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- |S=[[Category:Primary sources]]Source document in ''Mormon Publications: 19th and 20th Centuries'' online archive: [http://contentdm.l ====THE SAINTS AND THE WORLD.====70 KB (12,744 words) - 14:59, 13 April 2024
- |S=[[Category:Primary sources]]Source document in ''Mormon Publications: 19th and 20th Centuries'' online archive: [http://contentdm.l ''Wisdom is better than weapons of war.''69 KB (12,144 words) - 14:59, 13 April 2024
- |L=Criticism of Mormonism/Video/8: The Mormon Proposition |H=Response to ''8: The Mormon Proposition''28 KB (4,378 words) - 14:19, 13 April 2024
- |L=Book of Mormon/Lamanites/Relationship to Amerindians/Statements/20th century |H=Statements by Church leaders regarding the Lamanites: 20th century34 KB (5,736 words) - 13:15, 30 April 2024
- |L=The Evening and The Morning Star/1/2 |H=The Evening and the Morning Star: Volume 1, Number 296 KB (17,379 words) - 15:49, 13 April 2024
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- |S= [[Category:Primary sources]]Source document in ''Mormon Publications: 19th and 20th Centuries'' online archive: [http://contentdm.l |L2=FROM THE PRIVATE JOURNAL OF JOSEPH SMITH JR.72 KB (12,627 words) - 15:50, 13 April 2024
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- |S= [[Category:Primary sources]]Source document in ''Mormon Publications: 19th and 20th Centuries'' online archive: [http://contentdm.l |L2=THE RELEASE OF GEN. JOSEPH SMITH.82 KB (14,367 words) - 15:52, 13 April 2024
- |S= [[Category:Primary sources]]Source document in ''Mormon Publications: 19th and 20th Centuries'' online archive: [http://contentdm.l |L1=History of Joseph Smith80 KB (14,469 words) - 15:52, 13 April 2024
- From: {{Book:Smith:Doctrines of Salvation|vol=3|pages=232–240 [internal citations omitted]}} ...rrow neck" of land spoken of in the Book of Mormon rather than the isthmus of Panama.18 KB (3,157 words) - 11:49, 29 May 2012
- |L1=LDS Newsroom, "Approaching Mormon Doctrine" *Critics sometimes impose absolutist assumptions on the Church.6 KB (935 words) - 14:09, 13 April 2024
- |L=Mormonism and Wikipedia/First Vision/Interpretations and responses to the vision |H=An analysis of the Wikipedia article "First Vision"61 KB (9,422 words) - 06:18, 15 May 2024
- {{Resource Title|Mormon responses to atheism: Books * [[Mormon responses to atheism]]4 KB (506 words) - 14:00, 13 April 2024
- |L=Criticism of Mormonism/Online documents/For my Wife and Children (Letter to my Wife)/Chapter 13 |H=Response to "For my Wife and Children" ("Letter to my Wife"): Chapter 13 - Anachronisms20 KB (3,168 words) - 14:18, 13 April 2024
- ...ive salvation because the conditions we must meet are too high for any man to obtain?== ===When critics twist Moroni 10:32 to make it mean that salvation is logically unavailable for man they are givin9 KB (1,518 words) - 15:24, 13 April 2024
- |title=Book of Mormon: Gospel Doctrine Teacher’s Manual =Lesson 2: "All Things According to His Will"=17 KB (2,574 words) - 14:23, 13 April 2024
- |title=Book of Mormon: Gospel Doctrine Teacher’s Manual =Lesson 5: "Hearken to the Truth, and Give Heed unto It"=19 KB (2,966 words) - 14:23, 13 April 2024
- ...ting (The item is labeled: "COPYRIGHT: This material is not copyrighted in the hope that it will receive wide distribution in any form") |affiliation=Atheist former member of the Church; Founder of Exmormon Foundation.28 KB (4,541 words) - 15:58, 13 April 2024
- ...cism of Mormonism/Websites/MormonThink/25 items that would allegedly "make the Church true" |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/Book of Mormon Problems |H=Response to MormonThink page "Book of Mormon Problems"38 KB (6,130 words) - 14:20, 13 April 2024
