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- |L=Journal of Discourses/As doctrine and one of the "standard works" of the Church |H=Was the Journal of Discourses one of the "standard works" of the Church?2 KB (310 words) - 21:29, 9 May 2024
- #REDIRECT [[Joseph Smith's use of seer stones as a youth]]58 bytes (10 words) - 21:39, 9 March 2023
- {{Navigation:Book of Mormon}} ...is an ancient text, however, then these elements enrich our understanding of the volume and its message.2 KB (288 words) - 13:15, 12 April 2024
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- #REDIRECT [[Apostles as personal witnesses of Christ]]54 bytes (7 words) - 10:36, 27 May 2023
- {{Navigation:Book of Mormon}} {{:Question: Why did Joseph Smith say that the Book of Mormon was the "most correct book"?}}597 bytes (95 words) - 12:19, 27 April 2024
- |L=Mormonism and the Bible/Joseph Smith Translation/As a restoration of the original Bible text |L1=Question: Was the Joseph Smith Translation intended to be a restoration of original Bible text?2 KB (274 words) - 15:49, 13 April 2024
- ...850): "the Lord took one of his sons, whose name was Mulek, with a company of those who would hearken unto His words, and brought them over the ocean, an Orson Pratt, ''Divine Authenticity of the Book of Mormon, no. 6'' (Liverpool, England: 15 October 1850): 91–92.4 KB (722 words) - 15:44, 13 April 2024
- ...nds of Ephraim, when the book itself tells us that Lehi was of the lineage of Manasseh?"== As cited in B. H. Roberts's 1909 ''New Witnesses for God'', vol. 32 KB (397 words) - 15:44, 13 April 2024
- ...asseh...Ishmael, who was the other founder of the colony, was a descendant of Ephraim"== ...d calls it ' . . . for Joseph, the stick of Ephraim, and for all the house of Israel his companions.'3 KB (466 words) - 15:44, 13 April 2024
- ...Recording mistakes, for example, have sometimes been seized on as evidence of misrepresentations or bumbling by the Prophet"== ...s contained in the Book of Commandments and Revelations, published as part of the Joseph Smith Papers Project, and other early sources we can “peel bac2 KB (261 words) - 15:44, 13 April 2024
- ...Did the First Presidency identify the New York "Hill Cumorah" as the site of the Nephite final battles?== ...h?|url=https://knowhy.bookofmormoncentral.org/knowhy/where-is-the-location-of-the-hill-cumorah|number=489}}10 KB (1,611 words) - 15:17, 13 April 2024
- ...itics of the Mormon doctrines of the plurality of gods and the deification of man?== ...heology but rather a very specific and practical command to recognize YHWH as Israel's only god and the only god to be worshiped===3 KB (482 words) - 22:47, 8 May 2024
- ==Question: Why does the Church continue to use the KJV instead of the JST as its official bible?== ...ch a change would require both prophetic instruction and a sustaining vote of the membership.5 KB (793 words) - 22:10, 29 April 2024
- ...used as a proof-text by critics of Mormon doctrine of the corporeal nature of God?== God is Spirit, and only by the power of his Spirit can people worship him as he really is." (TEV)3 KB (541 words) - 21:43, 9 May 2024
- #REDIRECT [[Question: Does the term "familiar spirit" in the Book of Mormon refer to occult practices?]]104 bytes (16 words) - 17:51, 3 April 2017
- ...nciples relating to plural marriage were revealed to Joseph Smith as early as 1831"]]179 bytes (25 words) - 11:00, 7 October 2018
- ...to the Book of Mormon as an "afterthought" in order to explain the variety of animals in the New World?]]191 bytes (34 words) - 20:30, 18 April 2017
- ...to the Book of Mormon as an "afterthought" in order to explain the variety of animals in the New World?]]191 bytes (34 words) - 20:31, 18 April 2017
- #REDIRECT [[Latter-day Saint interpretation of "neither marry nor given in marriage"]]86 bytes (11 words) - 18:50, 19 May 2023
- ...fraud' with respect to their support of California Proposition 8 and fined as a result?== ...campaign for California’s Proposition 8, “convicted” of “13 counts of election fraud.” This claim is false. Responsible news outlets and commen4 KB (650 words) - 15:28, 13 April 2024
- #REDIRECT [[Template:Critical sources box:Book of Mormon/As the most correct book/CriticalSources]]99 bytes (14 words) - 12:19, 27 April 2024
- |L=Criticism of Mormonism/Books/One Nation Under Gods/Use of sources/The LDS as Mindless Followers |H=The Latter-day Saints as mindless followers?3 KB (489 words) - 14:16, 13 April 2024
- ...millions of years, is and will remain a matter of speculation in the minds of men"]]172 bytes (31 words) - 16:59, 19 October 2017
- ...ormon histories have a long history of omitting mention of plural marriage as a cause for the Saints' troubles in Illinois?== ===The claim that six Latter-day Saint histories omit plural marriage as a cause for difficulties in Nauvoo is clearly false===12 KB (1,811 words) - 21:52, 9 May 2024
