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- Second Great Awakening
- Second annointing
- Second anointing
- Second anoiting
- Second letter scan
- Secular Government During the Millenium
- SeeAlso old
- Seer stone (Latter Day Saints)
- Seer stones (Latter Day Saints)
- Seer stones and the Latter Day Saint movement
- Seer stones and the Urim and Thummim
- Seer stones in Mormonism
- Seldom mentioned in LDS publications before 1877
- Seldom mentioned in LDS publications before 1877 (long)
- Self-contradiction
- Seminary Manual (2013): "Joseph Smith emphasized different aspects of his vision in his multiple accounts"
- Seminary Teacher Resource Manual: "We have no knowledge that plural marriage will be a requirement for exaltation"
- Seniority in the Quorum of the Twelve
- Sept 6
- Sept six
- September 22
- September 6
- September Dawn
- September six
- Settings:HalesSite box color
- Sexism in the scriptures
- Sexual assault victims and lack of culpability
- Shadow or Reality - 5th edition
- Sharon, Vermont
- Sidney B. Sperry (1995): "Questions arise as to how Jeremiah's prophecies appeared on the brass plates"
- Sidney Rigdon
- Sidney Rigdon theory of Book of Mormon authorship
- Signature Books
- Silkworms
- Similarities between ancient and modern temple rituals
- Simon & Schuster
- Slavery in Utah
- Slavery in the scriptures
- Smithsonian statement on Book of Mormon archaeology
- Smithsonian statement on Book of Mormon archaeology/CriticalSources
- Smithsonian statement on Book of Mormon archeology
- Snow in the Book of Mormon
- Snow in the Book of Mormon - 1 Nephi 11:8
- Snuffer
- So what's the deal with DanBrown's next book and the Mormons?
- Social issues and the Church of Jesus Christ
- Social pressure and the priesthood ban
- Social pressure and the priesthood ban/CriticalSources
- Sola scriptura
- Solomon Spalding
- Solomon Spaulding
- Sorenson: "At the time of the Spanish conquest, natives in Mexico would gather cocoons from a type of wild silkworm and spin the thread into expensive cloth"
- Sorenson: "By 1400 BC, smiths in Armenia had discovered how to carburize iron by prolonged heating in contact with carbon"
- Sorenson: "Iron use was documented in the statements of early Spaniards, who told of the Aztecs using iron-studded clubs"
- Sorenson: "Lumps of hematite, magnetite, and ilmenite were brought into Valley of Oaxaca"
- Sorenson: "The Miami Indians, for example, were unfamiliar with the buffalo and simply called them 'wild cows'"
- Sorenson: "There is an animal which they call chic, wonderfully active, as large as a small dog, with a snout like a sucking pig. The Indian women raise them"
- Sorenson: "linen-like cloth made from plants other than flax"
- Sorenson: Horse bones in Yucatan "considered to be pre-Columbian on the basis of depth of burial and degree of mineralization"
- Sorenson: Linen and silk textiles in ancient America
- Sorenson: The grain "Amaranth" in Mexico
- Sorenson and Smith: "three types of wild barley have long been known to be native to the Americas"
- Source:Adams:Lehi's Jerusalem and Writing on Metal Plates:1994:Did others in Lehi's Jerusalem inscribe records on metal plates?
- Source:Allen:Improvement Era:April 1970:he continued to do so in varying detail until the year of his death
- Source:American Revivalist:2 Feb 1833:The Book of Mormon is a record of the forefathers of our western tribes of Indians
- Source:Anderson:By the Gift and Power of God:Ensign:September 1977:Joseph Smith may have used a bible during translation
- Source:Anderson:Confirming Records of Moroni's Coming:Improvement Era:73 9:This wording in the present Pearl of Great Price is modified from the first printing, in which the messenger was identified as "Nephi"
- Source:Anderson:Investigating:137-18:All witnesses reaffirm their published testimony
- Source:Anthony W. Ivins:Apr 1929:Where was the land of Zarahemla? Where was the City of Zarahemla?...There has never been anything yet set forth that definitely settles that question
- Source:Appleby:Mormonism Consistent:1843:I contend that it is North and South America both that includes the promised land to the branches of Joseph
- Source:Armitage:Silk production and its impact on families and communites in Oaxaca, Mexico:2008:Wild silk
- Source:Armitage:Silk production and its impact on families and communities in Oaxaca, Mexico:2008:Wild silk
- Source:Ashurst-McGee"A Pathway to Prophethood:This argument falls short theoretically. For those who do not believe in Joseph's visions, there was nothing to wake anyone anyway.