- |L=Mormonism and culture/Response to "Why People Leave the LDS Church" (2008)/Historical and doctrinal issues |H=An analysis of "Why People Leave the LDS Church" (2008)—Historical and doctrinal issues61 KB (9,677 words) - 15:01, 13 April 2024
- |H=An analysis of "Why People Leave the LDS Church" (2008)—Social and cultural issues |T="Why People Leave the LDS Church" (2008)10 KB (1,639 words) - 15:01, 13 April 2024
- Return to index [http://en.fairmormon.org/FAIR_Study_Aids/Book_of_Mormon_Resources_by ===The Plates and the Three, Eight, and Other Witnesses===47 KB (6,269 words) - 15:39, 26 December 2012
- Return to index [http://en.fairmormon.org/FAIR_Study_Aids/Book_of_Mormon_Resources_by *Journey of Faith [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bztOlbUU2Uw&list=PL8E749B3D3C753A96&47 KB (6,229 words) - 15:38, 26 December 2012
- ...tion: Did LDS scholar Hugh Nibley support the "Heartland model" of Book of Mormon geography?== ...vocates often cite Nibley selectively, and do not provide a full inventory of his statements===6 KB (896 words) - 21:08, 1 May 2024
- ===The Plates and the Three, Eight, and Other Witnesses=== *Robert L. Marrott, "Law of Witnesses" [http://maxwellinstitute.byu.edu/publications/books/?bookid=51&c57 KB (7,530 words) - 09:36, 27 August 2013
- |L=FAIR Study Aids/Book of Mormon Resources by chapter and verse/1 Nephi *Journey of Faith [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bztOlbUU2Uw&list=PL8E749B3D3C753A96&51 KB (6,760 words) - 14:22, 13 April 2024
- |L=Criticism of Mormonism/Online documents/For my Wife and Children (Letter to my Wife)/Chapter 16 ...fe and Children" ("Letter to my Wife"): Chapter 16 - Expert Views (Book of Mormon)15 KB (2,419 words) - 14:19, 13 April 2024
- | colspan="3" style="font-size:150%" | OF THE CHURCH OF LATTER DAY SAINTS ...e that have the last No. of the Messenger) to the second candid perusal of the Appeal. — Ed.67 KB (12,061 words) - 20:28, 22 November 2012
- **John L. Sorenson, "When Lehi's Party Arrived in the Land, Did They Find Others There?" [http://maxwellinstitute.byu.edu/publica **Lindon J. Robison, "Economic Insights from the Book of Mormon" [http://maxwellinstitute.byu.edu/publications/jbms/?vol=1&num=1&id=617 (Ma4 KB (587 words) - 22:51, 2 February 2013
- ...edimentation) does not indicate a worldwide flood occurred any time during the earth’s existence. ...re assured that these events actually occurred by the multiple testimonies of God’s prophets.70 KB (11,848 words) - 14:20, 13 April 2024
- |L=Criticism of Mormonism/Websites/FutureMissionary.com |H=A FairMormon Analysis of the critical website ''FutureMissionary.com''9 KB (1,309 words) - 14:20, 13 April 2024
- ...King James Version edition errors doing in the Book of Mormon?"]] (Letter to a CES Director: Why I Lost My Testimony, April 2013) ...the translation process actually enhances the likelihood that the Book of Mormon is a fraud"]] (Debunking FAIR's Debunking, July 2014)87 KB (13,652 words) - 14:21, 13 April 2024
- |L=Detailed response to CES Letter, Testimony and Spiritual Witness |H=Detailed response to CES Letter, Testimony and Spiritual Witness31 KB (5,073 words) - 14:21, 13 April 2024
- |L=Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Understanding Mormon Disbelief |H=A review of "Understanding Mormon Disbelief"50 KB (7,519 words) - 14:18, 13 April 2024
- =Did Joseph Smith send men on missions in order to "steal" their wives while they were gone?= ...s at the time and there is insufficient or contradictory information about the other two==10 KB (1,635 words) - 16:58, 18 May 2024
- ==Question: Did Joseph Smith plagiarize John Bunyan's ''The Pilgrim's Progress''?== ...Testament or the early Christian saints. Jesus’s story could be told in the same way===29 KB (5,174 words) - 15:15, 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
