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- Question: Did Gordon B. Hinckley say that Latter-day Saints do not worship the biblical Jesus?
- Question: Did Harold B. Lee state that a person’s economic status or disability were the result of less valiance in the premortal existence?
- Question: Did Heber C. Kimball and Orson Hyde order Nauvoo's police force to kill an apostate named Lambert Symes?
- Question: Did Heber C. Kimball claim that the apostles killed Judas?
- Question: Did Heber C. Kimball curse the president of the United States?
- Question: Did Heber C. Kimball deny that the Father appeared in the First Vision?
- Question: Did Heber C. Kimball encourage violence and intimidation in order to keep followers "in line"?
- Question: Did Heber C. Kimball promise that after the Civil War ended, the Latter-day Saints would become the "sole rulers over every other government"?
- Question: Did Heber C. Kimball say that future generations would view Joseph Smith as "a god"?
- Question: Did Heber J. Grant include a strict observance of the Word of Wisdom in the temple recommend interview because of the repeal of prohibition?
- Question: Did Helen Mar Kimball "confess" to having marital relations with Joseph?
- Question: Did Hiram Page, one of the Eight Witnesses to the Book of Mormon, ever deny having seen the plates?
- Question: Did Hiram Page, one of the Eight Witnesses to the Book of Mormon, every deny having seen the plates?
- Question: Did Hosea Stout have three men flogged because they "were not in good fellowship"?
- Question: Did Hosea Stout murder Joseph Smith's brother Samuel H. Smith?
- Question: Did Hyrum Smith, one of the Eight Witnesses to the Book of Mormon, ever deny having seen the plates?
- Question: Did Hyrum Smith, one of the Eight Witnesses to the Book of Mormon, every deny having seen the plates?
- Question: Did Jacob Hambin's son Albert rape two women at the Mountain Meadows Massacre and later blame John D. Lee for this act?
- Question: Did Jacob Whitmer, one of the Eight Witnesses to the Book of Mormon, ever deny having seen the plates?
- Question: Did Jacob Whitmer, one of the Eight Witnesses to the Book of Mormon, every deny having seen the plates?
- Question: Did Jedediah Grant sanction "wife swapping"?
- Question: Did Jesus and the apostles believe in pre-mortal life?
- Question: Did John Taylor believe that there was no longer a separation between Church and State?
- Question: Did John Taylor receive a revelation on September 27, 1886 that promised that polygamy would never be abandoned by the Church?
- Question: Did John Whitmer, one of the Eight Witnesses, actually say that he saw the plates by a "supernatural power"?
- Question: Did Joseph "defy" a warning from God to flee to the west?
- Question: Did Joseph Fielding Smith acknowledge that he was wrong when he said that Man would never walk on the Moon?
- Question: Did Joseph Fielding Smith acknowledge that he was wrong when he said this?
- Question: Did Joseph Fielding Smith make derogatory racial comments in the 22 October 1963 issue of Look magazine?
- Question: Did Joseph Fielding Smith reject the theory that the final battlefield of the Book of Mormon took place in Mesoamerica rather than New York?
- Question: Did Joseph Fielding Smith remove the 1832 account of Joseph Smith's First Vision from its original letterbook and hide it in his safe?
- 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
- 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?
