FAIR is a non-profit organization dedicated to providing well-documented answers to criticisms of the doctrine, practice, and history of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
All pages
Previous page (Question: How do Latter-day Saints approach authorship of New Testament books?) | Next page (Question: What circumstances preceded the 1978 revelation which ended the priesthood ban?)
- Question: Regarding the gold plates, did Martin Harris claim that "the eight witnesses never saw them and hesitated to sign that instrument for that reason, but they were persuaded to do it"?
- Question: Should Church members simply have "blind trust" in their leaders?
- Question: Should Latter-day Saints ("Mormons") reject "wayward" family members or those who leave the Church?
- Question: Should Latter-day Saints eat fruit seasonally?
- Question: Should Mormons reject "wayward" family members or those who leave the Church?
- Question: Should Mormons reject family members who leave the Church?
- Question: Should church officers be celibate?
- Question: Should the Book of Mormon describe Jewish customs or laws?
- Question: Should the phrase "Red Sea" in the Book of Mormon actually be the "Reed Sea" based on a suspected mistranslation in the Bible?
- Question: Should the restoration include a phallus?
- Question: Should the restoration of Book of Abraham Facsimile 1 include a phallus?
- Question: Should the restoration of Facsimile 1 include a phallus?
- Question: Should there be archaeological evidence for the Book of Mormon?
- Question: Should there be no offices in the priesthood?
- Question: Should there be only one temple?
- Question: Should we expect to find ancient swords in either the Old World or the New World?
- Question: Should we pay tithing before paying for food or rent?
- Question: Should we reject statements made by Joseph Smith regarding Book of Mormon geography?
- Question: Should “the plains” of Moreh in the Book of Abraham actually be “the oak” of Moreh?
- Question: Since John the Apostle and the three Nephites did not die, then how could there have been a "complete apostasy" on the earth?
- Question: Since Joseph Smith "married" the wives of 11 other men, why were those women not "destroyed" as specified in the Doctrine and Covenants since they continued to live with their "previous" husbands?
- Question: Since Mormons believe that God possesses a physical body, does that mean that He cannot be omnipresent?
- Question: Since Nephi beheaded Laban, wouldn't there be a large amount of blood afterward?
- Question: Since first wives were generally to grant permission for sealings to subsequent wives, did Joseph's later sealing to Emma (after some of his plural marriages) mean that Emma no longer held the role of "first wife"?
- Question: Since first wives were generally to grant permission for sealings to subsequent wives, did Joseph's later sealing to Emma mean that Emma no longer held the role of "first wife"?
- Question: Since its opening, has the redevelopment had the impact hoped for?
- Question: Since the Church teaches that homosexual conduct is sinful, does this mean it opposes efforts to protect those who engage in homosexual acts?
- Question: Since the Word of Wisdom teaches us to abstain from alcohol, why did Paul encourage Timothy to drink wine for the stomach?
- Question: Since the papyri from which the Book of Abraham was translated date to the 3rd century BCE to the 1st century CE, does this mean that the events recorded in the Book of Abraham cannot be historical?
- Question: Since there are people that are born intersex, experience gender dysphoria, or identify as transgender, does this invalidate the Latter-day Saint ("Mormon") doctrine of eternal male and/or female gender?
- Question: Since there are people that are born intersex, experience gender dysphoria, or identify as transgender, does this invalidate the Latter-day Saint doctrine of eternal gender?
- Question: Under what circumstances was Doctrine and Covenants Section 132 committed to writing?
- Question: Was "money digging" Joseph Smith, Jr's primary source of income during his early years?
- Question: Was "not receiving the Gospel" a crime that was "worthy of death" among 19th century Mormons?
- Question: Was ''The Evening and the Morning Star'' threatening non-Mormon with "imminent destruction" if they did not repent?
- Question: Was 19th century Mormonism perceived as a group of "radical, immoral, and un-American band of religious zealots"?
- Question: Was Apostle Orson Hyde sent on a mission to dedicate Israel so that Joseph Smith could secretly marry his wife, Marinda Hyde, while he was away?
- Question: Was Apostle Orson Hyde who was sent on a mission to dedicate Israel so that Joseph Smith could secretly marry his wife, Marinda Hyde, while he was away?
- Question: Was Bishop M'Kendree, a Methodist revivalist preacher, the model for King Benjamin in the Book of Mormon?
