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View (previous 50 | next 50) (20 | 50 | 100 | 250 | 500)- Question: Is there a cave in the Hill Cumorah containing the Nephite records? (← links)
- Question: Was the priesthood ban lifted as the result of social or government pressure? (← links)
- Question: Why does the Book of Mormon match the King James Version (KJV) of the Bible so closely? (← links)
- Question: Do academic translators copy translations of other documents to use as a "base text"? (← links)
- Question: Does Jesus Christ's statement "they neither marry, nor are given in marriage" contradict the Latter-day Saint doctrine of eternal marriage? (← links)
- Charles W. Penrose (1911): Jesus "was speaking of the class of people to whom the Sadducees referred. Under the law of Moses marriage for eternity was not celebrated...the marriages under consideration were for time only" (← links)
- Joseph Fielding Smith (1941): "While the Church, as well as the world, would recognize that marriage while they are in the world, yet the fact remains that when they are dead the marriage comes to an end" (← links)
- Joseph Fielding Smith (1951): Jesus "says unto those who are married for time only, and those who do not believe in marriage for eternity" (← links)
- Question: Was Joseph Smith's translation of the Bible ever completed? (← links)
- Question: Was the Joseph Smith Translation intended to be a restoration of original Bible text? (← links)
- Question: Why was the name "Michael" deleted from Joseph Smith's vision of the Celestial Kingdom? (← links)
- Criticism of Mormonism/Websites/MormonThink/Doctrine & Covenants (← links)
- Joseph Smith listed as author and proprietor of the Book of Mormon (← links)
- Question: Was the young Joseph Smith a teller of "tall tales"? (← links)
- Question: Did B.H. Roberts state that it was possible for Joseph Smith to have come up with the Book of Mormon on his own? (← links)
- Truman Madsen: "Among readers who came to the Book of Mormon with hard, skeptical assumptions, B.H. Roberts is notable" (← links)
- Question: Did B.H. Roberts lose his faith in the Church and the Book of Mormon? (← links)
- Question: When Joseph performed his inspired translation of the Bible, why didn't he rewrite the creation account in Genesis to read more like that in the Book of Abraham? (← links)
- Question: Why is the name "Lucifer" used to represent Satan in Latter-day Saint scriptures and the temple ceremony? (← links)
- Question: How did Joseph Smith use his seer stones as a youth? (← links)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith place his seer stone in his hat while looking for lost objects? (← links)
- Question: How many seer stones did Joseph Smith have in his possession? (← links)
- Question: What did Joseph Smith's seer stones look like? (← links)
- Question: How were Joseph Smith's seer stones involved in the translation of the Book of Mormon? (← links)
- Question: Why did Joseph Smith eventually stop using the seer stones to receive revelation? (← links)
- Question: Are there any Biblical parallels to Joseph Smith's understanding of the use of seer stones? (← links)
- Question: What happened to Joseph Smith's seer stones? (← links)
- Question: Has the Church tried to hide Joseph's use of a seer stone? (← links)
- Source:Gardner:The Gift and the Power:it’s stone that becomes the trigger that allows the seer to do what the seer does (← links)
- Source:Nicholson:The Spectacles, The Stone:This essay focuses primarily on the methods and instruments used in the translation process (← links)
- Source:Marcus B. Nash:Joseph Smith Memorial Devotional:June 2013:This was dictated, word by word, as he looked into instruments the Lord prepared for him, using a hat to shield his eyes from extraneous light (← links)
- Source:Nelson:A Treasured Testament:Ensign:July 1993:The details of this miraculous method of translation are still not fully known. Yet we do have a few precious insights (← links)
- Source:Gospel Topics:Book of Mormon Translation:According to these accounts, Joseph placed either the interpreters or the seer stone in a hat (← links)
- Question: How exactly did Joseph Smith translate the gold plates? (← links)
- Question: What events resulted in Joseph Smith's 1826 court appearance in South Bainbridge? (← links)
- Question: What is Joseph Smith's 1826 South Bainbridge "trial" for "glasslooking"? (← links)
- Ensign (June 1994): "Highlights in the Prophet’s Life 20 Mar. 1826: Tried and acquitted on fanciful charge of being a “disorderly person,” South Bainbridge, Chenango County, New York (← links)
- Question: What did critics of the Church during Joseph Smith's lifetime think of the 1826 court hearing? (← links)
- Question: Didn't Hugh Nibley claim that a record of this trial would be "the most damning evidence in existence" against Joseph Smith? (← links)
- Question: Why was Joseph fined if he wasn't found guilty of anything? (← links)
- Question: What are the details of Joseph Smith's 1826 "trial" for "glasslooking"? (← links)
- Question: Why is the "white stone" that we are to receive upon entry to the Celestial kingdom not discussed extensively in Sunday School? (← links)
- Question: Did Joseph Fielding Smith say that it was not reasonable for Joseph Smith to use a seer stone to translate the Book of Mormon? (← links)
- Question: Was the temple in Jerusalem the sole legitimate site of worship? (← links)
- Question: Were there not enough people available in Nephi's time to build a temple "after the manner of the temple of Solomon"? (← links)
- Question: Was Nephi's temple "similar in splendor" to Solomon's temple? (← links)
- Question: How could Lehi, a non-Levite, perform sacrifices? (← links)
- The witness of Jacob Whitmer (← links)
- The witness of Samuel Smith (← links)
- The witness of Hyrum Smith (← links)