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- ===History=== * [[Latter-day Saint history]]3 KB (369 words) - 18:24, 27 March 2024
- ...If the only function of the scrolls was to awaken the Prophet to the idea of receiving such inspiration, they would have fulfilled their purpose.<br><br —Henry Eyring, ''Reflections of a Scientist'', p. 46}}3 KB (516 words) - 20:59, 1 May 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=Moroni's visit/Nephi or Moroni ...identity of the angel that visited Joseph Smith in 1823 as "Nephi" instead of "Moroni"3 KB (403 words) - 21:31, 26 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 being the distance traversed by a ray of light speeding on at the rate of approximately 186,000 miles per second throughout a year.35 KB (6,198 words) - 15:09, 13 April 2024
- ==Question: What evidence does the Book of Abraham demonstrate to support its own antiquity?== ===The Book of Abraham has a number of evidences to support it===208 KB (32,568 words) - 14:22, 13 April 2024
- |L=Criticism of Mormonism/Books/By His Own Hand upon Papyrus: A New Look at the Joseph Smit |L=Criticism of Mormonism/Books/By His Own Hand upon Papyrus: A New Look at the Joseph Smit9 KB (1,516 words) - 14:12, 13 April 2024
- ...release from the DVD's producers appeared on 30 March 2007. This version of the letter has comments added in <font color="blue">blue</font> by FAIR. Cl ...eph Smith DVD Distribution Conceived and Carried out by a Broad Consortium of Churches, Ministries and Non-Profit Organizations10 KB (1,680 words) - 14:19, 13 April 2024
- ...e "false teachings" of our church. FAIR addresses the answers to this list of 50 disingenuous questions. ...ature tends to recycle the same themes. Some ministries are using a series of fifty questions, which they believe will help "cultists" like the Mormons.13 KB (2,209 words) - 14:10, 13 April 2024
- ...nts has terms or expressions which may not be familiar to outsiders. Some of these are described below. ...ch it is generally given to young men starting at age 12. In the Community of Christ and most other restorationist churches, it is generally given to adu27 KB (4,268 words) - 15:00, 13 April 2024
- |L=Criticism of Mormonism/Video/Search for the Truth DVD/Who is God |S=22 KB (3,787 words) - 14:19, 13 April 2024
- |L=Criticism of Mormonism/Books/One Nation Under Gods/Chapter 2 |L=Criticism of Mormonism/Books/One Nation Under Gods/Chapter 223 KB (3,492 words) - 13:33, 13 April 2024
- |L=Criticism of Mormonism/Books/One Nation Under Gods/Chapter 5 |H=Response to claims made in "Chapter 5: People of Zion"16 KB (2,387 words) - 14:15, 13 April 2024
- |L=Criticism of Mormonism/Books/One Nation Under Gods/Chapter 17 |L=Criticism of Mormonism/Books/One Nation Under Gods/Chapter 1722 KB (3,213 words) - 14:15, 13 April 2024
- |L=Criticism of Mormonism/Books/One Nation Under Gods/Chapter 16 |L=Criticism of Mormonism/Books/One Nation Under Gods/Chapter 1628 KB (4,263 words) - 14:15, 13 April 2024
- |L=Criticism of Mormonism/Books/One Nation Under Gods/Absurd claims |S=14 KB (2,213 words) - 14:15, 13 April 2024
- |L=Criticism of Mormonism/Books/The Kingdom of the Cults (Revised)/Index |H=Index to claims made in ''The Kingdom of the Cults'' (Revised edition)118 KB (18,356 words) - 13:33, 13 April 2024
- |L=Criticism of Mormonism/Books/One Nation Under Gods/Appendix B |S=31 KB (5,042 words) - 13:33, 13 April 2024
- It is claimed that the Latter-day Saint view of God is provincial or limited, with God simply being a ruler over "this plan ...lds without number." There is no effort to 'limit' them to a small sphere of influence.11 KB (1,730 words) - 15:18, 13 April 2024