- Source:B.H. Roberts:CHC 2:360-361:Joseph Smith was a man of like passions with other men; struggling with the same weaknesses; subjected to the same temptations
- Source:B.H. Roberts:New Witnesses For God:we need not be surprised if we sometimes find them mistaken in their conceptions and deductions
- Source:BYU Master's Thesis:Aug 1968:Uses Mesoamerica as presumptive culture source for costumes destined for a Book of Mormon re-enactments
- Source:Backman:Ensign:January 1985:On at least four different occasions, Joseph Smith either wrote or dictated to scribes accounts
- Source:Barney:KJV Italics:three types of evidence favoring the conclusion that Joseph understood the meaning of the italicized words
- Source:Benajah Williams:July 1820:Had a two Days meeting at Sq Bakers in Richmond
- Source:Bernardino de Sahagun:The War of Conquest: How It Was Waged Here in Mexico:Aztecs viewed Spanish horses as deer
- Source:Bitton:Great-Grandfather’s Family:Ensign:Feb 1977:plural marriage...Starting during Joseph Smith’s own lifetime but limited to a few dozen families until its official announcement in 1852
- Source:BoM verses:Horses
- Source:Book of Jubilees:Chapter 12:1-8:Abraham tells his father that he should not worship idols
- Source:Book of Mormon Index:1842:The discovery of America predicted
- Source:Book of Mormon and DNA Studies:Gospel Topics:Basic principles of population genetics suggest the need for a more careful approach to the data
- Source:Book of Mormon and DNA Studies:Gospel Topics:Much as critics and defenders of the Book of Mormon would like to use DNA studies to support their views, the evidence is simply inconclusive
- Source:Book of Mormon and DNA Studies:Gospel Topics:These events may severely reduce or totally eliminate certain genetic profiles
- Source:Book of Mormon and the Mormonites:Jul 1841:The history of the settlements of the emigrants in North and South America
- Source:Book of Mormon as Stick of Ephraim:Franklin D. Richards statement
- Source:Book of Mormon as Stick of Ephraim:Joseph Fielding Smith statement
- Source:Book of Mormon as Stick of Ephraim:Orson Pratt statement
- Source:Bradshaw:Defining Adultery:Joseph Smith could not have been properly convicted of adultery under the law of Illinois in 1844
- Source:Brigham Young, Jr.:25 Mar 1883:The leaders of the Church have in view the 5,000,000 of Lamanites located in Mexico
- Source:Brigham Young:15 Aug 1852:it takes North and South America to make the land of Joseph
- Source:Brigham Young:1855:JD 2:171:The Lord did not come with the armies of heaven
- Source:Brigham Young:1855:JD 3:43:I do not wish any Latter-day Saint...to be satisfied with anything I do
- Source:Brigham Young:1855:JD 3:51:we know that he was an honorable man and dealt justly, we know his true character
- Source:Brigham Young:1861:JD 8:354:The Lord chose Joseph Smith, called upon him at fourteen years of age, gave him visions
- Source:Brigham Young:1862:JD 9:150:I am more afraid that this people have so much confidence in their leaders that they will not inquire for themselves of God
- Source:Brigham Young:1867:JD 12:67:the Lord called upon Joseph he was but a boy—a child, only about fourteen years of age
- Source:Brigham Young:JD 14:116:whether the Lord...made the earth in six days or in as many millions of years, is and will remain a matter of speculation
- Source:Brigham Young:JD 14:116:whether the Lord made the earth in six days or in as many millions of years, is and will remain a matter of speculation in the minds of men
- Source:Brigham Young:JD 1:314:I do not even believe that there is a single revelation, among the many God has given to the Church, that is perfect in its fulness
- Source:Brigham Young:JD 7:243:have I yet lived to the state of perfection that I can commune in person with the Father and the Son at my will and pleasure? No
- Source:Brigham Young:we know that he was an honorable man and dealt justly, we know his true character
- Source:Brown:Brigham Young’s Teachings on Adam:2009 FAIR Conference:Brigham Young repeated these ideas and expounded upon them during the next 25 years
- Source:Brown:Nahom and the "Eastward" Turn:JBMS 12:1
- Source:Bruce R. McConkie:All Are Alike Unto God:Forget everything that I have said, or what President Brigham Young or President George Q. Cannon or whomsoever has said in days past that is contrary to the present revelation
- Source:Cameron J. Packer:Cumorah's Cave:2004:Joseph Smith and others returned the plates to a cave in the Hill Cumorah after he finished translating them
- Source:Chadwick:Glimpses of Lehi's Jerusalem:Lehi's House at Jerusalem and the Land of His Inheritance:Going "up" to Jerusalem
- Source:Chadwick:Glimpses of Lehi's Jerusalem:Lehi's land of inheritance was most likely not located within the borders of the southern kingdom of Judah
- Source:Charles Penrose:Improvement Era:September 1912:Do you believe in "blood-atonement"?
