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- "Masonry," Church History Topics: "There are different ways of understanding the relationship between Masonry and the temple"
- "Miss Smith"
- "Recognizing the Voice of the Spirit" (Podcast): "How can I come to know that spiritual experience is not just a product of chemical processes in the brain?"
- ''Doctrine and Covenants and Church History Gospel Doctrine Teacher’s Manual'' (1999): "the Lord commanded some of the early Saints to practice plural marriage. The Prophet Joseph Smith and those closest to him...were challenged by this command"
- ''Ensign'' (1992): Emma Smith's "great trial came when the prophet revealed to Emma that they would be required to live the ancient law of Abraham—plural marriage"
- 1835 Apostolic Charge
- 1835 Doctrine and Covenants denies polygamy
- 1844 Succession to Joseph Smith
- 1 Nephi
- 2 Nephi
- 3 Nephi
- 4 Nephi
- A Book of Commandments, for the Government of the Church of Christ
- A critic of the Book of Mormon (1843): "the ruins of Central America...the existence of such ruins were known long before the publication of the Book of Mormon"
- Abolitionism
- Abraham lying about his wife Sarah
- Abuse and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
- Abuse and the Boy Scouts of America
- Accounts of Joseph Smith's First Vision
- Accounts of Joseph Smith's First Vision/1832
- Accounts of Joseph Smith's First Vision/1835
- Accounts of Joseph Smith's First Vision/1835 (Erastus Holmes account)
- Accounts of Joseph Smith's First Vision/1840 (Orson Pratt account)
- Accounts of Joseph Smith's First Vision/1842 (Joseph Smith History of the Church)
- Accounts of Joseph Smith's First Vision/1842 (Orson Hyde account)
- Accounts of Joseph Smith's First Vision/1842 Wentworth Letter
- Accounts of Joseph Smith's First Vision/1843 (Levi Richards account)
- Accounts of Joseph Smith's First Vision/1843 (The Pittsburgh Weekly Gazette account)
- Accounts of Joseph Smith's First Vision/1844 (Alexander Neibaur account)
- Accounts of Joseph Smith's First Vision/1844 (Daniel Rupp account)
- Accounts of Joseph Smith's First Vision/1893 (Charles L. Walker account)
- Accuracy of Church art
- Accuracy of the bible
- Adam and Eve as historical figures
- Added quotes on finances
- Adding sections to the Doctrine and Covenants
- Adultery
- Age of the Earth
- Agnes Moulton Coolbrith
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Alleged false prophecies of Joseph Smith
- Alleged hiding of facts in Church history
- Alleged whitewashing of Church history
- Alleged whitewashing of polygamy in Church history
- Alma
- Almera Johnson
- American Revivalist (2 Feb 1833): "The Book of Mormon is a record of the forefathers of our western tribes of Indians"
- Animals in the Book of Mormon
- Answers to Questions All Mormons Should Ask Themselves
- Answers to Questions All Mormons Should Ask Themselves/Questions 1-28
- Answers to Questions All Mormons Should Ask Themselves/Questions 29-58
- 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"
- Antiquity of the Book of Abraham
- Apostasy
- Apostasy/Evidence of
- Apostasy/Evidence of in the Bible
- Apostasy/Extent of
- Apostasy/Not complete
- Apostasy/Patristic evidence of
- Apostasy/Priesthood on earth during the apostasy
- Apostasy/Reasons for
- Apostasy/Relationship of the Church to other branches of Christianity
- Apostasy/The "gates of hell"
- Apostasy/Visible evidence of
- Apostasy/Why did God allow it
- Apostles
- Apostles as personal witnesses of Christ
- Application of the endowment
- Approaching history
- Armitage: "It is suggested by de Ávila Blomberg that wild silk was used in Oaxaca in pre-Columbian times"
- Articles of Faith
- Articles of Faith/Differing versions
- Articles of Faith/Differing versions/Text of various versions
- Articles of Faith/Differing versions/Text of various versions/1834 (Cowdery)
- Articles of Faith/Differing versions/Text of various versions/1836 (Joseph Young)
- Articles of Faith/Differing versions/Text of various versions/1840 (Orson Pratt)
- Articles of Faith/Differing versions/Text of various versions/1842 (Orson Hyde)