- Question: Did Joseph Fielding Smith state that man would never visit the moon?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith's family and other Book of Mormon witnesses support James Strang's movement after Joseph's death?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith's family own "magic parchments" which suggest their involvement in the "occult"?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith's mother say that the First Vision was of an "angel"?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith, Sr. practice "divination"
- Question: Did Joseph Smith, Sr. practice "divination"?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith "retrofit" his "treasure seeking" to have a religious explanation?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith actually shoot and kill two men at Carthage Jail?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith actually teach and practice polygamy?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith and Brigham Young steal Henry Jacobs' family?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith and Sidney Rigdon support the formation of a vigilante band called the Danites?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith and his contemporaries believe in supernatural entities with real power?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith appear in public smoking a cigar right after teaching a sermon on the Word of Wisdom?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith attempt to "cover up" Oliver Cowdery's work with a divining rod by changing the wording of the revelation that became Doctrine and Covenants 8:6–8?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith attempt to "cover up" Oliver Cowdery's work with a divining rod by changing this revelation?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith attempt to translate the Kinderhook Plates?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith become a baptized member of the Baptist Church in 1822?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith become a member of Emma Hale Smith's Methodist congregation in 1828, eight years after the First Vision?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith become a member of the Methodist Church while he was translating the Book of Mormon?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith begin his prophetic career with a "trinitarian" idea of God?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith being sealed to mothers, daughters and sisters violate a biblical prohibition?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith believe that Abraham wrote the text on the papyrus himself?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith believe that he was better than Jesus Christ?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith believe that the ''Book of Mormon'' explained local legends associated with the "Mound Builders" of the Eastern United States?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith believe that the Book of Mormon explained local legends associated with the "Mound Builders" of the Eastern United States?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith believe that the lost Ten Tribes were living under the polar ice cap?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith boast of his "violent deeds"?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith brag about his strength and prowess in fighting?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith change his stated motivation for praying in later years?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith change his stated motivation for praying in later years after he received the First Vision?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith claim at one time that Kirtland Safety Society notes would be "as good as gold"?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith claim that all governments and religions other than Mormonism would eventually be destroyed form the earth?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith claim that the Kirtland Safety Society was established by a revelation from God?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith claim to have walked on water?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith confer the priesthood on several black men?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith consummate any of these marriages with married women?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith contradict Jesus’ commandment in the Book of Mormon to not add to nor take away from Jesus' Gospel?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith copy Masonic material in order to create the LDS temple rites?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith copy Masonic material in order to create the Mormon temple rites?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith copy the name "Nephi" from the Apocrypha?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith create the story of Nephi and Laban by plagiarizing concepts and phrases from the story of Judith and Holofernes in the Apocrypha?
- 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?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith crib language from the New Testament to produce the Book of Moses?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith decide that all churches were wrong before he received the First Vision?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith decided that all churches were wrong before he received the First Vision?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith derive his religious ideas in part from a mysticism called Kabbalah
- Question: Did Joseph Smith derive his religious ideas in part from a mysticism called Kabbalah?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith derive the idea of "three degrees of glory" from Emanuel Swedenborg's book, ''Heaven and its Wonders and Hell''?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith derive the idea of "three degrees of glory" from Emanuel Swedenborg's book, Heaven and its Wonders and Hell?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith develop the story of Moroni's visit based upon information contained in the story ''The Golden Pot''?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith endorse slavery?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith engage in "land speculation" in Nauvoo
- Question: Did Joseph Smith engage in "land speculation" in Nauvoo?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith ever publicly attempt to teach the doctrine of plural marriage?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith father any children through polygamous marriages?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith father children by polyandrous plural wife Prescindia Buell?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith get the word Nahom from the Biblical names Naham (1 Chron. 4:19), Nehum (Ne. 7:7) and Nahum (Na. 1:1)?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith give Brigham Young and Heber C. Kimball divining rods "as a symbol of gratitude for their loyalty"?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith give a false prophecy by claiming that queens would pay respect to the Relief Society within ten years?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith give a woman only one day to decide about entering a plural marriage, and would refusal mean terrible consequences?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith give a woman only one day to decide about entering a plural marriage? Would refusal mean terrible consequences?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith give some of the brethren money to purchase whiskey in violation of the Word of Wisdom?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith have a Jupiter talisman on his person at the time of his death
- Question: Did Joseph Smith have a Jupiter talisman on his person at the time of his death?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith have a long history of "womanizing" before practicing plural marriage?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith have a long history of "womanizing" before practicing plural marriage?/CriticalSources
- Question: Did Joseph Smith have a youthful struggle with unchastity?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith have access to materials related to Nahom at Allegheny College?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith have any children through any of his polyandrous marriages?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith hit a Baptist preacher and throw him to the ground?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith identify any elements of Facsimile 2 that are in agreement with what Egyptologists say they represent?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith ignorantly include an error from the Bible into the Book of Mormon when including the Lord's Prayer in 3 Nephit 13:13?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith incorporate his father's dream of the tree of life into the Book of Mormon?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith institute polygamy because he had a "voracious sexual appetite"?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith intend to ordain women to the priesthood?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith issue a prophecy that the Nauvoo House would stand forever and ever?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith join the Methodist, Presbyterian, or Baptist churches between 1820 and 1830 despite the claim made in his 1838 history that he was forbidden by Deity from joining any denomination?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith join the Methodists as an "exhorter" years after being told not to join another church during the First Vision?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith join the Presbyterian Church after the First Vision?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith know Sidney Rigdon prior to 1830?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith lose control of the Church during the 1838 Kirtland apostasy?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith make "forged predictions" and add them retroactively to the history of the Church that a "mighty people" that would dwell "in the midst of the Rocky Mountains"?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith make an error by claiming that Elias and Elijah are two different people, when they are in fact one and the same?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith make up the temple ordinance or borrow them from an earthly source?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith make up the temple ordinances or borrow them from an earthly source?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith marry Fanny Alger as his first plural wife in 1833?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith misidentify a Greek "psalter
- Question: Did Joseph Smith misidentify a Greek "psalter" as a containing "reformed Egyptian" hieroglyphics?
