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- Mormon ordinances (3 categories)
- Multiple accounts of the First Vision/Criticisms/Overview (3 categories)
- Brigham Young (1871): "whether the Lord...made it in six days or in as many millions of years, is and will remain a matter of speculation in the minds of men unless he give revelation on the subject" (3 categories)
- Portal:Test2/box-header (3 categories)
- Question: What did Church leaders after Brigham Young think of the priesthood ban? (3 categories)
- Question: Why did Elder Dunn exaggerate elements of these stories? (3 categories)
- Origin of the Book of Mormon (3 categories)
- Bell: "the questionable traces above the head of the Osiris figure are actually the remains of his right hand" (3 categories)
- Joseph Smith listed as author and proprietor of the Book of Mormon (3 categories)
- Question: What did Oliver Cowdery's associates say about his character? (3 categories)
- Joseph Smith/Seer stones (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)
- David Whitmer (3 categories)
- Question: What does Lecture 5 of the Lectures on Faith say about the nature of God? (3 categories)
- Question: Why did the author of the ''Letter to a CES Director'' feel the need to make a single hostile quote appear as if it were two separate quotes? (3 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith revise his account of the First Vision in 1838 to respond to a leadership crisis? (3 categories)
- Book of Abraham (3 categories)
- Question: In what context are chariots mentioned in the Book of Mormon? (3 categories)
- Question: By what name did Joseph Smith refer to the First Vision? (3 categories)
- Question: Did Oliver Cowdery ever deny his Book of Mormon witness because he thought that Joseph Smith was a fallen prophet? (3 categories)
- Question: Did some Church leaders believe that the skin of the Lamanites would turn white? (3 categories)
- William Smith (1884): "When the plates were brought in they were wrapped up in a tow frock. My father then put them into a pillow case. Father said, 'What, Joseph, can we not see them?'" (3 categories)
- Question: Could the list of items on Joseph's person at the time of his death have been incomplete? (3 categories)
- Question: Did the Danite band persist even after they were exposed? (3 categories)
- Question: Do Mormons believe Jesus Christ was married? (3 categories)
- Miller and Roper: "In post-biblical Jewish literature some Jewish writers distinguished between wild and domestic cattle such as goats" (3 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)