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- Mormon ordinances (4 interwikis)
- Joseph Smith/Early Smith family history (4 interwikis)
- Plural marriage/Early Christians on plural marriage (4 interwikis)
- Relationship between the temple endowment and Freemasonry (4 interwikis)
- Plural marriage and the Bible (4 interwikis)
- Joseph Smith and money digging (4 interwikis)
- Question: What are the differences between the Endowment and Freemasonry? (4 interwikis)
- Joseph Smith's First Vision (4 interwikis)
- Plural marriage/19th century attitudes toward plural marriage (4 interwikis)
- Joseph Smith/Politics and government (4 interwikis)
- Joseph Smith/Polygamy/Implementation of plural marriage (4 interwikis)
- Did Joseph have lustful motives for practicing polygamy? (4 interwikis)
- Joseph Smith/Seer stones (4 interwikis)
- Question: How did the mainstream Christian view that God created the universe out of nothing originate? (4 interwikis)
- Brigham Young's statements regarding plural marriage (4 interwikis)
- Plural marriage in early Christianity (4 interwikis)
- Book of Mormon/DNA evidence (4 interwikis)
- Plural marriage/In Latter-day Saint scripture (4 interwikis)
- Joseph Smith (4 interwikis)
- The Bible/Mormons revere the Holy Bible (4 interwikis)
- Joseph Smith/Polygamy/Children of polygamous marriages (4 interwikis)
- Joseph Smith/Martyrdom (4 interwikis)
- Joseph Smith/Polygamy/Emma Smith (4 interwikis)
- Mormonism and racial issues/Blacks and the priesthood (4 interwikis)
- Question: Do Latter-day Saints consider the Bible to be untrustworthy? (4 interwikis)
- Question: Was the apostasy predicted by the Bible not complete? (4 interwikis)
- Topical Guide/Church organization/Finances (4 interwikis)
- Joseph Smith/Narcissism (4 interwikis)
- Emma Smith's reaction to Joseph Smith's plural marriages (4 interwikis)
- Question: What are the "works of Abraham" and how does this relate to plural marriage? (4 interwikis)
- The Church of Jesus Christ and plural marriage today (3 interwikis)
- Joseph Smith/Polygamy/Keeping plural marriage a secret (3 interwikis)
- Kinderhook Plates (3 interwikis)
- Plants in the Book of Mormon (3 interwikis)
- Elephants in the Book of Mormon (3 interwikis)
- Question: Does the Bible teach that individual works are unnecessary? (3 interwikis)
- Articles of Faith (3 interwikis)
- Mormonism and prophets (3 interwikis)
- Latter-day Saint Temples/Baptism for the dead (3 interwikis)
- Mormonism and science/Global or local Flood (3 interwikis)
- The Bible/Scripture interpretation (3 interwikis)
- Question: Have edits to the revelations been discussed in the present day? (3 interwikis)
- Joseph Smith/Seer stones/"Rock in hat" used for Book of Mormon translation (3 interwikis)
- Mormonism and the nature of God/Deification of man (3 interwikis)
- Joseph Smith/Narcissism/Boasting (3 interwikis)
- Mormonism and the nature of God/Heavenly Mother (3 interwikis)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith institute polygamy because he had a "voracious sexual appetite"? (3 interwikis)
- Mormonism and the nature of God/Theodicy (3 interwikis)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith use his own seer stone to translate the Book of Mormon? (3 interwikis)
- Mormon women refusing offers of plural marriage (3 interwikis)
- Question: Did David Whitmer ever deny his Book of Mormon witness because he thought that Joseph Smith was a fallen prophet? (3 interwikis)
- Question: What is the source of the story about Joseph Smith possessing a Jupiter talisman? (3 interwikis)
- Joseph Smith/Accusations of false prophecies (3 interwikis)
- Neuenschwander (2009): "Joseph's vision was at first an intensely personal experience...it became the founding revelation of the Restoration" (3 interwikis)
- Question: Could Moroni have been an "angel of Satan"? (3 interwikis)
- 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" (3 interwikis)
- Source:Gospel Topics:The Manifesto and the End of Plural Marriage:Joseph F. Smith broke the law (3 interwikis)
