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View (previous 50 | next 50) (20 | 50 | 100 | 250 | 500)- Question: What happened to Joseph Smith's seer stones? (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: Has the Church tried to hide Joseph's use of a seer stone? (transclusion) (← 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 (transclusion) (← links)
- Source:Nicholson:The Spectacles, The Stone:This essay focuses primarily on the methods and instruments used in the translation process (transclusion) (← 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 (transclusion) (← 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 (transclusion) (← links)
- Source:Gospel Topics:Book of Mormon Translation:According to these accounts, Joseph placed either the interpreters or the seer stone in a hat (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: How exactly did Joseph Smith translate the gold plates? (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: What events resulted in Joseph Smith's 1826 court appearance in South Bainbridge? (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: What is Joseph Smith's 1826 South Bainbridge "trial" for "glasslooking"? (transclusion) (← 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 (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: What did critics of the Church during Joseph Smith's lifetime think of the 1826 court hearing? (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: Didn't Hugh Nibley claim that a record of this trial would be "the most damning evidence in existence" against Joseph Smith? (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: Why was Joseph fined if he wasn't found guilty of anything? (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: What are the details of Joseph Smith's 1826 "trial" for "glasslooking"? (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: Why is the "white stone" that we are to receive upon entry to the Celestial kingdom not discussed extensively in Sunday School? (transclusion) (← 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? (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: Was the temple in Jerusalem the sole legitimate site of worship? (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: Were there not enough people available in Nephi's time to build a temple "after the manner of the temple of Solomon"? (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: Was Nephi's temple "similar in splendor" to Solomon's temple? (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: How could Lehi, a non-Levite, perform sacrifices? (transclusion) (← links)
- The witness of Jacob Whitmer (transclusion) (← links)
- The witness of Samuel Smith (transclusion) (← links)
- The witness of Hyrum Smith (transclusion) (← links)
- The witness of Hiram Page (transclusion) (← links)
- John Whitmer reaffirmed his testimony as printed in the Book of Mormon even after he left the Church (transclusion) (← links)
- Turley claimed that John Whitmer said: "I now say I handled those plates. there was fine engravings on both sides. I handled them...and they were shown to me by a supernatural power" (transclusion) (← links)
- Myron H. Bond (1878): John Whitmer "knew as well as he knew he had an existence that Joseph translated the ancient writing which was upon the plates, which he saw and handled" (transclusion) (← links)
- P. Wilhelm Poulson (1878): John Whitmer said "He handed them uncovered into our hands, and we turned the leaves sufficient to satisfy us" (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: How do critics of the Church attempt to dismiss the literal experience of the Eight Witnesses of the Book of Mormon? (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: Do Latter-day Saints ("Mormons") actually believe that they are morally, ethically, spiritually superior to others? (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: Was the United Order simply a form of communism? (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: Does the Smithsonian Institution send out a letter regarding the use of the Book of Mormon as a guide for archaeological research? (transclusion) (← links)
- Source:Bradshaw:Defining Adultery:Joseph Smith could not have been properly convicted of adultery under the law of Illinois in 1844 (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: Why is priesthood authority transferred by the "laying on of hands"? (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith’s account of the First Vision grow more detailed and more colorful after he first recorded it in 1832? (transclusion) (← links)
- John Taylor (2 March 1879): "the Father and the Son...came to Joseph Smith" and "the Prophet Joseph asked the angel" (transclusion) (← links)
- Gospel Topics: "Church authorities encountered faithful black and mixed-ancestry Mormons who had contributed financially and in other ways to the building of the São Paulo temple, a sanctuary they realized they would not be allowed to enter" (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: Do Mormons believe Jesus Christ was married? (transclusion) (← links)
- Source:Penrose:Peculiar Questions Briefly Answered:Improvement Era:Sept 1912:We do not know anything about Jesus Christ being married (transclusion) (← links)
- Source:Church spokesman:2006:The belief that Christ was married has never been official church doctrine (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: Journal of Discourses 2:210 says Jesus was being married to Mary and Martha in Cana. Why would Jesus be invited to his own wedding? (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: Does Doctrine and Covenants 84 say that one cannot see God without holding the priesthood? (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: Should Church members simply have "blind trust" in their leaders? (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: Were Biblical prophets infallible? (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: How do Biblical prophets compare to modern prophets? (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: How are Church members protected against error by leaders? (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: Do Mormons consider their prophets to be infallible? (transclusion) (← links)
- Neil L. Andersen (2012): "A few question their faith when they find a statement made by a Church leader decades ago that seems incongruent with our doctrine" (transclusion) (← links)
- Charles W. Penrose (1912): "Do you believe that the President of the Church, when speaking to the Church in his official capacity is infallible?" (transclusion) (← links)