- ==Question: What is known about the name "Liahona" in the Book of Mormon?== ...na mean "to Yahweh is the whither" or, by interpretation, "direction of-to the Lord"===2 KB (264 words) - 15:34, 13 April 2024
- {{Navigation:Book of Mormon}} {{:Question: How realistic is the name "Shazer" described in the Book of Mormon?}}2 KB (373 words) - 13:16, 12 April 2024
- ...nThink/Media efforts by MormonThink 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
- |L=Mormonism and the Bible/Scripture interpretation |L1=Question: How can a Latter-day Saint approach responding to criticism of the Church on biblical grounds?7 KB (1,056 words) - 15:49, 13 April 2024
- == Question: What is the best way to understand servitude in the Old and New Testaments?== ...Many wonder what the best way to understand these passages is in light of the Restored Gospel. Does God endorse slavery? Is he okay with people being put36 KB (5,953 words) - 15:34, 13 April 2024
- =Scriptures on the Fulness of the Gospel= ...ch listing contains either a brief summary or a direct quotation (or both) of what is in those verses.18 KB (2,934 words) - 01:51, 12 May 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
- =Does the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons) have any association with polygamist groups?= ...tablished by Joseph Smith, however, they no longer recognize the authority of LDS Church leaders==529 KB (90,740 words) - 02:33, 19 May 2024
- ...on of which marriages were consummated, it is likewise spotty with regards to whether Joseph fathered children by his plural wives== ...the case of Josephine Lyon, now considered the most likely potential child of Joseph.76 KB (12,137 words) - 22:08, 18 May 2024
- =Alleged whitewashing of Church history= ...erns worse by claiming or implying that the Church hides troubling aspects of its history.42 KB (6,839 words) - 03:21, 16 May 2024
- |L=Criticism of Mormonism/Online documents/"Questions and Answers" on Mormon Stories |H=Response to "Questions and Answers" on Mormon Stories (revision 25 June 2014)8 KB (1,273 words) - 14:18, 13 April 2024
- |L=../John C. Bennett Prior to Nauvoo |H=John C. Bennett Prior to Nauvoo28 KB (4,459 words) - 14:29, 13 April 2024
- |S= [[Category:Primary sources]]Source document in ''Mormon Publications: 19th and 20th Centuries'' online archive: [http://contentdm.l |L3=DEFENCE AGAINST THE VARIOUS CHARGES THAT HAVE GONE ABROAD.67 KB (12,035 words) - 15:51, 13 April 2024
- |L=Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Passing the Heavenly Gift/Claims about priesthood ordination |H=Response to ''Passing the Heavenly Gift'': Claims about priesthood ordination43 KB (7,106 words) - 14:17, 13 April 2024
- |L=Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Passing the Heavenly Gift/Joseph received sealing powers in 1829 |H=Response to ''Passing the Heavenly Gift'': Claims regarding when Joseph Smith received priesthood aut25 KB (3,959 words) - 14:17, 13 April 2024
- |L=Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Passing the Heavenly Gift/Necessary authority could only be transmitted in a completed |H=Response to ''Passing the Heavenly Gift'': Claims that authority could only be transmitted in a compl12 KB (1,987 words) - 14:17, 13 April 2024
- ==Gardner: "a correct approach to a Mesoamerican battle required all three elements: king, litter, and battle Wrote Mesoamerican expert Brant Gardner, who believes the Book of Mormon was situated in Mesoamerica:5 KB (812 words) - 14:24, 13 April 2024
- {{Navigation:Book of Mormon}} ...iticalWork:Palmer:Insider|pages=10, 83}}; {{CriticalWork:Martin:Kingdom of the Cults|pages=205}}; La Roy Sunderland, “Mormonism,” ''Zion’s Watchman'198 KB (31,143 words) - 20:57, 12 April 2024