- Seminary Teacher Resource Manual: "We have no knowledge that plural marriage will be a requirement for exaltation" (3 interwikis)
- Question: Did Oliver Cowdery ever deny his Book of Mormon witness because he thought that Joseph Smith was a fallen prophet? (3 interwikis)
- Question: Why were the gold plates needed at all if they weren't used directly during the translation process? (3 interwikis)
- Mormonism and racial issues/Blacks and the priesthood/The "curse of Cain" and "curse of Ham" (3 interwikis)
- Question: Why do Mormons use the Aaronic Priesthood, since Hebrews 7 states that the Aaronic/Levitical Priesthood was "changed" to the unique priesthood "after the order of Melchizedek" held by Jesus Christ? (3 interwikis)
- Question: What does it mean to Mormons when Jesus is declared to be the "alpha and omega"? (3 interwikis)
- Question: What is the Book of Mormon? (3 interwikis)
- The Mormon understanding of Satan (3 interwikis)
- Question: What is "Polyandry?" (3 interwikis)
- Question: What are modern Church leaders' views on the Lectures on Faith? (3 interwikis)
- Question: What evidence demonstrates that the Bible has been altered? (3 interwikis)
- The Joseph Smith Papyri (3 interwikis)
- Joseph Smith's First Vision/Fabricated to give "Godly authority" (3 interwikis)
- Book of Mormon/Language/"Adieu" (3 interwikis)
- Question: How can we tell if a modern revelation comes from God or Satan? (3 interwikis)
- Joseph Smith's First Vision/Persecution after the vision (3 interwikis)
- Book of Mormon/Money (3 interwikis)
- Question: How do Latter-day Saints reconcile scriptural accounts of the Flood of Noah with scientific evidence of continuous human habitation on the earth? (3 interwikis)
- The Doctrine and Covenants and Book of Mormon geography (3 interwikis)
- Question: How would a statement that "God is a spirit" be interpreted in ancient Judasism? (3 interwikis)
- Doctrine and Covenants/Lectures on Faith (3 interwikis)
- Accounts of Joseph Smith's First Vision/1832 (3 interwikis)
- Latter-day Saint Temples/Endowment (3 interwikis)
- Question: Did Martin Harris ever deny his Book of Mormon witness because he thought that Joseph Smith was a fallen prophet? (3 interwikis)
- Question: Was there no mention of revival activity in 1820 in the newspaper? (3 interwikis)
- Question: When the Bible talks about being "born again," what does this mean? (3 interwikis)
- Horses in the Book of Mormon (3 interwikis)
- Mormonism and racial issues (3 interwikis)
- Baptism for the dead in early Christianity (3 interwikis)
- Question: Is prayer the only element required in the determination of truth? (3 interwikis)
- Jesus Christ/Atonement/The importance of the atonement of Jesus Christ to the Latter-day Saints (3 interwikis)
- Mormonism and other religions (3 interwikis)
- Question: Is there any mention of the First Vision in non-Mormon literature before 1843? (3 interwikis)
- Mormonism and church integrity (3 interwikis)
- Mormonism and the nature of God (3 interwikis)
- Mormonism and the nature of God/Early teachings (3 interwikis)
- Joseph Smith/Narcissism/Pride (3 interwikis)
- Mormonism and the nature of God/Interaction with God (3 interwikis)
- Question: Could Joseph Smith have hypnotized the witnesses to the Book of Mormon? (3 interwikis)
- Mormonism and the nature of God/Theodicy/Death of innocents (3 interwikis)
- Question: Did Joseph ever place the Nephite interpreters ("Urim and Thummim") into his hat? (3 interwikis)
- Plural marriage and the law (3 interwikis)
- Moroni's visit/Nephi or Moroni (3 interwikis)
- Question: Is plural marriage required in order to achieve exaltation? (3 interwikis)
- Question: What is Moroni's promise? (3 interwikis)
- Source:Gospel Topics:Bible, Inerrancy of:As the Bible was compiled, organized, translated, and transcribed, many errors entered the text (3 interwikis)
- Question: Why do Mormon's believe that ongoing divine revelation is necessary? (3 interwikis)
