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- ...only with the history and expansion of three small colonies which came to America and it does not deny or disprove the possibility of other immigrations"== ...A. Welker, and H. Alvah Fitzgerald, ''A Guide to the Study of the Book of Mormon'' (Salt Lake City: LDS Department of Education, 1938), 47–48.</ref>1 KB (205 words) - 14:58, 13 April 2024
- ...Prophet's editorship Central America was denominated the region of Book of Mormon activities"== ...know…. [The 1842 Times and Seasons article] seems to place many book of Mormon activities in that region. The interesting fact in this connection is that2 KB (358 words) - 14:27, 13 April 2024
- ...y of all of the people who have lived on the continents of North and South America"== ...or linguistic evidence to the contrary would weigh in against the Book of Mormon, and those who rely exclusively on scholarship would have a promising posit2 KB (370 words) - 14:21, 13 April 2024
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- ...chariots, when it is known that there were no wheeled vehicles in ancient America?== ...fers to the use of chariots, yet there were no wheeled vehicles in ancient America.2 KB (359 words) - 16:09, 30 April 2024
- .... Phelps: Ruins in Central America "good testimony in favor of the Book of Mormon"]]100 bytes (17 words) - 12:20, 3 December 2019
- ...by men who were divinely inspired by the Holy Spirit, on the continent of America?"]]165 bytes (27 words) - 12:23, 3 December 2019
- ...stence of such ruins were known long before the publication of the Book of Mormon"]]174 bytes (29 words) - 15:56, 3 December 2019
- ...only with the history and expansion of three small colonies which came to America and it does not deny or disprove the possibility of other immigrations"]]242 bytes (38 words) - 16:46, 3 December 2019
- ...y of all of the people who have lived on the continents of North and South America"]]162 bytes (29 words) - 16:50, 3 December 2019
- ...Prophet's editorship Central America was denominated the region of Book of Mormon activities"]]146 bytes (20 words) - 21:20, 3 December 2019
- ...l sources box:Book of Mormon/Plagiarism accusations/Place names from North America/CriticalSources]]128 bytes (16 words) - 23:18, 28 April 2024
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- ...llels in Published Sources Available to Joseph Smith in Early 19th Century America," <nowiki><http://mit.irr.org/extra-biblical-details-in-book-of-abraham-com John Gee has also published on this in Journal of Book of Mormon and other Restoration Scripture through the Maxwell Institute208 KB (32,568 words) - 14:22, 13 April 2024
- ...ith his failure and finally remembering what Jacob had said in the Book of Mormon— "having first obtained mine errand from the Lord" ({{s||Jacob|1|17}} ...y, an unforgettable moment. The two young elders, both converts from South America, had somehow learned something of the unwritten order of things. They were24 KB (4,424 words) - 15:09, 13 April 2024
- ...n] geography issues), the Church has no official geography for the Book of Mormon. {{Main|Book_of_Mormon_geography:Statements|l1=Statements about Book of Mormon geography from leaders}}10 KB (1,611 words) - 15:17, 13 April 2024
- ...#000;padding:0.2em 0.4em;">Is There Archaeological Support for the Book of Mormon?</h2> ...ll as the assumptions which many people bring to their approach of Book of Mormon archaeology.15 KB (2,306 words) - 14:19, 13 April 2024
- ...rial—as demonstrated by the Reverend Wesley Walters, a prolific anti-Mormon author. Therefore, he was not found guilty and no trial was held. The video ...feelings toward Joseph Smith, Oliver continued to insist that the Book of Mormon was the word of God, and that he had seen an angel and the plates.49 KB (8,019 words) - 14:19, 13 April 2024
- ...ship of that deity. The cross was also used by the people of pre-Columbian America, and people in other parts of the world, to signify the sun. Does that sugg ...ways but the most significant area appears to be in the development of the Mormon temple ceremonies."</h2>17 KB (2,868 words) - 14:19, 13 April 2024
- ...s very precise) and assume that the science as (mis)applied to the Book of Mormon is equally solid. ...o promote the superficial treatment of DNA science relative to the Book of Mormon, as is done in the video.19 KB (3,134 words) - 14:19, 13 April 2024
- ...e cities all over America that held many, many people in South and Central America. Not one city has ever been found. Not one crumb, not one remain, and yet i ...e and these cities were in fact filled with people. Whether or not Book of Mormon people lived in a particular city is debatable and has been addressed [[Sea29 KB (4,776 words) - 14:20, 13 April 2024
- George Bernard Shaw, certainly no Mormon, declared: ...y shot him. <ref>George Bernard Shaw, ''The Future of Political Science in America; an Address by Mr. Bernard Shaw to the Academy of Political Science, at the55 KB (8,792 words) - 03:08, 18 May 2024
