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- Question: Are there any known parallels between elements of Joseph's interpretation of Facsimile 3 with other ancient texts? (2 categories)
- Question: What did the Church announce in 1968 when the Joseph Smith papyri fragments were discovered? (2 categories)
- Question: What authorship theories are proposed by non-believers to account for the authorship of the Book of Mormon? (2 categories)
- Gospel Topics on LDS.org: "Some evidence suggests that Joseph studied the characters on the Egyptian papyri and attempted to learn the Egyptian language" (2 categories)
- Question: Does the 1832 account of the First Vision not prohibit Joseph from joining any church? (2 categories)
- Question: Did Orson Pratt state that it was an angel that appeared during the First Vision? (2 categories)
- Question: Did Latter-day Saints wish to avoid being classified as Christians? (2 categories)
- Question: Do Mormons believe that other religions can be inspired by God? (2 categories)
- Question: Did Martin Harris change his religion five times prior to the Restoration? (2 categories)
- Question: How early was the story of the First Vision known among the members of the Church? (2 categories)
- Question: How many times was the name of the Church changed through revelation? (2 categories)
- Question: When and how did plural marriage begin in the Church? (2 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith produce any children by his plural wives? The case for children (2 categories)
- Question: Was there no death on the entire earth before the Fall? (2 categories)
- Question: Has the Church hidden the fact that Joseph fired a gun while in Carthage Jail? (2 categories)
- Question: How could the Garden of Eden have been in Missouri if the Flood was local? (2 categories)
- Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Becoming Gods/Use of sources/Changing Biblical text (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)
- Elder's Journal/1/4 (2 categories)
- Question: Does the Book of Mormon support the idea that "eternal" or "endless" punishment can be temporary? (2 categories)
- Forgeries/Mark Hofmann/Known forged documents (2 categories)
- The Mormon Concept of God: A Philosophical Analysis (2 categories)
- Source:Echoes:Ch5:29:Lehi's desert journey and Joseph Smith (2 categories)
- Question: Is it ever allowable to modify a religious ceremony? (2 categories)
- Question: Are prophets simply "men of their time," without any special ability to guide the Church? (2 categories)
- Question: Does the Joseph Smith papyri consist of Egyptian funerary documents? (2 categories)
- Roper: "For example, an iron knife was found in an eleventh century Philistine tomb showed evidence of deliberate carburization" (2 categories)
- Answers to Questions All Mormons Should Ask Themselves (2 categories)
- Question: Were there any similar cases under Illinois adultery statute which demonstrate that Joseph was not breaking the law? (2 categories)
- Logical fallacies/Page 3 (2 categories)
- Question: How valid are the names used in the Holley Map? (2 categories)
- Source:Gospel Topics:The Manifesto and the End of Plural Marriage:Joseph F. Smith broke the law (2 categories)
- Question: What did the husband of Elizabeth Davis know about her sealing to Joseph Smith for eternity? (2 categories)
- Question: How can President Hinckley claim that polygamy is "not doctrinal" if it was a required practice in the 19th-Century Church? (2 categories)
- Question: Does Church art always reflect reality? (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)
- Joseph Smith: "Jesus Christ became a ministering spirit (while his body was lying in the sepulcher)...After His resurrection He appeared as an angel to His disciples" (2 categories)
- Question: Did Martin Harris ever deny his Book of Mormon witness because he thought that Joseph Smith was a fallen prophet? (2 categories)
- Question: Why did Joseph Smith state the he was visited by two personages and then just five days later say that he was visited by angels? (2 categories)
- The Bible/Joseph Smith Translation (2 categories)
- Question: What are the criticisms regarding Joseph's interpretation of specific textual elements of Facsimile 3? (2 categories)
- Question: How long did the Church know about the papyri before they published information about them? (2 categories)
- Question: What are the Kirtland Egyptian Papers? (2 categories)
- Countercult ministries/The Interactive Bible/Difficult Questions for Mormons/Influenced by the KJV of the Bible (2 categories)
- Mormonism and apologetics/"ad hominem"/Case study/An attempt to portray Dan Peterson as dishonest and possibly mentally ill (2 categories)
- Question: What did Orson Pratt state about Joseph Smith's First Vision? (2 categories)
- Source:Gospel Topics:Becoming Like God:Latter-day Saints see all people as children of God in a full and complete sense (2 categories)
- Question: Did early Mormon leaders consider themselves Christians? (2 categories)
- Question: Were William Parrish and his son murdered as they attempted to leave Utah because leaving Utah was "forbidden"? (2 categories)