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- Metals and materials in the Book of Mormon (4 categories)
- The Apocrypha and the Book of Mormon (4 categories)
- Mushrooms and entheogenics theory of Book of Mormon authorship (4 categories)
- Farewell to Eden (4 categories)
- The Bible/On-going divine revelation not necessary/Further Reading (4 categories)
- Question: What is the history of name changes of the Church? (4 categories)
- Improvement Era (1946): "Did Joseph Smith Introduce Plural Marriage?...It is also possible, though the Church does not now permit it, to seal two living people for eternity only, with no association on earth" (3 categories)
- Latter-day Saint Temples/Endowment (3 categories)
- Question: Why would the Church remove or alter elements of the temple ceremony if these ceremonies were revealed by God? (3 categories)
- Question: Does the Church claim that Native Americans were the exclusive descendants of Lehi or Mulek? (3 categories)
- Criticism of Mormonism/Books/No Man Knows My History: The Life of Joseph Smith/Chapter 5 (3 categories)
- Question: Should the restoration of Book of Abraham Facsimile 1 include a phallus? (3 categories)
- Mormonism and Wikipedia/Golden plates/Claimed engravings (3 categories)
- Question: Why would Joseph be sealed to the wife of someone who was not only married to someone else, but pregnant with her husband's child? (3 categories)
- Question: Do Latter-day Saints believe that they will one day 'supplant' God? (3 categories)
- Martin Harris: "As sure as you see my hand so sure did I see the angel and the plates" (3 categories)
- Mormonism and Wikipedia/Golden plates/Origin and historicity (3 categories)
- Question: How would a statement that "God is a spirit" be interpreted in ancient Judasism? (3 categories)
- Topical Guide/Book of Mormon/Archaeology (3 categories)
- Question: Why were textual changes made to the Book of Mormon over the years after it was first published? (3 categories)
- Sorenson: "There is an animal which they call chic, wonderfully active, as large as a small dog, with a snout like a sucking pig. The Indian women raise them" (3 categories)
- Question: Where can I learn more about the Sidney Rigdon/Solomon Spalding authorship theory? (3 categories)
- Question: Did Lucy Mack Smith join the Presbyterian Church after her son Alvin died in 1823? (3 categories)
- Gardner: "a correct approach to a Mesoamerican battle required all three elements: king, litter, and battle beast" (3 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith misidentify a Greek "psalter" as a containing "reformed Egyptian" hieroglyphics? (3 categories)
- Question: Was there no mention of revival activity in 1820 in the newspaper? (3 categories)
- William Smith (1893): "I did not see them uncovered, but I handled them and hefted them while wrapped in a tow frock and judged them to have weighed about sixty pounds" (3 categories)
- Stephen Robinson: "In the case of the Jupiter coin, this same extrapolation error is compounded with a very uncritical acceptance of the artifact in the first place" (3 categories)
- Question: What is "blood atonement"? (3 categories)
- Question: Why does the Book of Abraham state that it was written by Abraham's "own hand upon papyrus" if the papyri date to after the Abrahamic period? (3 categories)
- Question: What is Lorenzo Snow claimed to have said about plural marriages being adultery prior to 1843? (3 categories)
- Juncker (1994): "Unknown to many, the early church fathers often referred to Jesus as an Angel....in antiquity the word 'angel' meant 'messenger'" (3 categories)
- Criticism of Mormonism/Books/American Massacre/Chapter 3 (3 categories)
- Latter-day Saint Temples/Kirtland temple (3 categories)
- Joseph Smith (9 Nov. 1835): "a personage appeard in the midst of this pillar of flame...another personage soon appeard like unto the first...and I saw many angels in this vision" (3 categories)
- Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Do Christians Believe in Three Gods/Bible and Nicea (3 categories)
- Question: What is the Adam-God Theory? (3 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph hide his plural marriages from Emma, his first wife? (3 categories)
- Criticism of Mormonism/Books/The Mormon Hierarchy: Extensions of Power/Index (3 categories)
- Question: Is a "burning in the bosom" simply a subjective, emotion-based, unreliable way to practice self-deception? (3 categories)
- Bell: "there would not be enough available space to restore the hand of Anubis, the erect phallus of the Osiris, and the body and wings of Isis" (3 categories)
- Mormonism and Wikipedia/Golden plates/Sealed portion (3 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith and Brigham Young steal Henry Jacobs' family? (3 categories)
- Question: If the Joseph Smith Translation (JST) is Joseph Smith's 'correction' of Biblical errors, why do these corrections not match known Biblical manuscripts? (3 categories)
- Mormonism and Wikipedia/Golden plates/Background (3 categories)
- Edward Stevenson (1870): Martin Harris said "my belief is swallowed up in knowledge; for I want to say to you that as the Lord lives I do know that I stood with the Prophet Joseph Smith in the presence of the angel" (3 categories)
- Oliver Cowdery (3 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith write a "love letter" to his plural wife Sarah Ann Whitney to request a secret rendezvous? (3 categories)
- Eschatology (3 categories)
- Question: Why is ''History of the Church'' written in first-person, as if Joseph Smith himself wrote it? (3 categories)