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- "Approaching Mormon Doctrine," LDS Newsroom (May 2007): "Not every statement made by a Church leader, past or present, necessarily constitutes doctrine" (view source)
- Miller and Roper: "Bones of domesticated cattle...have been reported from different caves in the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico" (view source)
- Miller and Roper: "Evidence of goats associated with pre-Columbian man also comes from caves in Yucatan" (view source)
- Miller and Roper: "In post-biblical Jewish literature some Jewish writers distinguished between wild and domestic cattle such as goats" (view source)
- Neil L. Andersen (2012): "A few question their faith when they find a statement made by a Church leader decades ago that seems incongruent with our doctrine" (view source)
- Question: Are all swords mentioned in the Book of Mormon made of metal? (view source)
- Question: Are the fortifications described in the Book of Mormon consistent with those built in ancient Mesoamerica? (view source)
- Question: Did Church leaders ever teach that Blacks were neutral in the "war in heaven?" (view source)
- Question: Did swords exist in Pre-Columbian America during the Book of Mormon time period? (view source)
- Question: Did swords exist in Pre-Columbian America? (view source)
- Question: Did the Church repudiate the idea of neutrality in the "war in heaven?" (view source)
- Question: Did the use of metal swords mentioned in the Book of Mormon persist? (view source)
- Question: Do the Book of Abraham and the Book of Mormon link a person's skin color to their behavior in the pre-existence? (view source)
- Question: Have any ancient horse remains from the Nephite period been found in the New World? (view source)
- Question: Is "Mormon doctrine" constantly changing? (view source)
- Question: Is the mention of barley in the Book of Mormon an anachronism? (view source)
- Question: Is the mention of copper in the Book of Mormon an anachronism? (view source)
- Question: Is the mention of gold in the Book of Mormon an anachronism? (view source)
- Question: Is the mention of silver in the Book of Mormon an anachronism? (view source)
- Question: Was Nephi's temple "similar in splendor" to Solomon's temple? (view source)
- Question: Was the Church forthright in identifying the rediscovered papyri prior to their examination by non-LDS Egyptologists? (view source)
- Question: Was the Church forthright in identifying the rediscovered papyrus prior to their examination by non-LDS Egyptologists? (view source)
- Question: Was the idea that Blacks were neutral in the "war in heaven" ever official doctrine? (view source)
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- Question: What is "brass" in the Book of Mormon? (view source)
- Question: What is the relationship of the Joseph Smith Papyri to the Book of Abraham? (view source)
- Question: What was known about iron in ancient America? (view source)
- Question: What was the Lamanite curse? (view source)
- Question: What was the relative size of Nephite population compared to Lamanite population? (view source)
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- Question: Why don't potential pre-Columbian horse remains in the New World receive greater attention from scientists? (view source)
- Question: Why was the phrase "white and delightsome" changed to "pure and delightsome" in the 1840 edition of the Book of Mormon? (view source)
- Question:Why don't potential pre-Columbian horse remains in the New World receive greater attention from scientists? (view source)
- Sorenson and Smith: "three types of wild barley have long been known to be native to the Americas" (view source)
- Sorenson: "Iron use was documented in the statements of early Spaniards, who told of the Aztecs using iron-studded clubs" (view source)
- Sorenson: "Lumps of hematite, magnetite, and ilmenite were brought into Valley of Oaxaca" (view source)
- Sorenson: The grain "Amaranth" in Mexico (view source)
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