- I have not viewed the anti-Mormon dvd, not will I waste my time with it. I have already read many books, both ...school. It was frustrating to ask questions raised by reading the Book of Mormon, to be told "I don't need to read it - I prayed about it!" Many people told34 KB (5,824 words) - 22:40, 9 May 2024
- Latter-day Saints embrace the doctrine taught in 1 Timothy. The Book of Mormon says likewise that ...'s role in the judgment supercedes the role given to Jesus, as the Book of Mormon bears witness:27 KB (4,448 words) - 14:19, 13 April 2024
- |L=Book of Mormon/Warfare/Weapons/Swords |H=Book of Mormon warfare: Swords2 KB (253 words) - 21:12, 1 May 2024
- {{Navigation:Book of Mormon}} |L=Theory of Book of Mormon place names from area around Joseph Smith's home2 KB (261 words) - 23:19, 28 April 2024
- ...ne of the most widely available commentaries in the mid-1820s and 1830s in America. Direct borrowing from this source has not previously been connected to Smi ...h Smith, Adam Clarke, and the Making of a Bible Revision],” ''Journal of Mormon History'' 46, no. 3 (July 2020): 1–22.</ref>15 KB (2,398 words) - 16:33, 28 April 2024
- {{Main|Book of Mormon/Anachronisms/"Adieu"}} This is from ''The Mormon'', Saturday, July 12, 1856, Vol. II—Although this is an LDS "friendly7 KB (1,105 words) - 23:42, 13 April 2024
- ...rth Quorum live in Mexico, Central America, and the northern part of South America. ...venth Quorum members are located in Brazil and the southern areas of South America.23 KB (3,758 words) - 15:00, 13 April 2024
- ...talist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (FLDS Church) is one of America's largest practitioners of plural marriage. The FLDS Church emerged in the ==Mormon?==5 KB (769 words) - 15:00, 13 April 2024
- ...s and conference centers while the Mormons worship. For an example of anti-Mormon activities, see: [http://www.fairlds.org/Anti-Mormons/Street_Preachers.html * {{Encyclopedia|article=Anti-Mormon Publications|link=http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/cdm4/doc_viewer.php?CISOROOT27 KB (4,268 words) - 15:00, 13 April 2024
- ===Book of Mormon=== ...surrounding paid ministries particularly due to admonitions in the Book of Mormon relative to a practices known as ''priestcraft'', which is "that men preach23 KB (3,695 words) - 21:11, 7 May 2024
- ...[Criticism of Mormonism/Books/The Mormon Hierarchy: Origins of Power|''The Mormon Hierarchy: Origins of Power'']] ...claims made in Early Mormonism and the Magic World View, "Chapter 1: Early America's Heritage of Religion and Magic"12 KB (1,938 words) - 22:22, 11 May 2024
- ...ators of the film have used negative stereotypes to create a piece of anti-Mormon propaganda for the big screen=== ...ommitted to their vision of perfidious Mormons, that they can't accept non-Mormon criticism at face value—they "know" their film can't be bad, so it mu32 KB (4,917 words) - 15:20, 13 April 2024
- ...ism of Mormonism/Books/Losing a Lost Tribe: Native Americans, DNA, and the Mormon Church |H=Response to "Losing a Lost Tribe: Native Americans, DNA, and the Mormon Church"11 KB (1,647 words) - 22:44, 11 May 2024
- {{Navigation:Book of Mormon}} {{:Question: What is the Heartland Model of Book of Mormon geography}}8 KB (1,081 words) - 14:25, 13 April 2024
- |link=Book of Mormon/Geography/Transoceanic Crossing ...June 2010 the History Channel aired a documentary, "Who Really Discovered America?" which claims that it would have been impossible for a ship made by Nephi569 bytes (87 words) - 15:54, 13 April 2024
- |link=Book of Mormon/Anachronisms/Plants#Barley |subject=Book of Mormon anachronisms—Plants—Barley949 bytes (135 words) - 15:53, 13 April 2024
- ==FAIR DVD: ''DNA and the Book of Mormon''== ''DNA and the Book of Mormon'' can be found in the [http://store.fairlds.org/prod/p1893036073.html FAIR3 KB (532 words) - 14:22, 13 April 2024
- |S= [[Category:Primary sources]]Source document in ''Mormon Publications: 19th and 20th Centuries'' online archive: [http://contentdm.l ...y. You may well suppose that the people had a great curiosity to hear "the Mormon" preach, so much so, that they came out by hundreds from every direction of69 KB (12,223 words) - 15:50, 13 April 2024
- |S= [[Category:Primary sources]]Source document in ''Mormon Publications: 19th and 20th Centuries'' online archive: [http://contentdm.l |L2=EXTRACT FROM THE BOOK OF MORMON73 KB (12,947 words) - 15:50, 13 April 2024
- |L=Book of Mormon/Geography/Borders of the Lamanites |H=The "borders of the Lamanites" in North America1 KB (167 words) - 22:49, 28 April 2024
- |L=Book of Mormon anachronisms/Chariots and Wheels |H=Book of Mormon anachronisms: Chariots and wheels585 bytes (89 words) - 14:07, 13 April 2024
- ...its publication. It was likely included to counter the perception that the Mormon's practice of communal property (the "law of consecration") included a comm [[Category:Mormon America: The Power and the Promise]]11 KB (1,742 words) - 20:33, 17 May 2024
