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View (previous 50 | next 50) (20 | 50 | 100 | 250 | 500)- Gospel Topics: "During the first two decades of the Church’s existence, a few black men were ordained to the priesthood" (← links)
- Question: Why did Brigham Young initiate the priesthood ban? (← links)
- Question: What did Church leaders after Brigham Young think of the priesthood ban? (← links)
- Question: Does Church manual, ''The Teachings of the Presidents of the Church: Brigham Young'', attempt to "hide history" by portraying Brigham Young (a well-known polygamist) as having only one wife? (← links)
- Question: What does ''The Teachings of the Presidents of the Church: Brigham Young'' say about Brigham's wives? (← links)
- Seminary Teacher Resource Manual: "We have no knowledge that plural marriage will be a requirement for exaltation" (← links)
- Question: Did Brigham Young believe that one could not enter the Celestial Kingdom unless they were a polygamist? (← links)
- Question: Was the only purpose of polygamy to "multiply and replenish the earth" and "bear the souls of men"? (← links)
- Question: If the only purpose of polygamy was to "raise up seed," then why did Joseph not have children by his plural wives? (← links)
- Question: Was Joseph Smith sealed or married to other men's wives without the knowledge or consent of their husband? (← links)
- Question: What did the husband of Ruth Vose Sayers know about her sealing to Joseph Smith for eternity? (← links)
- Question: What did the husband of Esther Dutcher know about her sealing to Joseph Smith for eternity? (← links)
- Question: What did the husband of Mary Elizabeth Rollins know about her sealing to Joseph Smith for eternity? (← links)
- Question: What did the husband of Presendia L. Huntington know about her sealing to Joseph Smith for eternity? (← links)
- Question: What did the husband of Sarah Kingsley know about her sealing to Joseph Smith for eternity? (← links)
- Question: What did the husband of Patty Bartlett know about her sealing to Joseph Smith for eternity? (← links)
- Question: What did the husband of Elizabeth Davis know about her sealing to Joseph Smith for eternity? (← links)
- Question: What did the husband of Lucinda Pendleton Morgan Harris know about her sealing to Joseph Smith for eternity? (← links)
- Question: What did the husband of Elvira Annie Cowles know about her sealing to Joseph Smith for eternity? (← links)
- Question: What did Orson Hyde, the husband of Marinda Nancy Johnson, know about her sealing to Joseph Smith for eternity? (← links)
- Question: What did the husband of Zina D. Huntington know about her sealing to Joseph Smith for eternity? (← links)
- Question: What did the husband of Sylvia Sessions know about her sealing to Joseph Smith for eternity? (← links)
- Question: What did the husband of Sarah Ann Whitney know about her sealing to Joseph Smith for eternity? (← links)
- Question: What did the husband of Mary Heron know about her sealing to Joseph Smith for eternity? (← links)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith and Brigham Young steal Henry Jacobs' family? (← links)
- Question: Why would Joseph be sealed to the wife of someone who was not only married to someone else, but pregnant with her husband's child? (← links)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith send men on missions so that he could secretly marry their wives while they were gone? (← links)
- Question: Was Apostle Orson Hyde sent on a mission to dedicate Israel so that Joseph Smith could secretly marry his wife, Marinda Hyde, while he was away? (← links)
- Question: Does the Bible prohibit polygamous marriages involving a mother and daughter? (← links)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith being sealed to mothers, daughters and sisters violate a biblical prohibition? (← links)
- Helen Mar Kimball: "I have encouraged and sustained my husband in the celestial order of marriage because I knew it was right" (← links)
- Question: What were Helen Mar Kimball's views on plural marriage? (← links)
- Joseph Smith's marriage to Helen Mar Kimball (← links)
- Question: Was Helen Mar Kimball's marriage to Joseph Smith ever consummated? (← links)
- Question: Did Helen Mar Kimball "confess" to having marital relations with Joseph? (← links)
- Question: Did David Whitmer tell John Murphy that the angel Moroni "had no appearance or shape" and that he saw "nothing"? (← links)
- Question: Did Gordon B. Hinckley claim that polygamy was "not doctrinal" on Larry King Live? (← links)
- Question: How can President Hinckley claim that polygamy is "not doctrinal" if it was a required practice in the 19th-Century Church? (← links)
- Gospel Topics: "Today, any person who practices plural marriage cannot become or remain a member of the Church" (← links)
- Question: Were plural wives forced into the marriage? (← links)
- Question: Did any woman suffer consequences for turning down Joseph's proposal? (← links)
- Question: Were women put under "tremendous pressure" to accept a proposal of plural marriage? (← links)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith give a woman only one day to decide about entering a plural marriage, and would refusal mean terrible consequences? (← links)
- Question: Did Joseph claim that an angel threatened him with a "drawn sword" or "flaming sword" if a woman refused to marry him? (← links)
- Woodruff (1890): "the Father and the Son both appeared to the Prophet Joseph in answer to his prayer" (← links)
- Woodruff (1892): "the Father and Son both appeared to the man whom He had chosen" (← links)
- Woodruff (1894): "Both the Father and the Son presented themselves unto him in the clouds of heaven" (← links)
- Question: Is plural marriage required in order to achieve exaltation? (← links)
- Question: Did other Church leaders believe that plural marriage was a requirement for exaltation? (← links)
- Source:Martin Harris:Investigating the Book of Mormon Witnesses:116:2:It is not a mere belief (← links)