covenants 77:6 refers to “…this earth during the seven thousand years of its continuance, or its temporal existence,” what led Phelps to speak of Earth as 2,555 million years old?"‏‎ (2 categories)
  211. Question: Are there any known parallels between elements of Joseph's interpretation of Facsimile 3 with other ancient texts?‏‎ (2 categories)
  212. Question: What did the Church announce in 1968 when the Joseph Smith papyri fragments were discovered?‏‎ (2 categories)
  213. Question: What authorship theories are proposed by non-believers to account for the authorship of the Book of Mormon?‏‎ (2 categories)
  214. Gospel Topics on LDS.org: "Some evidence suggests that Joseph studied the characters on the Egyptian papyri and attempted to learn the Egyptian language"‏‎ (2 categories)
  215. Question: If Gordon B. Hinckley were a true prophet, why did he not discern the nature of the Hofmann forgeries?‏‎ (2 categories)
  216. Question: Did Joseph Smith send William Law, Robert D. Foster, and Henry Jacobs on missions so that he could steal their wives?‏‎ (2 categories)
  217. Question: How does the Grammar and Alphabet of the Egyptian Language (GAEL) relate to the Book of Abraham?‏‎ (2 categories)
  218. Question: How many times was Joseph Smith involved with legal issues?‏‎ (2 categories)
  219. The Apocalypse of Abraham: "Go out from thy father Terah, and get thee out from the house, that thou also be not slain"‏‎ (2 categories)
  220. Detailed response to CES Letter, Book of Abraham‏‎ (2 categories)
  221. Question: Does the 1832 account of the First Vision not prohibit Joseph from joining any church?‏‎ (2 categories)
  222. Question: Did Joseph claim that an angel threatened him with a "drawn sword" or "flaming sword" if a woman refused to marry him?‏‎ (2 categories)
  223. Question: Did Orson Pratt state that it was an angel that appeared during the First Vision?‏‎ (2 categories)
  224. Question: Does the Book of Abraham state that the sun gets its photons from Kolob?‏‎ (2 categories)
  225. Question: What did the husband of Sarah Kingsley know about her sealing to Joseph Smith for eternity?‏‎ (2 categories)
  226. Question: How is the Joseph Smith Translation best understood?‏‎ (2 categories)
  227. Question: Did Latter-day Saints wish to avoid being classified as Christians?‏‎ (2 categories)
  228. Question: Who is the author of ''History of the Church''?‏‎ (2 categories)
  229. Question: Does the Bible forbid plural marriage?‏‎ (2 categories)
  230. Roper: "For example, an iron knife was found in an eleventh century Philistine tomb showed evidence of deliberate carburization"‏‎ (2 categories)
  231. Question: Was Brigham Young's letter ordering immigrants to be left alone "mysteriously lost"?‏‎ (2 categories)
  232. Question: How valid are the names used in the Holley Map?‏‎ (2 categories)
  233. Question: Did Martin Harris ever deny his Book of Mormon witness because he thought that Joseph Smith was a fallen prophet?‏‎ (2 categories)
  234. Question: When and how did plural marriage begin in the Church?‏‎ (2 categories)
  235. Question: What did William Stafford claim about Joseph Smith in the Hurlbut affidavits?‏‎ (2 categories)
  236. Question: Did Joseph Smith produce any children by his plural wives? The case for children‏‎ (2 categories)
  237. Question: Has the Church hidden the fact that Joseph fired a gun while in Carthage Jail?‏‎ (2 categories)
  238. Question: Was Isaac McWithy brought before the High Council on charges of "insolence" because he refused to sell his land to Joseph Smith for $3000?‏‎ (2 categories)
  239. Source:Nibley:CW06:Ch19:9:Mourning by the daughters of Ishmael‏‎ (2 categories)
  240. Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Becoming Gods/Use of sources/Changing Biblical text‏‎ (2 categories)
  241. Question: Is the Spalding theory of Book of Mormon authorship credible?‏‎ (2 categories)
  242. Source:Nicholson:The Spectacles, The Stone:This essay focuses primarily on the methods and instruments used in the translation process‏‎ (2 categories)
  243. The Mormon Concept of God: A Philosophical Analysis‏‎ (2 categories)
  244. Question: Did the Church repudiate the idea of neutrality in the "war in heaven?"‏‎ (2 categories)