- ==Question: Was Thomas Stuart Ferguson an archaeologist?== ...ord for the first time.) His role in "Mormon scholarship" was largely that of enthusiast and publicist, for which we can be grateful, but he was neither3 KB (538 words) - 15:29, 13 April 2024
- ==Question: What do we find in Mesoamerican archaeology with respect to place names, such as city names?== ===In Mesoamerica, toponyms often disappeared from one era to the next===6 KB (943 words) - 00:24, 27 April 2024
- ...Are there any known parallels between elements of Joseph's interpretation of Facsimile 3 with other ancient texts?== ...see above under Facsimile 1 for evidences of Semitic adaptation of Osiris to be Abraham.27 KB (4,412 words) - 15:10, 13 April 2024
- ==Question: What are the criticisms related to Facsimile 3?== ===The following are common criticisms associated with Facsimile 3===3 KB (438 words) - 15:30, 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
- ==Question: What changes were made to the Doctrine and Covenants?== ===Changes made to the Doctrine and Covenants were 1) Grammar and spelling. 2) Added material or e10 KB (1,667 words) - 15:31, 13 April 2024
- ..."burning in the bosom" simply a subjective, emotion-based, unreliable way to practice self-deception?== ===It is a fundamental misunderstanding or misstatement to say that the Latter-day Saint revelatory experience is exclusively or primarily “emoti7 KB (1,106 words) - 15:24, 13 April 2024
- ==Question: Why did Brigham Young initiate the priesthood ban?== ...rg/conference/august-2014/shouldering-the-cross Shouldering the Cross: How to Condemn Racism and Still Call Brigham Young a Prophet]," FairMormon Confere10 KB (1,662 words) - 15:37, 13 April 2024
- ==Question: Did Joseph Smith believe that Abraham wrote the text on the papyrus himself?== ===Joseph Smith believed that the writing on the papyrus was done by Abraham himself===6 KB (1,045 words) - 15:14, 13 April 2024
- ...the Book of Mormon: "Syria and Palestine had been in constant contact with the Aegean world"== ...Cyprus (Book of Mormon Akish) and of course traded with Palestine.24<ref>{{Book:Nibley:CW06|pages=[https://publications.mi.byu.edu/fullscreen/?pub=1107&ind2 KB (258 words) - 15:46, 13 April 2024
- ==Question: Did B.H. Roberts lose his faith in the Church and the Book of Mormon?== ...im that B.H. Roberts abandoned the Book of Mormon can be found in his last book, which he considered his masterwork===27 KB (4,505 words) - 15:11, 13 April 2024
- ...ive spiritual experiences that motivate them to believe in and become part of other religions?== ===Introduction to Criticism===91 KB (14,438 words) - 15:22, 13 April 2024
- * "I am learned, and know more than all the world put together." ...ority; I cut the Gordian knot of powers, and I solve mathematical problems of universities, with truth . . . diamond truth; and God is my ‘right hand m17 KB (2,876 words) - 20:57, 12 April 2024
- ==Question: Did Dee F. Green say that there is no such thing as Book of Mormon archaeology?== ===Green argues that the concept of "Book of Mormon archaeology" is inadequate, and that a broader anthropological perspective12 KB (2,012 words) - 00:21, 27 April 2024
- ==On the name "Sam"== ...an name, it is also the normal Arabic form of Shem, the son of Noah.<ref>{{Book:Nibley:CW06|pages=[https://publications.mi.byu.edu/fullscreen/?pub=1107&ind573 bytes (81 words) - 15:46, 13 April 2024
- ...the Mormon temple endowment that required vengeance upon the government of the United States?== ...was an oath that asked members to pray that God would avenge the blood of the prophets===16 KB (2,576 words) - 15:29, 13 April 2024
- ...he Grammar and Alphabet of the Egyptian Language (GAEL) relate to the Book of Abraham?== ...red to as the "Grammar and Alphabet of the Egyptian Language" and the Book of Abraham have not yet been determined===3 KB (397 words) - 15:22, 13 April 2024