- Question: Was Brigham Young's hearse displayed in front of Disneyland's Haunted Mansion?
- Question: Was Brigham Young's letter ordering immigrants to be left alone "mysteriously lost"?
- Question: Was Brigham Young a "33rd degree" Mason?
- Question: Was Brigham Young a "young earth creationist"?
- Question: Was Brigham Young a Mason?
- Question: Was Brigham Young a racist?
- Question: Was Captain Kidd "hanged for crimes allegedly committed in the vicinity of Moroni on Grand Comoro?"
- Question: Was Catholic support for a Rome Italy temple due to Mormon efforts to pass California Proposition 8?
- Question: Was Emma aware of the possibility that Joseph could take additional wives even without her consent?
- Question: Was Emma was promised "annihilation" if she didn't accept plural marriage?
- Question: Was Ezra Booth commanded to take a wife from among the Indians?
- Question: Was George A. Smith unaware that the Father and Son appeared to Joseph Smith during the First Vision?
- 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?
- Question: Was Helen Mar Kimball's marriage to Joseph Smith ever consummated?
- Question: Was Helen Mar Kimball's plural marriage to Joseph Smith consummated?
- Question: Was Irvine Hodge murdered by Nauvoo policemen?
- 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?
- Question: Was Jesus actually crucified on a cross, or was it actually a "pole"?
- Question: Was Joseph Fielding Smith issuing a prophecy when he said that men would never walk on the moon?
- Question: Was Joseph Smith's 1832 prophecy of the Civil War invalid because "war was not brought to all nations" by the Civil War and/or claiming there is "no link" between the Civil War and later conflicts?
- Question: Was Joseph Smith's 1832 prophecy of the Civil War invalid because a civil war was "inevitable," and "anyone" could have predicted it?
- Question: Was Joseph Smith's 1832 prophecy of the Civil War invalid because slaves did not rise up against their masters in the Civil War?
- Question: Was Joseph Smith's First Vision Vision set in heaven or on earth?
- Question: Was Joseph Smith's family lazy, shiftless and seeking to make a living without performing any labor?
- Question: Was Joseph Smith's marriage to 14-year-old Helen Mar Kimball indicative of "pedophilia"?
- Question: Was Joseph Smith's participation in "money digging" as a youth a blot on his character?
- Question: Was Joseph Smith's prophecy that the Independence, Missouri temple "shall be reared in this generation" a failed prophecy?
- Question: Was Joseph Smith's translation of the Bible ever completed?
- Question: Was Joseph Smith, Jr. known as a "disreputable person"
- Question: Was Joseph Smith, Jr. known as a "disreputable person?"
- Question: Was Joseph Smith, Sr. a believer in witchcraft and the supernatural?
- Question: Was Joseph Smith a "serial practitioner of statutory rape" or a "pedophile"?
- Question: Was Joseph Smith a "serial practitioner of statutory rape?"
- Question: Was Joseph Smith afraid to reproduce the text of the lost 116 pages of Book of Mormon manuscript because he could not do so?
- Question: Was Joseph Smith anointed to be "King over the earth" by the Council of Fifty?
- Question: Was Joseph Smith aware that the date of the autumnal equinox was somehow significant?
- Question: Was Joseph Smith commanded by the Lord to go to Salem, Massachusetts to hunt for treasure in the cellar of a house?
- Question: Was Joseph Smith ego-maniacal, proud, and narcissistic?
- Question: Was Joseph Smith ever charged with adultery under Illinois law?
- Question: Was Joseph Smith found guilty of being a "con man" in 1826?
- Question: Was Joseph Smith married or sealed to women who were already married to other living men?
- Question: Was Joseph Smith prone to boasting?
- Question: Was Joseph Smith responsible for an assassination attempt on former Missouri governor Lilburn Boggs?
- Question: Was Joseph Smith sealed or married to other men's wives without the knowledge or consent of their husband?
- Question: Was Joseph Smith to ignorant, unlearned and foolish to have authored the Book of Mormon?
- Question: Was Joseph Smith too ignorant, unlearned and foolish to have authored the Book of Mormon?
- Question: Was Joseph Smith’s only mission to bring forth the Book of Mormon?
- Question: Was Joseph trying to prey on a young twelve-year-old girl?
- Question: Was Martin Harris a gullible witness who would simply believe anything he was told?