  245. Question: Did Heber C. Kimball claim that the apostles killed Judas?‏‎ (2 categories)
  246. Question: How would an archaeologist distinguish a Christian's pot from that of a non-Christian?‏‎ (2 categories)
  247. Elder's Journal/1/2‏‎ (2 categories)
  248. Question: Were William Parrish and his son murdered as they attempted to leave Utah because leaving Utah was "forbidden"?‏‎ (2 categories)
  249. Question: Were the names "Moroni" and "Cumorah" available on maps accessible to Joseph Smith?‏‎ (2 categories)
  250. Question: Why did Joseph Smith make changes to the Book of Mormon such as modifying "God" to read "the Son of God"?‏‎ (2 categories)
  251. Question: Do all other religions confirm their beliefs through spiritual witness?‏‎ (2 categories)
  252. Dr. Wendy Ulrich (2005): "How do the goosebumps and tearfulness I experience when someone speaks in a testimony meeting differ from the goosebumps and tearfulness I experience when the 4:00 parade begins at Disneyland?"‏‎ (2 categories)
  253. Joseph Smith (1842): "surrounded with a brilliant light which eclipsed the sun at noon-day"‏‎ (2 categories)
  254. Source:Penrose:Peculiar Questions Briefly Answered:Improvement Era:Sept 1912:We do not know anything about Jesus Christ being married‏‎ (2 categories)
  255. Question: What material were the plates made from?‏‎ (2 categories)
  256. Question: What does the Church teach on the subject of death before the Fall of Adam?‏‎ (2 categories)
  257. Question: Are Church members required to believe in a global flood?‏‎ (2 categories)
  258. Joseph Smith's First Vision/John Taylor‏‎ (2 categories)
  259. Question: Do Latter-day Saints believe that Quetzalcoatl was actually Jesus Christ?‏‎ (2 categories)
  260. The Bible/Joseph Smith Translation‏‎ (2 categories)
  261. Logical fallacies/Page 2‏‎ (2 categories)
  262. Forgeries/Mark Hofmann/Church reaction to forgeries/Dallin H. Oaks 6 August 1987 remarks on Hofmann‏‎ (2 categories)
  263. John Whitmer (1876): "I have never heard that any one of the three or eight witnesses ever denied the testimony that they have borne to the Book as published in the first edition of the Book of Mormon"‏‎ (2 categories)
  264. Question: What are the criticisms regarding Joseph's interpretation of specific textual elements of Facsimile 3?‏‎ (2 categories)
  265. Understanding revelation‏‎ (2 categories)
  266. Question: How long did the Church know about the papyri before they published information about them?‏‎ (2 categories)
  267. Question: Did ceremonies or practices ever change in the ancient Church?‏‎ (2 categories)
  268. Question: What are the Kirtland Egyptian Papers?‏‎ (2 categories)
  269. Question: Were the characters on the papyri written by Abraham himself?‏‎ (2 categories)
  270. Countercult ministries/The Interactive Bible/Difficult Questions for Mormons/Influenced by the KJV of the Bible‏‎ (2 categories)
  271. Question: Did Joseph Smith make an error by claiming that Elias and Elijah are two different people, when they are in fact one and the same?‏‎ (2 categories)
  272. Book of Jubilees 12:1-8: "Abram said to Terah his father...What help and profit have we from those idols which thou dost worship...And his father said unto him...Keep silent, my son, lest they slay thee"‏‎ (2 categories)
  273. Mormonism and apologetics/"ad hominem"/Case study/An attempt to portray Dan Peterson as dishonest and possibly mentally ill‏‎ (2 categories)
  274. Detailed response to CES Letter, Polygamy and Polyandry‏‎ (2 categories)
  275. Question: Was Joseph Smith ever charged with adultery under Illinois law?‏‎ (2 categories)
  276. Question: What did Orson Pratt state about Joseph Smith's First Vision?‏‎ (2 categories)
  277. Source:Gospel Topics:Becoming Like God:Latter-day Saints see all people as children of God in a full and complete sense‏‎ (2 categories)
  278. Question: What did the husband of Patty Bartlett know about her sealing to Joseph Smith for eternity?‏‎ (2 categories)
  279. Question: Did early Mormon leaders consider themselves Christians?‏‎ (2 categories)
  280. Question: Did Gordon B. Hinckley claim that polygamy was "not doctrinal" on Larry King Live?‏‎ (2 categories)
