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- Social pressure and the priesthood ban
- Sorenson: "At the time of the Spanish conquest, natives in Mexico would gather cocoons from a type of wild silkworm and spin the thread into expensive cloth"
- Source:B.H. Roberts:CHC 2:360-361:Joseph Smith was a man of like passions with other men; struggling with the same weaknesses; subjected to the same temptations
- Source:Book of Mormon Index:1842:The discovery of America predicted
- Source:Book of Mormon and DNA Studies:Gospel Topics:Basic principles of population genetics suggest the need for a more careful approach to the data
- Source:Book of Mormon and DNA Studies:Gospel Topics:Much as critics and defenders of the Book of Mormon would like to use DNA studies to support their views, the evidence is simply inconclusive
- Source:Book of Mormon and DNA Studies:Gospel Topics:These events may severely reduce or totally eliminate certain genetic profiles
- Source:Book of Mormon and the Mormonites:Jul 1841:The history of the settlements of the emigrants in North and South America
- Source:Book of Mormon as Stick of Ephraim:Franklin D. Richards statement
- Source:Book of Mormon as Stick of Ephraim:Joseph Fielding Smith statement
- Source:Book of Mormon as Stick of Ephraim:Orson Pratt statement
- Source:Brigham Young, Jr.:25 Mar 1883:The leaders of the Church have in view the 5,000,000 of Lamanites located in Mexico
- Source:Brigham Young:15 Aug 1852:it takes North and South America to make the land of Joseph
- Source:Brigham Young:1855:JD 3:51:we know that he was an honorable man and dealt justly, we know his true character
- Source:Chadwick:Glimpses of Lehi's Jerusalem:Lehi's House at Jerusalem and the Land of His Inheritance:Going "up" to Jerusalem
- Source:Chadwick:Glimpses of Lehi's Jerusalem:Lehi's land of inheritance was most likely not located within the borders of the southern kingdom of Judah
- Source:Chas. W. Wandell:27 Jul 1841:in speaking of the writing found on the ruins of the stone city found in Mexico
- Source:Christian Advocate and Journal:29 Jul 1841:This little band, after wandering long and far, came at last to America, and planted themselves in the western part of the present State of New York
- Source:Christofferson:BYU-Idaho Devotional:Recording mistakes, for example, have sometimes been seized on as evidence of misrepresentations or bumbling by the Prophet
- Source:Christofferson:Devotional Address:24 Sep 2013:The absence of evidence is not proof
- Source:Church News:15 Sept 2007:Henry B. Eyring:What was done here long ago by members of our Church represents a terrible and inexcusable departure from Christian teaching and conduct
- Source:Church spokesman:2006:The belief that Christ was married has never been official church doctrine
- Source:Clark:A Key for Evaluating Nephite Geographies:This should be our second question, the first being whether the geography fits the facts of the Book of Mormon
- Source:Clement of Rome:For this reason righteousness and peace are now far departed from you
- Source:Cyprian:Cyprian argued that since the Saints had sunk to such low levels of depravity they rightly deserved the harsh judgments of God
- Source:Cyril of Jerusalem:For men have fallen from the right faith; and some preach the identity of the Son with the Father...This, therefore, is the falling away
- Source:Daniel C. Peterson:Ensign:Jan 2000:But the region of Mesoamerica—particularly southern Mexico and Guatemala, where many suggest that much of the Book of Mormon story may have happened
- Source:Echoes:Ch2:18:Land of Jerusalem
- Source:George Q. Cannon:1 Jan 1890:For these reasons we have strong objections to the introduction of maps and their circulation among our people which profess to give the location of the Nephite cities and settlements
- Source:Gospel Topics:Are Mormons Christian?:Members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints unequivocally affirm themselves to be Christians
- Source:Gospel Topics:Book of Mormon Translation:Joseph placed either the interpreters or the seer stone in a hat
- Source:Gospel Topics:Church Disciplinary Councils:Church discipline is an inspired process that takes place over a period of time
- Source:Gospel Topics:Decisions about birth control and the consequences of those decisions rest solely with each married couple
- Source:Gospel Topics:Plural Marriage and Families in Early Utah:It is therefore difficult to accurately generalize about the experience of all plural marriages
- Source:Hamblin:The Bow and Arrow in the Book of Mormon:After the sword, the bow is the second most frequently mentioned weapon in the Book of Mormon
- Source:Hamblin and Merrill:Swords in the Book of Mormon:The Book of Mormon mentions the sword 156 times
- Source:Harold B. Lee:the Lord appeared to him, very informal, the same as I was sitting talking to him
- Source:Hegesippus:These also, as there were none of the apostles left, henceforth attempted, without shame to preach their false doctrine against the gospel of truth
- Source:Hyde:Ein Ruf aus der Wuste:1842:Two glorious heavenly personages stood before him, resembling each other exactly in features and stature
- Source:Hyde:The Frontier Guardian:6 March 1850:both the Father and the Son, while he was praying, appeared unto him
- Source:Hyrum Smith:Liberty Jail:I felt a determination to die, rather than deny the things which my eyes had seen
- Source:Ignatius:the false prophets and the false apostles
- Source:Irenaeus:evil is spread abroad among men
- Source:JBMS 8:1:It is true that firstlings...were not used for the normal burnt offering. However it is a mistake to think that they were not sacrificed at all
- Source:JD 11:262:Brigham Young:There is also a man down the street who tried to exhibit the endowments to a party who was here
- Source:James E. Talmage:1899:The hill, which was known by one division of the ancient peoples as Cumorah, by another as Ramah, is situated near Palmyra in the State of New York
- Source:James E. Talmage:The Vitality of Mormonism:42:God has not established His Church to make of its members irresponsible automatons
- Source:John E. Clark:JBMS:8:1:1999:My purpose here is to present the latest drawing of this monument, to discuss how this drawing was made, and to suggest its implications for the Lehi hypothesis
- Source:John E. Page:1 Jul 1842:The city was in some region on the South of what is called at this time, North America
- Source:John Taylor:1 Apr 1845:cities have been discovered by Mr. Stevens in Central America'', exactly were the Book of Mormon left them