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View (previous 50 | next 50) (20 | 50 | 100 | 250 | 500)- Question:Did the Jaredites bring swarms of bees across the ocean in their barges (← links)
- Source:Echoes:Ch2:18:Land of Jerusalem (← links)
- Source:Chadwick:Glimpses of Lehi's Jerusalem:Lehi's House at Jerusalem and the Land of His Inheritance:Going "up" to Jerusalem (← links)
- Source:Roper et al:“If there be faults:BYU Studies 53:3:Nephi had been a Jew politically, but his ancestors were of Manasseh (← links)
- Jeffery R. Holland: "It is wrong to assume that Nephi in any way wished to take Laban’s life" (← links)
- Godfrey: "Martin found a rock closely resembling the seerstone Joseph sometimes used in place of the interpreters and substituted it without the Prophet’s knowledge" (← links)
- Source:Gardner:Joseph the Seer:2009 FAIR Conference:long before golden plates complicated his position as a local seer (← links)
- Question: Is there anything wrong with early Church leaders using the term "angel" to refer to Jesus Christ? (← links)
- Question: What prior knowledge did George Q. Cannon have of the First Vision? (← links)
- Question: How have critics taken George Q. Cannon's First Vision "angel" references out of context? (← links)
- Question: Why did George Q. Cannon say that Joseph Smith was visited by an "angel" during the First Vision? (← links)
- Question: What did Brigham Young say that leads one to believe that he denied the First Vision? (← links)
- Question: Who was the "angel" in the First Vision that Andrew Jenson was referring to? (← links)
- 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" (← links)
- Question: Could Joseph have used a Bible during and simply dictated from it during Book of Mormon translation? (← links)
- Question: Did Joseph know what the italics in the Bible meant? (← links)
- Question: Did Joseph own a Bible at the time of the Book of Mormon translation? (← links)
- Barney: "three types of evidence favoring the conclusion that Joseph understood the meaning of the italicized words" (← links)
- Question: What do the italicized words in the Bible represent, and why is it relevant to the Book of Mormon? (← links)
- KJV translation errors in the Book of Mormon (← links)
- Question: Were the Isaiah passages in the Book of Mormon simply plagiarized from the King James Bible? (← links)
- Question: Why are many of the quotes from Isaiah in the Book of Mormon identical to those in the King James Bible? (← links)
- Matthews: "To regard the New Translation...as a product of divine inspiration given to Joseph Smith does not necessarily assume that it be a restoration of the original Bible text" (← links)
- Question: How is the Joseph Smith Translation best understood? (← links)
- Question: If the Joseph Smith Translation (JST) is Joseph Smith's 'correction' of Biblical errors, why do these corrections not match known Biblical manuscripts? (← links)
- Question: What changes were made to the 1837 edition of the Book of Mormon? (← links)
- Question: Why did Joseph Smith make changes to the Book of Mormon such as modifying "God" to read "the Son of God"? (← links)
- Question: Were any of the changes to the Book of Mormon made in reaction to sectarian criticism? (← links)
- Question: Was Thomas Stuart Ferguson an archaeologist? (← links)
- Gee: "Ferguson is largely unknown to the vast majority of Latter-day Saints; his impact on Book of Mormon studies is minimal" (← links)
- Peterson and Roper: "We know of no one who cites Ferguson as an authority, except countercultists" (← links)
- Peterson: "Thomas Stuart Ferguson's biographer...makes every effort to portray Ferguson's apparent eventual loss of faith as a failure for 'LDS archaeology'" (← links)
- Brigham Young (1855): "The Lord did not come with the armies of heaven...But He did send His angel to this same obscure person, Joseph Smith jun" (← links)
- Brigham Young (1861): "The Lord chose Joseph Smith, called upon him at fourteen years of age, gave him visions" (← links)
- Brigham Young (1867): "the Lord called upon Joseph he was but a boy—a child, only about fourteen years of age" (← links)
- George A. Smith (1868): "revealed to Joseph by the ministration of angels, the true condition of the religious world" (← links)
- Question: How would an archaeologist distinguish a Christian's pot from that of a non-Christian? (← links)
- Question: What archaeological evidence might be considered the minimal irrefutable proof needed to convince a non-believing world of the authenticity of the Nephite scripture? (← links)
- Question: What do we find when we turn to the records of the ancient (i.e. before A.D. 400) Americas? (← links)
- Question: How would Book of Mormon archaeology compare to that of the Bible? (← links)
- Question: What do we find in Mesoamerican archaeology with respect to place names, such as city names? (← links)
- Question: How does archaeology in the Old World compare to the first chapters in the Book of Mormon? (← links)
- Question: How does archaeology in the New World fit with the Book of Mormon? (← links)
- Question: What criticisms are raised with regard to Book of Mormon archaeology compared to that of the Bible? (← links)
- Question: What is the Limited Geography Theory and model? (← links)
- Question: Has the Church ever promoted a Limited Geography model for the Book of Mormon? (← links)
- Question: Why have Church leaders taught a hemispheric geography for the Book of Mormon rather than a limited one? (← links)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith teach a hemispheric, rather than a limited, geography model for the Book of Mormon? (← links)
- Question: Was the Limited Geography model created in response to DNA claims? (← links)
- Roper: "Critics of the Book of Mormon have claimed that the limited geography is only a late, desperate attempt to defend the Book of Mormon" (← links)