- Question: Are the ''Lectures on Faith'' not made available through Latter-day Saint sources? (3 interwikis)
- "Approaching Mormon Doctrine," LDS Newsroom (May 2007): "Not every statement made by a Church leader, past or present, necessarily constitutes doctrine" (3 interwikis)
- Mormonism and racial issues/Blacks and the priesthood/Understanding pre-1978 statements (3 interwikis)
- Question: What happened to Joseph Smith's seer stones? (3 interwikis)
- Question: Where did 19th-Century Latter-day Saints believe that Freemasonry came from? (3 interwikis)
- Word of Wisdom (3 interwikis)
- Question: What are the reasons for the changes to the Doctrine and Covenants? (3 interwikis)
- Question: Which method of translation was more "believable": seer stone or Nephite interpreters? (3 interwikis)
- Joseph Smith/Miracles (3 interwikis)
- Book of Abraham/Joseph Smith Papyri/Church disclosure of "Book of the Dead" (3 interwikis)
- Joseph Smith's First Vision/Early knowledge of the nature of God (3 interwikis)
- Question: How do dinosaurs fit into God's plan? (3 interwikis)
- Understanding revelation (3 interwikis)
- The Spalding Theory of Book of Mormon authorship (3 interwikis)
- Doctrine and Covenants/Lectures on Faith/Removed (3 interwikis)
- The Book of Mormon and the fulness of the gospel (3 interwikis)
- Question: Why did Joseph describe the United Order in revelation as "everlasting" and "immutable and unchangeable" until Jesus comes? (3 interwikis)
- Plural marriage/Lorenzo Snow's statements about polygamy during the Temple Lot case (3 interwikis)
- Accounts of Joseph Smith's First Vision/1835 (3 interwikis)
- Question: Were revivals and religious excitement too common to be noticed in the newspapers? (3 interwikis)
- Mormonism and Christianity (3 interwikis)
- The Apocrypha and the Book of Mormon (3 interwikis)
- Book of Mormon/Wordprint studies (3 interwikis)
- Mormonism and priesthood (3 interwikis)
- Question: Is there evidence that the Smith family was in the Palmyra area in 1820? (3 interwikis)
- Jesus Christ/Atonement/Location (3 interwikis)
- Question: Do Latter-day Saints believe in a female divine person, a "Heavenly Mother" as counterpart to God, the Heavenly Father? (3 interwikis)
- Mormonism and church integrity/Accusations of lying and hypocrisy on the part of the Church (3 interwikis)
- Question: Do the Latter-day Saint "Three Degrees of Glory" have a basis in the Bible? (3 interwikis)
- Question: When and how often did Brigham Young refer to elements of Joseph Smith's First Vision in his discourses? (3 interwikis)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith simply conflate elements of the 1818 and 1824-25 revivals in his story of the First Vision? (3 interwikis)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith begin his prophetic career with a "trinitarian" idea of God? (3 interwikis)
- Question: What is known about possible children through Joseph Smith's polygamous marriages? (3 interwikis)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith say that viewing the gold plates would result in death? (3 interwikis)
- Gospel Topics: "The various accounts of the First Vision tell a consistent story, though naturally they differ in emphasis and detail" (3 interwikis)
- Mormonism and racial issues/Blacks and the priesthood/Social pressure (3 interwikis)
- The Holy Ghost in the Book of Mormon (3 interwikis)
- Question: How many times was Joseph Smith involved with legal issues? (3 interwikis)
- Question: What does the Church teach investigators and members regarding the method by which the Book of Mormon was produced? (3 interwikis)
- Plural marriage/Did President Gordon B. Hinckley state that polygamy was not doctrinal (3 interwikis)
- Question: What are the Nephite interpreters? (3 interwikis)
- Question: How did the authors of the Bible view the earth and the universe? (3 interwikis)
- Question: What purposes could plural marriage possibly serve? (3 interwikis)
- Joseph Smith/Translator (3 interwikis)
- The Kirtland Egyptian Papers (3 interwikis)
