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26 June 2018
- 20:3520:35, 26 June 2018 diff hist +927 Question: How can you know if your answer to prayer, your personal revelation, is true? →Question: How can you know if an answer to prayer, a personal revelation, is true?
- 04:3204:32, 26 June 2018 diff hist +86 Question: Were the Isaiah passages in the Book of Mormon simply plagiarized from the King James Bible? →A closer look at these duplicate Isaiah texts actually provides us an additional witness of the Book of Mormon's authenticity
- 00:0100:01, 26 June 2018 diff hist +332 Detailed response to CES Letter, Temples & Freemasonry →Response to claim: "Freemasonry has zero links to the Solomon’s temple"
25 June 2018
- 23:3523:35, 25 June 2018 diff hist +15 Question: How can you know if your answer to prayer, your personal revelation, is true? →John 7:17
- 23:3323:33, 25 June 2018 diff hist +8 Question: How can you know if your answer to prayer, your personal revelation, is true? →With regard only to the foundational witness of the spirit to foment initial testimony, make sure you have followed Moroni’s Promise correctly
- 23:3323:33, 25 June 2018 diff hist +1 Question: How can you know if your answer to prayer, your personal revelation, is true? →If you want to know the truth of your own personal revelation, then you must test it
- 23:3223:32, 25 June 2018 diff hist +351 Question: How can you know if your answer to prayer, your personal revelation, is true? →Question: How can you know if an answer to prayer, a personal revelation, is true?
- 23:0423:04, 25 June 2018 diff hist +1 Question: Do all other religions confirm their beliefs through spiritual witness? →Some religions do rely on a spiritual confirmation of certain true principles
- 23:0423:04, 25 June 2018 diff hist +809 Question: Do all other religions confirm their beliefs through spiritual witness? →Some religions do rely on a spiritual confirmation of certain true principles
- 22:3822:38, 25 June 2018 diff hist −1 Question: How can you know if your answer to prayer, your personal revelation, is true? →Compare the phenomena you experience and your decisions to the scriptures and the teachings of living prophets and apostles
- 22:3722:37, 25 June 2018 diff hist −28 Question: How can you know if your answer to prayer, your personal revelation, is true? →Personal revelation can differ between two people
- 22:3622:36, 25 June 2018 diff hist +307 Question: How can you know if your answer to prayer, your personal revelation, is true? →Compare the phenomena you experience and your decisions to the scriptures and the teachings of living prophets and apostles
- 22:3322:33, 25 June 2018 diff hist +2,327 Question: How can you know if your answer to prayer, your personal revelation, is true? →Question: How can you know if your answer to prayer, your personal revelation, is true?
- 07:2207:22, 25 June 2018 diff hist +16 Question: Are Church members required to believe in a global flood? →Knowing the exact nature of the flood does not constitute a critical part of Latter-day Saint theology
- 07:2007:20, 25 June 2018 diff hist −49 Question: Are Church members required to believe in a global flood? →The belief that the flood was either global or local does not constitute a critical part of Latter-day Saint theology
- 07:1507:15, 25 June 2018 diff hist +269 Question: How do Latter-day Saints reconcile scriptural accounts of the Flood of Noah with scientific evidence of continuous human habitation on the earth? →Question: How do Latter-day Saints reconcile scriptural accounts of the Flood of Noah with scientific evidence of continuous human habitation on the earth?
- 07:1107:11, 25 June 2018 diff hist +1,473 Question: How do Latter-day Saints reconcile scriptural accounts of the Flood of Noah with scientific evidence of continuous human habitation on the earth? →Question: How do Latter-day Saints reconcile scriptural accounts of the Flood of Noah with scientific evidence of continuous human habitation on the earth?
- 06:5906:59, 25 June 2018 diff hist +113 Question: How do Latter-day Saints reconcile scriptural accounts of the Flood of Noah with scientific evidence of continuous human habitation on the earth? →Whether the Flood covered the entire earth at once, or multiple small floods happened, or whether it only covered Noah's world, makes no difference
- 06:4706:47, 25 June 2018 diff hist −1 Question: How can we tell if a modern revelation comes from God or Satan? →Elder Dallin H. Oaks stated:
- 06:4706:47, 25 June 2018 diff hist +22 Question: How can we tell if a modern revelation comes from God or Satan? →Consider what Joseph Smith told Brigham Young
- 06:4606:46, 25 June 2018 diff hist +2,558 Question: How can we tell if a modern revelation comes from God or Satan? →Question: How can we tell if a modern revelation comes from God or Satan?
