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View (previous 50 | next 50) (20 | 50 | 100 | 250 | 500)- Question: If Gordon B. Hinckley were a true prophet, why did he not discern the nature of the Hofmann forgeries? (← links)
- Question: What are the Hofmann forgeries and the Salamander Letter? (← links)
- Question: Did one of the Book of Mormon witnesses actually only handle the plates while they were covered in a "tow frock"? (← 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" (← 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" (← 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?'" (← 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" (← links)
- Source:William Smith:The Old Soldier's Testimony:1884:It was not written from the Spaulding Romance. That story is false (← links)
- Question: Does the fact that Oliver Cowdery and Joseph Smith distant cousins make Oliver an unreliable witness to the Book of Mormon? (← links)
- Question: What did Oliver Cowdery say about his witness experience after Joseph died? (← links)
- Question: Was Martin Harris a gullible witness who would simply believe anything he was told? (← 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" (← 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" (← 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" (← links)
- Question: Did Martin Harris tell people that he did not see the plates with his natural eyes, but rather the "eye of faith"? (← links)
- Question: Did Martin Harris tell people that he only saw the plates with his "spiritual eye"? (← links)
- Question: Why would Martin Harris use the phrases "eye of faith" or "spiritual eye" to describe his visionary experience? (← links)
- Question: Do Martin Harris's statements related to the "spiritual eye" or "eye of faith" contradict the reality of his witness? (← links)
- David Whitmer (1878): "I saw them just as plain as I see this bed" (← links)
- David Whitmer (1884): "I saw with these eyes and I heard with these ears" (← links)
- David Whitmer (1887): "'He that hath an ear to hear, let him hear;' it was no delusion!" (← links)
- Question: What did the other witnesses say regarding "spiritual" versus "natural" viewing of the plates? (← links)
- Question: How did newspaper accounts describe the nature of the witnesses experience? (← links)
- Question: How did the apostle Paul describe spiritual experiences? (← links)
- Source:Webb:BYUS:2011:1:Sameness of Jesus' humanity (← links)
- Source:Webb:BYUS:2011:2:Mormonism a mirror for other Christians (← links)
- Source:Webb:BYUS:2011:3:Mormonism does justice to glory and majesty of Christ (← links)
- Source:Webb:BYUS:2011:4:Mormons don't know where to stop giving glory to Jesus (← links)
- Source:Webb:BYUS:2011:5:Mormons, Nicea, and Plato (← links)
- Source:Webb:BYUS:2011:6:Mormons retrieved early Christian beliefs rejected by creeds (← links)
- Source:Webb:BYUS:2011:7:Mormons and creatio ex nihilo (← links)
- Source:Webb:BYUS:2011:8:Revelation vs historical guesswork about Jesus (← links)
- Source:Webb:BYUS:2011:9:Mormon trinitarian views are not polytheistic (← links)
- Source:Webb:BYUS:2011:10:Preexistent Jesus and a divinized humanity (← links)
- Source:Webb:BYUS:2011:11:Do Mormons make too much of Jesus Christ (← links)
- Source:Webb:BYUS:2011:12:Mormons are not Arians (← links)
- Source:Webb:BYUS:2011:13:Mormons reject Augustinian ideas about depravity and original sin (← links)
- Source:Webb:BYUS:2011:14:Joseph Smith could hold his own in early Christian debates (← links)
- Source:Webb:BYUS:2011:15:Christian beliefs do not need to have Neo-Platonic influence to be true (← links)
- Source:Webb:BYUS:2011:16:Joseph Smith more coherent than Augustine on matter and the divine (← links)
- Source:Webb:BYUS:2011:17:Creedal Christians can learn from Mormon views about Jesus and creation (← links)
- Stephen H. Webb: "Evidence That Demands Our Amazement... Joseph Smith was a remarkable person" (← links)
- Source:Webb:BYUS:2011:19:Vastness of Joseph Smith's theology - it is not pagan (← links)
- Source:Webb:BYUS:2011:20:Joseph Smith does not deny grace or claim to earn salvation (← links)
- Source:Webb:BYUS:2011:21:Joseph Smith's theosis does not supplant God or veer into polytheism (← links)
- Question: Why were the gold plates needed at all if they weren't used directly during the translation process? (← links)
- Question: How do Church members assume that Joseph would have "used the plates" during translation? (← links)
- Question: How did Joseph Smith actually use the gold plates? (← links)
- Peterson (2005): The plates "are an indigestible lump in the throats of people...who contend that there were no Nephites but that Joseph Smith was nonetheless an inspired prophet" (← links)
- Question: Did God tell David Whitmer to leave the Church and repudiate Mormonism? (← links)