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View (previous 50 | next 50) (20 | 50 | 100 | 250 | 500)- Question: Was there ever a consummation of the sealing between Maria Lawrence and Joseph Smith? (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: If polygamy was commanded of God in order to "raise seed," then why were Adam and Noah not commanded to practice polygamy? (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: I've seen Temple Lot court transcripts online. Are these not accurate? (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: Did Lorenzo Snow state that polygamy was actually adultery prior to 1843? (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: What is Lorenzo Snow claimed to have said about plural marriages being adultery prior to 1843? (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: Since Joseph Smith "married" the wives of 11 other men, why were those women not "destroyed" as specified in the Doctrine and Covenants since they continued to live with their "previous" husbands? (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: What is "Polyandry?" (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: What was the nature of Joseph Smith's "polyandrous" marriages? (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith consummate any of these marriages with married women? (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith have any children through any of his polyandrous marriages? (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: Was Joseph Smith married or sealed to women who were already married to other living men? (transclusion) (← links)
- The Joseph Smith Papers: "Several later documents suggest that several women who were already married to other men were, like Marinda Hyde, married or sealed to Joseph Smith" (transclusion) (← links)
- Understanding revelation (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: Who made the changes to the Doctrine and Covenants? (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: What are the reasons for the changes to the Doctrine and Covenants? (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: Were the changes to the revelations hidden from the Church members? (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: Have edits to the revelations been discussed in the present day? (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: What changes were made to the Doctrine and Covenants? (transclusion) (← links)
- Brigham Young (1855): "I do not even believe that there is a single revelation, among the many God has given to the Church, that is perfect in its fulness" (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: Do Mormons believe that other religions can be inspired by God? (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: Do all other religions confirm their beliefs through spiritual witness? (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: Do Latter-day Saints discount the spiritual witnesses that members of other religions may receive? (transclusion) (← links)
- Joseph Smith (1843): "I am just as ready to die in defending the rights of a Presbyterian, a Baptist, or a good man of any other denomination" (transclusion) (← links)
- Preach My Gospel: "many other nations and cultures have been blessed by those who were given that portion that God 'seeth fit that they should have'" (transclusion) (← links)
- Dallin H. Oaks (1997): "Surely, the word “burning” in this scripture signifies a feeling of comfort and serenity. That is the witness many receive. That is the way revelation works" (transclusion) (← links)
- 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)