- ...Mormonism/Books/One Nation Under Gods/Use of sources/Brigham as President of the United States |H=Brigham Young as President of the United States?933 bytes (136 words) - 14:15, 13 April 2024
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- #REDIRECT [[Question: Could Moroni have been an "angel of Satan"?]]67 bytes (10 words) - 22:36, 18 April 2017
- ...Young and the Massacre at Mountain Meadows/Omissions/Indians as instrument of vengeance |T=[[../../|Blood of the Prophets: Brigham Young and the Massacre at Mountain Meadows]]4 KB (557 words) - 14:12, 13 April 2024
- ...s? Because as sure as you know that...he translated that book by the power of God"]]178 bytes (32 words) - 12:51, 19 October 2017
- #REDIRECT [[Peterson and Roper: "We know of no one who cites Ferguson as an authority, except countercultists"]]112 bytes (17 words) - 12:30, 19 October 2017
- ...r exaltation/Jesus said "neither marry nor given in marriage"/LDS readings of this scripture/CriticalSources]]180 bytes (25 words) - 20:42, 1 May 2024
- #REDIRECT [[Mormonism and the Bible/Joseph Smith Translation/As a restoration of the original Bible text]]106 bytes (16 words) - 09:15, 17 April 2011
- #REDIRECT [[Source:Stick of Ephraim/Erastus Snow statement]]60 bytes (8 words) - 00:05, 6 May 2024
- #REDIRECT [[The Book of Mormon as the most correct book]]57 bytes (10 words) - 17:25, 12 March 2023
- #REDIRECT [[Question: Does the term "familiar spirit" in the Book of Mormon refer to occult practices?]]104 bytes (16 words) - 22:08, 18 April 2017
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- #REDIRECT [[Mormonism and the Bible/Joseph Smith Translation/As a restoration of the original Bible text]]106 bytes (16 words) - 09:16, 17 April 2011
- ...0 used as a "proof text" by Latter-day Saints to support the Three Degress of Glory?== ===There is plenty of scholarly support for a resurrection of varying degrees of glory===7 KB (1,135 words) - 15:24, 13 April 2024
- ...s use 2 Corinthians 12:2-4 as a "proof text" to support the Three Degress of Glory?== ...ve fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;) such a one caught up to the third he5 KB (844 words) - 00:20, 30 April 2024
- ...s/Studies of the Book of Mormon/A Book of Mormon Study/View of the Hebrews as ground plan |H=Response to "View of the Hebrews as ground plan"3 KB (509 words) - 14:17, 13 April 2024
- ...Mormonism/Books/One Nation Under Gods/Use of sources/Brigham as President of the United States]]121 bytes (19 words) - 07:55, 8 April 2011
- ...[Criticism of Mormonism/Books/One Nation Under Gods/Use of sources/The LDS as Mindless Followers]]109 bytes (17 words) - 19:52, 11 April 2011
- ...Young and the Massacre at Mountain Meadows/Omissions/Indians as instrument of vengeance]]161 bytes (23 words) - 22:51, 10 April 2011
- ==Question: Do the Latter-day Saints ("Mormons") use praise of God as part of their prayers and songs in worship?== ===Praise, and the language of praise, is integrated into the worship of Latter-day Saints in both prayer and song===4 KB (663 words) - 15:18, 13 April 2024
- #REDIRECT [[The Book of Mormon as the Stick of Ephraim]]56 bytes (10 words) - 22:43, 6 May 2024
- #REDIRECT [[Source:Book of Mormon as Stick of Ephraim:Franklin D. Richards statement]]86 bytes (13 words) - 05:14, 1 April 2017
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- #REDIRECT [[Source:Book of Mormon as Stick of Ephraim:Orson Pratt statement]]77 bytes (12 words) - 05:14, 1 April 2017
- ...s/Studies of the Book of Mormon/A Book of Mormon Study/View of the Hebrews as ground plan]]130 bytes (23 words) - 22:09, 8 August 2017
- ...er comes a day when the Saints interfere with the rights of others to live as they see fit, you can know with assurance that the Church is no longer led ...eremony, or the man who abandons polygamy, or allows blacks the Priesthood of God, is a fallen prophet.10 KB (1,713 words) - 15:12, 13 April 2024
- ...acsimiles/Facsimile 2/Identification of the ithyphallic Egyptian god "Min" as "God sitting upon his throne"]]138 bytes (19 words) - 16:42, 8 November 2023
- ...dreams which to me are just as real and as much from God as was the dream of King Nebuchadnezzar"]]154 bytes (29 words) - 16:19, 18 October 2017
- ...s/Studies of the Book of Mormon/A Book of Mormon Study/View of the Hebrews as ground plan]]130 bytes (23 words) - 22:09, 8 August 2017
- ...[Criticism of Mormonism/Books/One Nation Under Gods/Use of sources/The LDS as Mindless Followers]]109 bytes (17 words) - 20:59, 15 March 2011
- ...Mormonism/Books/One Nation Under Gods/Use of sources/Brigham as President of the United States]]121 bytes (19 words) - 21:12, 15 March 2011
- ...Young and the Massacre at Mountain Meadows/Omissions/Indians as instrument of vengeance]]161 bytes (23 words) - 20:10, 24 March 2011
- #REDIRECT [[Mormonism and the Bible/Joseph Smith Translation/As a restoration of the original Bible text]]106 bytes (16 words) - 09:08, 17 April 2011