- 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?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith mismanage the estate of two orphans, Maria and Sarah Lawrence by marrying these sisters polygamously in order to use the marriage to enrich himself?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith offer to trade Jane Law for Emma Smith in a wife swap with William Law?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith or his associates attempt to reconcile with William Law before he published the ''Nauvoo Expositor''?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith originally identify the angel that visited him as "Nephi" instead of "Moroni"?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith perform marriages between brothers and sisters?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith personally profit from the Kirtland Safety Society?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith place his seer stone in his hat while looking for lost objects?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith plagiarize John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith plagiarize John Dee’s The Secret Book of Madoc for his creation of the Book of Mormon?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith plagiarize John Walker's "Key to Greek, Latin, and Scripture Proper Names"?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith plagiarize John Walker's a Key to Latin and Greek, Latin, and Scripture Proper Names?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith plagiarize Josiah Priest's ''The Wonders of Nature and Providence Displayed''?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith plagiarize Shakespeare's ''Hamlet''?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith plagiarize Shakespeare?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith plagiarize a book by Charles Anthon to provide names for the Book of Mormon?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith plagiarize an 1811 book of Marco Polo's travels?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith plagiarize passages from Gilbert Hunt's book ''The Late War, between the United States and Great Britain, from June, 1812, to February, 1815''?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith plagiarize sources from the American Revolution?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith plagiarize the History of Mexico to produce the Book of Ether?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith produce any children by his plural wives: The case against children
- Question: Did Joseph Smith produce any children by his plural wives: The case for children
- Question: Did Joseph Smith produce any children by his plural wives? The case ''for'' children
- Question: Did Joseph Smith produce any children by his plural wives? The case against children
- Question: Did Joseph Smith produce any children by his plural wives? The case for children
- Question: Did Joseph Smith produce the Book of Mormon by using a Methodist homiletic composition technique known as “laying down heads”?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith prophesy that Jesus Christ would return in 1890?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith prophesy that Zion, in Jackson County, Missouri, would be redeemed by September 1836?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith prophesy that he couldn't be killed within 5 years of August 1843?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith prophesy that the government would be overthrown and wasted?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith prophesy the Jesus Christ would return in 1890?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith really tell Orrin Porter Rockwell 'it was right to steal'
- Question: Did Joseph Smith really tell Orrin Porter Rockwell 'it was right to steal'?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith receive a revelation instructing him to to sell the copyright to the Book of Mormon in Canada and later claim that the revelation was false?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith revise his account of the First Vision in 1838 to respond to a leadership crisis?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith riff off of Hebrews 7 to produce the material discussing Melchizedek in Alma 12 and 13?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith run for President because he had delusions of grandeur?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith say that he would be a "second Muhammad," threatening to spread his beliefs with the sword?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith say that viewing the gold plates would result in death?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith send William Law, Robert D. Foster, and Henry Jacobs on missions so that he could steal their wives?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith send men on missions in order to "steal" their wives while they were gone?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith send men on missions so that he could secretly marry their wives while they were gone?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith set up a bar to sell liquor in Nauvoo?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith simply conflate elements of the 1818 and 1824-25 revivals in his story of the First Vision?