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- #REDIRECT [[Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Mormon America: The Power and the Promise]]84 bytes (12 words) - 18:44, 5 February 2017
- |L2=Question: Have Mormon apologists ignored aspects of Quetzalcoatl which are inconsistent with Jesu {{:Question: Have Mormon apologists ignored aspects of Quetzalcoatl which are inconsistent with Jesu2 KB (353 words) - 16:17, 30 April 2024
- ...eadquarters in Salt Lake City; protesters showed up en masse to intimidate Mormon small-business owners who supported the measure; a website was created to i {{Epigraph|The Mormon church has had to rely on our tolerance in the past, to be able to express39 KB (5,785 words) - 15:02, 13 April 2024
- |link=/Calling All Mormon Scholars |subject=Calling All Mormon Scholars12 KB (1,620 words) - 14:15, 13 April 2024
- |<=[[../Calling All Mormon Scholars|Calling All Mormon Scholars]] |>=[[../The Mormon Quest for Power|The Mormon Quest for Power]]12 KB (1,905 words) - 14:15, 13 April 2024
- ...ared that at Christ's second coming, he would '''return to''' "the land of America" (Brigham Young, December 23, 1866, JOD [Liverpool: B. Young, Jr.; lithogra ...hat at Christ's second coming, he would '''first appear''' in "the land of America" (Brigham Young, December 23, 1866, JOD [Liverpool: B. Young, Jr., 1867; li3 KB (505 words) - 14:15, 13 April 2024
- ...ONUG was first published, the author posted the following statement on the Mormon Apologetics Discussion Board in response to challenges about the accuracy o ...b5cadd3769e01adb6f0&showtopic=39797&view=findpost&p=1208551468 Posted to ''Mormon Apologetics and Discussion Board''], '''Dec. 4, 2008'''12 KB (2,053 words) - 14:16, 13 April 2024
- |L13=Response to claim: xiii - "...today, in official Mormon circles, Smith's granting of favors to chosen followers, allowing them to t ...f information, first in Illinois and later in Utah, left a brief window in Mormon history from which most of the documentation has been recovered"18 KB (2,593 words) - 14:14, 13 April 2024
- ...he "White Horse" prophecy predicts that the U.S. government will become a "Mormon-ruled theocracy" ...da|The assertion by the author that "some of the least reliable reports on Mormon history" are those "produced by the LDS church" is very interesting in ligh12 KB (1,771 words) - 14:15, 13 April 2024
- ...48, 503n25 (HB) - Did Joseph decide to convert his book into a saga about America's ancient inhabitants as a money making scheme? ...to claim: 503n25 (HB) - Joseph tried to sell the copyright of the Book of Mormon in Canada27 KB (4,316 words) - 13:33, 13 April 2024
- ...(HB,PB) - Was Joseph inspired by the "mound builders" to write the Book of Mormon? ...6, 511n31 (HB); 509n31 (PB) - According to Alexander Campbell, the Book of Mormon "commented on nearly 'every error and almost every truth discussed in New Y33 KB (5,102 words) - 14:15, 13 April 2024
- |L4=Response to claim: 231 - The author claims that the "Mormon reformation" a period of subjugation and brutal acts of violence designed t ...ly shot and killed for the crime of "falling in love with, and marrying, a Mormon"42 KB (6,478 words) - 14:15, 13 April 2024
- |L1=Response to claim: 402 (PB) - Does the Mormon Tabernacle Choir "proselytize unsuspecting music lovers"? |L2=Response to claim: 403 - "The general public, especially outside America, still possesses little knowledge of the unsavory nature of Mormonism"36 KB (5,451 words) - 13:33, 13 April 2024
- |L2=Response to claim: 257 - "At the outset of their confrontation with America, the Mormons clearly had an advantage" ==Response to claim: 257 - "At the outset of their confrontation with America, the Mormons clearly had an advantage"==18 KB (2,890 words) - 14:15, 13 April 2024
- |>=[[../Chapter 16|Claims made in "Chapter 16: Mormon Racism: Black Is Not Beautiful"]] ...Manifesto: Mormon Polygamy 1890-1906," in D. Michael Quinn, ed., ''The New Mormon History'', 203-204.16 KB (2,483 words) - 14:15, 13 April 2024
- |H=Response to claims made in "Chapter 16: Mormon Racism: Black Is ''Not'' Beautiful" |H=Response to claims made in One Nation Under Gods, "Chapter 16: Mormon Racism: Black Is ''Not'' Beautiful"28 KB (4,263 words) - 14:15, 13 April 2024
- ...statement that "no man knows my history" resulted in "endless suspicion by Mormon historians and non-Mormons"]] ...n earth"|Response to claim: 182 - Joseph Smith proclaimed that the Book of Mormon "is the most correct of any book on earth"]]118 KB (18,356 words) - 13:33, 13 April 2024
- *Bruce R. McConkie, ''Mormon Doctrine'' (1958; second edition, 1966), p. 132. ...Kent Jackson from the ''Ensign'', and the second is Bruce R. McConkie's ''Mormon Doctrine''. There is nothing in either of these articles which argues that6 KB (951 words) - 21:53, 9 May 2024