- Source:Charles W. Penrose:Improvement Era:September 1912:it is not stated that plural marriage is thus essential
- Source:Chas. W. Wandell:27 Jul 1841:in speaking of the writing found on the ruins of the stone city found in Mexico
- Source:Chicago Times:1875:Three times David Whitmer has been at the Hill Cumorah and seen the casket that contained the tablets and seerstone
- Source:Christensen:Eye of the Beholder, Law of the Harvest:Interpreter:Runnells claims that 'there is absolutely no record of a First Vision prior to 1832'
- Source:Christensen:Eye of the Beholder, Law of the Harvest:Interpreter:Runnells says, 'Although the priesthood is now taught to have been restored in 1829, Joseph and Oliver made no such claim until 1834"
- Source:Christensen:Eye of the Beholder:Interpreter 10:2014:his Letter and his response to FairMormon works from an assumption that LDS leadership should display no weakness
- Source:Christian Advocate and Journal:29 Jul 1841:This little band, after wandering long and far, came at last to America, and planted themselves in the western part of the present State of New York
- Source:Christian Whitmer Eight Witnesses statements
- Source:Christofferson:BYU-Idaho Devotional:Recording mistakes, for example, have sometimes been seized on as evidence of misrepresentations or bumbling by the Prophet
- Source:Christofferson:Devotional Address:24 Sep 2013:The absence of evidence is not proof
- Source:Christofferson:Ensign:January 1998:The principle of vicarious service should not seem strange to any Christian
- Source:Christofferson:The Prophet Joseph Smith:BYUI Devotional:2013:Critics have also claimed that there were no religious revivals in the Palmyra, New York, area in 1820
- Source:Christofferson:The Prophet Joseph Smith:BYUI Devotional:2013:The June 1839 Manuscript History of the Church says it was Nephi who appeared to Joseph Smith in 1823 rather than Moroni
- Source:Church:Gospel Topics:Book of Mormon Geography
- Source:Church History In The Fulness Of Times Student Manual:2003:The law of celestial marriage, as outlined in this revelation, also included the principle of the plurality of wives
- Source:Church History Seminary Teacher Manual:2013:Joseph Smith emphasized different aspects of his vision in his multiple accounts
- Source:Church News:15 Sept 2007:Henry B. Eyring:What was done here long ago by members of our Church represents a terrible and inexcusable departure from Christian teaching and conduct
- Source:Church spokesman:2006:The belief that Christ was married has never been official church doctrine
- Source:Clark:A Key for Evaluating Nephite Geographies:This should be our second question, the first being whether the geography fits the facts of the Book of Mormon
- Source:Clement of Rome:For this reason righteousness and peace are now far departed from you
- Source:Cyprian:Cyprian argued that since the Saints had sunk to such low levels of depravity they rightly deserved the harsh judgments of God
- Source:Cyril of Jerusalem:For men have fallen from the right faith; and some preach the identity of the Son with the Father...This, therefore, is the falling away
- Source:D. Todd Christofferson:Apr 2012:it should be remembered that not every statement made by a Church leader past or present necessarily constitutes doctrine
- Source:Dallin H. Oaks:29 Oct 1993:the Book of Mormon is not a history of all of the people who have lived on the continents of North and South America
- Source:Dallin Oaks:Teaching and Learning by the Spirit:Ensign:March 1997:Surely, the word “burning” in this scripture signifies a feeling of comfort and serenity...That is the way revelation works
- Source:Damrosch:The Narrative Covenant:Naham means "to mourn"
- Source:Daniel C. Peterson:Ensign:Jan 2000:But the region of Mesoamerica—particularly southern Mexico and Guatemala, where many suggest that much of the Book of Mormon story may have happened
- Source:David O. McKay:1843:and this includes Canada and the southern republics, was a choice land when the Jaredites left the land of Shinar approximately four thousand years ago
- Source:David Whitmer:An Address to All Believers in Christ:9:1:He that hath an ear to hear, let him hear; it was no delusion
- Source:David Whitmer:Investigating the Book of Mormon Witnesses:86:1:we were in the spirit when we had the view...but we were in the body also
- Source:David Whitmer:Rebuttal to John Murphy 19 March 1881:EMD 5:69:Which has so long since been published with that book as one of the three witnesses
- Source:David Whitmer Three Witness statements