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith state that the moon was inhabited, and that it's inhabitants were dressed like Quakers?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith state that the moon was inhabited, and that its inhabitants were dressed like Quakers?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith teach a hemispheric, rather than a limited, geography model for the Book of Mormon?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith teach animal sacrifice as part of the "restoration of all things"?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith use Paul as a template for the character Alma in the Book of Mormon?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith use characters from the Bible as templates for characters in the Book of Mormon?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith use entheogens to effectuate the founding of the Church?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith use his own seer stone to translate the Book of Mormon?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith use his seer stone to view the location of the gold plates in the Hill Cumorah?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith use the Nephite interpreters to translate? Or did he use his own seer stone?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith violate marriage laws in Ohio by performing marriages?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith violate the Word of Wisdom by drinking alcohol in Carthage Jail before he was killed?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith violate the Word of Wisdom by drinking tea?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith write a "love letter" to his plural wife Sarah Ann Whitney to request a secret rendezvous?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith write a pro-polygamy pamphlet called The Peace Maker in 1842?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith write in the Book of Mormon, "every error and truth discussed in New York"?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith’s account of the First Vision grow more detailed and more colorful after he first recorded it in 1832?
- Question: Did Joseph and others with him remove their garments in order to avoid being identified as polygamists?
- Question: Did Joseph attempt to translate the Kinderhook Plates using the "gift and power of God?"
- Question: Did Joseph began his prophetic career with a "trinitarian" idea of God?
- Question: Did Joseph begin his prophetic career with a "trinitarian" idea of God?
- Question: Did Joseph claim that an angel threatened him with a "drawn sword" or "flaming sword" if a woman refused to marry him?
- Question: Did Joseph ever place the Nephite interpreters ("Urim and Thummim") into his hat?
- Question: Did Joseph hide his plural marriages from Emma, his first wife?
- Question: Did Joseph know what the italics in the Bible meant?
- Question: Did Joseph mention a "pillar of fire" or a "pillar of light" in his 1832 account of the First Vision?
- Question: Did Joseph order Jonathan Dunham, head of the Nauvoo legion, to rescue him?
- Question: Did Joseph own 144 acres of land in Kirtland?
- Question: Did Joseph own a Bible at the time of the Book of Mormon translation?
- Question: Did Joseph place his seer stone in his hat while looking for lost objects?
- 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?
- Question: Did Joseph use his seer stone to view the location of the gold plates in the Hill Cumorah?
- Question: Did Joseph utter a false prophecy and show disregard for the Word of Wisdom in telling Orson Hyde that he would drink wine with him in Palestine?
- Question: Did LDS leaders claim that Christians were no longer present on the earth after the apostasy?
- Question: Did LDS scholar Hugh Nibley support the "Heartland model" of Book of Mormon geography?
- Question: Did Latter-day Saints wish to avoid being classified as Christians?
- Question: Did Levi Edgar Young state that his prayer was that "thousands would turn not to God, but to Joseph"?
- Question: Did Levi Lewis claim that Joseph tried to seduce Eliza Winters in 1830?
- Question: Did Lorenzo Snow state that polygamy was actually adultery prior to 1843?
- Question: Did Lucy Mack Smith join the Presbyterian Church after her son Alvin died in 1823?
- Question: Did Lucy Mack Smith state when she joined the Presbyterians?
- Question: Did Martin Harris change his religion five times prior to the Restoration?
- Question: Did Martin Harris claim that he only saw the gold plates as they were covered "as a city through a mountain"?
- Question: Did Martin Harris claim that the eight witnesses hesitated to sign their testimony and the he only saw the plates as they were covered "as a city through a mountain"?
- Question: Did Martin Harris ever deny his Book of Mormon witness because he thought that Joseph Smith was a fallen prophet?
- Question: Did Martin Harris state that there would never be another president of the United States elected?
- Question: Did Martin Harris tell people that he did not see the plates with his natural eyes, but rather the "eye of faith"?
- Question: Did Martin Harris tell people that he only saw the plates with his "spiritual eye"?
- Question: Did Mormon Leaders use temple recommend interviews to "bully" members into supporting Proposition 8?