- ...ld Lehi's group have made a transoceanic crossing as described in the Book of Mormon?== The Book of Mormon, in 1 Nephi chapters 17 and 18, recounts that Nephi built a ship in7 KB (1,122 words) - 23:26, 30 April 2024
- ==Question: Is it impossible to receive the grace of Jesus Christ so long as we are sinning?== ...e can be cleansed of our sins through Jesus Christ, and thereby be capable of being saved===3 KB (563 words) - 15:24, 13 April 2024
- ...uorum of the Twelve warn of persecution to follow Mitt Romney's nomination as the Republican candidate for president?== ...n to follow Mitt Romney's nomination as Republican candidate for President of the United States in 2012.1 KB (219 words) - 15:12, 13 April 2024
- ...outlined in this revelation, also included the principle of the plurality of wives"]]179 bytes (27 words) - 11:00, 7 October 2018
- ...tion: Can the Newark "Holy Stones" be used as evidence to support the Book of Mormon?== ...tails on their discovery that we would like to be able to verify some sort of authenticity===3 KB (492 words) - 15:11, 13 April 2024
- #REDIRECT [[Criticism of Mormonism/Websites/MormonThink]]57 bytes (6 words) - 05:14, 1 April 2017
- ...t (or other Greek terms such as "alpha" and "omega") mentioned in the Book of Mormon before Christ's birth? == === Option #1: Joseph may have translated a Hebrew Equivalent of this name into English ===5 KB (840 words) - 23:00, 29 April 2024
- #REDIRECT [[Latter-day Saint interpretation of "neither marry nor given in marriage"]]86 bytes (11 words) - 18:50, 19 May 2023
- #REDIRECT [[The Bible/Joseph Smith Translation/As a restoration of the original Bible text]]92 bytes (14 words) - 17:12, 30 November 2023
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- #REDIRECT[[Joseph Smith listed as author and proprietor of the Book of Mormon]]79 bytes (13 words) - 22:29, 6 May 2024
- ...ayton regarding the Kinderhook Plates in ''History of the Church'' written as if Joseph Smith himself said it?]]168 bytes (26 words) - 23:12, 13 June 2017
- #REDIRECT [[The location of the Garden of Eden]]48 bytes (8 words) - 20:35, 26 March 2023
- {{Navigation:Book of Mormon}} Latter-day Saints believe that the events described in the Book of Mormon were real events that actually happened5 KB (963 words) - 13:16, 12 April 2024
- ...acsimiles/Facsimile 2/Identification of the ithyphallic Egyptian god "Min" as "God sitting upon his throne" |H=Joseph Smith identified the ithyphallic Egyptian god "Min" as representing "God sitting upon his throne"1 KB (202 words) - 14:02, 13 April 2024
- ...acsimiles/Facsimile 2/Identification of the ithyphallic Egyptian god "Min" as "God sitting upon his throne"]]138 bytes (19 words) - 17:46, 17 March 2024
- {{:Question: How did Joseph use his seer stones as a youth?}} ...ow were Joseph Smith's seer stones involved in the translation of the Book of Mormon?}}3 KB (401 words) - 13:11, 12 April 2024
- {{Navigation:Book of Mormon}} [[Book of Mormon/Lamanites/Relationship to Polynesians/Are they descendants]]791 bytes (118 words) - 13:17, 12 April 2024
- ...er to a CES Director'' feel the need to make a single hostile quote appear as if it were two separate quotes?]]165 bytes (30 words) - 15:01, 7 August 2017
- ...cies of peccary live in Mesoamerica....They were hunted and eaten as early as Olmec times"== ...of Mormon: Challenges and Perspectives,"] Blog of ''Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture'' (April 21, 2014)</ref>3 KB (429 words) - 14:59, 13 April 2024
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- ...nsign'' (Sept. 1977): "If his translation was essentially the same as that of the King James version, he apparently quoted the verse from the Bible"== ...ensign/1977/09/by-the-gift-and-power-of-god?lang=eng By the Gift and Power of God]," ''Ensign'' 7, no. 9 (September 1977).</ref>3 KB (413 words) - 14:22, 13 April 2024
- #REDIRECT[[The Joseph Smith Translation of the Bible]]82 bytes (11 words) - 14:58, 13 April 2024
- ...ake changes to the Book of Mormon such as modifying "God" to read "the Son of God"?== ===These changes were made for the purpose of clarification, not doctrinal modification===4 KB (607 words) - 15:38, 13 April 2024
- ==Peterson and Roper: "We know of no one who cites Ferguson as an authority, except countercultists"== .../fullscreen/?pub=1458&index=11 "Ein Heldenleben? On Thomas Stuart Ferguson as an Elias for Cultural Mormons,"] ''The FARMS Review'' 16:1 (2004)</ref>3 KB (464 words) - 15:07, 13 April 2024
- .....makes every effort to portray Ferguson's apparent eventual loss of faith as a failure for 'LDS archaeology'"== ...e about twenty-two thousand dollars, which was enough for the first season of fieldwork in Mexico.2 KB (314 words) - 15:07, 13 April 2024
- .....makes every effort to portray Ferguson's apparent eventual loss of faith as a failure for 'LDS archaeology'"]]171 bytes (23 words) - 12:31, 19 October 2017
- ...Anjouan, one of the Comoro islands, with an indicated anchorage identified as Meroni"== ...Anjouan, one of the Comoro islands, with an indicated anchorage identified as Meroni. Although this is adjacent to an entirely different island than the2 KB (305 words) - 14:58, 13 April 2024
