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- (hist) Question: What did the husband of Presendia L. Huntington know about her sealing to Joseph Smith for eternity? [2,861 bytes]
- (hist) Brigham Young (1859): "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, though I hold myself in readiness that he can wield me at his will and pleasure" [2,862 bytes]
- (hist) 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 [2,863 bytes]
- (hist) Criticism of Mormonism/Websites/MormonThink/Moroni's Visitation [2,866 bytes]
- (hist) Source:Millennial Star:Sep 1842:as the western continent is separate from the eastern [2,866 bytes]
- (hist) Jesus Christ/Date of birth [2,870 bytes]
- (hist) Question: Why did Joseph Smith change the wording in Mormon 7:7 from "is one God" to "are one God"? [2,870 bytes]
- (hist) Criticism of Mormonism/Video/Search for the Truth DVD/A New Beginning [2,872 bytes]
- (hist) Book of Mormon/Witnesses/Denied knowledge of other witnesses recanting [2,873 bytes]
- (hist) Elvira Annie Cowles Holmes [2,874 bytes]
- (hist) Question: How do current Mesoamerican limited geographical theories fit with the existing data? [2,874 bytes]
- (hist) Question: Did Bruce R. McConkie claim in Mormon Doctrine that our heavenly parents created our spirits "through some kind of sexual union"? [2,878 bytes]
- (hist) Southerton (2008/2014): "It's true that if a small group (say 10 people) entered a massive population (say 1 million), that it would be hard to detect their mitochondrial or Y chromosome DNA" [2,879 bytes]
- (hist) Question: Did Joseph Smith attempt to "cover up" Oliver Cowdery's work with a divining rod by changing the wording of the revelation that became Doctrine and Covenants 8:6–8? [2,881 bytes]
- (hist) Dr. Wendy Ulrich (2005): "How do the goosebumps and tearfulness I experience when someone speaks in a testimony meeting differ from the goosebumps and tearfulness I experience when the 4:00 parade begins at Disneyland?" [2,883 bytes]
- (hist) Missionary responds to critic (1843): "I contend that it is North and South America both that includes the promised land to the branches of Joseph" [2,883 bytes]
- (hist) Question: Is the story of the attempted sacrifice of Abraham described in the Book of Abraham supported by any other sources? [2,885 bytes]
- (hist) Source:Priesthood:Millennial Star 14:38:none are required to tamely and blindly submit to a man because he has a portion of the Priesthood [2,887 bytes]
- (hist) Question: Did Joseph Smith mislead investors in the Kirtland Safety Society by collecting boxes full of sand with money placed on top, in order to make it appear that the bank had more hard money than it did? [2,887 bytes]
- (hist) Question: If a person faithfully practices Mormonism during this life, do they become a god after they die? [2,887 bytes]
- (hist) D. Todd Christofferson [2,890 bytes]
- (hist) Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Early Mormonism and the Magic World View/Use of sources/Cheap magic books [2,891 bytes]
- (hist) Question: What forms of chiasmus exist in the ''Book of Mormon''? [2,893 bytes]
- (hist) Question: Will there be immense destruction in Jackson County before the second coming of Christ? [2,898 bytes]
- (hist) Olson (2004): "People may like to think that they're descended from some ancient group while other people are not. But human ancestry doesn't work that way, since we all share the same ancestors just a few millenniums ago" [2,900 bytes]
- (hist) Biblical archaeology compared to the Book of Mormon [2,905 bytes]
- (hist) Biblical Keys for Discerning True and False Prophets/Tests/Prophecy [2,905 bytes]
- (hist) Question: Was the "Law of Tithing" an Old Testament law that was done away with when Jesus Christ fulfilled the Law of Moses? [2,908 bytes]
- (hist) Question: Can one pay tithing on only net or surplus income and still be a temple worthy and faithful Latter-day Saint? [2,911 bytes]
- (hist) Question: Can the Newark "Holy Stones" be used as evidence to support the Book of Mormon? [2,912 bytes]
- (hist) Question: What is known about battle tactics in Book of Mormon? [2,914 bytes]
- (hist) Question: Could Joseph Smith have used Ethan Smith's ''View of the Hebrews'' as a guideline for creating the Book of Mormon? [2,917 bytes]
- (hist) Quote mining/Doctrines of Salvation [2,920 bytes]
- (hist) Overview of changes to the Doctrine and Covenants [2,920 bytes]
- (hist) Question: Should there be only one temple? [2,920 bytes]
- (hist) Question: Was 19th century Mormonism perceived as a group of "radical, immoral, and un-American band of religious zealots"? [2,921 bytes]
- (hist) Question: What material were the plates made from? [2,923 bytes]
- (hist) Reference templates/FARMS Review old/Volume 10 [2,924 bytes]
- (hist) Reference templates/JBMS old/Volume 14 [2,925 bytes]
- (hist) Question: Why does the Book of Mormon mention "satyrs" in 2 Nephi 23:21? Aren't satyrs mythological creatures? [2,927 bytes]
- (hist) Hamblin: "there are no references to Nephite steel after 400 B.C." [2,927 bytes]
- (hist) Doctrine and Covenants/Textual changes/Adam and Michael conflated in Doctrine and Covenants 137 [2,928 bytes]
- (hist) Question: Was the Latter-day Saint periodical The Evening and Morning Star claiming that Missouri "rightfully belonged to Mormons?" [2,928 bytes]
- (hist) Question: Why is the "white stone" that we are to receive upon entry to the Celestial kingdom not discussed extensively in Sunday School? [2,929 bytes]
- (hist) Lehi's journey in the Old World [2,932 bytes]
- (hist) Peterson and Roper: "We know of no one who cites Ferguson as an authority, except countercultists" [2,936 bytes]
- (hist) Question: Was the Church forthright in identifying the rediscovered papyri prior to their examination by non-LDS Egyptologists? [2,936 bytes]
- (hist) Question: Did the Three Witnesses each add their own signature to the original Book of Mormon manuscript? [2,941 bytes]
- (hist) Question: What descriptions exist of the "gold" plates' hiding place? [2,941 bytes]
- (hist) Miller and Roper: "two distinct species of peccary live in Mesoamerica....They were hunted and eaten as early as Olmec times" [2,946 bytes]