- Question: Was Mormonism featured in a book written by Dan Brown, the author of The DaVinci Code?
- Question: Was Moses a real person?
- Question: Was Nephi's temple "similar in splendor" to Solomon's temple?
- Question: Was Nephi simply listening to "a voice in his head" telling him to kill Laban as the result of a psychosis or delusion?
- Question: Was Nicean Trinitarianism always a key part of Christian belief?
- Question: Was Oliver Cowdery a "treasure hunter and 'rodsman'?
- Question: Was Oliver Cowdery aware of the details of the First Vision that were written in Joseph Smith's 1832 history?
- Question: Was Oliver Cowdery aware that some in the Church were practicing polygamy in 1835 at the time he authored the "Article on Marriage"?
- Question: Was Orson Hyde unaware of the details of the Father and Son appearing to Joseph in the First Vision?
- Question: Was Parley P. Pratt murdered because he stole another man's wife?
- Question: Was Paul a "real" apostle, with authority over the Church like the original Twelve?
- Question: Was President Hinckley suspicious that the Salamander letter might not be authentic?
- Question: Was Russell M. Nelson part of a satanic cult called “Skull and Bones” in college?
- Question: Was Surveyor General David H. Burr threatened with death by Mormons while he was in Utah?
- Question: Was Thomas Coleman (or Colbourn) "blood atoned"?
- Question: Was Thomas Lewis castrated because he wanted to marry a young woman who was desired by an older man as a plural wife?
- Question: Was Thomas Stuart Ferguson an archaeologist?
- Question: Was Utah's second governor, John W. Dawson, beaten by Latter-day Saints?
- Question: Was Utah was a hotbed of violence, murder, and lawlessness that can be attributed to Mormon doctrine and practices?
- Question: Was Warren Parrish signing new notes for the Kirland Safety Society even after the bank had fallen into difficulty?
- Question: Was Warren Parrish signing new notes for the Kirtland Safety Society even after the bank had fallen into difficulty?
- Question: Was Wilford Woodruff actually inspired to end polygamy?
- Question: Was William Clayton an example of the evils and problems of plural marriage?
- Question: Was William McClellin disappointed in the endowment at the Kirtland Temple?
- Question: Was William Smith promised in a blessing that he would remain on the earth until Christ comes?
- Question: Was Zarahemla located near present-day Nauvoo?
- Question: Was a "forged" prophecy about Stephen A. Douglas added to the ''History of the Church''?
- Question: Was a "magic dagger" once owned by Hyrum Smith
- Question: Was a "magic dagger" once owned by Hyrum Smith?
- Question: Was a "vagabond fortune-teller" named Walters Joseph Smith's "mentor"
- Question: Was a "vagabond fortune-teller" named Walters Joseph Smith's "mentor"?
- Question: Was a pregnant Eliza R. Snow pushed down the stairs by a furious Emma, resulting in a miscarriage?
- Question: Was a woman given only one day to decide? Would refusal mean terrible consequences?
- Question: Was are the terms and definitions related to banking in the 1800s?
- Question: Was condemning Joseph Smith a crime that was "worthy of death" among 19th century Mormons?
- Question: Was counterfeiting a crime that was "worthy of death" among 19th century Mormons?
- Question: Was every word of the Book of Mormon translation provided directly from God?
- Question: Was failure to keep the Word of Wisdom grounds for a disciplinary council in the 19th century Church?
- Question: Was it illegal for Joseph Smith to perform marriages in Ohio?
- Question: Was it normal not to obtain a formal civil divorce in 19th century America?
- 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?
- Question: Was knowledge of chiasmus available in Joseph Smith's era?
- Question: Was lying a crime that was "worthy of death" among 19th century Mormons?
- Question: Was murder a crime that was "worthy of death" among 19th century Mormons?
- Question: Was polygamy illegal?
- Question: Was prosecution of those responsible for Mountain Meadows Massacre blocked by the Church?
- Question: Was stealing a crime that was "worthy of death" among 19th century Mormons?
- Question: Was the "Adam-God" theory ever taught as part of the temple endowment ceremony as something called "the lecture at the veil"?
- Question: Was the "Law of Tithing" an Old Testament law that was done away with when Jesus Christ fulfilled the Law of Moses?
- Question: Was the "Pentecost" at the Kirtland Temple dedication actually a drunken orgy?