- |L=Criticism of Mormonism/Books/One Nation Under Gods/Use of sources/Attitude of Saints to Civil War prophecy |H=Attitude of Saints toward Civil War prophecy25 KB (4,401 words) - 14:15, 13 April 2024
- ...../|Considering Joseph Smith in light of these tests]]: A Preliminary Test of Joseph Smith =A Preliminary Test of Joseph Smith=5 KB (799 words) - 14:01, 13 April 2024
- |H=Response to "Dr. Craig Blomberg's 'Top Ten Things Jesus Would Say to Mormons'" ...mouth save those recorded in scripture. Dr. Blomberg's comments are worthy of response, since they demonstrate how even a sincere and relatively well-inf16 KB (2,615 words) - 14:22, 13 April 2024
- *[[Joseph Smith's First Vision/First Vision accounts#Firsthand accounts|Firsthand accounts]] *[[Joseph Smith's First Vision/First Vision accounts#Secondhand accounts|Secondhand accounts]4 KB (559 words) - 19:24, 4 May 2024
- ==Question: What is the Book of Mormon?== ...one of four books considered to be scripture by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints===22 KB (3,753 words) - 15:34, 13 April 2024
- |L=Criticism of Mormonism/Books/The Changing World of Mormonism/Chapter 6 |T=The Changing World of Mormonism13 KB (1,970 words) - 14:17, 13 April 2024
- |L=Criticism of Mormonism/Books/The Changing World of Mormonism/Chapter 12 |T=The Changing World of Mormonism12 KB (1,895 words) - 14:17, 13 April 2024
- |L=Criticism of Mormonism/Books/The Changing World of Mormonism/Chapter 13 |H=Response to claims made in "Chapter 13: Changes in Joseph Smith's History"9 KB (1,370 words) - 13:33, 13 April 2024
- |L=Criticism of Mormonism/Books/The Changing World of Mormonism/Chapter 22 |L=Criticism of Mormonism/Books/The Changing World of Mormonism/Chapter 229 KB (1,316 words) - 14:17, 13 April 2024
- ...ph Smith plagiarize a book by Charles Anthon to provide names for the Book of Mormon?== ===There are a number of methodological problems to this that make the probability miniscule===22 KB (3,651 words) - 15:15, 13 April 2024
- |L=Journal of Discourses/1/39 ...gi-bin/docviewer.exe?CISOROOT=/JournalOfDiscourses3&CISOPTR=9599 ''Journal of Discourses'', Volume 1]46 KB (8,781 words) - 14:32, 13 April 2024
- |L=Journal of Discourses/4/4 |H=WHY THE SAINTS REJOICE—THE SPIRIT RECEIVED THROUGH LAYING ON OF HANDS—CLEANLINESS18 KB (3,311 words) - 14:51, 13 April 2024
- |L=Mormonism and Wikipedia/First Vision/Recorded accounts of the vision |H=An analysis of the Wikipedia article "First Vision"64 KB (9,919 words) - 18:25, 11 May 2024
- |L=Journal of Discourses/5/31 |H=THE RIGHTS OF MORMONISM37 KB (7,149 words) - 14:52, 13 April 2024
- |L=Journal of Discourses/7/39 |H=THE ANCIENT GOSPEL—ADAM'S TRANSGRESSION, AND MAN'S REDEMPTION FROM ITS PENALTY, &c.55 KB (10,426 words) - 14:54, 13 April 2024
- |H=Statements by General Authorities on the subject of the scope of the Flood of Noah |S=13 KB (2,056 words) - 15:04, 13 April 2024
- ...OBTAIN A KNOWLEDGE OF GOOD AND EVIL—THE CONSCIENCE OF MAN IS THE SPIRIT OF GOD PROMPTING US TO DO RIGHT—GOD IN HIS WISDOM HIDES FROM US THE GLORIES |S=36 KB (6,802 words) - 14:49, 13 April 2024
- ...Y—TRUTH HAS EVER BEEN FIERCELY OPPOSED—OUR TRIALS ARE AGREEABLE TO GOD'S PURPOSES—CONCLUSION |S=29 KB (5,062 words) - 14:49, 13 April 2024
- ...R OF THE HOLY PRIESTHOOD—OPPOSITION OF SATAN TO THE PRIESTHOOD—VIRTUES OF THE LATTER-DAY SAINTS—CONCLUSION |S=41 KB (7,568 words) - 14:49, 13 April 2024
- |L=Journal of Discourses/21/23 |H=PRE-EXISTENCE, IN SPIRITUAL FORM, OF MAN, THE LOWER ANIMALS AND THE EARTH—THE TEMPORAL PROBATIONARY STATE—TH33 KB (6,186 words) - 14:45, 13 April 2024