- Question: Did Mormon leaders at the time teach that apostasy was the unforgivable sin, and that the only thing an apostate could do to redeem himself was to give his own life, willingly or unwillingly?
- Question: Did Mormon leaders ever teach that masturbation can cause someone to have a homosexual orientation?
- Question: Did Mormon scholar Hugh Nibley fake or distort most of his footnotes?
- Question: Did Mormons only recently claim to be Christian?
- Question: Did Moroni bury the gold plates in the Hill Cumorah referenced in the Book of Mormon?
- Question: Did Moroni tell Joseph Smith that all of the churches of the day were an "abomination"?
- Question: Did Nephi commit "cold blooded murder" when he killed Laban?
- Question: Did Oliver Cowdery "neglect to mention" that Joseph Smith consulted a Bible during the Book of Mormon translation process?
- Question: Did Oliver Cowdery ever deny his Book of Mormon witness because he thought that Joseph Smith was a fallen prophet?
- Question: Did Oliver Cowdery privately admit to his law partner that the Book of Mormon was actually a hoax?
- Question: Did Oliver Cowdery state that Joseph did not know if a "supreme being" existed in 1823?
- 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?
- Question: Did Orson Pratt state that it was an angel that appeared during the First Vision?
- Question: Did Orson Spencer claim in a letter to a non-LDS clergyman that Joseph Smith's "first" spiritual manifestation was of an angel - not the Father and the Son?
- Question: Did Parley P. Pratt claim that only God appeared to Joseph Smith during his First Vision?
- Question: Did Parley P. Pratt make a prophecy in 1838 to La Roy Sutherland about the latter being struck dumb and coming to an untimely end?
- Question: Did Porter Rockwell admit to shooting Lilburn Boggs?
- Question: Did Prescindia Buell (or Sarah Pratt, or Mrs. Hyde) not know who was the father of her son?
- Question: Did President Boyd K. Packer, in a talk given in the Forest Bend Ward in Salt Lake City on 12 October 2008, say that a catastrophic event was looming in the immediate future?
- Question: Did President Ezra Taft Benson's General Conference address, "Beware of Pride," plagiarize from C.S. Lewis' chapter on pride in Mere Christianity?
- Question: Did President Jimmy Carter threaten the Church's tax-exempt status because of their policy on blacks and the priesthood?
- Question: Did Rev. Frank Graham praise LDS relief efforts in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina?
- Question: Did Russell M. Nelson exaggerate his story about being in a falling airplane?
- Question: Did Samuel Smith, one of the Eight Witnesses to the Book of Mormon, ever deny having seen the plates?
- Question: Did Samuel Smith, one of the Eight Witnesses to the Book of Mormon, every deny having seen the plates?
- Question: Did Solomon Spaulding's doctor state that Spaulding talked to him about the Nephites in his manuscript?
- Question: Did Wilford Woodruff criticize assistant Church Historian Andrew Jenson's decision to publish the names of those who were married to Joseph Smith because he wanted to hide the fact that Joseph was married to other women?
- Question: Did Wilford Woodruff have knowledge of the First Vision prior to his 1855 remarks about an angel?
- Question: Did Wilford Woodruff prophesy that New York would be destroyed by earthquake, Boston by flood, and Albany by fire?
- Question: Did Wilford Woodruff teach something other than the traditional story of the First Vision?
- Question: Did Willard Richards violate the Word of Wisdom by using tobacco at Carthage Jail?
- Question: Did William Marks claim that Joseph Smith told him that plural marriage had been a mistake and that it would be abandoned?
- Question: Did William McLellin ever mention drinking in association with the Kirtland Temple?
- Question: Did William Smith claim that a religious revival led to the Joseph's "first vision" of an angel in 1823?
- Question: Did a Catholic priest write a book in 1739 that the true church of Jesus Christ would be restored?
- Question: Did any nineteenth century leader after Joseph Smith report divine visions?
- Question: Did any of Joseph's scribe ever say anything about Joseph's story of the vision changing over time?
- Question: Did any of Joseph's scribes ever say anything about Joseph's story of the vision changing over time?
- Question: Did any publications prior to 1870 mention the phrase "This is My Beloved Son" in connection with the First Vision?