- Question: Was the "pentecost" at the Kirtland Temple dedication actually a drunken orgy?
- Question: Was the "week" unknown in ancient America?
- Question: Was the ''History of the Church'' falsified when "first visitation of Angels" was changed to "my first vision"?
- Question: Was the ''View of the Hebrews'' theory of Book of Mormon origin advanced during the lifetime of Joseph Smith?
- Question: Was the Apostle Paul Married?
- Question: Was the Apostle Paul married?
- Question: Was the Book of Mormon clearly authored by an uninspired Joseph Smith?
- Question: Was the Book of Mormon description of a cataclysm at the time of Christ's death derived from a similar description in Gilbert Hunt's ''The Late War''?
- Question: Was the Book of Mormon description of the Liahona derived from Gilbert Hunt's ''The Late War''?
- Question: Was the Book of Mormon figure Ishmael a descendant of Ephraim?
- Question: Was the Book of Mormon phrase "and it came to pass" derived from Gilbert Hunt's ''The Late War''?
- Question: Was the Book of Mormon phrase "it came to pass" derived from Gilbert Hunt's ''The Late War''?
- Question: Was the Church-funded redevelopment project in downtown Salt Lake City known as City Creek Center funded using tithing?
- Question: Was the Church forthright in identifying the rediscovered papyri prior to their examination by non-LDS Egyptologists?
- Question: Was the Church forthright in identifying the rediscovered papyrus prior to their examination by non-LDS Egyptologists?
- Question: Was the Church of Christ organized in Fayette? Or was it Manchester?
- Question: Was the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints found guilty of 'election fraud' with respect to their support of California Proposition 8 and fined as a result?
- Question: Was the Church of organized in Fayette? Or was it Manchester?
- Question: Was the First Vision fabricated to give Joseph Smith "Godly authority?"
- Question: Was the Gospel of Christ a mystery that was unknown until the advent of Christ?
- Question: Was the Gospel of Christ was a mystery that was unknown until the advent of Christ?
- Question: Was the JST ever completed?
- Question: Was the Joseph Smith Translation intended to be a restoration of original Bible text?
- Question: Was the Kirtland Safety Society a "wildcat bank"?
- Question: Was the Latter-day Saint concept of deification derived from Greek philosophy?
- Question: Was the Latter-day Saint periodical The Evening and Morning Star claiming that Missouri "rightfully belonged to Mormons?"
- Question: Was the Lehite colony too small to produce the population sizes indicated by the Book of Mormon?
- Question: Was the Liahona simply a magnetic compass that was out of place in 600 B.C.?
- Question: Was the Limited Geography model created in response to DNA claims?
- Question: Was the Manifesto that ended the practice of Mormon polygamy the product of legal pressure from the U.S. government?
- Question: Was the Mormon priesthood ban simply a policy or was it doctrine?
- Question: Was the Mormons' use of the Nauvoo city charter to invalidate writs from other jurisdictions improper?
- Question: Was the Prophet's mother Lucy Mack Smith silent about Joseph's history?
- Question: Was the United Order simply a form of communism?
- Question: Was the apostasy after Christ complete?
- Question: Was the apostasy predicted by the Bible not complete?
- Question: Was the beginning of the Book of Mormon derived from ''The First Book of Napoleon''?
- Question: Was the castration of Thomas Lewis approved by Brigham Young?
- Question: Was the content of Alma Chapter 40 derived from a Presbyterian document called ''The Westminster Confession''?
- Question: Was the content of Alma Chapter 40 derived from a Presbyterian document called The Westminster Confession?
- Question: Was the destruction of the ''Nauvoo Expositor'' legal?
- Question: Was the establishment of the Kirtland Safety Society "anti-bank" illegal?
- Question: Was the fact that the recovery of the Book of Mormon plates occurred on the autumnal equinox somehow significant
- Question: Was the fact that the recovery of the Book of Mormon plates occurred on the autumnal equinox somehow significant?
- Question: Was the general membership of the LDS Church not familiar with the First Vision story until late in the nineteenth century?
- Question: Was the head of the priest in Facsimile 1 incorrectly restored?
- Question: Was the idea that Blacks were neutral in the "war in heaven" ever official doctrine?
- Question: Was the newspaper called ''The Seer'' published by the Church?
- Question: Was the only purpose of polygamy to "multiply and replenish the earth" and "bear the souls of men"?