- Articles of Faith/Differing versions/Text of various versions/1842 (Wentworth letter)
- Articles of Faith/Differing versions/Text of various versions/1849 (Flanigan)
- Articles of Faith/Differing versions/Text of various versions/1853 (Findly)
- Articles of Faith/Differing versions/Text of various versions/1853 (Haven)
- Articles of Faith/Differing versions/Text of various versions/1855-57(John Taylor)
- Artistic depictions of the translation
- Atheism
- Attempt to sell the Book of Mormon copyright in Canada
- Attempts to steal the gold plates from Joseph Smith
- Author:Kevin Christensen
- Authorship of New Testament books
- B.H. Roberts: "we need not be surprised if we sometimes find them mistaken in their conceptions and deductions"
- B. H. Roberts
- BYU Master's Thesis (Aug 1968): Uses Mesoamerica as presumptive culture source for costumes destined for a Book of Mormon re-enactments
- BYU Studies Article: A Mother There
- Back to top test
- Baptism for the dead in early Christianity
- Baptism in the Book of Mormon
- Barney: "three types of evidence favoring the conclusion that Joseph understood the meaning of the italicized words"
- Behind the Mask/Index
- Behind the Mask/Index/Section 1
- Behind the Mask/Index/Section 2
- Behind the Mask/Index/Section 3
- Behind the Mask/Index/Section 4
- Behind the Mask/Index/Section 5
- Behind the Mask/Index/Section 6
- Behind the Mask/Index/Section 7
- Behind the Mask/Index/Section 8
- Bell: "the questionable traces above the head of the Osiris figure are actually the remains of his right hand"
- Bell: "there would not be enough available space to restore the hand of Anubis, the erect phallus of the Osiris, and the body and wings of Isis"
- Bernardino de Sahagun: "Fodder was provided the deer—horses—which the Spaniards rode"
- Bible passages in the Book of Mormon
- Biblical Keys for Discerning True and False Prophets/Authors note
- Biblical Keys for Discerning True and False Prophets/Considering Joseph Smith
- Biblical Keys for Discerning True and False Prophets/Considering Joseph Smith/Abuse of a Bible test
- Biblical Keys for Discerning True and False Prophets/Considering Joseph Smith/Jesus and Joseph Smith
- Biblical Keys for Discerning True and False Prophets/Considering Joseph Smith/Living with Differences and Uncertainty
- Biblical Keys for Discerning True and False Prophets/Considering Joseph Smith/Paradigm debate
- Biblical Keys for Discerning True and False Prophets/Considering Joseph Smith/Paradigm debate/A Pragmatic Approach
- Biblical Keys for Discerning True and False Prophets/Considering Joseph Smith/Paradigm debate/Between Paradigms
- Biblical Keys for Discerning True and False Prophets/Considering Joseph Smith/Paradigm debate/Critical Realism
- Biblical Keys for Discerning True and False Prophets/Considering Joseph Smith/Paradigm debate/Deciding
- Biblical Keys for Discerning True and False Prophets/Considering Joseph Smith/Paradigm debate/Defining Our Paradigms
- Biblical Keys for Discerning True and False Prophets/Considering Joseph Smith/Paradigm debate/Religious Differences
- Biblical Keys for Discerning True and False Prophets/Considering Joseph Smith/Paradigm debate/The Limits of Falsification
- Biblical Keys for Discerning True and False Prophets/Considering Joseph Smith/Paradigm debate/The Limits of Verification
- Biblical Keys for Discerning True and False Prophets/Considering Joseph Smith/Paradigm debate/Values Applied
- Biblical Keys for Discerning True and False Prophets/Considering Joseph Smith/Paradigm debate/Within a Paradigm
- Biblical Keys for Discerning True and False Prophets/Considering Joseph Smith/Preliminary test
- Biblical Keys for Discerning True and False Prophets/Rejecting true prophets
- Biblical Keys for Discerning True and False Prophets/Rejecting true prophets/Desire as an Obstacle
- Biblical Keys for Discerning True and False Prophets/Rejecting true prophets/Fear as an Obstacle
- Biblical Keys for Discerning True and False Prophets/Seeing the truth
- Biblical Keys for Discerning True and False Prophets/Seeing the truth/Be interested
- Biblical Keys for Discerning True and False Prophets/Seeing the truth/Credentials