- ...Anjouan, one of the Comoro islands, with an indicated anchorage identified as Meroni"]]109 bytes (15 words) - 12:31, 19 October 2017
- ...Ethan Smith's ''View of the Hebrews'' as a guideline for creating the Book of Mormon?== ...ntury Book? |url=https://knowhy.bookofmormoncentral.org/knowhy/is-the-book-of-mormon-like-any-other-nineteenth-century-book|number=502}}3 KB (461 words) - 15:11, 13 April 2024
- ...f a pair of Interpreters, or spectacles—(known, perhaps, in ancient days as Teraphim, or Urim and Thummim)"== W.W. Phelps wrote the following in the January 1833 edition of ''The Evening and The Morning Star'':2 KB (397 words) - 15:58, 13 April 2024
- ...f a pair of Interpreters, or spectacles—(known, perhaps, in ancient days as Teraphim, or Urim and Thummim)"]]161 bytes (25 words) - 22:17, 17 October 2017
- ...Pharaoh...Unas’ pyramid texts, includes the following: 'The king appears as the crocodile god Sobek'"== ...rk. Is that the first thing that comes to your mind? “Oh, idolatrous god of Pharaoh!”2 KB (332 words) - 15:07, 13 April 2024
- ...early as 1831-32...he continued to do so in varying detail until the year of his death"== ...://archive.org/details/improvementera7304unse "Eight Contemporary Accounts of Joseph Smith's First Vision - What Do We Learn from Them?,"] ''Improvement1 KB (215 words) - 14:00, 13 April 2024
- ...nstruct the 1832 narrative in a manner such as to exclude explicit mention of the Father's appearance?== ...Vision text reveals that it was deliberately constructed on the framework of many scriptural citations===3 KB (473 words) - 15:38, 13 April 2024
- ...expected to have seen the leaves and boughs of the trees consumed, as soon as the light came in contact with them"== ...Pratt describes Joseph Smith's First Vision in, ''A[n] Interesting Account of Several Remarkable Visions, 1840'':3 KB (419 words) - 15:07, 13 April 2024
- ..."married" the wives of 11 other men, why were those women not "destroyed" as specified in the Doctrine and Covenants since they continued to live with t ...ternal worlds, that they may bear the souls of men; for herein is the work of my Father continued, that he may be glorified.3 KB (538 words) - 15:27, 13 April 2024
- ...to die in defending the rights of a Presbyterian, a Baptist, or a good man of any other denomination"== ...nd too weak to defend themselves.” <ref>Joseph Smith, in 1843, ''History of the Church'', 5:498.</ref>1 KB (234 words) - 14:30, 13 April 2024
- ...to die in defending the rights of a Presbyterian, a Baptist, or a good man of any other denomination"]]156 bytes (27 words) - 21:33, 18 October 2017
- ...ally deny us eternal salvation simply because we do not practice a set of, as some critics put it, "archaic medieval Masonic rituals" in Mormon temples?= ===Purpose of ritual and tokens and their role in salvation===1 KB (199 words) - 15:40, 13 April 2024
- ...rather like someone to ascribe early Christian belief to the resurrection of Jesus to the supposed fact that ancient people, unlike us, hadn’t yet rea232 bytes (37 words) - 13:01, 19 October 2017
- ==David Whitmer (1881): "I do now again affirm the truth of all my statement, as then made and published"== ...egard to the same, I do now again affirm the truth of all my statement[s], as then made and published.<ref>"David Whitmer Proclamation, 19 March 1881," q1 KB (170 words) - 14:21, 13 April 2024
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- The preferences dialog allows you to personalize some aspects of MediaWiki. They will apply only when you are logged in. ...rs''': If you check this, users will not be able to send you e-mail by way of the "E-mail this user" feature.25 KB (4,197 words) - 15:08, 13 April 2024
- |L1=A HISTORY, OF THE PERSECUTION, OF THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST, OF LATTER DAY SAINTS IN MISSOURI. CONTINUED. |L3=COPY OF A LETTER, WRITTEN BY J. SMITH JR. AND OTHERS, WHILE IN PRISON.69 KB (12,268 words) - 15:50, 13 April 2024
- ...age, in the page revision history, on the diff page, and in the watchlists of users who are watching that article. ...the interest of Wikipedians with an expertise in the area. This may not be as necessary for "minor changes", but (e.g.) "fixed spelling" would be nice ev2 KB (285 words) - 14:22, 13 April 2024
- ...t|frame|Photo of James J. Strang, 1856, taken just before his death by one of those who plotted his murder.]] ...ames Strang claimed that Joseph wrote a letter appointing him as president of the Church after Joseph's death===6 KB (902 words) - 15:37, 13 April 2024
- ...nd arriving at truth through rigorous thought. It is a tool that the Light of Christ can use to help us discern good from bad, true from false ([https:// ...discredit Joseph Smith. Joseph was often the target of such efforts; many of the [[The Hurlbut affidavits|early anti-Mormon "affidavits"]] against Josep44 KB (7,051 words) - 17:45, 13 April 2024