- Question: Was the original head of the priest in Book of Abraham Facsimile 1 actually the jackal head of Anubis?
- Question: Was the original head of the priest in Facsimile 1 actually the jackal head of Anubis?
- Question: Was the practice of polygamy against the law in Illinois in the 1840s?
- Question: Was the practice of polygamy general knowledge among Latter-day Saints in 1835 when the "Article on Marriage" was published?
- Question: Was the priest depicted in Book of Abraham Facsimile 1 holding a knife or was it some other object?
- Question: Was the priest depicted in Facsimile 1 holding a knife or some other object?
- Question: Was the priesthood ban lifted as the result of social or government pressure?
- Question: Was the priesthood held by Jesus priesthood not 'transferable' to members of the Church?
- Question: Was the priesthood on earth during the apostasy?
- Question: Was the reason Mormons practiced polygamy to look after widows and orphans, make sure more children were born and because there were "extra women" in Utah?
- Question: Was the removal of the name "Michael" from the original vision of the Celestial Kingdom and attempt to hide a "slip up" by Joseph Smith?
- Question: Was the reported weight of the plates too heavy for Joseph to run with?
- Question: Was the revelation comprising the current Doctrine and Covenants 27 altered to include mention of the priesthood restoration?
- Question: Was the temple in Jerusalem the sole legitimate site of worship?
- Question: Was the temple obsolete after Christ?
- Question: Was the text of the Book of Abraham received through revelation?
- Question: Was the young Joseph Smith a teller of "tall tales"
- Question: Was the young Joseph Smith a teller of "tall tales"?
- Question: Was there a "deal" made with Brigham Young regarding prosecution for the Mountain Meadows Massacre?
- Question: Was there a brothel in Nauvoo near the temple?
- Question: Was there an oath in a former version of the Mormon temple endowment that required vengeance upon the government of the United States?
- Question: Was there an oath in a former version of the temple endowment that required vengeance upon the government of the United States?
- Question: Was there ever a consummation of the sealing between Maria Lawrence and Joseph Smith?
- Question: Was there ever a consummation of the sealing between Maria and Joseph Smith?
- Question: Was there no biblical mandate for plural marriage?
- Question: Was there no death on the entire earth before the Fall?
- Question: Was there no mention of revival activity in 1820 in the newspaper?
- Question: Was using the name of the Lord in vain a crime that was "worthy of death" among 19th century Mormons?
- Question: Was “The Family: A Proclamation to the World” drafted by lawyers in Hawaii in response to legal concerns the Church had over the legalization of gay marriage?
- Question: Were 19th century Mormons "anti-American"?
- Question: Were 19th century Utah Mormons complicit in the deaths of Judge Leonidas Shaver, John Gunnison, and Almon Babbitt?
- Question: Were Biblical prophets infallible?
- Question: Were Brigham Young and subsequent apostles personal witnesses of Christ?
- Question: Were Brigham Young and the entire Church hierarchy responsible for the "Parrish-Potter" murders?
- Question: Were Joseph Smith's final words, "O Lord, my God!" a cry for help or mercy from Freemasons in the mob at the Carthage jail?
- Question: Were Joseph Smith's spiritual experiences originally products of magic and the occult
- Question: Were Joseph Smith's spiritual experiences originally products of magic and the occult?
- Question: Were Joseph Smith and other nineteenth century Mormons not strenuously opposed to same-sex acts or intimacy?
- Question: Were Joseph and Hyrum killed by John Taylor and Willard Richards?
- Question: Were Mayan cities inhabited by the Nephites?
- Question: Were Mormons told how much to contribute to the effort to support California Proposition 8?
- Question: Were Mormons who were opposed to Proposition 8 disciplined by the Church?
- Question: Were William Parrish and his son murdered as they attempted to leave Utah because leaving Utah was "forbidden"?
- Question: Were adultery and immorality crimes that were "worthy of death" among 19th century Mormons?
- Question: Were anti-Mason's opposed to the Book of Mormon?
- Question: Were any of the changes to the Book of Mormon made in reaction to sectarian criticism?
- Question: Were any of these changes made in reaction to sectarian criticism?
- Question: Were apostates secretly put to death by "blood atonement" during the administration of Brigham Young?
- Question: Were blacks denied access to Mormon temple open houses?