- Source:David Whitmer reaffirmed his published testimony of the Book of Mormon
- Source:Dirkmaat:Ensign:January 2013:He...referred to it using an Old Testament term, Urim and Thummim...He also sometimes applied the term to other stones he possessed
- Source:Doctrine and Covenants:132:51-52:all those that have been given unto my servant Joseph
- Source:Doctrine and Covenants Study Guide:Unit 31:These papyri contain authentic Egyptian writings, but they do not date to the time of Abraham, nor do they contain the actual personally handwritten account of Abraham
- Source:Doctrine and Covenants and Church History:Seminary Teacher Resource Manual:Doctrine and Covenants 132:We have no knowledge that plural marriage will be a requirement for exaltation
- Source:Doctrine and Covenants and Church History Gospel Doctrine Teacher’s Manual:1999:The Prophet Joseph Smith and those closest to him...were challenged by this command, but they obeyed it
- Source:Doctrine and Covenants and Church History Seminary Teacher Manual:LESSON 140:Do not speculate about whether plural marriage is a requirement for the celestial kingdom
- Source:Echoes:Ch12:18:Martin Harris on the translation process
- Source:Echoes:Ch2:11:John Whitmer 1876:I have never heard that any one of the three or eight witnesses ever denied the testimony
- Source:Echoes:Ch2:18:Land of Jerusalem
- Source:Echoes:Ch2:7:David Whitmer:Just as plain as I see this bed
- Source:Echoes:Ch2:8:David Whitmer:I saw with these eyes and I heard with these ears
- Source:Echoes:Ch5:12:First camp to Nahom - Mountains
- Source:Echoes:Ch5:23:Old world Bountiful
- Source:Echoes:Ch5:24:Old world Bountiful - fruit
- Source:Echoes:Ch5:25:Old world Bountiful - honey
- Source:Echoes:Ch5:26:Old world Bountiful - timber
- Source:Echoes:Ch5:27:Old world Bountiful - mists
- Source:Echoes:Ch5:28:Old world Bountiful - ore
- Source:Echoes:Ch5:29:Lehi's desert journey and Joseph Smith
- Source:Edward Stevenson:1870:Millennial Star:Martin Harris:my belief is swallowed up in knowledge; for I want to say to you that as the Lord lives I do know that I stood with the Prophet Joseph Smith in the presence of the angel
- Source:Eli Gilbert:24 Sep 1834:was not the book of Mormon also written by men who were divinely inspired by the Holy Spirit, on the continent of America?
- Source:Encyclopedia of Mormonism:1992:The Church has not taken an official position with regard to location of geographical places
- Source:Evening and Morning Star:Feb 1833:Ruins in Central America "good testimony in favor of the Book of Mormon"
- Source:Evening and the Morning Star:Jun 1833:Lehi was guided by the matchless power of God to this continent
- Source:Evening and the Morning Star:Jun 1833:NO people that have lived on this continent, since the flood, understood many of the arts and sciences, better that the Jaredites and Nephites
- Source:Evening and the Morning Star:Mar 1833:The continent of America is a choice land above all others
- Source:Ezra Taft Benson:1972:I wish that every person in my country, in your country, in all of the Americas on this entire continent would read the Book of Mormon, and in it the prophetic history of these lands
- Source:Ezra Taft Benson:Apr 1955:the Promised Land, the land of Zion, includes all of North and South America
- Source:Ezra Taft Benson:Apr 1960:This is a choice land - - all of America
- Source:Ezra Taft Benson:Dec 1980:wise and inspired men in North, Central, and South America were raised up who proclaimed the sovereign truth that all men
- Source:Ezra Taft Benson:Jan 1979:God raised up wise leaders among your progenitors which afforded Latin American countries political freedom and independence
- Source:FAIR Questions 2:Recognizing the Voice of the Spirit:How can I come to know that spiritual experience is not just a product of chemical processes in the brain
- Source:Faust:Heirs of the Kingdom of God:Ensign:May 1995:I know of his reality by a sure perception so sacred I cannot give utterance to it
- Source: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
- Source:Gardner:Joseph the Seer:2009 FAIR Conference:long before golden plates complicated his position as a local seer
- Source:Gardner:SecondWitness:4:287:Mesoamerican king, litter and battle beast
- Source:Gardner:The Gift and the Power:it’s stone that becomes the trigger that allows the seer to do what the seer does
- Source:Gee:FR 10:2:Ferguson is largely unknown to the vast majority of Latter-day Saints; his impact on Book of Mormon studies is minimal