- {{Navigation:Book of Mormon}} ...on and DNA Studies:Gospel Topics:Much as critics and defenders of the Book of Mormon would like to use DNA studies to support their views, the evidence i694 bytes (104 words) - 13:15, 12 April 2024
- ''This is a list of on-line Christian and related (such as gnosticism) texts.'' *[http://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/npnf102.iv.html City of God]2 KB (246 words) - 15:07, 13 April 2024
- ...chase documents such as Mark Hofmann's "Salamander letter" with the intent of hiding and suppressing them? ...chase documents such as Mark Hofmann's "Salamander letter" with the intent of hiding and suppressing them?}}4 KB (643 words) - 21:26, 9 May 2024
- {{Epigraph|But as you cannot always judge the righteous, or as you cannot always tell the wicked from the righteous, therefore I say unto ...Gordon B. Hinckley were a true prophet, why did he not discern the nature of the Hofmann forgeries?}}1 KB (193 words) - 16:33, 26 April 2024
- ...rst vision anymore than I am worried that there are four different writers of the gospels in the New Testament, each with his own perceptions, each telli ...ink|url=http://www.lds.org/ensign/1984/10/god-hath-not-given-us-the-spirit-of-fear?lang=eng}}8 KB (1,156 words) - 20:51, 4 May 2024
- |L1=Was Joseph Smith's participation in "money digging" as a youth a blot on his character? |L3=Was "money digging" Joseph Smith's primary source of income during his early years?2 KB (242 words) - 20:40, 27 April 2024
- ...h Smith’s neighbors which claim that the Smith family possessed a number of character flaws |L4=Hurlbut's collection of the statements was made at the request of an anti-Mormon committee in Kirtland, Ohio10 KB (1,556 words) - 19:06, 6 May 2024
- ...ts claimed that the Smith family was "lazy" and "worthless" and "destitute of moral character" |L4=If members of the Smith family had been liars, immoral, and "addicted to vicious habits,"8 KB (1,375 words) - 19:06, 6 May 2024
- ...to tell fortunes; he had a stone which he used to put in his hat, by means of which he professed to tell people's fortunes.<ref>E.D. Howe, ''Mormonism Un ...oseph Smith, Jr. "he had a stone which he used to put in his hat, by means of which he professed to tell people's fortunes."3 KB (546 words) - 19:07, 6 May 2024
- ...ey Chase claimed that the Smiths were lazy, intemperate that they "boasted of their skill" at lying==== ...h family on 2 December 1833, three years after the publication of the Book of Mormon:1 KB (234 words) - 20:47, 27 April 2024
- ...his event because it was remarkable and fairly minor—hardly the sign of Joseph being perpetually drunk. * The lack of other claims in the affidavits that Joseph Jr. was a drunk is also telling&2 KB (270 words) - 20:48, 27 April 2024
- ...tin Harris said that Mormonism was false and that he could "make money out of it"=== ...'What if it is a lie'''; if you will let me alone '''I will make money out of it!'''"9 KB (1,529 words) - 20:51, 27 April 2024
- ...he Hurlbut affidavits say about Joseph Smith claiming that he was "as good as Jesus Christ"?== ...r depositions together said that Joseph Smith claimed that he was "as good as Jesus Christ"===3 KB (451 words) - 20:55, 27 April 2024
- ...t Joseph Smith's religious ideas derived in part from ''Kabbalah'', a type of (usually Jewish) mysticism. Critics and the unwary presume that because a f ...id. And, thus far, that proof has not been forthcoming. Extensive reviews of the works which purport to find this strain in Joseph Smith's thought are a19 KB (2,997 words) - 21:55, 27 April 2024
- |L=Journal of Discourses/As doctrine and one of the "standard works" of the Church |H=Was the Journal of Discourses one of the "standard works" of the Church?2 KB (310 words) - 21:29, 9 May 2024
- ...which were later referred to as "Urim and Thummim") to translate the Book of Mormon. |L1=Joseph Smith's use of seer stones as a youth1 KB (184 words) - 13:59, 30 April 2024
- {{Navigation:Book of Mormon}} ...Joseph Smith distant cousins make Oliver an unreliable witness to the Book of Mormon?}}2 KB (248 words) - 13:15, 12 April 2024
- ...ts to "hide history" by portraying Brigham Young (a well-known polygamist) as having only one wife. ...pt to "hide history" by portraying Brigham Young (a well-known polygamist) as having only one wife?1 KB (190 words) - 22:25, 5 May 2024
- ...use she continued to insist that her husband had never taught the doctrine of plural marriage |L4= Brigham and Emma did not agree on the disposition of Joseph's estate8 KB (1,370 words) - 22:31, 5 May 2024
- ...ten exclude from their discussion of the Kinderhook plates, and the extent of Joseph Smith's involvement. ...tory of the Church say that Joseph Smith said "I have translated a portion of them..."?5 KB (745 words) - 21:48, 30 April 2024
