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- Question: How do Latter-day Saints understand the significance of the blood shed by Christ? (2 categories)
- Question: Did John Whitmer, one of the Eight Witnesses, actually say that he saw the plates by a "supernatural power"? (2 categories)
- Question: Is a man unreliable because he lived in the 19th-Century? (2 categories)
- Question: Did Charles Anthon validate the characters that Martin Harris brought to him that had been copied from the Book of Mormon plates? (2 categories)
- Question: What is the correct interpretation of Facsimile 3? (2 categories)
- Question: Was the Church forthright in identifying the rediscovered papyri prior to their examination by non-LDS Egyptologists? (2 categories)
- Joseph Smith (9 Nov. 1835): "I saw many angels in this vision...I was about 14 years old when I received this first communication" (2 categories)
- David Whitmer (1887): "'He that hath an ear to hear, let him hear;' it was no delusion!" (2 categories)
- Question: Do Latter-day Saints believe that they were the only ones with a "legitimate right to be stewards" of all property on the earth? (2 categories)
- Question: What did William Stafford claim about Joseph Smith in the Hurlbut affidavits? (2 categories)
- Question: Where was the Melchizedek Priesthood restored? (2 categories)
- Armitage: "It is suggested by de Ávila Blomberg that wild silk was used in Oaxaca in pre-Columbian times" (2 categories)
- 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? (2 categories)
- Source:Damrosch:The Narrative Covenant:Naham means "to mourn" (2 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith plagiarize Shakespeare? (2 categories)
- Question: Does the Book of Mormon describe the Lamanites as being "cursed" with a "red skin"? (2 categories)
- Question: Why does the Book of Mormon mention "synagogues" when they were not present among the Jews until after the Babylonian captivity? (2 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph own a Bible at the time of the Book of Mormon translation? (2 categories)
- Source:Marcus B. Nash:Joseph Smith Memorial Devotional:June 2013:This was dictated, word by word, as he looked into instruments the Lord prepared for him, using a hat to shield his eyes from extraneous light (2 categories)
- Question: Did Brigham Young order that the Mount Meadows monument be destroyed? (2 categories)
- Source:Benajah Williams:July 1820:Had a two Days meeting at Sq Bakers in Richmond (2 categories)
- Question: Did Church leaders ever teach that Blacks were neutral in the "war in heaven?" (2 categories)
- Gospel Topics: "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" (2 categories)
- John Welch (1999): "This sidelight in the book of Alma contains enough facts to support meaningful parallels between King Mosiah's weights and measures and those used in other ancient cultures" (2 categories)
- Question: Did Heber C. Kimball claim that the apostles killed Judas? (2 categories)
- Question: Was the "Pentecost" at the Kirtland Temple dedication actually a drunken orgy? (2 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith have a long history of "womanizing" before practicing plural marriage? (2 categories)
- The Palmyra Reflector (1831): "Jo Smith had now received a commission from God...Cowdery and his friends had frequent interviews with angels" (2 categories)
- Question: Can you summarize what we know about whether or not Joseph Smith fathered any children by his plural wives? (2 categories)
- Criticism of Mormonism/Books/One Nation Under Gods/Use of sources/Orders to Starve Gentiles (2 categories)
- Source:Penrose:Peculiar Questions Briefly Answered:Improvement Era:Sept 1912:We do not know anything about Jesus Christ being married (2 categories)
- Question: If Gordon B. Hinckley were a true prophet, why did he not discern the nature of the Hofmann forgeries? (2 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith send William Law, Robert D. Foster, and Henry Jacobs on missions so that he could steal their wives? (2 categories)
- Question: How does the Grammar and Alphabet of the Egyptian Language (GAEL) relate to the Book of Abraham? (2 categories)
- Question: How many times was Joseph Smith involved with legal issues? (2 categories)
- The Apocalypse of Abraham: "Go out from thy father Terah, and get thee out from the house, that thou also be not slain" (2 categories)
- Detailed response to CES Letter, Book of Abraham (2 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph claim that an angel threatened him with a "drawn sword" or "flaming sword" if a woman refused to marry him? (2 categories)
- Logical fallacies/Page 2 (2 categories)
- Question: Does the Book of Abraham state that the sun gets its photons from Kolob? (2 categories)
- Question: What did the husband of Sarah Kingsley know about her sealing to Joseph Smith for eternity? (2 categories)
- Question: How is the Joseph Smith Translation best understood? (2 categories)
- 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? (2 categories)
- Question: Could Joseph Smith have acquired the names "Moroni" and "Cumorah" from a map of the Comoro archipelago off the coast of Africa? (2 categories)
- Question: Is there a link between Ethan Smith, author of ''View of the Hebrews'', and Oliver Cowdery? (2 categories)
- Question: How do the First Vision accounts compare on the subject of Joseph's motivation for praying? (2 categories)
- Orson Pratt (1840): "a very bright and glorious light in the heavens...He expected to have seen the leaves and boughs of the trees consumed, as soon as the light came in contact with them" (2 categories)
- Question: Why does the Church teach that the flood was a global event? (2 categories)
- Multiple accounts of the First Vision/George A. Smith said First Vision was an "angel" (2 categories)
- Elder's Journal/1/2 (2 categories)