- Question: Did any twentieth century leader after Joseph Smith report divine visions?
- Question: Did any woman suffer consequences for turning down Joseph's proposal?
- Question: Did apostle George A. Smith carry orders for the Mountain Meadows Massacre?
- Question: Did ceremonies or practices ever change in the ancient Church?
- Question: Did certain Church leaders claim that Joseph Smith "held the office of Holy Ghost"?
- Question: Did early Church leaders "admit" that there were many difficulties with plural marriage that caused "problems" and "great sorrow"?
- Question: Did early Church leaders state that the Book of Mormon condemns polygamy?
- Question: Did early Church leaders state that the Book of Mormon condems polygamy?
- Question: Did early Mormon leaders believe that Jesus Christ was a polygamist?
- Question: Did early Mormon leaders consider themselves Christians?
- Question: Did early Mormon leaders teach that apostasy was the unforgivable sin, and that the only thing an apostate could do to redeem himself was to give his own life, willingly or unwillingly?
- Question: Did early Mormon leaders teach the plural marriage was a requirement for exaltation?
- Question: Did early Mormon missionaries to England take advantage of "intolerable social and economic conditions" in order to gain converts?
- Question: Did early members of the "Mormon" Church believe in witchcraft
- Question: Did early members of the "Mormon" Church believe in witchcraft?
- Question: Did early members of the Church believe in witchcraft?
- Question: Did federal officials flee Utah because they feared for their lives?
- Question: Did historian Thomas Alexander claim that "the Indians" forced Mormons to commit the Mountain Meadows Massacre?
- Question: Did large numbers of people resign from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints resign because of its support of Prop 8?
- Question: Did no one ever actually see the gold plates from which the Book of Mormon was translated?
- Question: Did one of King Zedekiah's sons, Mulek, escape and come to the New World?
- Question: Did one of the Book of Mormon witnesses actually only handle the plates while they were covered in a "tow frock"?
- Question: Did other Church leaders believe that plural marriage was a requirement for exaltation?
- Question: Did other ceremonies or practices ever change in the ancient Church?
- Question: Did procreation exist before the Fall of Adam?
- Question: Did procreation exist on the earth before the Fall of Adam?
- Question: Did some Church leaders believe that the skin of the Lamanites would turn white?
- Question: Did some Church leaders teach that plural marriage was a practice that would persist forever?
- Question: Did some of Joseph Smith's associates believe that Joseph Smith had an affair with Fanny Alger?
- Question: Did some of Joseph Smith's associates believe that he had an affair with Fanny Alger?
- Question: Did swords exist in Pre-Columbian America?
- Question: Did swords exist in Pre-Columbian America during the Book of Mormon time period?
- Question: Did the "Cochranites" influence Joseph Smith or other Mormons to introduce plural marriage into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints?
- Question: Did the Book of Mormon witnesses hold to their published testimonies?
- Question: Did the Church achieve its objectives with the City Creek Center project?
- Question: Did the Church attempt to hide Brigham Young's practice of plural marriage in the ''Teachings of the Presidents of the Church: Brigham Young'' manual?
- Question: Did the Church cover up the fact that the Civil War prophecy was made during the 1832 rebellion in South Carolina?
- Question: Did the Church intentionally cover up the ongoing abuse of MJ Adams of Bisbee, Arizona?
- Question: Did the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons) ever conduct aversion therapy?
- Question: Did the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the Mormons) contribute money to the "Yes on 8" campaign?
- Question: Did the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the Mormons) invest more money in Proposition 8 than in all of its combined humanitarian efforts?
- Question: Did the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the Mormons) violate its tax-exempt status by participating in the "Yes on 8" campaign?
- Question: Did the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints send a large number of out-of-state people in to assist with the California "Yes-on-8" campaign?
- Question: Did the Church order Ronald L. Poelman's 1984 conference talk to be re-recorded with a "cough track" in order to hide the fact that changes had been made?
- Question: Did the Church purchase documents such as Mark Hofmann's "Salamander letter" with the intent of hiding and suppressing them?
- Question: Did the Church refute the "neutral in the pre-existence" teaching only to preserve their public image?
- Question: Did the Church repudiate the idea of neutrality in the "war in heaven?"
- 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?
