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2 November 2015
- 19:5919:59, 2 November 2015 diff hist +384 Question: Were there any similar cases under Illinois adultery statute which demonstrate that Joseph was not breaking the law? →Question: Were there any similar cases under Illinois adultery statute which demonstrate that Joseph was not breaking the law?
- 19:4419:44, 2 November 2015 diff hist +105 Question: Was Joseph Smith ever charged with adultery under Illinois law? →Question: Was Joseph Smith ever charged with adultery under Illinois law?
- 19:4219:42, 2 November 2015 diff hist +89 Question: Why did Joseph keep the doctrine of plural marriage private? →Question: Why did Joseph keep the doctrine of plural marriage private?
- 19:3819:38, 2 November 2015 diff hist +109 Question: Did Joseph Smith ever publicly attempt to teach the doctrine of plural marriage? →Question: Did Joseph Smith ever publicly attempt to teach the doctrine of plural marriage?
- 19:3619:36, 2 November 2015 diff hist +98 Question: Did Joseph Smith and Brigham Young steal Henry Jacobs' family? →Question: Did Joseph Smith and Brigham Young steal Henry Jacobs' family?
- 19:3419:34, 2 November 2015 diff hist +149 Question: Why would Joseph be sealed to the wife of someone who was not only married to someone else, but pregnant with her husband's child? →Question: Why would Joseph be sealed to the wife of someone who was not only married to someone else, but pregnant with her husband's child?
- 19:3119:31, 2 November 2015 diff hist +125 Question: How could Joseph and Fanny have been married in 1831 if the sealing power had not yet been restored? →Question: How could Joseph and Fanny have been married in 1831 if the sealing power had not yet been restored?
- 19:2919:29, 2 November 2015 diff hist +124 Question: Did some of Joseph Smith's associates believe that he had an affair with Fanny Alger? →Question: Did some of Joseph Smith's associates believe that he had an affair with Fanny Alger?
1 November 2015
- 16:5216:52, 1 November 2015 diff hist +99 Question: Did Joseph Smith marry Fanny Alger as his first plural wife in 1833? →Question: Did Joseph Smith marry Fanny Alger as his first plural wife in 1833?
- 16:1916:19, 1 November 2015 diff hist +152 Question: Was the practice of polygamy general knowledge among Latter-day Saints in 1835 when the "Article on Marriage" was published? →Question: Was the practice of polygamy general knowledge among Latter-day Saints in 1835 when the "Article on Marriage" was published?
- 16:1716:17, 1 November 2015 diff hist +166 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 Oliver Cowdery aware that some in the Church were practicing polygamy in 1835 at the time he authored the "Article on Marriage"?
- 16:1316:13, 1 November 2015 diff hist +108 Question: What did the husband of Mary Heron know about her sealing to Joseph Smith for eternity? →Question: What did the husband of Mary Heron know about her sealing to Joseph Smith for eternity?
- 16:1016:10, 1 November 2015 diff hist +115 Question: What did the husband of Sarah Ann Whitney know about her sealing to Joseph Smith for eternity? →Question: What did the husband of Sarah Ann Whitney know about her sealing to Joseph Smith for eternity?
- 16:0816:08, 1 November 2015 diff hist +113 Question: What did the husband of Sylvia Sessions know about her sealing to Joseph Smith for eternity? →Question: What did the husband of Sylvia Sessions know about her sealing to Joseph Smith for eternity?
- 16:0116:01, 1 November 2015 diff hist +116 Question: What did the husband of Zina D. Huntington know about her sealing to Joseph Smith for eternity? →Question: What did the husband of Zina D. Huntington know about her sealing to Joseph Smith for eternity?
- 15:5115:51, 1 November 2015 diff hist +117 Question: What did the husband of Elvira Annie Cowles know about her sealing to Joseph Smith for eternity? →Question: What did the husband of Elvira Annie Cowles know about her sealing to Joseph Smith for eternity?
- 15:0015:00, 1 November 2015 diff hist +115 Question: What did the husband of Lucinda Pendleton Morgan Harris know about her sealing to Joseph Smith for eternity? →Question: What did the husband of Lucinda Pendleton Morgan Harris know about her sealing to Joseph Smith for eternity?
- 14:5514:55, 1 November 2015 diff hist +113 Question: What did the husband of Elizabeth Davis know about her sealing to Joseph Smith for eternity? →Question: What did the husband of Elizabeth Davis know about her sealing to Joseph Smith for eternity?
- 14:5214:52, 1 November 2015 diff hist +112 Question: What did the husband of Patty Bartlett know about her sealing to Joseph Smith for eternity? →Question: What did the husband of Patty Bartlett know about her sealing to Joseph Smith for eternity?
- 14:4614:46, 1 November 2015 diff hist +112 Question: What did the husband of Sarah Kingsley know about her sealing to Joseph Smith for eternity? →Question: What did the husband of Sarah Kingsley know about her sealing to Joseph Smith for eternity?
