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View (previous 50 | next 50) (20 | 50 | 100 | 250 | 500)- Question: What do critics of Mormonism say about the "White Horse Prophecy"? (← links)
- Question: Does the "White Horse Prophecy" imply that "Mormons" encourage support for some candidates over others? (← links)
- Source:Chicago Times:1875:Three times David Whitmer has been at the Hill Cumorah and seen the casket that contained the tablets and seerstone (← links)
- Question: What happened to the stone box in which gold plates were deposited? (← links)
- Question: What material were the plates made from? (← links)
- Question: How much did the gold plates weigh? (← links)
- Question: What was the size of each of the gold plates? (← links)
- Question: What was the thickness of each gold plate? (← links)
- Question: What was the thickness of the entire volume of gold plates? (← links)
- Question: What were the characteristics of the sealed vs. unsealed portion of the gold plates? (← links)
- Question: What were the characteristics of the rings which held the gold plates together? (← links)
- Question: What was the appearance of the engravings on the gold plates? (← links)
- Question: What is the description of the stone box in which the plates were hidden? (← links)
- Source:Hyde:JD 6:61:Hyde:why did not the Saviour come himself to communicate this intelligence to the world (← links)
- Question: Was Orson Hyde unaware of the details of the Father and Son appearing to Joseph in the First Vision? (← links)
- Question: What evidence is there that Orson Hyde was familiar with the details of the First Vision at the time he made his statement about "angels"? (← links)
- Source:Gospel Topics:Book of Mormon Translation:These two instruments—the interpreters and the seer stone—were apparently interchangeable (← links)
- Question: Does the Book of Mormon contain mistakes? (← links)
- Book of Mormon the "most correct of any book" (← links)
- Question: Is any book of scripture perfect? (← links)
- Question: Is the Church "embarrassed" by the Joseph Smith Translation of the Bible? (← links)
- Question: What have Church leaders said about the Joseph Smith Translation of the Bible? (← links)
- Question: How can you know if your answer to prayer, your personal revelation, is true? (← links)
- Dr. Wendy Ulrich (2005): "How do the goosebumps and tearfulness I experience when someone speaks in a testimony meeting differ from the goosebumps and tearfulness I experience when the 4:00 parade begins at Disneyland?" (← links)
- Question: Did Elder Boyd K. Packer suggest that we should "lie our way" into obtaining a testimony? (← links)
- "Recognizing the Voice of the Spirit" (Podcast): "How can I come to know that spiritual experience is not just a product of chemical processes in the brain?" (← links)
- Joseph Fielding Smith: "when the millennium comes...There will be millions of people...of all beliefs, still permitted to remain upon the face of the earth" (← links)
- Source:Hyde:Ein Ruf aus der Wuste:1842:Two glorious heavenly personages stood before him, resembling each other exactly in features and stature (← links)
- Source:Hyde:The Frontier Guardian:6 March 1850:both the Father and the Son, while he was praying, appeared unto him (← links)
- Question: When and where was the name "Benjamin" changed to "Mosiah" in the Book of Mormon? (← links)
- Question: What does the Book of Mormon actually say about the finding of the record of the Jaredites, and the name of the king who could translate it? (← links)
- Question: What did the Book of Mormon witnesses mean when they used the word "supernatural" to describe their experiences? (← links)
- Question: Did John Whitmer, one of the Eight Witnesses, actually say that he saw the plates by a "supernatural power"? (← links)
- Question: Why does "Nahom" constitute archaeological evidence for the Book of Mormon? (← links)
- Question: Did the prophet Nephi visit Joseph at some point in time? (← links)
- Source:Christofferson:The Prophet Joseph Smith:BYUI Devotional:2013:The June 1839 Manuscript History of the Church says it was Nephi who appeared to Joseph Smith in 1823 rather than Moroni (← links)
- Question: Are there sources which identify the angel that visited Joseph as "Moroni" that date prior to the "Nephi" error? (← links)
- Question: Which sources mention Nephi as the angelic visitor who told Joseph Smith about the gold plates? (← links)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith originally identify the angel that visited him as "Nephi" instead of "Moroni"? (← links)
- Source:Anderson:Confirming Records of Moroni's Coming:Improvement Era:73 9:This wording in the present Pearl of Great Price is modified from the first printing, in which the messenger was identified as "Nephi" (← links)
- Question: How many times was the name of the Church changed through revelation? (← links)
- Question: How did Latter-day Saint scholars respond to the attempt to sell the Book of Mormon copyright prior to Page's letter coming to light? (← links)
- Question: How does David Whitmer's account of the attempt to sell the Book of Mormon copyright compare to those of the eyewitnesses? (← links)
- Question: How did the erroneous story of the attempt to sell the Book of Mormon copyright develop over time? (← links)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith receive a revelation instructing him to to sell the copyright to the Book of Mormon in Canada and later claim that the revelation was false? (← links)
- Question: Are there any eyewitness accounts of the events that resulted in the trip to Canada to sell the Book of Mormon copyright? (← links)
- Gospel Topics on LDS.org: "Joseph Smith was sealed to a number of women who were already married. Neither these women nor Joseph explained much about these sealings, though several women said they were for eternity alone" (← links)
- Improvement Era (1946): "Did Joseph Smith Introduce Plural Marriage?...It is also possible, though the Church does not now permit it, to seal two living people for eternity only, with no association on earth" (← links)
- Improvement Era (1946): "That Joseph Smith actually was the person who introduced plural marriage into the Church and that he practised it himself are amply proved by existing facts" (← links)
- Question: Why did Elder Dunn exaggerate elements of these stories? (← links)