- ...he Late War, between the United States and Great Britain, from June, 1812, to February, 1815''?== ...central.org/knowhy/is-the-book-of-mormon-like-any-other-nineteenth-century-book|number=502}}11 KB (1,825 words) - 15:15, 13 April 2024
- ==Question: What is special about the chiasmus found in Alma 36?== ===Joseph actually produces an eloquent, persuasive man in the mold of the ancient world that comes through even in translation===11 KB (2,089 words) - 15:34, 13 April 2024
- ===Lehi and his family are ''not'' Jews: They belong to the tribe of Manasseh=== ...the fact that Amerindian DNA seems closest to Asian DNA, and not DNA from "the Middle East" or "Jewish" DNA. However, this attack ignores several key poi2 KB (277 words) - 15:34, 13 April 2024
- ...ory of the Church that a "mighty people" that would dwell "in the midst of the Rocky Mountains"?== ...accept that all of the people listed who remembered Joseph speaking about the Rocky Mountains were lying or fabricating their experience===23 KB (3,925 words) - 20:57, 12 April 2024
- ...s no evidence that the first federal appointees were threatened or at risk of their lives=== ...ticized those who had left as having abandoned their posts, and noted that the judges' report did not suggest that any laws had been broken:13 KB (2,141 words) - 15:13, 13 April 2024
- ==Ironically, those who criticize Mormon histories as being unreliable and incomplete use Church-produced documents ...ly with regard to its earliest years, are those that have been produced by the LDS church."12 KB (1,845 words) - 06:27, 16 May 2024
- ==Question: Does the Book of Mormon support trinitarianism?== ===A case can be made against this with a couple of passages===11 KB (1,841 words) - 15:20, 13 April 2024
- ===The core of the problem is that the scriptures and the revelations simply don't talk about dinosaurs=== ...n "where" and "when." How do they fit into the creation story presented by the scriptures?4 KB (671 words) - 16:11, 30 April 2024
- ...thin the Church regarding the origins of the American Indians changed over the years?== ...nowledge about the origins of any specific modern group in the Americas or the Pacific."<br><br>—"Lamanite Identity," <i>lds.org</i> (accessed 1 Feb14 KB (2,169 words) - 15:22, 13 April 2024
- ...Mention Hagoth?|url=https://knowhy.bookofmormoncentral.org/content/why-did-mormon-mention-hagoth|number=171}} ...at Polynesians are Lamanites stems from the story of Hagoth in the Book of Mormon===4 KB (771 words) - 15:38, 13 April 2024
- ...n anachronism, and what should be borne in mind when assessing the Book of Mormon (or any other text) for supposed "anachronisms"?== ...t that is "out of time." That is, it does not match the time and place of the text's claimed production.===38 KB (5,913 words) - 19:50, 7 May 2024
- ==Question: How do we explain multiple "Isaiahs" and the Book of Mormon?== ...d Isaiah, who allegedly had not yet written his material in time for Nephi to quote from it===25 KB (4,145 words) - 23:20, 6 May 2024
- ==Question: Is the description in the Book of Mormon of a "river running into a fountain" absurd?== ===In the ancient Near East, the "fountain of a river" was perceived to be the ocean, from which all waters originated===6 KB (978 words) - 15:25, 13 April 2024
- ...stion: What are the criticisms related to the "gold plates" of the Book of Mormon?== ...imed that Joseph manufactured the plates, and that they would be too heavy to carry if they were pure gold===5 KB (816 words) - 15:30, 13 April 2024
- ...cience of stylometry, which can be defined loosely as statistical analysis of style"== ...cher, "Who Wrote the Book of Mormon? An Analysis of Wordprints," ''Book of Mormon Authorship'' (1982)</ref>1 KB (217 words) - 15:45, 13 April 2024