- Question: Were books about magic and the occult easily and readily available on the 19th century frontier?
- Question: Were curses pronounced upon the enemies of Mormonism in the Kirtland Temple?
- Question: Were missing portions of Facsimile 2 incorrectly restored?
- Question: Were plural wives forced into the marriage?
- Question: Were revivals and religious excitement too common to be noticed in the newspapers?
- Question: Were the ''Lectures on Faith'' revelations
- Question: Were the Book of Mormon witnesses not neutral because they were members of the Church and believers in Joseph's mission?
- Question: Were the Isaiah passages in the Book of Mormon simply plagiarized from the King James Bible?
- Question: Were the Kirtland Egyptian Papers and Egyptian Alphabet and Grammar produced prior to the Book of Abraham?
- Question: Were the Lectures on Faith revelations?
- Question: Were the Mormons motivated to participate in supporting California Proposition 8 merely as a vehicle to be considered more mainstream Christian?
- Question: Were the Three Nephites of the Book of Mormon based upon three of the "lying prophets among the savages" in Gilbert Hunt's ''The Late War''?
- Question: Were the changes to the revelations hidden from the Church members?
- Question: Were the characters on the papyri written by Abraham himself?
- Question: Were the contributions made by Mormons to the support of California Proposition 8 tax deductible?
- Question: Were the early apostles married?
- Question: Were the names "Moroni" and "Cumorah" available on maps accessible to Joseph Smith?
- Question: Were there any benefits of plural marriage among Mormons in the 19th century?
- Question: Were there any similar cases under Illinois adultery statute which demonstrate that Joseph was not breaking the law?
- Question: Were there not enough people available in Nephi's time to build a temple "after the manner of the temple of Solomon"?
- Question: Were there sexual relations in Joseph's marriages to women with living husbands?
- Question: Were there witnesses to the revelation that ended the priesthood ban?
- Question: Were women "locked in a room" in order to convince them to accept plural marriage?
- Question: Were women put under "tremendous pressure" to accept a proposal of plural marriage?
- Question: What "non-parallels" are apparent in a comparison of View of the Hebrews and the Book of Mormon?
- Question: What "plain and precious" teachings does the Book of Mormon provide regarding Satan?
- Question: What "plain and precious" teachings does the Book of Mormon provide regarding faith, repentance, baptism and the gift of the Holy Ghost?
- Question: What "plain and precious" teachings does the Book of Mormon provide regarding prayer?
- Question: What "plain and precious" teachings does the Book of Mormon provide regarding the Savior and His mission?
- Question: What "plain and precious" teachings does the Book of Mormon provide regarding the present day?
- Question: What "plain and precious" teachings does the Book of Mormon provide regarding the purpose of life?
- Question: What "plain and precious" teachings does the Book of Mormon provide regarding the requirements for baptism?
- Question: What "plain and precious" teachings does the Book of Mormon provide regarding the scriptures?
- Question: What Biblical scriptures discuss the doctrine of the deification of man?
- Question: What Church disciplinary options are available?
- Question: What Church sources discuss Joseph Smith's involvement with seer stones, treasure seeking or "money digging"?
- Question: What Church sources discuss Joseph Smith's involvement with seer stones, treasure seeking or "money digging?
- Question: What Church sources discuss Joseph Smith and "folk magic"?
- Question: What Church sources discuss either the use of the seer stone or the stone and the hat as part of the Book of Mormon translation process?
- Question: What LDS publications between 1840 and 1877 include references to Joseph Smith's First Vision?
- Question: What Old World sites match those on Lehi's journey as described in the Book of Mormon?
- Question: What about those who pray and don't receive a confirmation the Book of Mormon is true?
- Question: What accounts of the Civil War prophecy were given by Latter-day Saint leaders?
- Question: What archaeological evidence might be considered the minimal irrefutable proof needed to convince a non-believing world of the authenticity of the Nephite scripture?
- Question: What are Mormon "faith promoting rumors"?
- Question: What are appropriate activities for the Sabbath?
- Question: What are modern Church leader's views on the Lectures on Faith?
- Question: What are modern Church leaders' views on the Lectures on Faith?
- Question: What are some common ways that critics attempt to dismiss the work of FAIR?
- Question: What are some common ways that critics attempt to dismiss the work of FairMormon?
- Question: What are some of the philosophical advantages of the Restored Gospel?