  281. Criticism of Mormonism/Online documents/Denver Snuffer/Excommunication/Unrighteous dominion‏‎ (2 categories)
  282. Madden et al.: "by the beginning of the tenth century B.C. blacksmiths were intentionally steeling iron"‏‎ (2 categories)
  283. Question: What statements have Latter-day Saints leaders made regarding the location of the Garden of Eden?‏‎ (2 categories)
  284. Sorenson: Linen and silk textiles in ancient America‏‎ (2 categories)
  285. Question: Was the revelation comprising the current Doctrine and Covenants 27 altered to include mention of the priesthood restoration?‏‎ (2 categories)
  286. Question: Why do Mormons use water instead of wine for their sacrament services?‏‎ (2 categories)
  287. Question: Did Orson Hyde state that it was permissible to "steal & be influenced by the spirit of the Lord to do it" as long as it was against non-Mormons?‏‎ (2 categories)
  288. Question: When Joseph Smith performed the marriage of Newel Knight and Lydia Bailey, were they guilty of bigamy since Lydia had not been formally divorced from her previous husband?‏‎ (2 categories)
  289. Question: What did Joseph Capron claim about Joseph Smith in the Hurlbut affidavits?‏‎ (2 categories)
  290. Question: Did Joseph Smith produce any children by his plural wives? The case against children‏‎ (2 categories)
  291. Question: Did Brigham Young or the Church interfere with the trial of John D. Lee?‏‎ (2 categories)
  292. Book of Mormon/Plagiarism accusations/Comoros Islands and Moroni/Captain Kidd‏‎ (2 categories)
  293. Question: What criticisms are raised with regard to Book of Mormon archaeology compared to that of the Bible?‏‎ (2 categories)
  294. Question: What do the Hurlbut affidavits say about the Spalding manuscript and the Book of Mormon?‏‎ (2 categories)
  295. Source:Gardner:The Gift and the Power:it’s stone that becomes the trigger that allows the seer to do what the seer does‏‎ (2 categories)
  296. Criticism of Mormonism/Online documents/Letter to a CES Director/Debunking FairMormon‏‎ (2 categories)
  297. Question: Which sources mention Nephi as the angelic visitor who told Joseph Smith about the gold plates?‏‎ (2 categories)
  298. Question: Did Joseph Smith say that he would be a "second Muhammad," threatening to spread his beliefs with the sword?‏‎ (2 categories)
  299. Elder's Journal/1/3‏‎ (2 categories)
  300. Question: Did Brigham Young issue orders that no food or grain should be sold to "Gentiles" that were passing through Utah?‏‎ (2 categories)
  301. Question: Does Church art always reflect reality?‏‎ (2 categories)
  302. Question: How can you know if your answer to prayer, your personal revelation, is true?‏‎ (2 categories)
  303. Joseph Smith: "Jesus Christ became a ministering spirit (while his body was lying in the sepulcher)...After His resurrection He appeared as an angel to His disciples"‏‎ (2 categories)
  304. Question: What is Moroni's promise?‏‎ (2 categories)
  305. Question: Why did Joseph Smith state the he was visited by two personages and then just five days later say that he was visited by angels?‏‎ (2 categories)
  306. Question: What happened to the papyri after Joseph's death?‏‎ (2 categories)
  307. Question: How early was the story of the First Vision known among the members of the Church?‏‎ (2 categories)
  308. Question: Did Brigham Young tell Henry Jacobs in front of hundreds of people that he needed to find another wife?‏‎ (2 categories)
  309. Question: How many times was the name of the Church changed through revelation?‏‎ (2 categories)
  310. Criticism of Mormonism/Books/One Nation Under Gods/Chapter 17‏‎ (2 categories)
  311. Question: Did Joseph Smith set up a bar to sell liquor in Nauvoo?‏‎ (2 categories)
  312. Question: Do Latter-day Saints believe that no genuine Christians exist outside of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints?‏‎ (2 categories)
  313. Question: Was there no death on the entire earth before the Fall?‏‎ (2 categories)
  314. Question: How could the Garden of Eden have been in Missouri if the Flood was local?‏‎ (2 categories)
  315. Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Covering Up the Black Hole in the Book of Mormon/Index‏‎ (2 categories)
  316. Logical fallacies/Page 1‏‎ (2 categories)