- |L=Journal of Discourses/21/32 |H=VISIONS OF MOSES—REBELLION IN HEAVEN—SATAN CAST DOWN—OUR FIRST PARENTS FELL—BE34 KB (6,206 words) - 14:45, 13 April 2024
- |L=Journal of Discourses/13/25 |H=HOW TO KNOW THE THINGS OF GOD42 KB (7,896 words) - 14:37, 13 April 2024
- |L=Journal of Discourses/15/31 ...IT OF LIGHT AND TRUTH—ITS VALUE—ITS OPPOSITE NECESSARY—FINAL TRIUMPH OF LIGHT AND TRUTH41 KB (7,842 words) - 14:38, 13 April 2024
- |L=Journal of Discourses/15/33 |S=43 KB (7,989 words) - 14:38, 13 April 2024
- |L=Journal of Discourses/16/8 ...ADVENT AMONG THE NEPHITES—FULFILLMENT OF GOD'S PURPOSES AND THE FULLNESS OF TIMES41 KB (7,520 words) - 14:40, 13 April 2024
- |L=Journal of Discourses/16/42 ...ON—THE SEVENTH THOUSAND YEARS, AND EVENTS WHICH ARE TO FOLLOW THE PERIOD OF THE MILLENNIUM46 KB (8,688 words) - 14:40, 13 April 2024
- |L=Journal of Discourses/16/43 ...F THE LORD—FIRST FRUITS OF THE RESURRECTION—WHAT BECOMETH OF THE SOULS OF MEN—REDEMPTION UNIVERSAL41 KB (7,801 words) - 14:40, 13 April 2024
- |L=Journal of Discourses/20/9 ...ON—THE GREATER THINGS SHOWN TO THOSE WHO RECEIVE THE RECORD—THE VISION OF MOSES—THE CREATION, ETC.52 KB (9,673 words) - 14:44, 13 April 2024
- |L=Journal of Discourses/20/22 ...HE SAVAGE POWER OF TRUTH—THE DISOBEDIENT AND IDLE CONDEMNED—LIBERALITY OF THE GOSPEL PLAN23 KB (4,208 words) - 14:44, 13 April 2024
- |L=Journal of Discourses/22/4 |H=THE DIVINE AUTHORITY OF THE HOLY PRIESTHOOD, ETC.37 KB (6,798 words) - 14:46, 13 April 2024
- |L=Journal of Discourses/22/31 |H=REVELATION—THE PRIVILEGES OF THE SAINTS, ETC.31 KB (5,828 words) - 14:46, 13 April 2024
- |L=Journal of Discourses/25/18 ...CCORDED TO JOSEPH SMITH, AN EVIDENCE OF HIS DIVINE CALLING—FURTHER PROOF OF INSPIRATION45 KB (8,288 words) - 14:48, 13 April 2024
- |L=Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Mormonism 101/Chapter 8 |H=Response to claims made in "Chapter 8: The Book of Mormon"39 KB (6,268 words) - 14:14, 13 April 2024
- |L=Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Mormonism 101/Chapter 9 ...aims made in "Chapter 9: The Doctrine and Covenants and the Pearl of Great Price"19 KB (3,121 words) - 14:14, 13 April 2024
- |L=Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Mormonism 101/Chapter 10 |S=29 KB (4,781 words) - 14:13, 13 April 2024
- |L=Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Mormonism 101/Chapter 16 |H=Response to claims made in "Chapter 16: Lamanites, Seed of Cain, and Polygamy"29 KB (4,646 words) - 14:13, 13 April 2024
- ==Question: Do any of Joseph's explanations of Book of Abraham Facsimile 1 agree with what Egyptologists say about the figures?== ====The Angel of the Lord (Figure 1)====35 KB (5,504 words) - 15:17, 13 April 2024
- |H=An analysis of claims made in the Wikipedia article "Golden plates" - Story |H=An analysis of claims made in the Wikipedia article "Golden plates" - Story3 KB (452 words) - 13:34, 13 April 2024
- ...nciple(s) is (are) meant to be taught to modern believers by the existence of violence in the scriptures (and particularly the Old Testament) that is eit ...arsh?|There are crimes for which capital punishment is required]] and some of these can seem quite trivial. Among those crimes are blasphemy, cursing you51 KB (8,337 words) - 21:51, 12 April 2024
- |H=An analysis of Wikipedia article "Joseph Smith" |S=37 KB (4,789 words) - 20:12, 11 May 2024
- |L=Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Becoming Gods/Chapter 2 |S=44 KB (6,755 words) - 14:11, 13 April 2024