- Biblical Keys for Discerning True and False Prophets/Seeing the truth/Listen to all witnesses
- Biblical Keys for Discerning True and False Prophets/Seeing the truth/Listen with purposeful intent
- Biblical Keys for Discerning True and False Prophets/Seeing the truth/Measuring
- Biblical Keys for Discerning True and False Prophets/Seeing the truth/Persist
- Biblical Keys for Discerning True and False Prophets/Seeing the truth/Pray
- Biblical Keys for Discerning True and False Prophets/Seeing the truth/Receive the prophets
- Biblical Keys for Discerning True and False Prophets/Seeing the truth/Study
- Biblical Keys for Discerning True and False Prophets/Seeing the truth/Works
- Biblical Keys for Discerning True and False Prophets/Tests
- Biblical Keys for Discerning True and False Prophets/Tests/Accepts the Biblical God
- Biblical Keys for Discerning True and False Prophets/Tests/Arguments fail
- Biblical Keys for Discerning True and False Prophets/Tests/Chosen by God
- Biblical Keys for Discerning True and False Prophets/Tests/Christ ordained of God
- Biblical Keys for Discerning True and False Prophets/Tests/Consistent
- Biblical Keys for Discerning True and False Prophets/Tests/Covenant
- Biblical Keys for Discerning True and False Prophets/Tests/Heavenly council
- Biblical Keys for Discerning True and False Prophets/Tests/Jesus come in the flesh
- Biblical Keys for Discerning True and False Prophets/Tests/Learn the truth
- Biblical Keys for Discerning True and False Prophets/Tests/Liable to sin
- Biblical Keys for Discerning True and False Prophets/Tests/No filthy lucre
- Biblical Keys for Discerning True and False Prophets/Tests/Ordained
- Biblical Keys for Discerning True and False Prophets/Tests/Please God
- Biblical Keys for Discerning True and False Prophets/Tests/Pray
- Biblical Keys for Discerning True and False Prophets/Tests/Preaches repentance
- Biblical Keys for Discerning True and False Prophets/Tests/Prophecy
- Biblical Keys for Discerning True and False Prophets/Tests/Remission of sins
- Biblical Keys for Discerning True and False Prophets/Tests/Revelation and Vision
- Biblical Keys for Discerning True and False Prophets/Tests/Scriptures
- Biblical Keys for Discerning True and False Prophets/Tests/Signs and gifts
- Biblical Keys for Discerning True and False Prophets/Tests/Teach by spirit
- Biblical Keys for Discerning True and False Prophets/Tests/Teaches one Lord
- Biblical Keys for Discerning True and False Prophets/Tests/Teaching with authority
- Biblical Keys for Discerning True and False Prophets/Tests/Trials
- Biblical Keys for Discerning True and False Prophets/Tests/United
- Biblical Keys for Discerning True and False Prophets/Tests/Unity of faith
- Biblical Keys for Discerning True and False Prophets/Tests/Witnesses
- Biblical Keys for Discerning True and False Prophets/Tests/Works
- Biblical archaeology compared to the Book of Mormon
- Biblical inerrancy
- Bisbee, Arizona — Adams abuse case
- Bishop interviews with youth
- Book:Bushman:Rough Stone Rolling:Short
- Book:Freedman:Anchor Bible Dictionary
- Book of Abraham
- Book of Abraham/Anachronisms
- Book of Abraham/Anachronisms/Ur of the Chaldees
- Book of Abraham/Astronomy
- Book of Abraham/Astronomy/Kolob-Sun
- Book of Abraham/Book of Abraham/Church Hides Book of Abraham Info (1969-1978)
- Book of Abraham/Book of Dead Scan (full size zoom)
- Book of Abraham/Book of Joseph
- Book of Abraham/Book of the Dead/Scan (full size)
- Book of Abraham/Book of the Dead/Scan (small)
- Book of Abraham/By his own hand
- Book of Abraham/Church Hides Book of Abraham Info (1879-1968)
- Book of Abraham/Church Hides Book of Abraham Info (1979-1983)
- Book of Abraham/Church Hides Book of Abraham Info (1984-1989)
- Book of Abraham/Church Hides Book of Abraham Info (1990-1997)
- Book of Abraham/Church Hides Book of Abraham Info (1998-2003)
- Book of Abraham/Church Hides Book of Abraham Info (2004-Present)
- Book of Abraham/Content
- Book of Abraham/Doctrinal issues
- Book of Abraham/Joseph Smith Papyri/Church disclosure of "Book of the Dead"
- Book of Abraham/Joseph Smith Papyri/Identity and nature
- Book of Abraham/Joseph Smith Papyri/Quotes
- Book of Abraham/Joseph Smith Papyri/Text