- Source:Gee:Has Olishem Been Discovered:JBMORS:22:2:2013:If Oylum Hoyuk is Olishem, the Ur of the Chaldees should be one of the dozens of Middle Bronze II sites in the Kilis plain
- Source:George A. Smith:15 Nov 1864:JD 11:2:This is my Beloved Son, hear Him
- Source:George A. Smith:1868:JD 12:333-34:revealed to Joseph by the ministration of angels, the true condition of the religious world
- Source:George Albert Smith:Oct 1940:They will find that it contains, in addition to what the Bible has told us about the world, what the Lord has said about this Western Hemisphere
- Source:George F. Richards:1922:The land of North and South America is a very much favored portion of our Father's footstool
- Source:George Mantle to Marietta Walker:Autumn Leaves:1888:Do you know that is the sun shining on us? Because as sure as you know that...he translated that book by the power of God
- Source:George Q. Cannon:1896:I know that God lives. I know that Jesus lives; for I have seen him
- Source:George Q. Cannon:1 Jan 1890:For these reasons we have strong objections to the introduction of maps and their circulation among our people which profess to give the location of the Nephite cities and settlements
- Source:Gospel Topics:Are Mormons Christian?:Members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints unequivocally affirm themselves to be Christians
- Source:Gospel Topics:Becoming Like God:Latter-day Saints see all people as children of God in a full and complete sense
- Source:Gospel Topics:Becoming Like God:Our theology begins with heavenly parents. Our highest aspiration is to be like them
- Source:Gospel Topics:Bible, Inerrancy of:As the Bible was compiled, organized, translated, and transcribed, many errors entered the text
- Source:Gospel Topics:Book of Mormon Translation:According to these accounts, Joseph placed either the interpreters or the seer stone in a hat
- Source:Gospel Topics:Book of Mormon Translation:As Joseph grew to understand his prophetic calling, he learned that he could use this stone for the higher purpose of translating scripture
- Source:Gospel Topics:Book of Mormon Translation:Joseph placed either the interpreters or the seer stone in a hat
- Source:Gospel Topics:Book of Mormon Translation:These two instruments—the interpreters and the seer stone—were apparently interchangeable
- Source:Gospel Topics:Book of Mormon Translation:the Bible mentions other physical instruments used to access God’s power: the rod of Aaron, a brass serpent, holy anointing oils, the Ark of the Covenant, and even dirt from the ground mixed with saliva
- Source:Gospel Topics:Book of Mormon and DNA Studies:The Book of Mormon...does not claim that the peoples it describes were either the predominant or the exclusive inhabitants of the lands they occupied
- Source:Gospel Topics:Book of Mormon and DNA Studies:The evidence assembled to date suggests that the majority of Native Americans carry largely Asian DNA
- Source:Gospel Topics:Church Disciplinary Councils:Church discipline is an inspired process that takes place over a period of time
- Source:Gospel Topics:Decisions about birth control and the consequences of those decisions rest solely with each married couple
- Source:Gospel Topics:Joseph Smith and his associates often used the term “Urim and Thummim” to refer to the single stone as well as the interpreters
- Source:Gospel Topics:Joseph Smith’s explanations of the facsimiles of the book of Abraham contain additional earmarks of the ancient world
- Source:Gospel Topics:Peach and Violence:Danites
- Source:Gospel Topics:Plural Marriage and Families in Early Utah:Although some leaders had large polygamous families, two-thirds of polygamist men had only two wives at a time
- Source:Gospel Topics:Plural Marriage and Families in Early Utah:It is therefore difficult to accurately generalize about the experience of all plural marriages
- Source:Gospel Topics:Plural Marriage and Families in Early Utah:Latter-day Saints do not understand all of God’s purposes for instituting, through His prophets, the practice of plural marriage during the 19th century
- Source:Gospel Topics:Plural Marriage and Families in Early Utah:The Bible and the Book of Mormon teach that the marriage of one man to one woman is God’s standard, except at specific periods when He has declared otherwise
- Source:Gospel Topics:Plural Marriage and Families in Early Utah:Today, any person who practices plural marriage cannot become or remain a member of the Church
- Source:Gospel Topics:Plural Marriage in Kirtland and Nauvoo:Joseph Smith was sealed to a number of women who were already married
