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Index of claims and responses to MormonThink

The following index correlates the Table of Contents on the MormonThink web site with responses in the FAIR Wiki.

Introduction

• FAIR's response: Website reviews/MormonThink

Moroni's Visitation

• FAIR's response: Moroni's visit
  • Moroni's visit/Joseph reported "a spirit" visiting in him in 1827
  • Moroni's visit/Siblings remained asleep
  • Moroni's visit/Nephi or Moroni

Book of Mormon Translation

• FAIR's response: Book of Mormon/Translation
  • Book of Mormon/Translation/Method
    • Book of Mormon/Translation/The lost 116 pages
  • Joseph Smith/Seer stones

Book of Mormon Problems

• • FAIR's response: Book of Mormon/Anachronisms

Could Joseph Have Written the BOM?

• FAIR's response: Book of Mormon
  • Book of Mormon/Plagiarism accusations
  • Book of Mormon/Wordprint studies

Book of Abraham

• FAIR's response: Book of Abraham
  • Book of Abraham/Book of the Dead
  • Book of Abraham/Papyri
  • Kirtland Egyptian Papers
  • Book of Abraham/Plagiarism accusations
    • Philosophy of a Future State by Thomas Dick
  • Things that Joseph got right

Lost 116 Pages

• FAIR's response: Book of Mormon/Translation/The lost 116 pages

Kinderhook Plates

• FAIR's response: Kinderhook Plates

The Witnesses

• FAIR's response: Book of Mormon witnesses
  • Book of Mormon witnesses/David Whitmer told to leave
  • Book of Mormon witnesses/Strangite parallels
  • Book of Mormon witnesses/Hypnotism
  • Book of Mormon witnesses/Recant
  • Book of Mormon witnesses/Character
  • Book of Mormon witnesses/Spiritual or literal
  • Book of Mormon witnesses/Eight witnesses
    • Book of Mormon witnesses/Eight witnesses/shown to me by a supernatural power
  • Book of Mormon witnesses/Other Book of Mormon witnesses

First Vision

• FAIR's response: First Vision
  • Methodist camp meetings in 1820
  • Joseph became "partial" to Methodists
  • Religious revivals in 1820
  • Place of residence in 1820
  • First Vision accounts (summary)
    • 1832 account (overview)
      • Early understanding of God?
      • No new dispensation?
      • Different age?
      • Different motivation?
      • No persecution?
      • No revival?
      • Not forbidden to convert?
      • Wicked destroyed?
      • Only one Deity?
      • In heaven or earth?
      • Unconditional salvation?
      • Struggle with Satan?
    • 1835 account (overview)
      • Personages were angels?
    • 1838 account (overview)
      • 1820 Revival?
      • "It commenced with the Methodists"
  • No ref in 1830s publications?
  • Seldom mentioned in LDS pubs bef 1877?
  • No ref in non-LDS pubs before 1843?
  • Taught Joseph saw "God" in 1830 pub?
  • No published ref to Father and Son until 1838?
  • Joseph unsure of God in 1823?
  • Lucy joined Presbyterians in 1823?
  • Joined other churches?
  • All churches wrong?
  • Fabricated to bolster authority?
  • Details added over time?
  • Created to offset leadership crisis?

Polygamy

• FAIR's response: Joseph_Smith_and_polygamy
  • Marriages to young women
  • Lustful motives?
  • Joseph Smith and polygamy/Children of polygamous marriages
    • When did it start?
    • Spiritual witnesses
    • Book_of_Mormon_condemns_polygamy
    • D&C vs. Jacob 2
    • 1835 D&C denial
    • Polyandry
  • Emma Smith
  • Wives already married?
  • Early Christian attitudes
  • Required for exaltation?
  • Brigham in JD 11:269
  • Difficulties?
  • Hiding Brigham's history?
  • Law of Adoption
  • Manifesto & politics?
  • Post-Manifesto marriages
  • Modern Church

Prophets After Joseph

Blacks & Priesthood

• FAIR's response: Blacks and the priesthood
  • Blessings denied by race?
  • Origins of the ban
  • The "curse of Cain" and "curse of Ham"
  • Understanding pre-1978 statements
  • LDS scripture and the ban
  • Slavery in Utah?
  • Lifting the ban
  • Skin color in LDS thought
  • Social pressure and the ban?
  • Repudiated ideas
• Lamanite curse
• Protestant critics' double standard on race: a case study
• Racist statements by Church leaders
  • Do blacks go to heaven as slaves?
  • Death the penalty for race mixing?

Conflicts With Science

• FAIR's response: Mormonism and science

Testimony & Spiritual Witnesses

• FAIR's response: Burning in the bosom

Greek Psalter Incident

• FAIR's response: Joseph Smith/Translator/Greek psalter

Temple

Lying For The Lord

• FAIR's response: "Lying for the Lord"

Tithing

• FAIR's response: Tithing
  • How is tithing calculated?

Conclusions

More Topics

The Name of the Church

• FAIR's response: Name of the Church

Nephi or Moroni

• FAIR's response: Moroni's visit/Nephi or Moroni

Joseph Running with the Gold Plates

Rod of Aaron

• FAIR's response: Oliver Cowdery and the "rod of nature"

Influences on the Book of Mormon - by Tom Donofrio

Joseph's Translation of the Bible

• FAIR's response: Joseph Smith Translation
  • As a restoration of the original Bible text?
  • As the Church's official Bible?}
    • JST an embarrassment to leaders?
  • Relationship to the Book of Mormon

Zelph

• FAIR's response: Zelph

Other

FAIR reviews MormonThink

• FAIR's response: Website reviews/MormonThink

Mormon Podcasts

• Personal Stories & LDS Heretics

Book of Mormon Studies