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- Question: What are the Nephite interpreters? (4 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith use his own seer stone to translate the Book of Mormon? (4 categories)
- Book of Mormon the "most correct of any book" (4 categories)
- Question: Was Emma aware of the possibility that Joseph could take additional wives even without her consent? (4 categories)
- Detailed response to CES Letter, Book of Mormon (4 categories)
- Detailed response to CES Letter, First Vision (4 categories)
- Question: Was Joseph Smith married or sealed to women who were already married to other living men? (4 categories)
- Question: What was the nature of Joseph Smith's "polyandrous" marriages? (4 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith consummate any of these marriages with married women? (4 categories)
- Seminary Teacher Resource Manual: "We have no knowledge that plural marriage will be a requirement for exaltation" (4 categories)
- Question: What criticisms are associated with the temple ritual and its relationship to Freemasonry? (4 categories)
- Question: Why would Joseph Smith incorporate Masonic elements into the temple ritual? (4 categories)
- Question: Where did 19th-Century Latter-day Saints believe that Freemasonry came from? (4 categories)
- Question: Did God tell David Whitmer to leave the Church and repudiate Mormonism? (4 categories)
- Question: Who made the changes to the Doctrine and Covenants? (4 categories)
- Question: How did the erroneous story of the attempt to sell the Book of Mormon copyright develop over time? (4 categories)
- Question: What did the husband of Sarah Ann Whitney know about her sealing to Joseph Smith for eternity? (4 categories)
- Question: Was the priesthood ban lifted as the result of social or government pressure? (4 categories)
- Why are there discrepancies between translations in the Book of Mormon, KJV and the JST of the Bible (4 categories)
- Mormonism and Church discipline/Scholars (4 categories)
- The Church's Modern Treatment of Plural Marriage (4 categories)
- Question: How did Emma Hale Smith react to Joseph's practice of plural marriage? (4 categories)
- Gospel Topics: "Even after 1852, at least two black Mormons continued to hold the priesthood" (4 categories)
- Question: What are the "curse of Cain" and the "curse of Ham"? (4 categories)
- Question: When did a biblical curse become associated with the "Hamites?" (4 categories)
- Question: When did the "mark of Cain" become associated with black skin? (4 categories)
- Question: How did the "curse of Ham" or "curse of Cain" become associated with Mormonism? (4 categories)
- Question: Was Joseph Smith's 1832 prophecy of the Civil War invalid because a civil war was "inevitable," and "anyone" could have predicted it? (4 categories)
- Question: Has The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints deceived its members regarding controversial issues about its origins, history, and/or scripture? (4 categories)
- Plural marriage as a requirement for exaltation (4 categories)
- Brigham Young (4 categories)
- Women in the Church of Jesus Christ (4 categories)
- Prothero (2003): "in the 1832 version, Jesus appears to Smith alone, and does all the talking himself. Such complaints, however, are much ado about relatively nothing" (3 categories)
- Question: Is there any reference to God the Father being present in Joseph Smith's 1832 account? (3 categories)
- Question: Why did the Prophet construct the 1832 narrative in a manner such as to exclude explicit mention of the Father's appearance? (3 categories)
- Question: Did any of Joseph's scribes ever say anything about Joseph's story of the vision changing over time? (3 categories)
- Mormonism and apologetics/"ad hominem"/Case study/An attempt to discredit Hugh Nibley by accusing him of child abuse (3 categories)
- Mormonism and apologetics/"ad hominem"/Case study/An attempt to dismiss Rosalynde Welch because of who she is related to (3 categories)
- Question: Did the story of Moroni's visit to Joseph Smith evolve from that of a magical spiritual treasure guardian to an "angel"? (3 categories)
- Question: Was a "vagabond fortune-teller" named Walters Joseph Smith's "mentor"? (3 categories)
- Question: Was the United Order simply a form of communism? (3 categories)
- Question: What is Joseph Smith's 1832 prophecy of the Civil War? (3 categories)
- Question: Was there an oath in a former version of the Mormon temple endowment that required vengeance upon the government of the United States? (3 categories)
- Question: What caused William Law to apostatize from the Church and turn against Joseph Smith? (3 categories)
- Source:Gospel Topics:Peach and Violence:Danites (3 categories)
- Question: Is it true that the Danites were pledged to “plunder, lie, and even kill if deemed necessary?" (3 categories)
- Question: How were the activities of the Danite band exposed? (3 categories)
- Question: Did the Danite band persist even after they were exposed? (3 categories)
- Question: What is "blood atonement"? (3 categories)
- Source:Charles Penrose:Improvement Era:September 1912:Do you believe in "blood-atonement"? (3 categories)