- ...g.org/2013/11/07/the-prophet-and-the-pistol-a-perspective-on-the-martyrdom-of-joseph-and-hyrum-smith/ |title=The Prophet and the Pistol: A Perspective on the Martyrdom of Joseph and Hyrum Smith3 KB (503 words) - 22:31, 28 April 2024
- ==Question: What is the nature of the Joseph Smith Translation (JST)?== ===Question: Is the JST intended primarily or solely as a restoration of lost Bible text?===2 KB (367 words) - 16:31, 28 April 2024
- ...original ''intent'' and ''clarifying the message'' of the original author of the text in question. We are not entirely sure, but in either case the JST ...e in the JST and whether a particular change was meant to be a restoration of original text.4 KB (737 words) - 16:33, 28 April 2024
- |L=Alleged false prophecies of Joseph Smith |H=Alleged false prophecies of Joseph Smith5 KB (745 words) - 23:14, 29 April 2024
- ...s accuse Mormons of either changing their teachings or rejecting teachings of prophets they find uncomfortable or unsupportable. |L2=Question: What is the history of Brigham Young's Adam-God Theory and why was it rejected by the Church?3 KB (501 words) - 20:39, 26 April 2024
- ...It is claimed that Joseph Smith and Sidney Rigdon supported the formation of a vigilante band called the “Danites," and that the Danites were pledged ...of Far West, some leaders and members organized a paramilitary group known as the Danites"3 KB (412 words) - 21:21, 26 April 2024
- |H=Relationship of polygamy to modern Mormonism ...tions. Some often call upon the Church to "stop" the polygamist activities of such groups.1 KB (173 words) - 15:08, 13 April 2024
- ...Joseph Smith and Oliver Cowdery's day similarly believed in divining rods as instruments for revelation. Cowdery was among those who believed in and use ...Oliver desired, the revelation went on to say, the Lord would add the gift of translation to the revelatory gifts Oliver already possessed (D&C 8:8-11).2 KB (235 words) - 23:48, 30 April 2024
- == Church sources discussing issues with Changes to the Book of Mormon== ===Textual changes to the Book of Mormon===2 KB (308 words) - 23:48, 30 April 2024
- ...seph using the stone to receive revelation. Sometimes the hat is mentioned as well. These facts are found hidden in the official Church magazines the ''E ...her the use of the seer stone or the stone and the hat as part of the Book of Mormon translation process?}}9 KB (1,315 words) - 23:49, 30 April 2024
- ...in turn, to conclude that the LDS endowment is nothing but a variant form of Masonic initiation and therefore not from a divine source. <small>Video published by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.</small>4 KB (630 words) - 21:24, 26 April 2024
- {{Navigation:Book of Mormon}} {{:Source:Echoes:Ch2:11:John Whitmer 1876:I have never heard that any one of the three or eight witnesses ever denied the testimony}}2 KB (356 words) - 13:15, 12 April 2024
- {{Navigation:Book of Mormon}} |L=The Book of Mormon and the fulness of the gospel2 KB (268 words) - 22:25, 28 April 2024
- #REDIRECT[[Joseph Smith listed as author and proprietor of the Book of Mormon]]79 bytes (13 words) - 17:15, 5 March 2023
- |L14=LIST OF AGENTS. For publishing at the City of Nauvoo, Hancock County Illinois, a Semi-monthly periodical, to be entitled68 KB (11,468 words) - 15:51, 13 April 2024
- ...of years. These articles help address these stories and practices in light of the Restored Gospel. ...ecause respect and obedience toward parents is regarded as the cornerstone of all order and authority"4 KB (659 words) - 15:58, 13 April 2024
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- {{Navigation:Book of Mormon}} ...is an ancient text, however, then these elements enrich our understanding of the volume and its message.2 KB (288 words) - 13:15, 12 April 2024
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- |L1=Question: Why would the Church remove or alter elements of the temple ceremony if these ceremonies were revealed by God? ...ersion of the temple endowment that required vengeance upon the government of the United States?2 KB (276 words) - 21:26, 26 April 2024
- |H=History of the Mountain Meadows Massacre ...d claim that Church leaders—possibly as high as Brigham Young—approved of, or even ordered the killing.3 KB (473 words) - 16:40, 11 May 2024
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- ...ue published. The events surrounding its publication lead to the martyrdom of Joseph and Hyrum Smith. The full text is provided below for study. ...further Church proceedings will appear in our columns, except in the form of brief communications.--ED.72 KB (12,886 words) - 15:09, 13 April 2024
- |L3=Question: Did Albert Einstein refer to Elder James E. Talmage as the smartest man he had ever met? ...tion: Did Elder Russell M. Nelson talk of a friend who translated the Book of Mormon into Arabic?3 KB (555 words) - 16:36, 26 April 2024
- ===In the lack of a revealed answer to the question, both positions appear to be acceptable a ...e way some things turn out, a conclusion which raises theological problems of its own.9 KB (1,504 words) - 15:19, 13 April 2024