- 06:2306:23, 25 June 2018 diff hist +2 Evidences that support the Book of Abraham →The god "Elkenah"
- 06:2306:23, 25 June 2018 diff hist +206 Evidences that support the Book of Abraham →The god "Elkenah"
- 06:1606:16, 25 June 2018 diff hist +6 Evidences that support the Book of Abraham →The god "Elkenah"
- 06:1506:15, 25 June 2018 diff hist +52 Evidences that support the Book of Abraham →The god "Elkenah"
22 June 2018
- 23:5723:57, 22 June 2018 diff hist −7 Question: Do Latter-day Saints discount the spiritual witnesses that members of other religions may receive? →Latter-day Saints should never deny the spiritual experiences of those who belong to other religions
20 June 2018
- 18:3618:36, 20 June 2018 diff hist −2 Question: Many who listened to Elder Dunn's stories felt the spirit. Why would one feel the spirit upon hearing a story that was fabricated? Doesn't this confirm a lie? →Simply receiving a warm feeling about a speech or article is not enough to call it revelation or a confirmation of the spirit
- 18:3518:35, 20 June 2018 diff hist +417 Question: Many who listened to Elder Dunn's stories felt the spirit. Why would one feel the spirit upon hearing a story that was fabricated? Doesn't this confirm a lie? →Simply receiving a warm feeling about a speech or article is not enough to call it revelation or a confirmation of the spirit
18 June 2018
- 02:4002:40, 18 June 2018 diff hist +47 Question: How do Latter-day Saints reconcile scriptural accounts of the Flood of Noah with scientific evidence of continuous human habitation on the earth? →Whether the Flood covered the entire earth, or whether it only covered Noah's world, makes no difference
- 02:3702:37, 18 June 2018 diff hist +31 Question: How do Latter-day Saints reconcile scriptural accounts of the Flood of Noah with scientific evidence of continuous human habitation on the earth? →Latter-day Saints believe that Noah existed, and that he built an ark to save his family from a flood, and that the flood occurred
- 02:3202:32, 18 June 2018 diff hist +100 Question: How valid are the names used in the Holley Map? →Antioch = Anti-Anti (did not exist)
- 02:2602:26, 18 June 2018 diff hist +383 Question: How valid are the names used in the Holley Map? →When a comparison is made to maps available in the 1800s, it becomes evident that Holley has included names of places which didn't even exist in Joseph Smith's time
- 01:5901:59, 18 June 2018 diff hist +6 Gardner: "a correct approach to a Mesoamerican battle required all three elements: king, litter, and battle beast" →Gardner: "a correct approach to a Mesoamerican battle required all three elements: king, litter, and battle beast"
- 01:5901:59, 18 June 2018 diff hist +465 Gardner: "a correct approach to a Mesoamerican battle required all three elements: king, litter, and battle beast" →Gardner: "a correct approach to a Mesoamerican battle required all three elements: king, litter, and battle beast"
- 01:2301:23, 18 June 2018 diff hist +57 Question: Have any ancient horse remains from the Nephite period been found in the New World? →There has currently been found a horse bone that is receiving tests to determine the time of its existence. Primary data has shown that it dates to Book of Mormon times
- 01:2201:22, 18 June 2018 diff hist +701 Question: Have any ancient horse remains from the Nephite period been found in the New World? →A few non-Mormon scholars have proposed that real horses survived the New World extinction
17 June 2018
- 06:3306:33, 17 June 2018 diff hist +52 Question: Do all other religions confirm their beliefs through spiritual witness? →Not all religions claim that the truth of their beliefs are confirmed through a spiritual witness
- 06:3106:31, 17 June 2018 diff hist +25 Question: Do all other religions confirm their beliefs through spiritual witness? →Some religions do rely on a spiritual confirmation of true principles
- 06:2906:29, 17 June 2018 diff hist +83 Question: Do all other religions confirm their beliefs through spiritual witness? →Some religions do rely on a spiritual confirmation of true principles
- 06:2806:28, 17 June 2018 diff hist −702 Question: Do all other religions confirm their beliefs through spiritual witness? →Some religions do rely on a spiritual confirmation of true principles
- 06:2706:27, 17 June 2018 diff hist +517 Question: Do all other religions confirm their beliefs through spiritual witness? →Not all religions claim that the truth of their beliefs are confirmed through a spiritual witness
9 June 2018
- 19:4719:47, 9 June 2018 diff hist +799 Question: Did Joseph Smith incorporate his father's dream of the tree of life into the Book of Mormon? →Question: Did Joseph Smith incorporate his father's dream of the tree of life into the Book of Mormon?
4 June 2018
- 19:5819:58, 4 June 2018 diff hist 0 Question: How does the Grammar and Alphabet of the Egyptian Language (GAEL) relate to the Book of Abraham? →Question: How does the Grammar and Alphabet of the Egyptian Language (GAEL) relate to the Book of Abraham?
3 June 2018
- 02:4702:47, 3 June 2018 diff hist +27 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?
- 01:1001:10, 3 June 2018 diff hist −1 Question: Did Emma Smith discover her husband Joseph with Fanny Alger in a barn? →Question: Did Emma Smith discover her husband Joseph with Fanny Alger in a barn?
- 01:0801:08, 3 June 2018 diff hist +57 Question: Did Emma Smith discover her husband Joseph with Fanny Alger in a barn? →Question: Did Emma Smith discover her husband Joseph with Fanny Alger in a barn?
- 01:0601:06, 3 June 2018 diff hist +71 Question: What do we know about Joseph Smith's first plural wife Fanny Alger? →Question: What do we know about Joseph Smith's first plural wife Fanny Alger?
31 May 2018
- 05:3705:37, 31 May 2018 diff hist −515 Question: How can you know if your answer to prayer, your personal revelation, is true? →Just because someone else receives a different message than you did doesn't mean that either you or they are wrong
- 05:3505:35, 31 May 2018 diff hist −165 Question: How can you know if your answer to prayer, your personal revelation, is true? →Each individual's personal revelation is different
- 05:3305:33, 31 May 2018 diff hist −33 Question: How can you know if your answer to prayer, your personal revelation, is true? →Just because someone else receives a different message than you did doesn't mean that either you or they are wrong