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View (previous 50 | next 50) (20 | 50 | 100 | 250 | 500)- Question: Does the Book of Mormon refer to "coins"? (← links)
- John Welch (1999): "This sidelight in the book of Alma contains enough facts to support meaningful parallels between King Mosiah's weights and measures and those used in other ancient cultures" (← links)
- Question: Was the Liahona simply a magnetic compass that was out of place in 600 B.C.? (← links)
- Criticism of Mormonism/Websites/MormonThink/The Book of Abraham (← links)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith become a member of Emma Hale Smith's Methodist congregation in 1828, eight years after the First Vision? (← links)
- Question: How quickly could one join the Methodists in the 1830s? (← links)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith derive the idea of "three degrees of glory" from Emanuel Swedenborg's book, ''Heaven and its Wonders and Hell''? (← links)
- Question: Could Moroni have been an "angel of Satan"? (← links)
- Question: What criticisms are associated with the Kirtland Egyptian Papers? (← links)
- Gospel Topics on LDS.org: "Some evidence suggests that Joseph studied the characters on the Egyptian papyri and attempted to learn the Egyptian language" (← links)
- Question: What are the Kirtland Egyptian Papers? (← links)
- Question: What is the provenance of the Kirtland Egyptian Papers? (← links)
- Question: What is the publication history of the Kirtland Egyptian Papers? (← links)
- Abraham lying about his wife Sarah (← links)
- Question: Do the Book of Abraham and the Book of Mormon link a person's skin color to their behavior in the pre-existence? (← links)
- Question: Why were some plural marriages performed after the Manifesto? (← links)
- Question: Was Parley P. Pratt murdered because he stole another man's wife? (← links)
- Question: Was it normal not to obtain a formal civil divorce in 19th century America? (← links)
- Question: Does the Bible forbid plural marriage? (← links)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith institute polygamy because he had a "voracious sexual appetite"? (← links)
- Question: Does Cain still roam the earth, and does this account for stories about "Bigfoot"? (← links)
- Question: Why did Mark E. Petersen say that blacks would go the the Celestial Kingdom as servants? (← links)
- Church's stance on the theory of organic evolution (← links)
- Source:Hinckley:Deseret News:2002:What the church requires is only belief that Adam was the first man of what we would call the human race (← links)
- Question: How does the Church explain the existence of human-like beings on the earth prior to Adam? (← links)
- First Presidency statement (1931): "Leave geology, biology, archaeology and anthropology, no one of which has to do with the salvation of the souls of mankind, to scientific research" (← links)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith create the temple ceremony as a way of teaching polygamy to certain members while keeping it a secret from the general public? (← links)
- Question: Is the Mormon temple garment simply "magic underwear"? (← links)
- Question: Do Mormons believe that the temple garment will protect them from physical harm? (← links)
- Question: Is the wearing of the Mormon temple garment not supported by the Bible? (← links)
- Question: Are sacred garments used in religious traditions other than Mormonism? (← links)
- Question: Was the "Adam-God" theory ever taught as part of the temple endowment ceremony as something called "the lecture at the veil"? (← links)
- Joseph Smith's Rocky Mountain prophecy (← links)
- Question: Does the Church teach that it is okay to "Lie for the Lord"? (← links)
- Question: Are there circumstances in which lying is necessary in order to avoid a greater harm? (← links)
- Question: How do critics of Mormonism define "lying for the Lord"? (← links)
- Question: Was it revealed to Joseph Smith that the Book of Mormon city of Zarahemla was located on the Mississippi River opposite where Nauvoo is located today? (← links)
- Question: Is Jesus Christ the savior of other worlds? (← links)
- Question: Did Levi Edgar Young state that his prayer was that "thousands would turn not to God, but to Joseph"? (← links)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith boast of his "violent deeds"? (← links)
- Question: Did Porter Rockwell admit to shooting Lilburn Boggs? (← links)
- Question: Did the Nauvoo police commit "many murders, vicious beatings, and intimidating assaults" against people that they thought to be enemies of the Church? (← links)
- Question: Did Heber C. Kimball and Orson Hyde order Nauvoo's police force to kill an apostate named Lambert Symes? (← links)
- Question: Was Irvine Hodge murdered by Nauvoo policemen? (← links)
- Question: Did the Council of Fifty order homicides to be committed? (← links)
- Question: Did Hosea Stout have three men flogged because they "were not in good fellowship"? (← links)
- Question: Are there government records that prove that the apostles were involved in counterfeiting in Nauvoo? (← links)
- Question: Did Brigham Young "proudly admit" to being a dictator? (← links)
- Question: Do Latter-day Saints believe that they were the only ones with a "legitimate right to be stewards" of all property on the earth? (← links)
- Question: Did Brigham Young claim that the Kingdom of God was already organized on earth, and that the inhabitants of the earth did not know it? (← links)