- ==''Gospel Topics:'' "There are other, more consistent ways of seeing the evidence."== ...ve been Joseph's perhaps uneducated way of stating the order of appearance of the personages.4 KB (606 words) - 20:20, 12 August 2018
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- {{Navigation:Book of Mormon}} |Pagename=View of the Hebrews theory of Book of Mormon authorship2 KB (355 words) - 13:38, 27 April 2024
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- {{Navigation:Book of Mormon}} ...oincidental, an artifact of the observer, or not impressive since examples of chiastic patterns have been found in the Doctrine and Covenants or other 194 KB (579 words) - 23:29, 30 April 2024
- |L=Mormon view of the creation/Creatio ex nihilo |H=The Mormon view of "Creatio ex nihilo"2 KB (380 words) - 23:46, 29 April 2024
- ...r "free will" false, since all human choices are predetermined by the laws of physics?== ...free will" is false, since all human choices are predetermined by the laws of physics?8 KB (1,244 words) - 15:25, 13 April 2024
- ===Latter-day Saints reject the interpretive baggage of the Greeks and Reformers, and claim that Christ is eternal, but not in the ...criptures.lds.org/rev/22/13#13 22:13]). The title also appears in the Book of Mormon once ([http://scriptures.lds.org/3_ne/9/18#18 3 Nephi 9:18]) and the3 KB (517 words) - 21:30, 26 April 2024
- ...e and Covenants? Revelations used to be printed in Church periodicals such as the Times and Seasons and the Evening and Morning Star. Why are revelations |L2=Apostles as personal witnesses of Christ2 KB (252 words) - 22:28, 1 May 2024
- ...God/God is a Spirit/Lecture of Faith 5 teaches the Father is "a personage of spirit" |H=Lecture of Faith 5 teaches the Father is "a personage of spirit"3 KB (439 words) - 21:31, 26 April 2024
- ...identity of the angel that visited Joseph Smith in 1823 as "Nephi" instead of "Moroni" ...ph Smith originally identify the angel that visited him as "Nephi" instead of "Moroni"?3 KB (403 words) - 21:31, 26 April 2024
- ...them are my children and too young at the time to comment on the veracity of the book; the other named person is Martha and her view is expressed in 320 ...(often unflatteringly) in this book have little or no access to the court of public opinion.3 KB (639 words) - 14:25, 13 April 2024
- {{Navigation:Book of Mormon}} |Pagename=The Spalding Theory of Book of Mormon authorship3 KB (387 words) - 13:50, 27 April 2024
- {{Navigation:Book of Mormon}} ...likely lived in tropical Central America, why would they have used "snow" as a description?3 KB (517 words) - 01:44, 26 March 2024
- Some insist that the Church teaches such principles as: *children reject the Church through the fault of parents who "don't have enough faith."19 KB (3,151 words) - 18:12, 30 April 2024
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- {{Navigation:Book of Mormon}} {{:Question: Is prayer the only element required in the determination of truth?}}1 KB (177 words) - 13:15, 12 April 2024
- |H=The conception of Jesus Christ ...d but believes the Bible and Book of Mormon references to Jesus being born of the Virgin Mary.2 KB (327 words) - 01:13, 27 April 2024
- ...Mormonism in error because Christianity requires a "closed canon" instead of the Church's "open canon"? ...Mormonism in error because Christianity requires a "closed canon" instead of the Church's "open canon"?}}</onlyinclude>2 KB (237 words) - 14:06, 27 April 2024
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- ...mbers. These are ''unofficial'' statements, but serve to show the variety of opinions that have been expressed on the topic. ==Encyclopedia of Mormonism==9 KB (1,439 words) - 15:09, 13 April 2024
- ...ations in successive generations. One or more common origins for all forms of life are assumed.<br><br> ...recorded in the scriptures and expounded by inspired teachers. (Doctrines of Salvation, vol. 1, pp. 139-151.)<br><br>27 KB (4,776 words) - 15:09, 13 April 2024
- The position of the Church on the origin of man was published by the First Presidency in 1909 and stated again by a dif ...e and endowed with divine attributes (see Appendix, "Doctrinal Expositions of the First Presidency").3 KB (481 words) - 15:09, 13 April 2024
- ...s was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters." (Gen. 1:1-2). ...nit by which to measure back through the ages to the time at which, so far as the earth is concerned, time began.35 KB (6,198 words) - 15:09, 13 April 2024
- ...r "Mormon Doctrine" by Elder Bruce R. McConkie, is an official publication of the Church. <br><br> ...ong as may be necessary to arrive at facts and at a complete understanding of the truth. <br><br>861 bytes (142 words) - 15:09, 13 April 2024
- ...ng age of the earth, its creation, etc.] I am directed to say to you that, as you will perceive on a little reflection, until either the Lord speaks dire499 bytes (83 words) - 15:09, 13 April 2024
