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View (previous 50 | next 50) (20 | 50 | 100 | 250 | 500)- Question: Many who listened to Elder Dunn's stories felt the spirit. Why would one feel the spirit upon hearing a story that was fabricated? Doesn't this confirm a lie? (← links)
- Question: Who was Paul H. Dunn and what happened to him? (← links)
- Question: What is Moroni's promise? (← links)
- Question: Is prayer the only element required in the determination of truth? (← links)
- Question: What about those who pray and don't receive a confirmation the Book of Mormon is true? (← links)
- Preach My Gospel: "As you pray for inspiration, you should also confirm your feelings...Certainly the Spirit of the Lord can bring strong emotional feelings, including tears, but that outward manifestation ought not to be confused with the presence of the (← links)
- Question: Can someone feel the spirit when listening to stories of apostasy? (← links)
- Question: Did FairMormon do "more to destroy" the testimony of the author of the "Letter to a CES Director" than any "anti-Mormon" source? (← links)
- Question: Are there no mentions of the seer stone and/or its use with a hat on LDS.org? (← links)
- Christensen (2014): "His Letter and his response to FairMormon works from an assumption that LDS leadership should display no weakness, have no common manner of language, never err in their statements" (← links)
- Question: Do Latter-day Saint ("Mormon") leaders teach us to avoid the internet? (← links)
- Question: Does FairMormon use the internet to teach a "bizarre version" of Mormonism riddled with logical fallacies? (← links)
- Question: How could Joseph Smith come to the conclusion that all churches were wrong on his own? (← links)
- Question: What names did the Church go by prior to the revelation which established the correct one? (← links)
- Question: What is the history of name changes of the Church? (← links)
- Oaks (1987): "it is wrong to make statements of fact out of an evil motive, even if the statements are true" (← links)
- Question: Did Elder Dallin H. Oaks say that it’s wrong to criticize leaders of the Church, even if the criticism is true? (← links)
- Question: Why did President Tanner say: "When the prophet speaks the debate is over"? (← links)
- Question: What is the Strengthening Church Members Committee? (← links)
- Question: Does the Strengthening Church Members Committee still exist? (← links)
- Question: Who are the "September Six"? (← links)
- Question: Are the reasons for discipline ever made public? (← links)
- Statement by The Council of the First Presidency and The Quorum of the Twelve on Church Discipline (← links)
- Question: Why did Elder Boyd K. Packer state that "Some things that are true are not very useful"? (← links)
- Question: What does the Church teach on the subject of death before the Fall of Adam? (← links)
- Question: Was there no death on the entire earth before the Fall? (← links)
- Question: What was the state of things on the Earth prior to the placement of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden? (← links)
- Question: What changes have been made to the ''Gospel Principles'' manual regarding the question of death on the earth before the Fall of Adam? (← links)
- Question: Is the concept of no death before the fall on the ''entire earth'' Church doctrine? (← links)
- Question: How do Latter-day Saints reconcile scriptural accounts of the Flood of Noah with scientific evidence of continuous human habitation on the earth? (← links)
- John A. Widtsoe (1943): "The Old Testament records a flood that was just over fifteen cubits (sometimes assumed to be about twenty-six feet) deep and covered the entire landscape" (← links)
- Question: Why does the Church teach that the flood was a global event? (← links)
- Question: Are Church members required to believe in a global flood? (← links)
- Question: How could the Garden of Eden have been in Missouri if the Flood was local? (← links)
- Question: Doesn't the Bible say that the continents were divided immediately after the Flood? (← links)
- Question: Do Mormons believe that faith and science are mutually exclusive? (← links)
- Question: Do Mormons believe that if there is a conflict between science and religion, that the science is incorrect? (← links)
- Oaks: "We are supposed to learn by both reason and revelation, and that does not happen when we compartmentalize science and religion" (← links)
- Henry Eyring: "Is there any conflict between science and religion? There is no conflict in the mind of God, but often there is conflict in the minds of men" (← links)
- Brigham Young (1871): "whether the Lord...made it in six days or in as many millions of years, is and will remain a matter of speculation in the minds of men" (← links)
- Question: What did Oliver Cowdery's associates say about his character? (← links)
- Question: What did Martin Harris's non-Mormon associates say about his character? (← links)
- Question: What did David Whitmer's associates say about his character? (← links)
- Question: Is Wikipedia's portrayal of Martin Harris as a gullible, superstitious man accurate? (← links)
- Question: Where did 19th-Century Latter-day Saints believe that Freemasonry came from? (← links)
- Question: Why isn't the temple ceremony based upon an earlier version of Freemasonry rather than what existed in Joseph Smith's time? (← links)
- Question: When did Joseph Smith demonstrate knowledge of the elements of the endowment ritual? (← links)
- Question: How do the goals of Freemasonry compare to those of the Latter-day Saint endowment? (← links)
- Question: Why is confidentiality associated with the temple ordinances? (← links)
- Question: Why would Joseph Smith incorporate Masonic elements into the temple ritual? (← links)