  317. Mormonism and the nature of God/Corporeality of God‏‎ (2 categories)
  318. Forgeries/Mark Hofmann/Known forged documents‏‎ (2 categories)
  319. Question: Did William Smith claim that a religious revival led to the Joseph's "first vision" of an angel in 1823?‏‎ (2 categories)
  320. Question: Is it ever allowable to modify a religious ceremony?‏‎ (2 categories)
  321. Question: Is original sin a biblical doctrine?‏‎ (2 categories)
  322. Source:David Whitmer:Rebuttal to John Murphy 19 March 1881:EMD 5:69:Which has so long since been published with that book as one of the three witnesses‏‎ (2 categories)
  323. Question: Are prophets simply "men of their time," without any special ability to guide the Church?‏‎ (2 categories)
  324. Question: Does the Joseph Smith papyri consist of Egyptian funerary documents?‏‎ (2 categories)
  325. Mormonism and apologetics/"ad hominem"/Case study/An attempt to dismiss Rosalynde Welch because of who she is related to‏‎ (2 categories)
  326. Question: Were there any similar cases under Illinois adultery statute which demonstrate that Joseph was not breaking the law?‏‎ (2 categories)
  327. Question: What did the husband of Elizabeth Davis know about her sealing to Joseph Smith for eternity?‏‎ (2 categories)
  328. Question: Did LDS leaders claim that Christians were no longer present on the earth after the apostasy?‏‎ (2 categories)
  329. Question: How can President Hinckley claim that polygamy is "not doctrinal" if it was a required practice in the 19th-Century Church?‏‎ (2 categories)
  330. Criticism of Mormonism/Online documents/Denver Snuffer/Inconsistent claims‏‎ (2 categories)
  331. Question: Was Heber C. Kimball concerned that missionaries would "take all the best" convert women as plural wives before they returned to Salt Lake City?‏‎ (2 categories)
  332. Question: Do any other religious traditions view the Garden of Eden as "local"?‏‎ (2 categories)
  333. Mountain Meadows Massacre‏‎ (2 categories)
  334. Stephen Burnett on Martin Harris: "But he never saw them only as he saw a city through a mountain"‏‎ (2 categories)
  335. Question: What evidence of religious excitement is there from non-Mormon sources?‏‎ (2 categories)
  336. Question: Did the Three Witnesses consider Joseph Smith a "fallen prophet" after they left the Church?‏‎ (2 categories)
  337. Source:William Smith:The Old Soldier's Testimony:1884:It was not written from the Spaulding Romance. That story is false‏‎ (2 categories)
  338. Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Mormon America: The Power and the Promise/Chapter 4‏‎ (2 categories)
  339. Question: What is the current state of the evidence for proving or disproving that Joseph Smith had children by his plural wives?‏‎ (2 categories)
  340. Question: Were the Kirtland Egyptian Papers and Egyptian Alphabet and Grammar produced prior to the Book of Abraham?‏‎ (2 categories)
  341. Criticism of Mormonism/Books/An Insider's View of Mormon Origins/Use of sources/To copy or not to copy‏‎ (2 categories)
  342. Question: Has the Church tried to hide Joseph's use of a seer stone?‏‎ (2 categories)
  343. Question: Why is the French word "adieu" in the Book of Mormon?‏‎ (2 categories)
  344. Gospel Topics: "Today, any person who practices plural marriage cannot become or remain a member of the Church"‏‎ (2 categories)
  345. Elder's Journal/1/4‏‎ (2 categories)
  346. Question: Were 19th century Utah Mormons complicit in the deaths of Judge Leonidas Shaver, John Gunnison, and Almon Babbitt?‏‎ (2 categories)
  347. Question: Why are people concerned about Church artwork?‏‎ (2 categories)
  348. Joseph Smith (1843): "I am just as ready to die in defending the rights of a Presbyterian, a Baptist, or a good man of any other denomination"‏‎ (2 categories)
  349. Joseph Smith (14 Nov. 1835): "I received the first visitation of angels, which was when I was about fourteen years old"‏‎ (2 categories)
  350. Question: Is prayer the only element required in the determination of truth?‏‎ (2 categories)
  351. Joseph Smith (14 Nov. 1835): "I received the first visitation of Angels which was when I was about 14"‏‎ (2 categories)
  352. Question: What do the Joseph Smith papyri fragments consist of?‏‎ (2 categories)