- 13:5813:58, 1 November 2015 diff hist +121 Question: What did the husband of Presendia L. Huntington know about her sealing to Joseph Smith for eternity? →Question: What did the husband of Presendia L. Huntington know about her sealing to Joseph Smith for eternity?
- 13:5413:54, 1 November 2015 diff hist +120 Question: What did the husband of Mary Elizabeth Rollins know about her sealing to Joseph Smith for eternity? →Question: What did the husband of Mary Elizabeth Rollins know about her sealing to Joseph Smith for eternity?
- 13:5013:50, 1 November 2015 diff hist +112 Question: What did the husband of Esther Dutcher know about her sealing to Joseph Smith for eternity? →Question: What did the husband of Esther Dutcher know about her sealing to Joseph Smith for eternity?
- 13:4713:47, 1 November 2015 diff hist +114 Question: What did the husband of Ruth Vose Sayers know about her sealing to Joseph Smith for eternity? →Question: What did the husband of Ruth Vose Sayers know about her sealing to Joseph Smith for eternity?
- 13:4413:44, 1 November 2015 diff hist +120 Question: Was Joseph Smith sealed or married to other men's wives without the knowledge or consent of their husband? →Question: Was Joseph Smith sealed or married to other men's wives without the knowledge or consent of their husband?
- 13:2813:28, 1 November 2015 diff hist +14 Template:S No edit summary
30 October 2015
- 03:4403:44, 30 October 2015 diff hist +157 Book of Mormon/Textual changes/"white" changed to "pure" No edit summary
- 03:4103:41, 30 October 2015 diff hist −52 Book of Mormon textual changes No edit summary
- 03:3503:35, 30 October 2015 diff hist +270 Question: Why was the phrase "white and delightsome" changed to "pure and delightsome" in the 1840 edition of the Book of Mormon? No edit summary
28 October 2015
- 17:0317:03, 28 October 2015 diff hist +93 Book of Mormon/Wordprint studies No edit summary
17 October 2015
- 04:4704:47, 17 October 2015 diff hist +12 Question: Why did the 1835 Doctrine and Covenants include a statement of marriage that denied the practice of polygamy at a time when some were actually practicing it? No edit summary
- 04:4604:46, 17 October 2015 diff hist +8 Improvement Era (1946): "Did Joseph Smith Introduce Plural Marriage?...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" No edit summary
- 04:4504:45, 17 October 2015 diff hist +4 Question: Was Emma aware of the possibility that Joseph could take additional wives even without her consent? No edit summary
- 04:4404:44, 17 October 2015 diff hist −18 Question: Did Joseph hide his plural marriages from Emma, his first wife? No edit summary
- 04:4204:42, 17 October 2015 diff hist −23 Question: Why did Joseph Smith say "I had not been married scarcely five minutes...before it was reported that I had seven wives"? No edit summary
- 04:4104:41, 17 October 2015 diff hist +29 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? No edit summary
14 October 2015
- 16:0516:05, 14 October 2015 diff hist +14 Question: If the only purpose of polygamy was to "raise up seed," then why did Joseph not have children by his plural wives? No edit summary
- 16:0416:04, 14 October 2015 diff hist +12 Question: Was the only purpose of polygamy to "multiply and replenish the earth" and "bear the souls of men"? No edit summary
- 16:0316:03, 14 October 2015 diff hist +16 Question: How can President Hinckley claim that polygamy is "not doctrinal" if it was a required practice in the 19th-Century Church? No edit summary
- 16:0216:02, 14 October 2015 diff hist +12 Question: Did Gordon B. Hinckley claim that polygamy was "not doctrinal" on Larry King Live? No edit summary
- 16:0116:01, 14 October 2015 diff hist +7 Question: Did Joseph claim that an angel threatened him with a "drawn sword" or "flaming sword" if a woman refused to marry him? No edit summary
- 15:5915:59, 14 October 2015 diff hist +19 Question: Were women put under "tremendous pressure" to accept a proposal of plural marriage? No edit summary
- 15:5915:59, 14 October 2015 diff hist +7 Question: Did any woman suffer consequences for turning down Joseph's proposal? No edit summary
- 15:5815:58, 14 October 2015 diff hist +29 Question: Did Joseph Smith give a woman only one day to decide about entering a plural marriage, and would refusal mean terrible consequences? No edit summary
- 15:5715:57, 14 October 2015 diff hist +2 Question: Were plural wives forced into the marriage? No edit summary
- 15:5615:56, 14 October 2015 diff hist −16 Question: Were plural wives forced into the marriage? No edit summary
- 15:5515:55, 14 October 2015 diff hist −1 Question: Did Joseph Smith being sealed to mothers, daughters and sisters violate a biblical prohibition? No edit summary
- 15:5415:54, 14 October 2015 diff hist −15 Question: Does the Bible prohibit polygamous marriages involving a mother and daughter? No edit summary
- 15:5315:53, 14 October 2015 diff hist +6 Joseph Smith's marriage to Helen Mar Kimball No edit summary
- 02:5502:55, 14 October 2015 diff hist −5 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? No edit summary