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View (previous 50 | next 50) (20 | 50 | 100 | 250 | 500)- Question: Do Latter-day Saints believe that the scriptural terms "church of the devil," the "great and abominable church," and the "whore of all the earth" refer to a specific religion? (← links)
- Question: Did LDS leaders claim that Christians were no longer present on the earth after the apostasy? (← links)
- Question: Did early Mormon leaders consider themselves Christians? (← links)
- Question: Did Latter-day Saints wish to avoid being classified as Christians? (← links)
- Question: What did early Mormon leaders think of Christians? (← links)
- Question: Did Mormons only recently claim to be Christian? (← links)
- Question: Does Doctrine and Covenants 98:4-11 instruct Latter-day Saints to disobey secular law? (← links)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith prophesy that Zion, in Jackson County, Missouri, would be redeemed by September 1836? (← links)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith believe that the lost Ten Tribes were living under the polar ice cap? (← links)
- Question: Was the Latter-day Saint periodical The Evening and Morning Star claiming that Missouri "rightfully belonged to Mormons?" (← links)
- Question: Was ''The Evening and the Morning Star'' threatening non-Mormon with "imminent destruction" if they did not repent? (← links)
- Question: Are there different degrees of glory assigned to "Mormons" versus "non-Mormons"? (← links)
- Question: Was there an oath in a former version of the Mormon temple endowment that required vengeance upon the government of the United States? (← links)
- Question: Does the Oath of Vengeance have any biblical precedent? (← links)
- Question: Do Latter-day Saints believe that no genuine Christians exist outside of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints? (← links)
- Question: Did Bruce R. McConkie discourage people from attempting to form a "personal relationship" with Christ? (← links)
- Question: Did Gordon B. Hinckley say that Latter-day Saints do not worship the biblical Jesus? (← links)
- Question: Do Latter-day Saints believe in a "different" Jesus than "mainstream" Christians? (← links)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith claim that the Kirtland Safety Society was established by a revelation from God? (← links)
- Question: Was Isaac McWithy brought before the High Council on charges of "insolence" because he refused to sell his land to Joseph Smith for $3000? (← links)
- Question: Did Levi Lewis claim that Joseph tried to seduce Eliza Winters in 1830? (← links)
- Question: Was it illegal for Joseph Smith to perform marriages in Ohio? (← links)
- Question: Did the Church suppress a revelation given to Joseph Smith in 1831 which encouraged the implementation of polygamy by intermarriage with the Indians in order to make them a “white and delightsome” people? (← links)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith mislead investors in the Kirtland Safety Society by collecting boxes full of sand with money placed on top, in order to make it appear that the bank had more hard money than it did? (← links)
- Question: Was a "forged" prophecy about Stephen A. Douglas added to the ''History of the Church''? (← links)
- Charles Penrose (1912): "Baptism for the dead—How do we know which of our deceased relatives are to be baptized for"? (← links)
- D. Todd Christofferson (1998): "The principle of vicarious service should not seem strange to any Christian" (← links)
- Question: Who is the author of ''History of the Church''? (← links)
- Question: Why is ''History of the Church'' written in first-person, as if Joseph Smith himself wrote it? (← links)
- Question: Is ''History of the Church'' not accurate because Joseph Smith did not write it himself? (← links)
- Question: What is the difference between Joseph Smith's first vision and other reported visions of God at the time? (← links)
- Question: Was Warren Parrish signing new notes for the Kirtland Safety Society even after the bank had fallen into difficulty? (← links)
- Question: Was the establishment of the Kirtland Safety Society "anti-bank" illegal? (← links)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith claim at one time that Kirtland Safety Society notes would be "as good as gold"? (← links)
- Question: Did Joseph Fielding Smith state that man would never visit the moon? (← links)
- Question: Did Joseph Fielding Smith acknowledge that he was wrong when he said that Man would never walk on the Moon? (← links)
- Question: Was Joseph Fielding Smith issuing a prophecy when he said that men would never walk on the moon? (← links)
- Question: Why do Mormons use water instead of wine for their sacrament services? (← links)
- Question: In what way did Joseph Smith implement the Word of Wisdom during his lifetime? (← links)
- Question: Was failure to keep the Word of Wisdom grounds for a disciplinary council in the 19th century Church? (← links)
- Source:Revelations in Context:The Word of Wisdom:it required time to wind down practices that were so deeply ingrained (← links)
- Question: How was the text of the Book of Abraham produced by Joseph Smith? (← links)
- Question: Did Joseph use his seer stone to receive the text of the Book of Abraham in the same manner as he did for the Book of Mormon? (← links)
- Question: Were the Kirtland Egyptian Papers and Egyptian Alphabet and Grammar produced prior to the Book of Abraham? (← links)
- Question: How does the Grammar and Alphabet of the Egyptian Language (GAEL) relate to the Book of Abraham? (← links)
- Question: What are the Kirtland Egyptian Papers and Grammar and Alphabet of the Egyptian Language? (← links)
- Question: In the Kirtland Egyptian Papers, why is each Egyptian character matched to an entire paragraph of English text? (← links)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith or his associates attempt to reconcile with William Law before he published the ''Nauvoo Expositor''? (← links)
- Question: Was the destruction of the ''Nauvoo Expositor'' legal? (← links)
- Question: How was the decision reached to destroy the ''Nauvoo Expositor''? (← links)