  353. Question: What names did the Church go by prior to the revelation which established the correct one?‏‎ (2 categories)
  354. Question: Why was Nicean Trinitarianism introduced at all?‏‎ (2 categories)
  355. Question: What was the size of each of the gold plates?‏‎ (2 categories)
  356. Question: Did Joseph Smith's family own "magic parchments" which suggest their involvement in the "occult"?‏‎ (2 categories)
  357. Answers to Questions All Mormons Should Ask Themselves‏‎ (2 categories)
  358. Question: What was the state of things on the Earth prior to the placement of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden?‏‎ (2 categories)
  359. Question: Doesn't the Bible say that the continents were divided immediately after the Flood?‏‎ (2 categories)
  360. Question: What are the problems of trying to associate Quetzalcoatl with Jesus Christ?‏‎ (2 categories)
  361. Logical fallacies/Page 3‏‎ (2 categories)
  362. Forgeries/Mark Hofmann/Church reaction to forgeries/Ensign list of Hofmann documents‏‎ (2 categories)
  363. Alleged whitewashing of Church history‏‎ (2 categories)
  364. Similarities between ancient and modern temple rituals‏‎ (2 categories)
  365. Question: Who was James Strang?‏‎ (2 categories)
  366. Southerton (2008/2014): "It's true that if a small group (say 10 people) entered a massive population (say 1 million), that it would be hard to detect their mitochondrial or Y chromosome DNA"‏‎ (2 categories)
  367. Question: What is the origin of the doctrine of original sin?‏‎ (2 categories)
  368. Question: How can you know if an answer to prayer, a personal revelation, is true?‏‎ (2 categories)
  369. Question: What possible modern lessons can we learn from Emma and Joseph's struggle with plural marriage?‏‎ (2 categories)
  370. Question: Do the Joseph Smith papyri date back to the time of Abraham?‏‎ (2 categories)
  371. Question: Who was the "angel" in the First Vision that Andrew Jenson was referring to?‏‎ (2 categories)
  372. Question: How did Elder Holland respond during a BBC interview when asked how the Book of Abraham was translated?‏‎ (2 categories)
  373. Question: Was the fact that the recovery of the Book of Mormon plates occurred on the autumnal equinox somehow significant?‏‎ (2 categories)
  374. Question: Were Joseph Smith's spiritual experiences originally products of magic and the occult?‏‎ (2 categories)
  375. Joseph Smith's marriage to Helen Mar Kimball‏‎ (2 categories)
  376. Question: What is "Polyandry?"‏‎ (2 categories)
  377. Question: Was Joseph Smith sealed or married to other men's wives without the knowledge or consent of their husband?‏‎ (2 categories)
  378. Question: What did the husband of Lucinda Pendleton Morgan Harris know about her sealing to Joseph Smith for eternity?‏‎ (2 categories)
  379. Question: Why does "Nahom" constitute archaeological evidence for the Book of Mormon?‏‎ (2 categories)
  380. Question: What did early Mormon leaders think of Christians?‏‎ (2 categories)
  381. Question: Were apostates secretly put to death by "blood atonement" during the administration of Brigham Young?‏‎ (2 categories)
  382. Criticism of Mormonism/Online documents/Denver Snuffer/Inconsistent claims/Misleading citation of Brigham Young, Heber C. Kimball, and George A. Smith‏‎ (2 categories)
  383. Source:Gospel Topics:The Manifesto and the End of Plural Marriage:Reed Smoot hearings‏‎ (2 categories)
  384. Question: If the Garden of Eden was in Missouri, how did Abraham, Moses and other prophets end up in the Old World?‏‎ (2 categories)
  385. Question: What is "reformed Egyptian"?‏‎ (2 categories)
  386. Mountain Meadows Massacre/Brigham Young‏‎ (2 categories)
  387. Martin Harris: "Just as plain as you see that chopping block, I saw the plates"‏‎ (2 categories)
  388. Question: Could Joseph Smith have utilized place names and locations from the region in which he lived to create the Book of Mormon?‏‎ (2 categories)
  389. Source:Palmyra Register:28 June 1820:5 July 1820:It was far from our intention to charge the Methodists with retailing ardent spirits while professedly met for the worship of their God‏‎ (2 categories)
  390. Question: Does the Book of Mormon refer to "coins"?‏‎ (2 categories)