- The month of June approaches and with it many graduations. As you contemplate university experiences will you take a moment to ponder a t ...of them chosen by these early philosophers as explanations of the movement of the universe because the spheres and the circles to them most nearly repres7 KB (1,234 words) - 15:09, 13 April 2024
- Origin of Man.-- "In just what manner did the mortal bodies of Adam and Eve come into existence on this earth?" This question comes from s ...n's spirit) and put it into him; and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and man became a living soul." <br><br>2 KB (278 words) - 15:09, 13 April 2024
- ...ating judgment to understand very much about some of the advanced theories of philosophy or science. <BR><BR> ...er the aims of the Church school, than theories which deal with the origin of life. <BR><BR>5 KB (919 words) - 15:09, 13 April 2024
- ...general gospel interest answered for guidance, not as official statements of Church policy'' <BR><BR> ...he earth's history as indicated from fossils fits with the earth's history as the scriptures present it?<BR><BR>10 KB (1,685 words) - 15:09, 13 April 2024
- ...hildren in the Creation and include a more detailed version of the origins of evil.<BR><BR> ...not a static, quality. According to Raffaele Pettazzoni, a noted historian of religions, "What happened in the beginning has an exemplary and defining va16 KB (2,574 words) - 15:09, 13 April 2024
- ...s and over what period of time that often dominate secular discussions are of limited interest for Latter-day Saints. <BR><BR> ...te of existence; that an understanding of all the details about the origin of man is not vital to one's salvation, although the matter is related to seve4 KB (701 words) - 15:09, 13 April 2024
- ...lity of worlds. In itself this is not a unique concept among the religions of the world, but the LDS doctrine is distinctive (Crowe, pp. 241-46). ==THE AGE OF THE EARTH==10 KB (1,599 words) - 15:09, 13 April 2024
- ...volved from fish to reptile and then to ape, can never understand the fall of man and the atonement. These truths are mysteries to him and only contempt ...e man, or later? Was it in the Stone Age, or the Bronze Age, or in the Age of Iron? . . . And if there never was a Fall, why should there be any Atonemen3 KB (598 words) - 15:09, 13 April 2024
- ...s hypothesis true, scientists could save their time searching from one end of the earth to the other to find in fossils the evidence which they seek. It ...teresting figures on this question. In his very excellent work, The Origin of Man, pages 84-86, he has given us the following important information:7 KB (1,146 words) - 15:09, 13 April 2024
- ==THE AGE OF THE EARTH== ...ou are not quite so excited." As far as I could see, we parted on the best of terms.16 KB (2,942 words) - 15:09, 13 April 2024
- ...ment Association Manual of 1908-1909. Both these brethren regard the earth as having a very great antiquity. ...g which is best discussed dispassionately on a basis of a careful weighing of the evidence. Any other approach will not influence serious scholars.6 KB (1,047 words) - 15:09, 13 April 2024
- The mp3 of this talk may be downloaded for free [http://speeches.byu.edu/download.php/ ...words will be true and wise and proper. When any of us speak by the power of the Spirit, we say what the Lord wants said, or, better, what he would say60 KB (10,976 words) - 15:09, 13 April 2024
- ...Mormons believe that there is there progression between the three degrees of glory?== ===There is no official pronouncement on this question. Some leaders of the Church have, however, expressed deep skepticism about this idea===7 KB (1,203 words) - 21:33, 9 May 2024
- |S=A list of known personages who appeared to the Prophet Joseph Smith or who were seen ...of heavenly beings did Joseph Smith actually have and what was the nature of their visits?2 KB (403 words) - 15:07, 13 April 2024
- |L=Plural marriage as a requirement for exaltation |H=Plural marriage as a requirement for exaltation2 KB (382 words) - 21:04, 4 May 2024
- ...[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"]]161 bytes (25 words) - 22:21, 17 October 2017
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- ...cies of peccary live in Mesoamerica....They were hunted and eaten as early as Olmec times"]]139 bytes (22 words) - 21:56, 6 May 2024
- {{Navigation:Book of Mormon}} {{:Question: Why is the "Ass" (Donkey) mentioned in the Book of Mormon?}}2 KB (289 words) - 13:16, 12 April 2024
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- {{Navigation:Book of Mormon}} {{:Question: Why did Joseph Smith say that the Book of Mormon was the "most correct book"?}}597 bytes (95 words) - 12:19, 27 April 2024
- ==Question: What do we know about the chronology of the Book of Mormon translation and publication?== {{SeeAlso|Book of Mormon/Translation/Method|l1=Chronology of translation methods}}9 KB (1,264 words) - 21:33, 9 May 2024