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View (previous 50 | next 50) (20 | 50 | 100 | 250 | 500)- Question: Did Joseph Smith send men on missions so that he could secretly marry their wives while they were gone? (transclusion) (← 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? (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: Does the Bible prohibit polygamous marriages involving a mother and daughter? (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith being sealed to mothers, daughters and sisters violate a biblical prohibition? (transclusion) (← links)
- Helen Mar Kimball: "I have encouraged and sustained my husband in the celestial order of marriage because I knew it was right" (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: What were Helen Mar Kimball's views on plural marriage? (transclusion) (← links)
- Joseph Smith's marriage to Helen Mar Kimball (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: Was Helen Mar Kimball's marriage to Joseph Smith ever consummated? (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: Did Helen Mar Kimball "confess" to having marital relations with Joseph? (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: Did David Whitmer tell John Murphy that the angel Moroni "had no appearance or shape" and that he saw "nothing"? (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: Did Gordon B. Hinckley claim that polygamy was "not doctrinal" on Larry King Live? (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: How can President Hinckley claim that polygamy is "not doctrinal" if it was a required practice in the 19th-Century Church? (transclusion) (← links)
- Gospel Topics: "Today, any person who practices plural marriage cannot become or remain a member of the Church" (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: Were plural wives forced into the marriage? (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: Did any woman suffer consequences for turning down Joseph's proposal? (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: Were women put under "tremendous pressure" to accept a proposal of plural marriage? (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith give a woman only one day to decide about entering a plural marriage, and would refusal mean terrible consequences? (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: Did Joseph claim that an angel threatened him with a "drawn sword" or "flaming sword" if a woman refused to marry him? (transclusion) (← links)
- Woodruff (1890): "the Father and the Son both appeared to the Prophet Joseph in answer to his prayer" (transclusion) (← links)
- Woodruff (1892): "the Father and Son both appeared to the man whom He had chosen" (transclusion) (← links)
- Woodruff (1894): "Both the Father and the Son presented themselves unto him in the clouds of heaven" (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: Is plural marriage required in order to achieve exaltation? (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: Did other Church leaders believe that plural marriage was a requirement for exaltation? (transclusion) (← links)
- Source:Martin Harris:Investigating the Book of Mormon Witnesses:116:2:It is not a mere belief (transclusion) (← links)
- Source:David Whitmer:Rebuttal to John Murphy 19 March 1881:EMD 5:69:Which has so long since been published with that book as one of the three witnesses (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: Does the Book of Abraham state that the sun gets its photons from Kolob? (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: What is the light which comes from the presence of God? (transclusion) (← links)
- Improvement Era (January 1968): "Often the funerary texts contained passages from the 'Book of the Dead,' a book that was to assist in the safe passage of the dead person into the spirit world" (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: What did the Church announce in 1968 when the Joseph Smith papyri fragments were discovered? (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: Was the Church forthright in identifying the rediscovered papyri prior to their examination by non-LDS Egyptologists? (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: How long did the Church know about the papyri before they published information about them? (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: Why does the Book of Abraham state that it was written by Abraham's "own hand upon papyrus" if the papyri date to after the Abrahamic period? (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: Is the phrase "by his own hand upon papyrus" an Egyptian title? (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: Is the phrase "by his own hand upon papyrus" a 19th century redaction? (transclusion) (← links)
- Gospel Topics: "The phrase can be understood to mean that Abraham is the author and not the literal copyist" (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith believe that Abraham wrote the text on the papyrus himself? (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: Does the repudiation of a doctrine that was once taught by a prophet mean that that prophet is now considered a "heretic"? (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: If a doctrine is repudiated, does that mean that it was false when it was being taught? (transclusion) (← links)
- Neil L. Andersen: "The doctrine...is not hidden in an obscure paragraph of one talk...The leaders of the Church are honest but imperfect men" (transclusion) (← links)
- Parrish (1838): "I have set by his side and penned down the translation of the Egyptian Heiroglyphicks as he claimed to receive it by direct inspiration of Heaven" (transclusion) (← links)
- John Whitmer: "Joseph the Seer saw these Record(s) and by the revelation of Jesus Christ could translate these records" (transclusion) (← links)
- Woodruff (1842): "The Lord is Blessing Joseph with Power to reveal the mysteries of the kingdom of God; to translate through the urim & Thummim Ancient records & Hyeroglyphics as old as Abraham or Adam" (transclusion) (← links)
- David B. Haight: "I was there with the outpouring of the Spirit in that room so strong that none of us could speak afterwards" (transclusion) (← links)
- Marion G. Romney: "I have never told anybody some of the experiences I have had, not even my wife. I know that God lives. I not only know that he lives, but I know him" (transclusion) (← links)
- George F. Richards: "The Lord has given me dreams which to me are just as real and as much from God as was the dream of King Nebuchadnezzar" (transclusion) (← links)
- Oaks (2000): "it is usually inappropriate to recite miraculous circumstances to a general audience that includes people with very different levels of spiritual maturity" (transclusion) (← links)
- Oaks (1997): "rarely speak of them publicly because...because we understand that the channels of revelation will be closed if we show these things before the world" (transclusion) (← links)
- Heber C. Kimball (1865): "I know it by revelation by the Spirit of God, for in this way my Heavenly Father communes with me" (transclusion) (← links)
- Wilford Woodruff (1869): "We had the privilege of beholding the face of the prophet...and seeing the workings of the Spirit of God with him, and the revelations of Jesus Christ unto him and the fulfilment of those revelations" (transclusion) (← links)
- Orson Pratt (1878): "I have been blessed with some revelations and prophecies, and with dreams of things that have come to pass" (transclusion) (← links)