- Book of Abraham/Joseph Smith Papyri/Text/Jewish redaction
- Book of Abraham/Joseph Smith Papyri/Text/Size of missing papyrus
- Book of Abraham/Kirtland Egyptian Papers/Background
- Book of Abraham/Origin
- Book of Abraham/Plagiarism accusations
- Book of Abraham/Publications on the Book of Abraham
- Book of Abraham/Timeline
- Book of Abraham facsimiles
- Book of Abraham facsimiles/Facsimile 1
- Book of Abraham facsimiles/Facsimile 1/Association with Abraham
- Book of Abraham facsimiles/Facsimile 2
- Book of Abraham facsimiles/Facsimile 2/Identification of the ithyphallic Egyptian god "Min" as "God sitting upon his throne"
- Book of Abraham facsimiles/Facsimile 3
- Book of Abraham facsimiles/Missing portions
- Book of Abraham in the CES Letter
- Book of Jubilees 12:1-8: "Abram said to Terah his father...What help and profit have we from those idols which thou dost worship...And his father said unto him...Keep silent, my son, lest they slay thee"
- Book of Mormon
- Book of Mormon/Anachronisms/Animals/CriticalSources
- Book of Mormon/Anachronisms/Animals/Horses/Loanshifting: deer and tapirs
- Book of Mormon/Anachronisms/Bethabara/CriticalSources
- Book of Mormon/Anachronisms/Chapter divisions/CriticalSources
- Book of Mormon/Anachronisms/Coins/CriticalSources
- Book of Mormon/Anachronisms/Compass/CriticalSources
- Book of Mormon/Anachronisms/Doctrine of Virgin Birth
- Book of Mormon/Anachronisms/Government
- Book of Mormon/Anachronisms/Gunpowder/CriticalSources
- Book of Mormon/Anachronisms/Language/"Adieu"/Further examples
- Book of Mormon/Anachronisms/Metals/CriticalSources
- Book of Mormon/Anachronisms/Mulek
- Book of Mormon/Anachronisms/Names/Shilum
- Book of Mormon/Anachronisms/Names/Zeezrom
- Book of Mormon/Anachronisms/Nephite republicanism/CriticalSources
- Book of Mormon/Anachronisms/Plants/CriticalSources
- Book of Mormon/Anachronisms/Pre-Christian Christianity/CriticalSources
- Book of Mormon/Anachronisms/River runs into fountain/CriticalSources
- Book of Mormon/Anachronisms/Sabellianism/CriticalSources
- Book of Mormon/Anachronisms/Sacrifice offered by non-Levites/CriticalSources
- Book of Mormon/Anachronisms/Temple in New World/Further Reading
- Book of Mormon/Anachronisms/Temple in New World/No temple outside Jerusalem/CriticalSources
- Book of Mormon/Anachronisms/The Red Sea
- Book of Mormon/Anachronisms/Weapons
- Book of Mormon/Archaeology
- Book of Mormon/Attempt to sell copyright/Revelation
- Book of Mormon/Authorship theories/Laying Down Heads
- Book of Mormon/Authorship theories/Overview
- Book of Mormon/Authorship theories/Sidney Rigdon/CriticalSources
- Book of Mormon/Authorship theories/Spalding manuscript/Difficult to explain before
- Book of Mormon/Authorship theories/View of the Hebrews/Analysis of non-Isaiah scripture use
- Book of Mormon/Authorship theories/View of the Hebrews/Analysis of scripture use
- Book of Mormon/Authorship theories/View of the Hebrews/Non-parallels
- Book of Mormon/B.H. Roberts
- Book of Mormon/B.H. Roberts and "Studies of the Book of Mormon"
- Book of Mormon/Basics
- Book of Mormon/Calendar
- Book of Mormon/Chariots
- Book of Mormon/Compass
- Book of Mormon/Compass/CriticalSources
- Book of Mormon/DNA evidence/Ancestry of Lehi
- Book of Mormon/DNA evidence/Fundamentalist "suicide bombing"
- Book of Mormon/DNA evidence/Identification of "Jewish" or "Middle Eastern" DNA
- Book of Mormon/DNA evidence/Identification of "Jewish" or "Middle Eastern" DNA/Lemba and Cohen modal haplotype
- Book of Mormon/DNA evidence/Jaredite influence
- Book of Mormon/DNA evidence/Methods of testing
- Book of Mormon/DNA evidence/New World death rate after European contact
- Book of Mormon/DNA evidence/Responding to critical claims/Further Reading
- Book of Mormon/Early reactions to
- Book of Mormon/Early reactions to/No intelligent person
- Book of Mormon/Evidences/Kingship and coronation in Book of Mormon
- Book of Mormon/Geography/All models by name table
- Book of Mormon/Geography/All models table
- Book of Mormon/Geography/Alleged anachronisms
- Book of Mormon/Geography/Alleged anachronisms/Old World
- Book of Mormon/Geography/Borders of the Lamanites