- Apostasy/Patristic evidence of (3 interwikis)
- Question: Is the Book of Mormon reference to windows that can be "dashed in pieces" an anachronism? (3 interwikis)
- Events leading to the First Vision (3 interwikis)
- Reformed Egyptian and the Book of Mormon (3 interwikis)
- Doctrine and Covenants/Criticism (3 interwikis)
- Source of the temple endowment (3 interwikis)
- Mormonism and doctrine (3 interwikis)
- Question: Were Biblical prophets infallible? (3 interwikis)
- Mormonism and Christianity/Grace and works (3 interwikis)
- Book of Mormon/Plain and precious doctrines (3 interwikis)
- Joseph Smith's family as trustworthy and hard-working (3 interwikis)
- Bible passages in the Book of Mormon (3 interwikis)
- Joseph Smith's use of seer stones as a youth (3 interwikis)
- Mormonism and the internet (3 interwikis)
- Question: Was Joseph Smith found guilty of being a "con man" in 1826? (3 interwikis)
- Mormonism and the nature of God/"Celestial sex" (3 interwikis)
- The witness of Hyrum Smith (3 interwikis)
- The Hurlbut affidavits (3 interwikis)
- Mormonism and the nature of God/Worship of God (3 interwikis)
- Question: Did Brigham Young believe that one could not enter the Celestial Kingdom unless they were a polygamist? (3 interwikis)
- Question: Was Joseph Smith's prophecy that the Independence, Missouri temple "shall be reared in this generation" a failed prophecy? (3 interwikis)
- Question: Is the Father embodied or a spirit in the first edition of the Doctrine and Covenants? (3 interwikis)
- Question: Is a "burning in the bosom" simply a subjective, emotion-based, unreliable way to practice self-deception? (3 interwikis)
- Joseph Smith's 1826 trial (3 interwikis)
- Question: Does Joseph Smith fail the "prophetic test" found in Deuteronomy 18? (3 interwikis)
- Question: Do Latter-day Saints diminish the importance of Jesus Christ and His atonement? (3 interwikis)
- Book of Mormon/Translation/Anthon transcript (3 interwikis)
- Question: Why did Joseph Smith eventually stop using the seer stones to receive revelation? (3 interwikis)
- Question: Do the Book of Abraham and the Book of Mormon link a person's skin color to their behavior in the pre-existence? (3 interwikis)
- Joseph Smith listed as author and proprietor of the Book of Mormon (3 interwikis)
- Testimony of the gospel (3 interwikis)
- Question: What do wordprint studies say about the Book of Mormon? (3 interwikis)
- Question: Was Parley P. Pratt murdered because he stole another man's wife? (3 interwikis)
- Apostasy/Not complete (3 interwikis)
- Joseph Smith's First Vision/Joining other churches (3 interwikis)
- Question: How did Emma Hale Smith react to Joseph's practice of plural marriage? (3 interwikis)
- Book of Mormon/B.H. Roberts (3 interwikis)
- Mormonism and doctrine/Repudiated concepts (3 interwikis)
- Plural marriage/Divorce in the 19th century (3 interwikis)
- Plural marriage/Remarrying without civil divorce (3 interwikis)
- Warfare in the Book of Mormon (3 interwikis)
- Mormonism and doctrine/Official or core doctrine/What is it? (3 interwikis)
- Book of Mormon/Language used (3 interwikis)
- Book of Mormon/Translation/Urim and Thummim (3 interwikis)
- Mormonism and priesthood/Criticisms by traditional Christians (3 interwikis)
- Jesus Christ (3 interwikis)
- Jesus Christ/The "Mormon" vs. the "Christian" Jesus (3 interwikis)
- Mormonism and science (3 interwikis)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith, Sr. practice "divination"? (3 interwikis)
- Mormonism and the nature of God/Criticisms (3 interwikis)
- Joseph Smith/Polygamy/Marriages to young women (3 interwikis)
- Question: Was the Church forthright in identifying the rediscovered papyri prior to their examination by non-LDS Egyptologists? (3 interwikis)
- Question: Is it true that little is known about our Heavenly Mother because she is "protected"? (3 interwikis)
- Joseph Smith/Polygamy/Essays/Illegal marriages in Ohio (3 interwikis)
- Question: Does Colossians 1:16 teach that Jesus created all things out of nothing? (3 interwikis)
