FAIR is a non-profit organization dedicated to providing well-documented answers to criticisms of the doctrine, practice, and history of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
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- Question: Did early Mormon leaders teach that apostasy was the unforgivable sin, and that the only thing an apostate could do to redeem himself was to give his own life, willingly or unwillingly? (3 categories)
- Question: Is the Church trying to hide something through its use of artwork? (3 categories)
- Question: Why doesn't the art match details which have been repeatedly spelled out in Church publications? (3 categories)
- Question: Who was Paul H. Dunn and what happened to him? (3 categories)
- Question: Many who listened to Elder Dunn's stories felt the spirit. Why would one feel the spirit upon hearing a story that was fabricated? Doesn't this confirm a lie? (3 categories)
- Question: Why did Elder Dunn exaggerate elements of these stories? (3 categories)
- Question: Is a "burning in the bosom" simply a subjective, emotion-based, unreliable way to practice self-deception? (3 categories)
- Question: What did Oliver Cowdery's associates say about his character? (3 categories)
- Question: Is someone unreliable because they practiced "treasure hunting" and believed in the use of seer stones to find lost objects? (3 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith change his stated motivation for praying in later years after he received the First Vision? (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)
- Question: What does the lion couch scene in Book of Abraham Facsimile 1 normally represent? (3 categories)
- Question: Is Joseph Smith papyri Facsimile 1 common and similar to other such scenes? (3 categories)
- Question: Does the belief by the witnesses that the experience had visionary qualities contradict the claim that the Book of Mormon plates were real? (3 categories)
- Painesville Telegraph (1830): "The name of the person here, who pretends to have a divine mission, and to have seen and conversed with Angels, is Cowdray" (3 categories)
- Martin Harris: "As sure as you see my hand so sure did I see the angel and the plates" (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)
- Question: What criticisms are put forth regarding the restoration of the Melchizedek Priesthood? (3 categories)
- Question: Why did several years pass before Oliver Cowdery talked about the priesthood restoration? (3 categories)
- Question: Why did the Church modify the introduction to the Book of Mormon from "principal ancestors" to "among the ancestors?" (3 categories)
- Question: Did B.H. Roberts state that it was possible for Joseph Smith to have come up with the Book of Mormon on his own? (3 categories)
- Question: Were the Isaiah passages in the Book of Mormon simply plagiarized from the King James Bible? (3 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith revise his account of the First Vision in 1838 to respond to a leadership crisis? (3 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith become a baptized member of the Baptist Church in 1822? (3 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith become a member of the Methodist Church while he was translating the Book of Mormon? (3 categories)
- Question: Is there a cave in the Hill Cumorah containing the Nephite records? (3 categories)
- Source:Gardner:Joseph the Seer:2009 FAIR Conference:long before golden plates complicated his position as a local seer (3 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith place his seer stone in his hat while looking for lost objects? (3 categories)
- Question: What is the story of Zelph? (3 categories)
- Question: How reliable are the accounts of the discovery of Zelph? (3 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith create the story of Nephi and Laban by plagiarizing concepts and phrases from the story of Judith and Holofernes in the Apocrypha? (3 categories)
- Question: Does the Book of Mormon plagiarize the King James Bible? (3 categories)
- Question: How exactly did Joseph Smith translate the gold plates? (3 categories)
- Gospel Topics on LDS.org: "Mormon and non-Mormon Egyptologists agree that the characters on the fragments do not match the translation given in the book of Abraham" (3 categories)
- Question: What is the relationship of the Joseph Smith Papyri to the Book of Abraham? (3 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith misidentify a Greek "psalter" as a containing "reformed Egyptian" hieroglyphics? (3 categories)
- Question: Why do some New Testament phrases appear in the Book of Mormon? (3 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith copy the name "Nephi" from the Apocrypha? (3 categories)
- Question: What references to the First Vision exist in published documents from the 1830s? (3 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith give Brigham Young and Heber C. Kimball divining rods "as a symbol of gratitude for their loyalty"? (3 categories)
- Question: Did some Church leaders believe that the skin of the Lamanites would turn white? (3 categories)
- Question: Is it possible to deduce Joseph Smith's thoughts and dreams years after his death? (3 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith's mother say that the First Vision was of an "angel"? (3 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith have a Jupiter talisman on his person at the time of his death? (3 categories)
- Question: What is the source of the story about Joseph Smith possessing a Jupiter talisman? (3 categories)
- Question: Could the list of items on Joseph's person at the time of his death have been incomplete? (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: How were Joseph Smith's seer stones involved in the translation of the Book of Mormon? (3 categories)
- Question: In the Kirtland Egyptian Papers, why is each Egyptian character matched to an entire paragraph of English text? (3 categories)
- Question: What have Latter-day Saint leaders actually said about the method of procreation in the afterlife? (3 categories)