- Source:Gospel Topics:Race and the Priesthood:2013:Today, the Church disavows the theories advanced in the past that black skin is a sign of divine disfavor
- Source:Gospel Topics:Race and the Priesthood:Church authorities encountered faithful black and mixed-ancestry Mormons who had contributed financially and in other ways to the building of the São Paulo temple
- Source:Gospel Topics:Race and the Priesthood:Church leaders pondered promises made by prophets such as Brigham Young that black members would one day receive priesthood and temple blessings
- Source:Gospel Topics:Race and the Priesthood:During the first two decades of the Church’s existence, a few black men were ordained to the priesthood
- Source:Gospel Topics:Race and the Priesthood:Even after 1852, at least two black Mormons continued to hold the priesthood
- Source:Gospel Topics:Spaulding Manuscript:Similarities between his manuscript and the Book of Mormon are general and superficial
- Source:Gospel Topics:The Manifesto and the End of Plural Marriage:Joseph F. Smith broke the law
- Source:Gospel Topics:The Manifesto and the End of Plural Marriage:Reed Smoot hearings
- Source:Gospel Topics:The Manifesto and the End of Plural Marriage:The Second Manifesto
- Source:Gospel Topics:The various accounts of the First Vision tell a consistent story
- Source:Gospel Topics:Translation and Historicity of the Book of Abraham:Mormon and non-Mormon Egyptologists agree that the characters on the fragments do not match the translation given in the book of Abraham
- Source:Gospel Topics:Translation and Historicity of the Book of Abraham:Scholars have identified the papyrus fragments as parts of standard funerary texts
- Source:Gospel Topics:Translation and Historicity of the Book of Abraham:Some evidence suggests that Joseph studied the characters on the Egyptian papyri and attempted to learn the Egyptian language
- Source:Grayson:Deciphering North American Pleistocene Extinctions:5:losses...ended in Florida perhaps as recently as 2000 years ago
- Source:Günther Juncker (1994):Christ As Angel:Unknown to many, the early church fathers often referred to Jesus as an Angel
- Source:Haight:Ensign:May 1996:I was there with the outpouring of the Spirit in that room so strong that none of us could speak afterwards
- Source:Hales:Receiving a Testimony of the Restored Gospel of Jesus Christ:October 2003:Gaining a testimony and becoming converted begins with study and prayer, then living the gospel with patience and persistence
- Source:Hamblin:Steel in the Book of Mormon:there are no references to Nephite steel after 400 B.C.
- Source:Hamblin:The Bow and Arrow in the Book of Mormon:After the sword, the bow is the second most frequently mentioned weapon in the Book of Mormon
- Source:Hamblin and Merrill:Swords in the Book of Mormon:The Book of Mormon mentions the sword 156 times
- Source:Harold B. Lee:11 Nov 1959:it seems all are in agreement that the followers of Lehi came to the western shores of South America
- Source:Harold B. Lee:8 Jul 1966:if the Lord wanted us to know where it was, or where Zarahemla was, he’d have given us latitude and longitude, don’t you think?
- Source:Harold B. Lee:THBL:636:I have received a witness that I cannot or dare not deny. When I see Jesus, I cannot mistake His identity. I know that He lives!
- Source:Harold B. Lee:the Lord appeared to him, very informal, the same as I was sitting talking to him
- Source:Hartley:The Knight Family: Part II:Ensign:Nov 1989:The Prophet introduced several doctrines relating to the temple, including the temple ceremonies and plural marriage
- Source:Head:A Brief Survey of Ancient Near Eastern Beekeeping:FR 20:1:Pre-Columbian American Beekeeping
- Source:Heber C. Kimball:JD 11:82:I know it by revelation by the Spirit of God, for in this way my Heavenly Father communes with me
- Source:Heber J. Grant:1937:I am a firm believer that this country, both North and South America, is the choice land of the world
- Source:Hegesippus:These also, as there were none of the apostles left, henceforth attempted, without shame to preach their false doctrine against the gospel of truth
- Source:Helen Mar Kimball:Representative Women of Deseret:I have encouraged and sustained my husband in the celestial order of marriage
- Source:Henry B. Eyring:Witnesses for God:Ensign:November 1996:I know as surely as did the Apostles Peter, James, and John that Jesus is the Christ, our risen Lord
- Source:Henry Eyring:Reflections of a Scientist:2:Is there any conflict between science and religion?