- Question: What are some of the unique challenges or difficulties faced by Mormons with same-sex attraction?
- Question: What are some ways that other religious traditions may not be as loving as that of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints?
- Question: What are the "curse of Cain" and the "curse of Ham"
- Question: What are the "curse of Cain" and the "curse of Ham"?
- Question: What are the "gates of hell" or "gates of Hades?"
- Question: What are the "works of Abraham" and how does this relate to plural marriage?
- Question: What are the ''Lectures on Faith''
- Question: What are the Burrows Cave artifacts and are they related to Mormonism?
- Question: What are the Hofmann forgeries and the Salamander Letter?
- Question: What are the Hurlbut affidavits
- Question: What are the Hurlbut affidavits?
- Question: What are the Kinderhook Plates?
- Question: What are the Kirtland Egyptian Papers?
- Question: What are the Kirtland Egyptian Papers and Grammar and Alphabet of the Egyptian Language?
- Question: What are the Lectures on Faith?
- Question: What are the Nephite interpreters?
- Question: What are the common objections to a belief in God's corporeality?
- Question: What are the criticisms of the Book of Mormon based in its use of italics and how can one respond to those criticisms?
- Question: What are the criticisms regarding Joseph's interpretation of specific textual elements of Facsimile 3?
- Question: What are the criticisms related to Book of Abraham Facsimile 1?
- Question: What are the criticisms related to Facsimile 1?
- Question: What are the criticisms related to Facsimile 3?
- Question: What are the criticisms related to Joseph Smith's accounts of the First Vision?
- Question: What are the criticisms related to the "gold plates" of the Book of Mormon?
- Question: What are the details of Joseph Smith's 1826 "trial" for "glasslooking"
- Question: What are the details of Joseph Smith's 1826 "trial" for "glasslooking"?
- Question: What are the differences between Genesis 11-12 and Abraham 2?
- Question: What are the differences between the Endowment and Freemasonry?
- Question: What are the differences between the Genesis account of creation and that of the Book of Abraham?
- Question: What are the differences between the Strangite witness statements and those of the Three and Eight Witnesses to the Book of Mormon?
- Question: What are the differences between the Strangite witnesse statements and those of the Three and Eight Witnesses to the Book of Mormon?
- Question: What are the different levels of knowledge that members may have about Church history?
- Question: What are the essential features of a valid Book of Mormon geography?
- Question: What are the geographical assumptions upon which DNA-based attacks on the Book of Mormon are based?
- Question: What are the geographical questions upon which DNA-based attacks on the Book of Mormon are based?
- Question: What are the historical approaches that have been take in an attempt to understand the Kirtland Egyptian Papers?
- Question: What are the problems of trying to associate Quetzalcoatl with Jesus Christ?
- Question: What are the questions which DNA-based attacks on the Book of Mormon are attempting to answer?
- Question: What are the reasons for the changes to the Doctrine and Covenants?
- Question: What are the responses to critical arguments concerning the name "Nahom" in the Book of Mormon?
- Question: What are the risks of participating in apologetics?
- Question: What are the similarities and differences between ''View of the Hebrews'' and the Book of Mormon?
- Question: What are the standards for prophetic succession in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints?
- Question: What are the two 1835 First Vision accounts that refer to angels?
- Question: What are the worthiness requirements to enter a Mormon temple?
- Question: What attempts have been made to reconcile the Adam-God Theory with the doctrines of the Church?
- Question: What authorship theories are proposed by non-believers to account for the authorship of the Book of Mormon?
- Question: What biblical evidence is there for a pre-mortal existence?
- Question: What can I do to "undo" proxy baptisms and temple work?
- Question: What can textual criticism tell us about the Bible?
- Question: What can the writings of early Christians tell us about how to receive salvation in Jesus Christ?
- Question: What can we learn about the Book of Mormon as an ancient text?
- Question: What can you tell me about Mary Elizabeth Rollins Lightner and polyandry?
- Question: What caused William Law to apostatize from the Church and turn against Joseph Smith?
- Question: What changes have been made to the ''Gospel Principles'' manual?
- Question: What changes have been made to the ''Gospel Principles'' manual regarding the question of death on the earth before the Fall of Adam?
- Question: What changes were made to the 1837 edition of the Book of Mormon?
- Question: What changes were made to the Doctrine and Covenants?