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View (previous 50 | next 50) (20 | 50 | 100 | 250 | 500)- Question: Why did the Nauvoo City Council feel it was necessary to destroy the ''Nauvoo Expositor''? (← links)
- Question: Why does the Church teach that marriage is essential for full exaltation, when Paul says in 1 Corinthians 7:1 that it is good for a man not to marry? (← links)
- Question: Why did Paul say that it was not good for a man to touch a woman? (← links)
- Question: Was the Apostle Paul married? (← links)
- Question: What was Paul's teaching on marriage? (← links)
- Question: Why would Paul advise people not to be married? (← links)
- Question: What part of Paul's advice regarding marriage actually represents Paul's opinion? (← links)
- Question: Should church officers be celibate? (← links)
- Question: Did Bruce R. McConkie claim in Mormon Doctrine that our heavenly parents created our spirits "through some kind of sexual union"? (← links)
- Question: Is it true that little is known about our Heavenly Mother because she is "protected"? (← links)
- Question: Do Latter-day Saints believe in a female divine person, a "Heavenly Mother" as counterpart to God, the Heavenly Father? (← links)
- Question: Are we allowed to pray to our "Heavenly Mother"? (← links)
- Source:Gospel Topics:Becoming Like God:Our theology begins with heavenly parents. Our highest aspiration is to be like them (← links)
- Question: Do Latter-day Saints believe in a practice called "celestial sex," and that this is the manner in which "spirit children" are formed? (← links)
- Question: What have Latter-day Saint leaders actually said about the method of procreation in the afterlife? (← links)
- Question: Why do the Latter-day Saints believe God has a body? (← links)
- Question: What are the common objections to a belief in God's corporeality? (← links)
- Question: Did the Three Witnesses each add their own signature to the original Book of Mormon manuscript? (← links)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith father children by polyandrous plural wife Prescindia Buell? (← links)
- Question: Was a pregnant Eliza R. Snow pushed down the stairs by a furious Emma, resulting in a miscarriage? (← links)
- Question: If the story of Emma pushing Eliza Snow down the stairs is true, why did Eliza not make use of it? (← links)
- Question: Does the Book of Mormon condemn polygamy? (← links)
- Question: Did early Church leaders state that the Book of Mormon condemns polygamy? (← links)
- Question: Do we have any record of Joseph Smith performing healings or other miracles by the power of Christ's priesthood? (← links)
- Question: What is Adam-ondi-Ahman? (← links)
- Question: Was Ezra Booth commanded to take a wife from among the Indians? (← links)
- Question: What do we know about Joseph Smith's first plural wife Fanny Alger? (← links)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith say that he would be a "second Muhammad," threatening to spread his beliefs with the sword? (← links)
- Question: Did Orson Hyde state that it was permissible to "steal & be influenced by the spirit of the Lord to do it" as long as it was against non-Mormons? (← links)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith send men on missions in order to "steal" their wives while they were gone? (← links)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith send William Law, Robert D. Foster, and Henry Jacobs on missions so that he could steal their wives? (← links)
- Revelations in Context: "Nevertheless, it required time to wind down practices that were so deeply ingrained in family tradition and culture" (← links)
- Question: Has the implementation and enforcement of the Word of Wisdom changed over time? (← links)
- Question: How was enforcement of the Word of Wisdom phased in over time? (← links)
- Question: How is the Word of Wisdom observed in the modern Church? (← links)
- Question: When did Joseph Smith receive the revelation on plural marriage? (← links)
- Question: How did Heber and Vilate Kimball receive a divine manifestation regarding plural marriage? (← links)
- Question: Did Brigham Young tell Henry Jacobs in front of hundreds of people that he needed to find another wife? (← links)
- Question: How did Emma Hale Smith react to Joseph's practice of plural marriage? (← links)
- Question: Did Joseph hide his plural marriages from Emma, his first wife? (← links)
- Question: Was Emma aware of the possibility that Joseph could take additional wives even without her consent? (← links)
- Question: What possible modern lessons can we learn from Emma and Joseph's struggle with plural marriage? (← links)
- Question: Was Heber C. Kimball concerned that missionaries would "take all the best" convert women as plural wives before they returned to Salt Lake City? (← links)
- Source:Gospel Topics:Plural Marriage and Families in Early Utah:It is therefore difficult to accurately generalize about the experience of all plural marriages (← links)
- Difficulties with plural marriage (← links)
- Question: Did some Church leaders teach that plural marriage was a practice that would persist forever? (← links)
- Question: Did Brigham Young boast about his ability to get more wives even though he was married to 50-60 women? (← links)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith perform marriages between brothers and sisters? (← links)
- Question: Did early Mormon leaders believe that Jesus Christ was a polygamist? (← links)
- Source:Gospel Topics:Bible, Inerrancy of:As the Bible was compiled, organized, translated, and transcribed, many errors entered the text (← links)