- |L= Joseph Smith's First Vision/Church Hides Accounts (2004-Present) |S=12 KB (1,887 words) - 14:31, 13 April 2024
- |L=Joseph Smith's First Vision/Church Hides Accounts (1998-2003) |S=11 KB (1,641 words) - 14:31, 13 April 2024
- |L=Joseph Smith's First Vision/Church Hides Accounts (1990-1997) |S=11 KB (1,658 words) - 14:31, 13 April 2024
- |L=Joseph Smith's First Vision/Church Hides Accounts (1984-1989) |S=15 KB (2,244 words) - 14:31, 13 April 2024
- |L=Joseph Smith's First Vision/Church Hides Accounts (1969-1978) |S=12 KB (1,858 words) - 14:31, 13 April 2024
- |L=Joseph Smith's First Vision/Church Hides Accounts (1910-1968) |S=16 KB (2,380 words) - 14:31, 13 April 2024
- |>=[[../Section 4|Claims made in "Basics of Mormonism: Falling Upward"]] |S=34 KB (5,224 words) - 14:10, 13 April 2024
- |H=Response to claims in "Watchman Fellowship: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Profile" |H=Response to claims in "Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Profile" by Watchman Fellowship10 KB (1,518 words) - 14:10, 13 April 2024
- |L=Criticism of Mormonism/Online documents/For my Wife and Children (Letter to my Wife)/Cha |>=[[../Chapter 2|Chapter 2 - The Translation (Book of Mormon)]]33 KB (5,345 words) - 14:18, 13 April 2024
- ==Question: Why do Mormon's believe that ongoing divine revelation is necessary?== ...re is no need for on-going divine revelation; some even charge that claims of visions from God or revelations to a modern prophet is a blasphemous idea.6 KB (984 words) - 15:38, 13 April 2024
- ===Solomon's Temple: Myth and History (Hamblin)=== ====Vol. 2: Pearl of Great Price====9 KB (1,098 words) - 23:31, 8 June 2017
- |S=[[Category:Primary sources]]Source document in ''Mormon Publications: 19th |S=68 KB (12,352 words) - 14:59, 13 April 2024
- |S=[[Category:Primary sources]]Source document in ''Mormon Publications: 19th |S=72 KB (13,069 words) - 14:59, 13 April 2024
- |S=[[Category:Primary sources]]Source document in ''Mormon Publications: 19th |S=69 KB (12,144 words) - 14:59, 13 April 2024
- |S=[[Category:Primary sources]]Source document in ''Mormon Publications: 19th |S=69 KB (12,309 words) - 14:59, 13 April 2024
- |S= [[Category:Primary sources]]Source document in ''Mormon Publications: 19th '''Note:''' ''Some headings and bracketed texts are editorial and not part of the original text.''100 KB (18,643 words) - 15:49, 13 April 2024
- |S= [[Category:Primary sources]]Source document in ''Mormon Publications: 19th |L1=HISTORY OF JOSEPH SMITH.78 KB (13,760 words) - 15:53, 13 April 2024
- |S= [[Category:Primary sources]]Source document in ''Mormon Publications: 19th |L1=HISTORY OF Joseph Smith.79 KB (14,192 words) - 15:53, 13 April 2024
- |H=An analysis of the Wikipedia article "First Vision" |S=61 KB (9,421 words) - 18:25, 11 May 2024
- |S= ...true prophet, why did he fail to realize that “Elias” is the N.T. form of the name “Elijah”? (D & C 110:12,13 and 1 Kings 17:1 and James 5:17) Ho51 KB (8,385 words) - 19:04, 8 May 2024
- ...ill greatly amuse most Latter-day Saints. Nevertheless, we respond to each of these "facts" here. ...ian creeds are abomination to God, and your pastor or Priest is a hireling of Satan"46 KB (7,585 words) - 14:22, 13 April 2024
- |L=Criticism of Mormonism/Websites/MormonThink/25 items that would allegedly "make the Chur |H=''MormonThink's'' list of 25 items that would allegedly "make the Church true"45 KB (7,307 words) - 14:20, 13 April 2024
- |L=Criticism of Mormonism/Websites/MormonThink/The First Vision |<=[[../Moroni's Visitation|Moroni's Visitation]]53 KB (8,534 words) - 14:20, 13 April 2024