  391. FAIR Study Aids/Seminary/Old Testament/Week 31‏‎ (2 categories)
  392. Multiple accounts of the First Vision/Brigham Young said the Lord didn't appear‏‎ (2 categories)
  393. Question: Did Joseph Smith violate marriage laws in Ohio by performing marriages?‏‎ (2 categories)
  394. Question: What is the nature of "endless" or "eternal" punishment?‏‎ (2 categories)
  395. Criticism of Mormonism/Books/One Nation Under Gods/Use of sources/Brigham as President of the United States‏‎ (2 categories)
  396. Question: Why is confidentiality associated with the temple ordinances?‏‎ (2 categories)
  397. Question: Is the Mormon temple garment simply "magic underwear"?‏‎ (2 categories)
  398. Question: Do Latter-day Saints ("Mormons") actually believe that they are morally, ethically, spiritually superior to others?‏‎ (2 categories)
  399. Criticism of Mormonism/Books/One Nation Under Gods/Overview‏‎ (2 categories)
  400. Question: Does Jesus Christ's statement "they neither marry, nor are given in marriage" contradict the Latter-day Saint doctrine of eternal marriage?‏‎ (2 categories)
  401. Question: How many seer stones did Joseph Smith have in his possession?‏‎ (2 categories)
  402. Question: If a person faithfully practices Mormonism during this life, do they become a god after they die?‏‎ (2 categories)
  403. Question: What happens when a Mormon criticizes Church leaders?‏‎ (2 categories)
  404. Question: Was the only purpose of polygamy to "multiply and replenish the earth" and "bear the souls of men"?‏‎ (2 categories)
  405. Question: Did federal officials flee Utah because they feared for their lives?‏‎ (2 categories)
  406. Question: What if the "rod of nature" was indeed a physical object such as a divining rod?‏‎ (2 categories)
  407. Question: How do non-Mormon artists treat the Nativity?‏‎ (2 categories)
  408. Question: Did the actual words "God the Father" and "Jesus Christ" appear in Joseph's 1838 account of the First Vision?‏‎ (2 categories)
  409. Preach My Gospel: "As you pray for inspiration, you should also confirm your feelings...Certainly the Spirit of the Lord can bring strong emotional feelings, including tears, but that outward manifestation ought not to be confused with the presence of the‏‎ (2 categories)
  410. Painesville Telegraph (1831): Martin Harris said that "He had seen and handled them all"‏‎ (2 categories)
  411. Question: Why did Elder Boyd K. Packer state that "Some things that are true are not very useful"?‏‎ (2 categories)
  412. Question: What was the thickness of each gold plate?‏‎ (2 categories)
  413. Multiple accounts of the First Vision‏‎ (2 categories)
  414. Question: What is the probability that Joseph Smith possessed items related to "magic"?‏‎ (2 categories)
  415. Question: What changes have been made to the ''Gospel Principles'' manual regarding the question of death on the earth before the Fall of Adam?‏‎ (2 categories)
  416. Joseph Smith's First Vision/Lucy Mack Smith and the Presbyterians‏‎ (2 categories)
  417. Logical fallacies/Page 4‏‎ (2 categories)
  418. The Bat Creek Stone‏‎ (2 categories)
  419. Question: How can we accept David Whitmer as a valid Book of Mormon witness if God told him to leave the Saints?‏‎ (2 categories)
  420. Olson (2004): "People may like to think that they're descended from some ancient group while other people are not. But human ancestry doesn't work that way, since we all share the same ancestors just a few millenniums ago"‏‎ (2 categories)
  421. Question: Is the concept of "original sin" part of all Christian theology?‏‎ (2 categories)
  422. Question: If a doctrine is repudiated, does that mean that it was false when it was being taught?‏‎ (2 categories)
  423. Joseph Smith's First Vision/Personages that appeared referred to by Church leaders as "angels"‏‎ (2 categories)
  424. Doctrine and Covenants and Church History Study Guide: "These papyri contain authentic Egyptian writings, but they do not date to the time of Abraham, nor do they contain the actual personally handwritten account of Abraham"‏‎ (2 categories)
  425. Criticism of Mormonism/Books/By His Own Hand upon Papyrus: A New Look at the Joseph Smith Papyri/Larson "restoration" of Facsimile 1‏‎ (2 categories)