- Book of Mormon/Geography/Columbus
- Book of Mormon/Geography/Critics models table
- Book of Mormon/Geography/LDS models table
- Book of Mormon/Geography/Miscellaneous models table
- Book of Mormon/Geography/Models
- Book of Mormon/Geography/Models/External
- Book of Mormon/Geography/Models/Hemispheric
- Book of Mormon/Geography/Models/Hemispheric/Goble-May 2002
- Book of Mormon/Geography/Models/Internal
- Book of Mormon/Geography/Models/Limited
- Book of Mormon/Geography/Models/Limited/Goble-May 2002
- Book of Mormon/Geography/Models/Limited/Hauck 1988
- Book of Mormon/Geography/Models/Limited/Meldrum 2003/Relationship of Heartland model to other models
- Book of Mormon/Geography/Models/Limited/Pate 2002
- Book of Mormon/Geography/Models/Limited/Poulsen 2004
- Book of Mormon/Geography/New World/Great Lakes geography/Mound Builders
- Book of Mormon/Geography/New World/Limited Geography Theory/Mesoamerica/Ammon at waters of Sebus
- Book of Mormon/Geography/RLDS models table
- Book of Mormon/Geography/Statements/Nineteenth century
- Book of Mormon/Geography/Statements/Nineteenth century/After Joseph's death
- Book of Mormon/Geography/Statements/Nineteenth century/Joseph Smith's lifetime 1829-1840
- Book of Mormon/Geography/Statements/Nineteenth century/Joseph Smith's lifetime 1829-1840/Joseph Smith
- Book of Mormon/Geography/Statements/Nineteenth century/Joseph Smith's lifetime 1829-1840/Joseph Smith/Zelph
- Book of Mormon/Geography/Statements/Nineteenth century/Joseph Smith's lifetime 1841
- Book of Mormon/Geography/Statements/Nineteenth century/Joseph Smith's lifetime 1842
- Book of Mormon/Geography/Statements/Nineteenth century/Joseph Smith's lifetime 1843
- Book of Mormon/Geography/Statements/Nineteenth century/Joseph Smith's lifetime 1844
- Book of Mormon/Geography/Statements/Twentieth century
- Book of Mormon/Geography/Statements/Twentieth century/Joseph Fielding Smith
- Book of Mormon/Geography/Statements/Twenty-first century
- Book of Mormon/Gold plates
- Book of Mormon/Hill Cumorah
- Book of Mormon/Hill Cumorah/Quotes
- Book of Mormon/Historicity/Belief
- Book of Mormon/Jordan lead codices
- Book of Mormon/Lamanites/Relationship to Amerindians
- Book of Mormon/Lamanites/Relationship to Amerindians/Statements/19th century
- Book of Mormon/Lamanites/Relationship to Amerindians/Statements/20th century
- Book of Mormon/Lamanites/Relationship to Amerindians/Statements/21st century
- Book of Mormon/Lamanites/Relationship to Polynesians
- Book of Mormon/Language/"Adieu"
- Book of Mormon/Language/Reformed Egyptian/Egyptian too bulky
- Book of Mormon/Language used
- Book of Mormon/Metals/Brass
- Book of Mormon/Metals/Copper
- Book of Mormon/Metals/Gold
- Book of Mormon/Metals/Silver
- Book of Mormon/Metals/Steel
- Book of Mormon/Metals/Ziff
- Book of Mormon/Money
- Book of Mormon/Moroni's promise/CriticalSources
- Book of Mormon/Nephi's killing of Laban/Could Satan deceive Nephi
- Book of Mormon/Nephi's killing of Laban/Was it "cold blooded murder"/Further Reading
- Book of Mormon/Olive horticulture
- Book of Mormon/Phrases
- Book of Mormon/Plagiarism accusations/Alexander Campbell/CriticalSources
- Book of Mormon/Plagiarism accusations/Benjamin Paddock/Paddock text in context
- Book of Mormon/Plagiarism accusations/Comoros Islands and Moroni/Captain Kidd
- Book of Mormon/Plain and precious doctrines
- Book of Mormon/Synagogues
- Book of Mormon/Textual changes/"Benjamin" changed to "Mosiah"
- Book of Mormon/Textual changes/"Words missing in Alma 32:30"
- Book of Mormon/Textual changes/"the Son of"
- Book of Mormon/Textual changes/"white" changed to "pure"
- Book of Mormon/Textual changes/Why were these changes made
- Book of Mormon/Textual changes/Why were these changes made/CriticalSources
- Book of Mormon/Translation/Anthon transcript
- Book of Mormon/Translation/Location of the plates
- Book of Mormon/Translation/Method/1829-1835
- Book of Mormon/Translation/Method/1836-1840
- Book of Mormon/Translation/Method/1841-1845
- Book of Mormon/Translation/Method/1846-1900
- Book of Mormon/Translation/Method/1900-2000
- Book of Mormon/Translation/Method/Did Joseph place the Urim and Thummim in his hat