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- Question: If a doctrine is repudiated, does that mean that it was false when it was being taught? (2 categories)
- Doctrine and Covenants and Church History Study Guide: "These papyri contain authentic Egyptian writings, but they do not date to the time of Abraham, nor do they contain the actual personally handwritten account of Abraham" (2 categories)
- Criticism of Mormonism/Books/By His Own Hand upon Papyrus: A New Look at the Joseph Smith Papyri/Larson "restoration" of Facsimile 1 (2 categories)
- Parrish (1838): "I have set by his side and penned down the translation of the Egyptian Heiroglyphicks as he claimed to receive it by direct inspiration of Heaven" (2 categories)
- Detailed response to CES Letter, Witnesses (2 categories)
- Question: Were plural wives forced into the marriage? (2 categories)
- Question: Was Helen Mar Kimball's marriage to Joseph Smith ever consummated? (2 categories)
- Question: What did the husband of Ruth Vose Sayers know about her sealing to Joseph Smith for eternity? (2 categories)
- Question: What did the husband of Elvira Annie Cowles know about her sealing to Joseph Smith for eternity? (2 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith have access to materials related to Nahom at Allegheny College? (2 categories)
- Question: Why does the Book of Mormon mention "synagogues" when they were not present among the Jews until after the Babylonian captivity? (2 categories)
- Question: Did Brigham Young order that the Mount Meadows monument be destroyed? (2 categories)
- Source:Gospel Topics:The Manifesto and the End of Plural Marriage:Joseph F. Smith broke the law (2 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith issue a prophecy that the Nauvoo House would stand forever and ever? (2 categories)
- Question: What was known about steel in ancient America? (2 categories)
- Gospel Topics: "the Bible mentions other physical instruments used to access God’s power: the rod of Aaron, a brass serpent, holy anointing oils, the Ark of the Covenant, and even dirt from the ground mixed with saliva" (2 categories)
- Mountain Meadows Massacre/Personalities (2 categories)
- Question: Was the priest depicted in Book of Abraham Facsimile 1 holding a knife or was it some other object? (2 categories)
- Question: Did Martin Harris change his religion five times prior to the Restoration? (2 categories)
- The Palmyra Reflector (1831): "Jo Smith had now received a commission from God...Cowdery and his friends had frequent interviews with angels" (2 categories)
- Mormonism and doctrine (2 categories)
- Question: Did John Whitmer, one of the Eight Witnesses, actually say that he saw the plates by a "supernatural power"? (2 categories)
- Question: Is a man unreliable because he lived in the 19th-Century? (2 categories)
- Question: Why does the Book of Mormon say that Jesus would be born "at Jerusalem which is the land of our forefathers" when the Bible states that he was born in Bethlehem? (2 categories)
- Joseph Smith/Polygamy/Polyandry (2 categories)
- Question: What is the correct interpretation of Facsimile 3? (2 categories)
- Mormonism and doctrine/Repudiated concepts/Blood atonement (2 categories)
- Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Nauvoo Polygamy/Chapter 1 (2 categories)
- Question: Was the Church forthright in identifying the rediscovered papyri prior to their examination by non-LDS Egyptologists? (2 categories)
- Question: Does the Book of Mormon support the idea that "eternal" or "endless" punishment can be temporary? (2 categories)
- Criticism of Mormonism/Books/One Nation Under Gods/Use of sources/Brigham Young ordered MMM (2 categories)
- Question: Is it true that Joseph killed two men by firing at the mob? (2 categories)
- Source:Echoes:Ch5:29:Lehi's desert journey and Joseph Smith (2 categories)
- Question: Did the daughter of Hugh Nibley accuse him of abusing her? (2 categories)
- Question: Where was the Melchizedek Priesthood restored? (2 categories)
- Question: Does the Book of Mormon describe the Lamanites as being "cursed" with a "red skin"? (2 categories)
- Question: If the only purpose of polygamy was to "raise up seed," then why did Joseph not have children by his plural wives? (2 categories)
- Question: Do academic translators copy translations of other documents to use as a "base text"? (2 categories)
- Question: What message does the Book of Mormon translation painting convey? (2 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph mention a "pillar of fire" or a "pillar of light" in his 1832 account of the First Vision? (2 categories)
- Question: Does the use of the capitalized word "Angel" in the 14 November 1835 account refer to Deity? (2 categories)
- Question: Does the Strengthening Church Members Committee still exist? (2 categories)
- Joseph Smith/Polygamy/Polyandry/Knowledge and consent of living husband (2 categories)
- Question: Is the concept of no death before the fall on the ''entire earth'' Church doctrine? (2 categories)
- Multiple accounts of the First Vision/Orson Hyde referred to "angels" (2 categories)
- Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Do Christians Believe in Three Gods (2 categories)
- Question: Was Martin Harris a gullible witness who would simply believe anything he was told? (2 categories)
- The Burrows Cave artifacts (2 categories)
- Question: Did one of the Book of Mormon witnesses actually only handle the plates while they were covered in a "tow frock"? (2 categories)
- Question: Can the Newark "Holy Stones" be used as evidence to support the Book of Mormon? (2 categories)