  426. Parrish (1838): "I have set by his side and penned down the translation of the Egyptian Heiroglyphicks as he claimed to receive it by direct inspiration of Heaven"‏‎ (2 categories)
  427. Detailed response to CES Letter, Witnesses‏‎ (2 categories)
  428. Question: Were plural wives forced into the marriage?‏‎ (2 categories)
  429. Question: Was Helen Mar Kimball's marriage to Joseph Smith ever consummated?‏‎ (2 categories)
  430. Question: What did the husband of Ruth Vose Sayers know about her sealing to Joseph Smith for eternity?‏‎ (2 categories)
  431. Question: What did the husband of Elvira Annie Cowles know about her sealing to Joseph Smith for eternity?‏‎ (2 categories)
  432. Question: Did Joseph Smith have access to materials related to Nahom at Allegheny College?‏‎ (2 categories)
  433. Source:Gospel Topics:The Manifesto and the End of Plural Marriage:Joseph F. Smith broke the law‏‎ (2 categories)
  434. Question: Did Joseph Smith issue a prophecy that the Nauvoo House would stand forever and ever?‏‎ (2 categories)
  435. Question: What was known about steel in ancient America?‏‎ (2 categories)
  436. Mountain Meadows Massacre/Personalities‏‎ (2 categories)
  437. Question: Was the priest depicted in Book of Abraham Facsimile 1 holding a knife or was it some other object?‏‎ (2 categories)
  438. Question: Did Martin Harris change his religion five times prior to the Restoration?‏‎ (2 categories)
  439. Mormonism and doctrine‏‎ (2 categories)
  440. Question: Did Emma Smith discover her husband Joseph with Fanny Alger in a barn?‏‎ (2 categories)
  441. Joseph Smith/Polygamy/Polyandry‏‎ (2 categories)
  442. Question: Does the Book of Mormon rely primarily on those chapters from Isaiah mentioned in Ethan Smith's ''View of the Hebrews''?‏‎ (2 categories)
  443. Mormonism and doctrine/Repudiated concepts/Blood atonement‏‎ (2 categories)
  444. Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Nauvoo Polygamy/Chapter 1‏‎ (2 categories)
  445. Question: What is the meaning of "eternal" life?‏‎ (2 categories)
  446. Criticism of Mormonism/Books/One Nation Under Gods/Use of sources/Brigham Young ordered MMM‏‎ (2 categories)
  447. Question: Is it true that Joseph killed two men by firing at the mob?‏‎ (2 categories)
  448. Source:Echoes:Ch5:29:Lehi's desert journey and Joseph Smith‏‎ (2 categories)
  449. Question: Did Joseph Smith give some of the brethren money to purchase whiskey in violation of the Word of Wisdom?‏‎ (2 categories)
  450. Question: Did the daughter of Hugh Nibley accuse him of abusing her?‏‎ (2 categories)
  451. Question: If the only purpose of polygamy was to "raise up seed," then why did Joseph not have children by his plural wives?‏‎ (2 categories)
  452. Question: Do Mormon men believe that they will become "gods of their own planets" and rule over others?‏‎ (2 categories)
  453. Question: Do academic translators copy translations of other documents to use as a "base text"?‏‎ (2 categories)
  454. Dallin H. Oaks (1987): "It should be recognized that such tools as the Urim and Thummim, the Liahona, seerstones, and other articles have been used appropriately in biblical, Book of Mormon, and modern times"‏‎ (2 categories)
  455. Question: What message does the Book of Mormon translation painting convey?‏‎ (2 categories)
  456. Question: Did Joseph mention a "pillar of fire" or a "pillar of light" in his 1832 account of the First Vision?‏‎ (2 categories)
  457. Question: What about those who pray and don't receive a confirmation the Book of Mormon is true?‏‎ (2 categories)
  458. Question: Does the use of the capitalized word "Angel" in the 14 November 1835 account refer to Deity?‏‎ (2 categories)
  459. Question: How could Joseph Smith come to the conclusion that all churches were wrong on his own?‏‎ (2 categories)
  460. Question: What was the thickness of the entire volume of gold plates?‏‎ (2 categories)
  461. Question: Does the Strengthening Church Members Committee still exist?‏‎ (2 categories)
  462. Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Mormonism 101/Chapter 8‏‎ (2 categories)
  463. Question: Was a "magic dagger" once owned by Hyrum Smith?‏‎ (2 categories)