- Question: Should Church members simply have "blind trust" in their leaders? (3 interwikis)
- P. Wilhelm Poulson (1878): John Whitmer said "He handed them uncovered into our hands, and we turned the leaves sufficient to satisfy us" (3 interwikis)
- Question: Was polygamy illegal? (3 interwikis)
- Question: Why is the Masonic symbol of the "All Seeing Eye" present on the Salt Lake Temple? (3 interwikis)
- Mormonism and racial issues/Blacks and the priesthood/Origin of the priesthood ban (3 interwikis)
- Mormon ordinances/Marriage (3 interwikis)
- Question: What is an anachronism, and what should be borne in mind when assessing the Book of Mormon (or any other text) for supposed "anachronisms"? (3 interwikis)
- Mormonism and doctrine/Changing (3 interwikis)
- Question: What do the scriptures say about plural marriage? (3 interwikis)
- Question: Was the Joseph Smith Translation intended to be a restoration of original Bible text? (3 interwikis)
- Question: If Mormon are "really" Christians, why do they insist on preaching to other Christians? (3 interwikis)
- Question: What do we know about the chronology of the Book of Mormon translation and publication? (3 interwikis)
- Joseph Smith's First Vision/Multiple accounts of the First Vision (3 interwikis)
- Question: What did Joseph Smith's seer stones look like? (3 interwikis)
- Climate in the Book of Mormon (3 interwikis)
- Oliver Cowdery and the "rod of nature" (3 interwikis)
- Attempt to sell the Book of Mormon copyright in Canada (3 interwikis)
- Old world geography in the Book of Mormon (3 interwikis)
- Plural marriage/Parley P. Pratt's marriage and murder (3 interwikis)
- Question: Do Greek scholars solve the discrepancies in Paul's vision accounts? (3 interwikis)
- Question: Did the Three Witnesses consider Joseph Smith a "fallen prophet" after they left the Church? (3 interwikis)
- Question: Were the changes to the revelations hidden from the Church members? (3 interwikis)
- Mormonism and Freemasonry (3 interwikis)
- The Lamanite curse (3 interwikis)
- Holy Ghost (3 interwikis)
- Jesus Christ/Latter-day Saint views of Jesus Christ (3 interwikis)
- Mormonism and science/Age of the Earth (3 interwikis)
- Question: Are there any Biblical parallels to Joseph Smith's understanding of the use of seer stones? (3 interwikis)
- The Bible/Interpretation (3 interwikis)
- Mormonism and the nature of God/Trinity (3 interwikis)
- Question: Did other Church leaders believe that plural marriage was a requirement for exaltation? (3 interwikis)
- Mormonism and the nature of God/God is a Spirit/Lecture of Faith 5 teaches the Father is "a personage of spirit" (3 interwikis)
- Question: Did Bruce R. McConkie claim in Mormon Doctrine that our heavenly parents created our spirits "through some kind of sexual union"? (3 interwikis)
- Mormonism and the nature of God/Multiplicity of Gods (3 interwikis)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith say that he would be a "second Muhammad," threatening to spread his beliefs with the sword? (3 interwikis)
- Moroni's visit (3 interwikis)
- Question: Has the Church tried to hide Joseph's use of a seer stone? (3 interwikis)
- Biblical inerrancy (3 interwikis)
- Question: If the only purpose of polygamy was to "raise up seed," then why did Joseph not have children by his plural wives? (3 interwikis)
- Initiation of the practice of plural marriage (3 interwikis)
- Turley claimed that John Whitmer said: "I now say I handled those plates. there was fine engravings on both sides. I handled them...and they were shown to me by a supernatural power" (3 interwikis)
- Question: Does the Bible condemn genealogical research? (3 interwikis)
- The Bible/Joseph Smith Translation/As a restoration of the original Bible text (3 interwikis)
- Question: Was the Liahona simply a magnetic compass that was out of place in 600 B.C.? (3 interwikis)
- The Bible/Completeness (3 interwikis)
- Question: Why does "and it came to pass" appear so often in the Book of Mormon? (3 interwikis)