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- Question: Why does Joseph Smith's 9 November 1835 account of the First Vision mention "many angels?" (3 categories)
- Church finances (3 categories)
- Question: Does the Book of Mormon plagiarize the King James Bible? (3 categories)
- The Bible/Scripture interpretation (3 categories)
- Mormon ordinances/Marriage/Eternal marriage (3 categories)
- Question: What is the Strengthening Church Members Committee? (3 categories)
- Multiple accounts of the First Vision/Oliver Cowdery not aware of First Vision in 1834-35 (3 categories)
- Prothero (2003): "in the 1832 version, Jesus appears to Smith alone, and does all the talking himself. Such complaints, however, are much ado about relatively nothing" (3 categories)
- Question: Why do some New Testament phrases appear in the Book of Mormon? (3 categories)
- Question: Is there anything wrong with early Church leaders using the term "angel" to refer to Jesus Christ? (3 categories)
- Mormonism and apologetics/"ad hominem"/Case study/An attempt to discredit Hugh Nibley by accusing him of child abuse (3 categories)
- Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Do Christians Believe in Three Gods/Origins of Nicene Trinitarianism (3 categories)
- Question: Were the changes to the revelations hidden from the Church members? (3 categories)
- Source:Charles Penrose:Improvement Era:September 1912:Do you believe in "blood-atonement"? (3 categories)
- Question: How did Joseph Smith actually use the gold plates? (3 categories)
- Criticism of Mormonism/Books/No Man Knows My History: The Life of Joseph Smith/Chapter 27 (3 categories)
- Source:Christofferson:The Prophet Joseph Smith:BYUI Devotional:2013:Critics have also claimed that there were no religious revivals in the Palmyra, New York, area in 1820 (3 categories)
- Question: Were any of the changes to the Book of Mormon made in reaction to sectarian criticism? (3 categories)
- Hamblin: "there are no references to Nephite steel after 400 B.C." (3 categories)
- City Creek Center in Salt Lake City (3 categories)
- Mormonism and Wikipedia/Golden plates/Story (3 categories)
- Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Mormonism Unmasked/Chapter 3 (3 categories)
- Plan of salvation/Resurrection/Mormon views regarding (3 categories)
- James Strang movement (3 categories)
- Question: How do the goals of Freemasonry compare to those of the Latter-day Saint endowment? (3 categories)
- Science and the Church of Jesus Christ/Book of Mormon (3 categories)
- Question: Were there not enough people available in Nephi's time to build a temple "after the manner of the temple of Solomon"? (3 categories)
- Question: Why doesn't the art match details which have been repeatedly spelled out in Church publications? (3 categories)
- Criticism of Mormonism/Online documents/Letter to a CES Director (3 categories)
- Question: Was the original head of the priest in Book of Abraham Facsimile 1 actually the jackal head of Anubis? (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: What does the lion couch scene in Book of Abraham Facsimile 1 normally represent? (3 categories)
- Question: What did the husband of Sylvia Sessions know about her sealing to Joseph Smith for eternity? (3 categories)
- Question: Are Mormons polytheists because they don't accept the Nicene Creed? (3 categories)
- Question: What criticisms are put forth regarding the restoration of the Melchizedek Priesthood? (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: Did Joseph Smith become a member of the Methodist Church while he was translating the Book of Mormon? (3 categories)
- Source:Gardner:Joseph the Seer:2009 FAIR Conference:long before golden plates complicated his position as a local seer (3 categories)
- Question: What is the story of Zelph? (3 categories)
- Question: How exactly did Joseph Smith translate the gold plates? (3 categories)
- The Bible/Interpretation (3 categories)
- Question: Did the story of Moroni's visit to Joseph Smith evolve from that of a magical spiritual treasure guardian to an "angel"? (3 categories)
- Question: Is it possible to deduce Joseph Smith's thoughts and dreams years after his death? (3 categories)
- Question: Have edits to the revelations been discussed in the present day? (3 categories)
- Question: What caused William Law to apostatize from the Church and turn against Joseph Smith? (3 categories)
- Question: Why is the statement of William Clayton regarding the Kinderhook Plates in ''History of the Church'' written as if Joseph Smith himself said it? (3 categories)
- Source:Gospel Topics:Peach and Violence:Danites (3 categories)
- 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)
- Peterson (2005): The plates "are an indigestible lump in the throats of people...who contend that there were no Nephites but that Joseph Smith was nonetheless an inspired prophet" (3 categories)