  464. Painesville Telegraph (1830): "Cowdry claims that he and his associates are the only persons on earth who are qualified to administer in his name. By this authority, they proclaim to the world"‏‎ (2 categories)
  465. Question: Is the concept of no death before the fall on the ''entire earth'' Church doctrine?‏‎ (2 categories)
  466. Multiple accounts of the First Vision/Orson Hyde referred to "angels"‏‎ (2 categories)
  467. Countercult ministries/Tower to Truth Ministries/50 Questions to Ask Mormons‏‎ (2 categories)
  468. Question: What is "empirical evidence"?‏‎ (2 categories)
  469. Question: Was Martin Harris a gullible witness who would simply believe anything he was told?‏‎ (2 categories)
  470. The Burrows Cave artifacts‏‎ (2 categories)
  471. Question: Was Joseph Smith afraid to reproduce the text of the lost 116 pages of Book of Mormon manuscript because he could not do so?‏‎ (2 categories)
  472. Question: Did one of the Book of Mormon witnesses actually only handle the plates while they were covered in a "tow frock"?‏‎ (2 categories)
  473. Question: Can the Newark "Holy Stones" be used as evidence to support the Book of Mormon?‏‎ (2 categories)
  474. Question: What are the criticisms related to Facsimile 3?‏‎ (2 categories)
  475. Jesus Christ‏‎ (2 categories)
  476. Criticism of Mormonism/Books/American Massacre/Chapter 2‏‎ (2 categories)
  477. Question: In what manner was the Melchizedek Priesthood restored?‏‎ (2 categories)
  478. Neil L. Andersen (2012): "A few question their faith when they find a statement made by a Church leader decades ago that seems incongruent with our doctrine"‏‎ (2 categories)
  479. John Whitmer: "Joseph the Seer saw these Record(s) and by the revelation of Jesus Christ could translate these records"‏‎ (2 categories)
  480. Question: Did any woman suffer consequences for turning down Joseph's proposal?‏‎ (2 categories)
  481. Question: How does archaeology in the Old World compare to the first chapters in the Book of Mormon?‏‎ (2 categories)
  482. Question: Did Helen Mar Kimball "confess" to having marital relations with Joseph?‏‎ (2 categories)
  483. Question: What did the husband of Esther Dutcher know about her sealing to Joseph Smith for eternity?‏‎ (2 categories)
  484. Question: How does archaeology in the New World fit with the Book of Mormon?‏‎ (2 categories)
  485. Criticism of Mormonism/Online documents/Denver Snuffer/Excommunication/Sustaining Church leaders‏‎ (2 categories)
  486. Source:James H. Reeves:Palmyra Courier:24 May 1872:Martin Harris "quite skeptical, as well as superstitious"‏‎ (2 categories)
  487. Roper: "archaeologists have discovered a carburized iron sword near Jericho"‏‎ (2 categories)
  488. Question: Are the names on the Holley Map in the correct locations relative to one another?‏‎ (2 categories)
  489. Question: Do Latter-day Saints believe in a "different" Jesus than "mainstream" Christians?‏‎ (2 categories)
  490. Question: Could Joseph have used a Bible during and simply dictated from it during Book of Mormon translation?‏‎ (2 categories)
  491. Question: Does Martin Harris' involvement with the Shakers undercut his testimony?‏‎ (2 categories)
  492. Sorenson: The grain "Amaranth" in Mexico‏‎ (2 categories)
  493. Question: Why does the Book of Mormon say that Jesus would be born "at Jerusalem which is the land of our forefathers" when the Bible states that he was born in Bethlehem?‏‎ (2 categories)
  494. Initiation of the practice of plural marriage‏‎ (2 categories)
  495. Polyandry and Joseph Smith: sealings to women with living husbands‏‎ (2 categories)
  496. Question: Does the Book of Mormon support the idea that "eternal" or "endless" punishment can be temporary?‏‎ (2 categories)
  497. Criticism of Mormonism/Books/One Nation Under Gods/Use of sources/Brigham Young orders MMM monument demolished‏‎ (2 categories)
  498. Question: Is it possible that Joseph Smith is not a martyr because, while in jail, he had a gun and he had the temerity to defend himself?‏‎ (2 categories)
  499. Source:Ricks:Some Notes on Book of Mormon Names:Interpreter:Three altar inscriptions containing NHM‏‎ (2 categories)
  500. Question: Do Mormons believe that the Bible has less value because it contains errors?‏‎ (2 categories)

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