- |L=Criticism of Mormonism/Websites/MormonThink/Lying for the Lord |L=Criticism of Mormonism/Websites/MormonThink/Lying for the Lord27 KB (4,214 words) - 14:20, 13 April 2024
- |H=An analysis of "Why People Leave the LDS Church" (2008)—Historical and doctrinal iss |H=An analysis of "Why People Leave the LDS Church" (2008)—Historical and doctrinal iss61 KB (9,677 words) - 15:01, 13 April 2024
- |H=An analysis of "Why People Leave the LDS Church" (2008)—Social and cultural issues |S=10 KB (1,639 words) - 15:01, 13 April 2024
- |S= OF THE BOOK OF MORMON.234 KB (43,989 words) - 15:09, 13 April 2024
- ...) does not indicate a worldwide flood occurred any time during the earth’s existence. ...d that these events actually occurred by the multiple testimonies of God’s prophets.70 KB (11,848 words) - 14:20, 13 April 2024
- ...reason or motive for seeking divine help – bible reading and conviction of sins, a revival, a desire to know if God exists, wanting to know which chur ...onsistent” all of the First Vision accounts are?"]] (from Debunking FAIR's Debunking, July 201453 KB (8,277 words) - 14:21, 13 April 2024
- |H=Response to questions about the Book of Abraham |S=6 KB (922 words) - 14:24, 13 April 2024
- |S= |>=[[../9|Response to questions about sanitized Church history]]8 KB (1,324 words) - 14:24, 13 April 2024
- |L=Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Mormonism Unmasked/Chapter 2 |H=Response to claims made in "Chapter 2: The Marketing of an Image"10 KB (1,535 words) - 14:14, 13 April 2024
- |L=Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Mormonism Unmasked/Chapter 3 |H=Response to claims made in "Chapter 3: The Making of a Religion"44 KB (6,668 words) - 14:14, 13 April 2024
- ...ormonThink managing editor Tom Phillips/Responses to claims made in Thomas S. Monson summons |H=A response to the seven claims made in the Thomas S. Monson court summons produced by MormonThink editor Tom Phillips21 KB (3,494 words) - 14:20, 13 April 2024
- Jeffrey R. Holland: "All I’m saying is that what got translated got translated into the word of God"..."All I’m saying is that what got translated got translated into the word of God" ...der Holland's interview with BBC reporter John Sweeney in March 2012: Book of Abraham3 KB (498 words) - 14:27, 13 April 2024
- ...was written and endorsed by all members of the First Presidency and Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. ...ish to claim that the ''Proclamation'' is not official are either ignorant of these teachings, or are seeking to deceive their audience.28 KB (4,291 words) - 23:16, 1 May 2024
- ...ared during the First Vision. Rather, Andrew Jenson was applying the title of "angel" to the Lord Jesus Christ. ...his disputed text he understood that Joseph Smith's First Vision consisted of seeing the Father and the Son.6 KB (1,029 words) - 15:37, 13 April 2024
- ...the Methodists, but soon became general among all the sects in that region of country." ...Joseph’s account. This has been thoroughly summarized by Pearl of Great Price Central. Their analysis may be accessed by clicking on the hyperlinked text2 KB (297 words) - 15:35, 13 April 2024
- ...unt. It is alleged that Joseph Smith concluded prior to going to the grove of trees to pray that all the denominations on the earth were false. This supp In his 1832 history, Joseph Smith said:24 KB (4,043 words) - 15:14, 13 April 2024
- ==Purpose of Revelation== ...love and unity one with another by virtue of having one purpose and means of bringing about that purpose.23 KB (3,850 words) - 15:58, 13 April 2024