- Question: Did the Church use tithing funds to finance the purchases and buildings?
- Question: Did the Council of Fifty order homicides to be committed?
- Question: Did the Danite band persist even after they were exposed?
- Question: Did the FAIR destroy do "more to destroy" the testimony of the author of the "Letter to a CES Director" than any "anti-Mormon" source?
- Question: Did the First Presidency identify the New York "Hill Cumorah" as the site of the Nephite final battles?
- Question: Did the Mormons send thousands of missionaries door to door in California handing out fliers about Proposition 8?
- Question: Did the Mormons use their facilities or donation processing system to collect money destined for the "Yes on 8" campaign?
- Question: Did the Nauvoo police commit "many murders, vicious beatings, and intimidating assaults" against people that they thought to be enemies of the Church?
- Question: Did the Three Witnesses consider Joseph Smith a "fallen prophet" after they left the Church?
- Question: Did the Three Witnesses each add their own signature to the original Book of Mormon manuscript?
- Question: Did the Three Witnesses have personal, subjective experiences?
- Question: Did the Witnesses who left the Church continue to maintain their witness of the Book of Mormon?
- Question: Did the Witnesses who left the Church continued to maintain their witness of the Book of Mormon?
- Question: Did the actual words "God the Father" and "Jesus Christ" appear in Joseph's 1838 account of the First Vision?
- Question: Did the co-founder of Microsoft write an editorial praising Mormons in a California newspaper?
- Question: Did the concept of "blood atonement" include a long list of crimes that were considered "worthy of death"?
- Question: Did the daughter of Hugh Nibley accuse him of abusing her?
- Question: Did the details of Joseph’s First Vision experience appear to have changed when communicating to his followers such that the elders of the Church did not know that Joseph saw two personages?
- Question: Did the early Christian fathers express a belief in a pre-mortal life?
- Question: Did the martyr Stephen teach that physical temples were no longer required for Christians?
- Question: Did the medical coordinator for the Church's Humanitarian Emergency Response warn of an impending flu pandemic?
- Question: Did the prophet Nephi visit Joseph at some point in time?
- Question: Did the story of Moroni's visit to Joseph Smith evolve from that of a magical spiritual treasure guardian to an "angel"?
- Question: Did the three witnesses's experience of seeing the plates and the angel take place only in their minds?
- Question: Did the use of metal swords mentioned in the Book of Mormon persist?
- Question: Did the witnesses disagree with their testimony after it was printed in the Book of Mormon?
- Question: Did the witnesses make clear statements regarding their testimonies?
- Question: Did the witnesses to the Book of Mormon realize that they would be ridiculed and not believed?
- Question: Did the words "God the Father" and "Jesus Christ" appear in Joseph's 1838 account of the First Vision?
- Question: Did those who entered into plural marriage do so simply because Joseph Smith (or another Church leader) "told them to"?
- Question: Didn't Hugh Nibley claim that a record of this trial would be "the most damning evidence in existence" against Joseph Smith?
- Question: Didn't Joseph's 1826 Bainbridge appearance before a judge prove that he had previously been using his seer stone for nefarious purposes?
- Question: Didn't Joseph's 1826 Bainbridge appearance before a judge prove that he had previously been using his stone for nefarious purposes?
- Question: Dis Joseph Smith give a woman only one day to decide about entering a plural marriage? Would refusal mean terrible consequences?
- Question: Do Christian critics of the Book of Mormon have a double standard regarding DNA evidence?
- Question: Do Church leaders teach us to avoid the internet?
- Question: Do Doctrine and Covenants 20:37 and 2 Nephi 31:17 or 3 Nephi 12:2 contradict one another regarding the order in which one receives baptism and a remission of sins?
- Question: Do General Authorities receive a large sum of money when they are called?
- Question: Do General Authorities receive a large sum of money when they are called in order to "keep them quiet"?
- Question: Do Greek scholars solve the discrepancies in Paul's vision accounts?
- Question: Do Hebraisms exist in the Book of Mormon?
- Question: Do Joseph Smith's personality and temperament indicate that he was not a true prophet of God
- Question: Do Joseph Smith's personality and temperament indicate that he was not a true prophet of God?
- Question: Do Latter-day Saint ("Mormon") leaders teach us to avoid the internet?