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- Ensign (Jan. 2013): "He...referred to it using an Old Testament term, Urim and Thummim...He also sometimes applied the term to other stones he possessed" (6 categories)
- Question: What is the origin of the modern horse in the New World? (6 categories)
- Question: Why were the gold plates needed at all if they weren't used directly during the translation process? (6 categories)
- Grayson: "extinct North American mammals...losses began in Mexico and Alaska during the Pleistocene and ended in Florida perhaps as recently as 2000 years ago" (6 categories)
- David Whitmer (1884): "I saw with these eyes and I heard with these ears" (6 categories)
- Question: What did B.H. Roberts say about ''View of the Hebrews'' and the Book of Mormon? (6 categories)
- Question: Was Oliver Cowdery aware that some in the Church were practicing polygamy in 1835 at the time he authored the "Article on Marriage"? (6 categories)
- Question: Why does Joseph Smith state in his 1832 First Vision account that he was in his "16th year" of age? (6 categories)
- W.W. Phelps (1833): "through the aid of a pair of Interpreters, or spectacles—(known, perhaps, in ancient days as Teraphim, or Urim and Thummim)" (6 categories)
- Verses in the Book of Mormon that talk about "horses" (6 categories)
- Revelations in Context on history.lds.org: "Cowdery was among those who believed in and used a divining rod" (6 categories)
- Question: Is plural marriage required in order to achieve exaltation? (6 categories)
- Question: Did Martin Harris tell people that he did not see the plates with his natural eyes, but rather the "eye of faith"? (6 categories)
- Question: Was the practice of polygamy general knowledge among Latter-day Saints in 1835 when the "Article on Marriage" was published? (6 categories)
- Seminary Manual (2013): "Joseph Smith emphasized different aspects of his vision in his multiple accounts" (6 categories)
- Peterson: "Thomas Stuart Ferguson's biographer...makes every effort to portray Ferguson's apparent eventual loss of faith as a failure for 'LDS archaeology'" (6 categories)
- Question: What role do horses ''not'' play in the Book of Mormon? (6 categories)
- Question: What are the reasons for the changes to the Doctrine and Covenants? (6 categories)
- Question: Did Martin Harris tell people that he only saw the plates with his "spiritual eye"? (6 categories)
- Question: Are there any eyewitness accounts of the events that resulted in the trip to Canada to sell the Book of Mormon copyright? (6 categories)
- Backman (1985): "On at least four different occasions, Joseph Smith either wrote or dictated to scribes accounts of his sacred experience of 1820" (6 categories)
- Gee: "Ferguson is largely unknown to the vast majority of Latter-day Saints; his impact on Book of Mormon studies is minimal" (6 categories)
- Question: Is it true that Mormons believe the original Garden of Eden was located in Missouri? (6 categories)
- Question: Have any ancient horse remains from the Nephite period been found in the New World? (6 categories)
- Question: What does it mean when it is said that the Book of Mormon contains the "fulness of the gospel?" (6 categories)
- Allen (1970): "the Prophet described his experience to friends and acquaintances at least as early as 1831-32...he continued to do so in varying detail until the year of his death" (6 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith begin his prophetic career with a "trinitarian" idea of God? (6 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith ever publicly attempt to teach the doctrine of plural marriage? (6 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith receive a revelation instructing him to to sell the copyright to the Book of Mormon in Canada and later claim that the revelation was false? (6 categories)
- Question: Why don't potential pre-Columbian horse remains in the New World receive greater attention from scientists? (6 categories)
- Question: Do Martin Harris's statements related to the "spiritual eye" or "eye of faith" contradict the reality of his witness? (6 categories)
- Question: Did some of Joseph Smith's associates believe that he had an affair with Fanny Alger? (6 categories)
- Criticism of Mormonism/Books/No Man Knows My History: The Life of Joseph Smith/Chapter 3 (6 categories)
- Question: How can the Book of Mormon contain the "fulness of the Gospel" if it does not speak of ordinances such as baptism for the dead or celestial marriage? (6 categories)
- Criticism of Mormonism/Books/The Changing World of Mormonism/Chapter 5 (6 categories)
- Question: Why did Joseph keep the doctrine of plural marriage private? (6 categories)
- Question: Do Latter-day Saints believe in a practice called "celestial sex," and that this is the manner in which "spirit children" are formed? (6 categories)
- Question: Did the three witnesses's experience of seeing the plates and the angel take place only in their minds? (5 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith attempt to translate the Kinderhook Plates? (5 categories)
- Joseph Smith/Legal issues (5 categories)
- Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Losing a Lost Tribe: Native Americans, DNA, and the Mormon Church/Chapter 11 (5 categories)
- Gordon B. Hinckley (1984): "I am not worried that the Prophet Joseph Smith gave a number of versions of the first vision" (5 categories)
- Question: Why did Joseph Smith say "I had not been married scarcely five minutes...before it was reported that I had seven wives"? (5 categories)
- Question: How was the decision reached to destroy the ''Nauvoo Expositor''? (5 categories)
- Question: Do Latter-day Saints believe that the scriptural terms "church of the devil," the "great and abominable church," and the "whore of all the earth" refer to a specific religion? (5 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith state that the moon was inhabited, and that its inhabitants were dressed like Quakers? (5 categories)
- Detailed response to CES Letter, Testimony and Spiritual Witness (5 categories)
- The New Testament and the Book of Mormon (5 categories)
- The death of Shiz (5 categories)
- Question: Do Latter-day Saints believe in a female divine person, a "Heavenly Mother" as counterpart to God, the Heavenly Father? (5 categories)