- Source:Highlights in the Prophet's Life:Ensign:June 1994:Tried and acquitted on fanciful charge of being a "disorderly person"
- 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
- Source:Hinckley:Ensign:May 2006:I remind you that no man who makes disparaging remarks concerning those of another race can consider himself a true disciple of Christ
- Source:Hinckley:Ensign:October 1984:I am not worried that the Prophet Joseph Smith gave a number of versions of the first vision
- Source:Hiram Page Eight Witnesses statements
- Source:Holland:GC2014:it is a characteristic of our age that if people want any gods at all, they want them to be gods who do not demand much
- Source:Holland:I Have a Question:Ensign:September 1976:Nephi's killing of Laban
- Source:Hoskisson:Scimitars, Cimeters:Warfare in the Book of Mormon:the mistaken assumption that scimitars did not exist in the pre-Islamic Old World
- Source:Hoskisson:Where Was the Ur of Abraham:Ensign:July 1991:I will suggest an alternate location for the Ur of the Chaldees in the story of Abraham
- Source:How Do I Recognize and Understand the Spirit:Preach My Gospel:As you pray for inspiration, you should also confirm your feelings
- Source:Howe:Spalding theory:I could better believe that Spaulding wrote it than that Joe Smith saw an angel
- Source:Hugh Nibley:1978:one tragically short-lived religious civilization that once flourished in Mesoamerica and then vanished toward the northeast in the course
- Source:Hugh Nibley:19 Aug 1983:All this took place in Central America
- Source:Hyde:Ein Ruf aus der Wuste:1842:Two glorious heavenly personages stood before him, resembling each other exactly in features and stature
- Source:Hyde:JD 6:61:Hyde:why did not the Saviour come himself to communicate this intelligence to the world
- Source:Hyde:The Frontier Guardian:6 March 1850:both the Father and the Son, while he was praying, appeared unto him
- Source:Hyrum Smith:Liberty Jail:I felt a determination to die, rather than deny the things which my eyes had seen
- Source:Hyrum Smith Eight Witnesses statements
- Source:Ignatius:the false prophets and the false apostles
- Source:Improvement Era:January 1968:Often the funerary texts contained passages from the "Book of the Dead," a book that was to assist in the safe passage of the dead person into the spirit world
- Source:Improvement Era:Nov 1946:Did Joseph Smith introduce plural marriage
- Source:Improvement Era:Nov 1946:It is also possible, though the Church does not now permit it, to seal two living people for eternity only, with no association on earth
- Source:Improvement Era:Nov 1946:Joseph Smith introduced plural marriage
- Source:Improvement Era 1909 regards an ancient earth as consistent with scripture
- Source:Irenaeus:evil is spread abroad among men
- Source:J. Reuben Clark:1940:Thus the hemisphere – Zion in its full area –was becoming “a land of liberty
- Source:JBMS:10:1:Out of the Dust:Horse bones in Yucatan
- Source:JBMS:Sorenson and Roper:Lehi saw from the beginning that Nephites and Lamanites were labels that would include a variety of groups that could have differing biological origins, cultures, and ethnic heritages
- Source:JBMS 8:1:It is true that firstlings...were not used for the normal burnt offering. However it is a mistake to think that they were not sacrificed at all
- Source:JD 11:262:Brigham Young:There is also a man down the street who tried to exhibit the endowments to a party who was here
- Source:JPS Torah Commentary:Deuteronomy:Filial insubordination is a grave offense because respect and obedience toward parents is regarded as the cornerstone of all order and authority
- Source:JSP:Although he hated adultery and was deeply loyal to his wife Emma, he believed he was to take additional wives as had the ancient patriarchs
- Source:Jacob Whitmer Eight Witnesses statements
- Source:James E. Talmage, a geologist, spoke of the earth forming from other bodies
- Source:James E. Talmage:1899:The hill, which was known by one division of the ancient peoples as Cumorah, by another as Ramah, is situated near Palmyra in the State of New York
- Source:James E. Talmage:Apr 1929:the Book of Mormon does not give us precise and definite information whereby we can locate those places with certainty
- Source:James E. Talmage:The Vitality of Mormonism:42:God has not established His Church to make of its members irresponsible automatons
- Source:James H. Reeves:Palmyra Courier:24 May 1872:Martin Harris "quite skeptical, as well as superstitious"
- Source:January 1994:First Presidency statement on Church discipline
- Source:John A. Widtsoe:Jul 1950:under the Prophet's editorship Central America was denominated the region of Book of Mormon activities
- Source:John E. Clark:Archaeology and Cumorah Questions:The hill the plates came from is not at issue; the question is whether this final resting place is the same hill where the ending battles occurred
- Source:John E. Clark:JBMS:8:1:1999:My purpose here is to present the latest drawing of this monument, to discuss how this drawing was made, and to suggest its implications for the Lehi hypothesis
- Source:John E. Page:1 Jul 1842:The city was in some region on the South of what is called at this time, North America
- Source:John S. Lewis:Interpreter 8:71:Considering that Doctrine and Covenants 77:6 refers to “…this earth during the seven thousand years of its continuance, or its temporal existence,” what led Phelps to speak of Earth as 2,555 million years old?
