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- Question: Did Joseph Smith plagiarize an 1811 book of Marco Polo's travels?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith plagiarize sources from the American Revolution?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith plagiarize the History of Mexico to produce the Book of Ether?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith use entheogens to effectuate the founding of the Church?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith use his seer stone to view the location of the gold plates in the Hill Cumorah?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith violate the Word of Wisdom by drinking alcohol in Carthage Jail before he was killed?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith write in the Book of Mormon, "every error and truth discussed in New York"?
- Question: Did Joseph ever place the Nephite interpreters ("Urim and Thummim") into his hat?
- Question: Did Joseph own 144 acres of land in Kirtland?
- Question: Did LDS scholar Hugh Nibley support the "Heartland model" of Book of Mormon geography?
- Question: Did Mormon Leaders use temple recommend interviews to "bully" members into supporting Proposition 8?
- Question: Did Mormon scholar Hugh Nibley fake or distort most of his footnotes?
- Question: Did Moroni bury the gold plates in the Hill Cumorah referenced in the Book of Mormon?
- Question: Did Oliver Cowdery privately admit to his law partner that the Book of Mormon was actually a hoax?
- Question: Did Parley P. Pratt claim that only God appeared to Joseph Smith during his First Vision?
- Question: Did Parley P. Pratt make a prophecy in 1838 to La Roy Sutherland about the latter being struck dumb and coming to an untimely end?
- Question: Did Russell M. Nelson exaggerate his story about being in a falling airplane?
- Question: Did Wilford Woodruff prophesy that New York would be destroyed by earthquake, Boston by flood, and Albany by fire?
- Question: Did William Marks claim that Joseph Smith told him that plural marriage had been a mistake and that it would be abandoned?
- Question: Did William McLellin ever mention drinking in association with the Kirtland Temple?
- Question: Did certain Church leaders claim that Joseph Smith "held the office of Holy Ghost"?
- Question: Did historian Thomas Alexander claim that "the Indians" forced Mormons to commit the Mountain Meadows Massacre?
- Question: Did large numbers of people resign from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints resign because of its support of Prop 8?
- Question: Did one of King Zedekiah's sons, Mulek, escape and come to the New World?
- Question: Did the "Cochranites" influence Joseph Smith or other Mormons to introduce plural marriage into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints?
- Question: Did the Book of Mormon witnesses hold to their published testimonies?
- Question: Did the Church achieve its objectives with the City Creek Center project?
- Question: Did the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the Mormons) contribute money to the "Yes on 8" campaign?
- Question: Did the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the Mormons) invest more money in Proposition 8 than in all of its combined humanitarian efforts?
- Question: Did the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the Mormons) violate its tax-exempt status by participating in the "Yes on 8" campaign?
- Question: Did the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints send a large number of out-of-state people in to assist with the California "Yes-on-8" campaign?
- Question: Did the Church use tithing funds to finance the purchases and buildings?
- Question: Did the First Presidency identify the New York "Hill Cumorah" as the site of the Nephite final battles?
- Question: Did the Mormons send thousands of missionaries door to door in California handing out fliers about Proposition 8?
- Question: Did the Mormons use their facilities or donation processing system to collect money destined for the "Yes on 8" campaign?
- Question: Did the Three Witnesses have personal, subjective experiences?
- Question: Did the concept of "blood atonement" include a long list of crimes that were considered "worthy of death"?
- Question: Did the early Christian fathers express a belief in a pre-mortal life?
- Question: Did the martyr Stephen teach that physical temples were no longer required for Christians?
- Question: Did the use of metal swords mentioned in the Book of Mormon persist?
- Question: Did the witnesses to the Book of Mormon realize that they would be ridiculed and not believed?
- Question: Didn't Joseph's 1826 Bainbridge appearance before a judge prove that he had previously been using his seer stone for nefarious purposes?
- Question: Do Hebraisms exist in the Book of Mormon?
- Question: Do Joseph Smith's personality and temperament indicate that he was not a true prophet of God?
- Question: Do Latter-day Saints believe Jesus was born 1830 years before the Church's organization on 6 April 1830?
- Question: Do Latter-day Saints believe in a female divine person, a "Heavenly Mother" as counterpart to God, the Heavenly Father
- Question: Do Latter-day Saints claim to be the only ones that can experience the fullness of happiness on this earth?
- Question: Do Latter-day Saints consider the Bible "insufficient?"
- Question: Do Latter-day Saints have to "buy their way into heaven" since the Church requires that you be a full-tithe payer to enter the temple?
- Question: Do Mormon beliefs or practices exclude them from being considered Christian?