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- Source:Nicholson:The Spectacles, The Stone:This essay focuses primarily on the methods and instruments used in the translation process (2 categories)
- Question: Did the Church repudiate the idea of neutrality in the "war in heaven?" (2 categories)
- Question: Which sources mention Nephi as the angelic visitor who told Joseph Smith about the gold plates? (2 categories)
- Question: Who is the author of ''History of the Church''? (2 categories)
- Sorenson: The grain "Amaranth" in Mexico (2 categories)
- Question: Does the Bible forbid plural marriage? (2 categories)
- Initiation of the practice of plural marriage (2 categories)
- Polyandry and Joseph Smith: sealings to women with living husbands (2 categories)
- Criticism of Mormonism/Books/One Nation Under Gods/Use of sources/Brigham Young orders MMM monument demolished (2 categories)
- Question: Was Brigham Young's letter ordering immigrants to be left alone "mysteriously lost"? (2 categories)
- Question: Is it possible that Joseph Smith is not a martyr because, while in jail, he had a gun and he had the temerity to defend himself? (2 categories)
- Question: Do Mormons believe that the Bible has less value because it contains errors? (2 categories)
- Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Becoming Gods/Use of sources/Madsen-B.H. Roberts and the Book of Mormon (2 categories)
- Logical fallacies/Page 1 (2 categories)
- Joseph Smith's First Vision/Personages that appeared referred to by Church leaders as "angels" (2 categories)
- Mormonism and the nature of God/Corporeality of God (2 categories)
- Forgeries/Mark Hofmann/Church reaction to forgeries/Dallin H. Oaks 6 August 1987 remarks on Hofmann (2 categories)
- John Whitmer (1876): "I have never heard that any one of the three or eight witnesses ever denied the testimony that they have borne to the Book as published in the first edition of the Book of Mormon" (2 categories)
- Understanding revelation (2 categories)
- Question: Did ceremonies or practices ever change in the ancient Church? (2 categories)
- Question: Were the characters on the papyri written by Abraham himself? (2 categories)
- Question: Did federal officials flee Utah because they feared for their lives? (2 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith make an error by claiming that Elias and Elijah are two different people, when they are in fact one and the same? (2 categories)
- Book of Jubilees 12:1-8: "Abram said to Terah his father...What help and profit have we from those idols which thou dost worship...And his father said unto him...Keep silent, my son, lest they slay thee" (2 categories)
- Question: What if the "rod of nature" was indeed a physical object such as a divining rod? (2 categories)
- Detailed response to CES Letter, Polygamy and Polyandry (2 categories)
- Question: Was Joseph Smith ever charged with adultery under Illinois law? (2 categories)
- Preach My Gospel: "As you pray for inspiration, you should also confirm your feelings...Certainly the Spirit of the Lord can bring strong emotional feelings, including tears, but that outward manifestation ought not to be confused with the presence of the (2 categories)
- Question: What did the husband of Patty Bartlett know about her sealing to Joseph Smith for eternity? (2 categories)
- Painesville Telegraph (1831): Martin Harris said that "He had seen and handled them all" (2 categories)
- Question: Did Gordon B. Hinckley claim that polygamy was "not doctrinal" on Larry King Live? (2 categories)
- Question: How would an archaeologist distinguish a Christian's pot from that of a non-Christian? (2 categories)
- Elder's Journal/1/3 (2 categories)
- Question: What was the thickness of each gold plate? (2 categories)
- Question: Were the names "Moroni" and "Cumorah" available on maps accessible to Joseph Smith? (2 categories)
- Question: What is the probability that Joseph Smith possessed items related to "magic"? (2 categories)
- Question: Why did Joseph Smith make changes to the Book of Mormon such as modifying "God" to read "the Son of God"? (2 categories)
- Joseph Smith (1842): "surrounded with a brilliant light which eclipsed the sun at noon-day" (2 categories)
- Criticism of Mormonism/Books/One Nation Under Gods/Chapter 17 (2 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith set up a bar to sell liquor in Nauvoo? (2 categories)
- Question: What does the Church teach on the subject of death before the Fall of Adam? (2 categories)
- Question: Are Church members required to believe in a global flood? (2 categories)
- Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Covering Up the Black Hole in the Book of Mormon/Index (2 categories)
- Joseph Smith's First Vision/John Taylor (2 categories)
- Question: Is the concept of "original sin" part of all Christian theology? (2 categories)
- Question: Did Orson Hyde state that it was permissible to "steal & be influenced by the spirit of the Lord to do it" as long as it was against non-Mormons? (2 categories)
- Question: Do Mormons who do not eat meat "sparingly" violate the Word of Wisdom? (2 categories)
- Question: Were the Kirtland Egyptian Papers and Egyptian Alphabet and Grammar produced prior to the Book of Abraham? (2 categories)
- Book of Mormon/Plagiarism accusations/Comoros Islands and Moroni/Captain Kidd (2 categories)
- Question: What criticisms are raised with regard to Book of Mormon archaeology compared to that of the Bible? (2 categories)