- Source:John Sorenson:Ensign:1984:the immediate land covered by the book’s events was probably only hundreds rather than thousands of miles long and wide
- Source:John Taylor:1 Apr 1845:cities have been discovered by Mr. Stevens in Central America'', exactly were the Book of Mormon left them
- Source:John Taylor:2 March 1879:JD 20:167 and 257:First Vision Father and Son or angel
- Source:John Whitmer:History:Joseph the Seer saw these Records and by the revelation of Jesus Christ could translate these records
- Source:John Whitmer:I now say I handled those plates
- Source:John Whitmer:Letter to Mark Forscutt:1876:Oliver Cowdery would not have denied his witness "at the peril of his life"
- Source:John Whitmer Eight Witnesses statements
- Source:John Whitmer handled the plates - "Theodore Turley's Memorandums"
- Source:John Whitmer reaffirmed his published testimony of the Book of Mormon
- Source:John Whitmer reaffirmed his written testimony of the plates - Messenger and Advocate 2:286-287
- Source:Johnson:Men and Elephants in America:1952:Probably it is safe to say that American Proboscidea have been extinct for a minimum of 3000 years
- Source:Joint Eight Witnesses statements
- Source:Jones:My Great-Great-Grandmother, Emma Hale Smith:the prophet revealed to Emma that they would be required to live the ancient law of Abraham—plural marriage
- Source:Joseph F. Smith:25 May 1903:the question of the situation of the city of Zarahemla was one of interest certainly, but if it could not be located the matter was not of vital importance
- Source:Joseph F. Smith:circa 1918:President Smith declined to officially approve of the map, saying that the Lord had not yet revealed it
- Source:Joseph Fielding Smith:Conference Report:1941:that marriage while they are in the world, yet the fact remains that when they are dead the marriage comes to an end
- Source:Joseph Fielding Smith:Conference Report:1951:Jesus says unto those who are married for time only, and those who do not believe in marriage for eternity
- Source:Joseph Fielding Smith:Doctrines of Salvation 1:22:This was also in the similitude of the sacrifice of Jesus Christ
- Source:Joseph Fielding Smith:Doctrines of Salvation 1:86:people of all classes, and of all beliefs, still permitted to remain upon the face of the earth
- Source:Joseph Fielding Smith:Improvement Era:April 1924:We know of no scripture, ancient or modern, that declares that at the time of the rebellion in heaven that one-third of the hosts of heaven remained neutral
- Source:Joseph Smith, Sr. Eight Witnesses statements
- Source:Joseph Smith:"I might have rendered a plainer translation to this, but it is sufficiently plain to suit my purpose as it stands"
- Source:Joseph Smith:15 Jul 1842:"Stephens and Catherwood's researches in Central America abundantly testify of this thing"
- Source:Joseph Smith:15 Jul 1842:Stephens and Catherwood's researches in Central America abundantly testify of this thing
- Source:Joseph Smith:1832 History:First Vision:Pillar of fire light
- Source:Joseph Smith:1835 Journal:First communication
- Source:Joseph Smith:1835 Journal:The First Visitation of Angels
- Source:Joseph Smith:19 Jul 1840:speaking of the Land of Zion, It consists of all North & South America
- Source:Joseph Smith:4 Jun 1834:wandering over the plains of the Nephites
- Source:Joseph Smith:9 November 1835:First Vision:Pillar of fire
- Source:Joseph Smith:Bernhisel letter:1841:I received your kind present...of all histories that have been written pertaining to the antiquities of this country it is the most correct
- Source:Joseph Smith:Elders Journal:1:43:Was not Joseph Smith a money digger?
- Source:Joseph Smith:History of the Church:1843:I am just as ready to die in defending the rights of a Presbyterian, a Baptist, or a good man of any other denomination
- Source:Joseph Smith:I frequently fell into many foolish errors, and displayed the weakness of youth, and the foibles of human nature
- Source:Joseph Smith:Joseph's journal entry of 14 November 1835:I received the first visitation of Angels which was when I was about 14