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- Question: Can the Book of Mormon be considered a genuine translation if the plates weren’t even used during the translation process?
- Question: Can the Lemba and Cohen modal haplotype be used to either prove or disprove the Book of Mormon?
- Question: Can the Spirit confirm to me that I'm okay to leave the Church?
- Question: Could Joseph Smith have acquired the names “Moroni” and “Cumorah” from stories he read as a youth, maps that he would have had access to, or other people within his local vicinity?
- Question: Could Joseph Smith have manufactured some metal plates out of tin, copper, or some other metal in order to trick witnesses into thinking he had gold plates?
- Question: Could Joseph Smith have written the Book of Mormon through a process known as "automatic writing?"
- Question: Could Joseph Smith have written the Book of Mormon under the influence of an "epileptic fit?"
- Question: Could Lehi's group have made a transoceanic crossing as described in the Book of Mormon?
- Question: Could Satan have deceived Nephi into killing Laban?
- Question: Could the Book of Mormon be a clumsy, amateurish forgery?
- Question: Could the Book of Mormon been influenced by the Late War in its use of lions in similes?
- Question: Could the angel which came to Nephi have been a demonic "angel of light" sent to deceive him?
- Question: Could the fact that Orson Pratt considered cureloms to possibly be mammoths support the theory that Joseph Smith used Gilbert Hunt's The Late War in "authoring" The Book of Mormon?
- Question: Did Abraham himself pen the Joseph Smith Papyri?
- Question: Did Bishop Warren S. Snow forcibly castrate twenty-four-year-old Thomas Lewis?
- Question: Did Boyd K. Packer say, "I have a hard time with historians because they idolize the truth"?
- Question: Did Brigham Young's preaching style induce people to perform "blood atonement"?
- Question: Did Brigham Young give the Indian chief Arapeen spoils from the Mountain Meadows Massacre?
- Question: Did Brigham Young imply that he had poisoned a gift of salt that he gave to Johnston's Army?
- Question: Did Brigham Young indicate in a speech in 1857 that the American government would fall to the Mormons?
- Question: Did Brigham Young institute slavery in Utah?
- Question: Did Brigham Young set the stage for the Mountain Meadows Massacre by teaching the concept of "blood atonement"?
- Question: Did Christ establish a Church while on the earth?
- Question: Did David O. McKay like to be "recognized, lauded, and lionized"?
- Question: Did David Whitmer believe his witness experience was "only a vision"?
- Question: Did David Whitmer ever refute his testimony of the Book of Mormon after he left the Church?
- Question: Did David Whitmer or Oliver Cowdery test Joseph's prophetic claims?
- Question: Did David Whitmer say that his encounter with the angel Moroni was not an actual visitation?
- Question: Did Elder Boyd K. Packer's talk "To Young Men Only" encourage physical assaults on gay people?
- Question: Did Harold B. Lee state that a person’s economic status or disability were the result of less valiance in the premortal existence?
- Question: Did Heber C. Kimball deny that the Father appeared in the First Vision?
- Question: Did Heber J. Grant include a strict observance of the Word of Wisdom in the temple recommend interview because of the repeal of prohibition?
- Question: Did Hosea Stout murder Joseph Smith's brother Samuel H. Smith?
- Question: Did Jacob Hambin's son Albert rape two women at the Mountain Meadows Massacre and later blame John D. Lee for this act?
- Question: Did Joseph Fielding Smith acknowledge that he was wrong when he said that Man would never walk on the Moon?
- Question: Did Joseph Fielding Smith reject the theory that the final battlefield of the Book of Mormon took place in Mesoamerica rather than New York?
- Question: Did Joseph Fielding Smith state that man would never visit the moon?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith's family and other Book of Mormon witnesses support James Strang's movement after Joseph's death?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith, Sr. practice "divination"?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith actually shoot and kill two men at Carthage Jail?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith contradict Jesus’ commandment in the Book of Mormon to not add to nor take away from Jesus' Gospel?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith copy Masonic material in order to create the Mormon temple rites?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith engage in "land speculation" in Nauvoo?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith get the word Nahom from the Biblical names Naham (1 Chron. 4:19), Nehum (Ne. 7:7) and Nahum (Na. 1:1)?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith plagiarize John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith plagiarize John Dee’s The Secret Book of Madoc for his creation of the Book of Mormon?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith plagiarize John Walker's "Key to Greek, Latin, and Scripture Proper Names"?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith plagiarize John Walker's a Key to Latin and Greek, Latin, and Scripture Proper Names?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith plagiarize Shakespeare's ''Hamlet''?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith plagiarize a book by Charles Anthon to provide names for the Book of Mormon?