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View (previous 50 | next 50) (20 | 50 | 100 | 250 | 500)- Question: Why do critics of Mormonism who belong to other religions discount spiritual experiences? (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: Is a "burning in the bosom" simply a subjective, emotion-based, unreliable way to practice self-deception? (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: Why would Joseph Smith use a non-religious vehicle for presenting a temple ordinance? (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: What is the value of a ritual presentation? (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: Why do we continue to use such a participatory style of teaching in the 21st century? (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: Will God really deny us eternal salvation simply because we do not practice a set of, as some critics put it, "archaic medieval Masonic rituals" in Mormon temples? (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: Why would the Church remove or alter elements of the temple ceremony if these ceremonies were revealed by God? (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: Did ceremonies or practices ever change in the ancient Church? (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: Is it ever allowable to modify a religious ceremony? (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: What is "empirical evidence"? (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: Is a man unreliable because he lived in the 19th-Century? (transclusion) (← links)
- Peterson (2014): "It’s rather like someone to ascribe early Christian belief to the resurrection of Jesus to the supposed fact that ancient people, unlike us, hadn’t yet realized that dead people tend to stay dead" (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: Is someone unreliable because they practiced "treasure hunting" and believed in the use of seer stones to find lost objects? (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: Are the Book of Mormon witnesses unreliable because many of them were related? (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: Did the witnesses make clear statements regarding their testimonies? (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: Did the witnesses disagree with their testimony after it was printed in the Book of Mormon? (transclusion) (← links)
- David Whitmer (1881): "I do now again affirm the truth of all my statement, as then made and published" (transclusion) (← links)
- John Whitmer (1876): "I have never heard that any one of the three or eight witnesses ever denied the testimony that they have borne to the Book as published in the first edition of the Book of Mormon" (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: Was President Hinckley suspicious that the Salamander letter might not be authentic? (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: If Gordon B. Hinckley were a true prophet, why did he not discern the nature of the Hofmann forgeries? (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: What are the Hofmann forgeries and the Salamander Letter? (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: Did one of the Book of Mormon witnesses actually only handle the plates while they were covered in a "tow frock"? (transclusion) (← links)
- Book of Jubilees 12:1-8: "Abram said to Terah his father...What help and profit have we from those idols which thou dost worship...And his father said unto him...Keep silent, my son, lest they slay thee" (transclusion) (← links)
- William Smith (1883): "he escaped to the house and brought the plates with him, wrapped up in a tow frock. He could not permit us to see them, because he said the angel told him not to do so" (transclusion) (← links)
- William Smith (1884): "When the plates were brought in they were wrapped up in a tow frock. My father then put them into a pillow case. Father said, 'What, Joseph, can we not see them?'" (transclusion) (← links)
- William Smith (1893): "I did not see them uncovered, but I handled them and hefted them while wrapped in a tow frock and judged them to have weighed about sixty pounds" (transclusion) (← links)
- Source:William Smith:The Old Soldier's Testimony:1884:It was not written from the Spaulding Romance. That story is false (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: Does the fact that Oliver Cowdery and Joseph Smith distant cousins make Oliver an unreliable witness to the Book of Mormon? (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: What did Oliver Cowdery say about his witness experience after Joseph died? (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: Was Martin Harris a gullible witness who would simply believe anything he was told? (transclusion) (← links)
- Martin Harris: "The Book of Mormon is no fake. I know what I know. I have seen what I have seen and I have heard what I have heard" (transclusion) (← links)
- George Mantle (1888): Martin Harris said "Do you know that is the sun shining on us? Because as sure as you know that...he translated that book by the power of God" (transclusion) (← links)
- Edward Stevenson (1870): Martin Harris said "my belief is swallowed up in knowledge; for I want to say to you that as the Lord lives I do know that I stood with the Prophet Joseph Smith in the presence of the angel" (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: Did Martin Harris tell people that he did not see the plates with his natural eyes, but rather the "eye of faith"? (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: Did Martin Harris tell people that he only saw the plates with his "spiritual eye"? (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: Why would Martin Harris use the phrases "eye of faith" or "spiritual eye" to describe his visionary experience? (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: Do Martin Harris's statements related to the "spiritual eye" or "eye of faith" contradict the reality of his witness? (transclusion) (← links)
- David Whitmer (1878): "I saw them just as plain as I see this bed" (transclusion) (← links)
- David Whitmer (1884): "I saw with these eyes and I heard with these ears" (transclusion) (← links)
- David Whitmer (1887): "'He that hath an ear to hear, let him hear;' it was no delusion!" (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: What did the other witnesses say regarding "spiritual" versus "natural" viewing of the plates? (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: How did newspaper accounts describe the nature of the witnesses experience? (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: How did the apostle Paul describe spiritual experiences? (transclusion) (← links)
- Source:Webb:BYUS:2011:1:Sameness of Jesus' humanity (transclusion) (← links)
- Source:Webb:BYUS:2011:2:Mormonism a mirror for other Christians (transclusion) (← links)
- Source:Webb:BYUS:2011:3:Mormonism does justice to glory and majesty of Christ (transclusion) (← links)
- Source:Webb:BYUS:2011:4:Mormons don't know where to stop giving glory to Jesus (transclusion) (← links)
- Source:Webb:BYUS:2011:5:Mormons, Nicea, and Plato (transclusion) (← links)
- Source:Webb:BYUS:2011:6:Mormons retrieved early Christian beliefs rejected by creeds (transclusion) (← links)
- Source:Webb:BYUS:2011:7:Mormons and creatio ex nihilo (transclusion) (← links)