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What is "apologetics"? Why are you apologizing?

Why are you apologizing?

We are not apologizing for our beliefs: Our objective is to defend the faith against those who would attempt to destroy it.

• An apologist is someone who defends a position or explains it. Apologetics is the branch of theology that defends and explains Christian doctrine.
• To learn more:
  • FAIR FAQ
  • Gary Bowler, "What is FAIR, and Why Are You Apologizing?" PDF link
• If FAIR is not officially representing the church, why not?

Reviews and FAIR projects

• Contradictions in LDS scripture?
  Many anti-Mormon protestants use a list of supposed "contradictions" between the Book of Mormon and other LDS scripture. This table reviews and rebuts each.
• Craig Blomberg's "Top Ten Things Jesus Would Say to Mormons"
  Evangelical scholar Dr. Craig Blomberg has spoken of ten things he believes Jesus would tell the Mormons. This review demonstrates that Dr. Blomberg's list would be better thought of as "Ten Things Jesus Would Say If He Were An Evangelical Protestant."
• Reviews of DNA Evidence for Book of Mormon Geography (Rod Meldrum)

A series of review papers on a DVD/fireside presentation.

• Questions All Mormons Should Ask Themselves

Another list of questions which anti-Mormon ministries think Mormons haven't asked themselves and can't answer.

• Answers to 50 Anti-Mormon Questions

Answers to 50 questions which anti-Mormon ministries think are difficult for members of the Church to answer.

• Jesus Christ/Joseph Smith: Search for the Truth DVD

Review and resources for anti-Mormon video released on 24 March 2007

• FAIR Journal

Follow this link to receive our free monthly e-mail newsletter for defenders of the restored Gospel of Jesus Christ. You can unsubscribe at any time.

• FAIR Errata:

Updates and corrections for previous FAIR publications.

• FAIR Blog:

FAIR joins the Blogernacle: Check out the newest addition to FAIR's on-line presence, and read up-to-the-minute commentary and discussion on a wide range of apologetic topics.

• FAIR Videos Forthcoming!:

Rough cuts of a forthcoming FAIR video on the Book of Mormon have been uploaded to YouTube! Click the link above for a list.

Contents 1 What is "apologetics"? Why are you apologizing? 2 Reviews and FAIR projects 3 FAIR Wiki Topical Guide 4 Scriptures 4.1 Contradictions? 4.2 The Holy Bible 4.2.1 Joseph Smith Translation 4.3 The Book of Mormon 4.3.1 Anachronisms? 4.3.2 Authorship 4.3.3 Evidences of authenticity 4.3.4 Geography 4.3.5 Witnesses 4.3.6 Other Book of Mormon topics 4.4 Doctrine and Covenants 4.4.1 Lectures on Faith 4.5 The Pearl of Great Price 4.5.1 The Book of Abraham 4.5.1.1 Evidences of authenticity 4.5.2 Joseph Smith—History 4.5.2.1 Overview 4.5.2.2 Leading up to the vision: 4.5.2.3 The vision: 4.5.2.4 After the vision: 4.5.2.5 Others' accounts: 4.5.2.6 Other criticisms: 4.5.3 Articles of Faith 5 LDS Church history 5.1 Joseph Smith, Jr. 5.1.1 Overview 5.1.2 Leading up to the vision: 5.1.3 The vision: 5.1.4 After the vision: 5.1.5 Others' accounts: 5.1.6 Other criticisms: 5.1.7 Brigham Young 5.1.7.1 First Vision and Brigham Young 5.1.7.2 Mormon Reformation 5.1.7.3 Mountain Meadows Massacre and Brigham Young 5.1.7.4 Plural marriage and Brigham Young 5.1.7.5 Reviews of works about Brigham Young 5.1.7.6 Teachings of Brigham Young 5.1.7.7 Miscellaneous Brigham Young issues 5.2 Plural marriage 5.3 Mountain Meadows Massacre 5.4 Restoration of the Church and priesthood 5.4.1 Evidences of authenticity 5.5 Temple worship 5.5.1 Evidences of authenticity 5.6 Other Church history 6 Doctrinal questions and controversies 6.1 God 6.2 Jesus Christ 6.3 The Holy Ghost 6.4 Adam 6.5 Grace and works 6.6 Obedience 6.7 Relationships 6.8 Other questions and controversies 6.8.1 Other 7 Mormon culture and attitudes 7.1 Science and the Church 7.2 Statistical claims 7.3 Women and the Church 8 Specific Authors, Works and Ministries 9 Other subjects 10 Reference 11 Templates

FAIR Wiki Topical Guide

• Topical Guide

Scriptures

Contradictions?

• Supposed contradictions in LDS scripture (index page)
  • Anti-Mormon table of common "contradictions"
  • Multiple versus single creator(s)?
  • 2 Nephi 31 and D&C 20:37 on baptism and forgiveness
  • 3 Nephi 13:12 & Matthew 6:13: the Lord's prayer

The Holy Bible

Holy Bible wiki articles

• Bible basics
• "Adding to" or "taking away" from the Bible
• Archeology and the Bible
• Being "born again"—what does the Bible mean?
• Completeness and sufficiency
• Cosmology of the Bible
• Bible says the Christian gospel is "a mystery" not to be known before Christ?
• Flood, global or local
• Genealogy, condemnation of
• Hebrews 7 and the Aaronic Priesthood
• Inerrancy and the Bible
• Isaiah, multiple authors of
• Lost scripture
• Open canon vs. closed canon
• Noah's flood / Noachian deluge
• Textual criticism
• Three degrees of glory not biblical
• Translations

Joseph Smith Translation

Joseph Smith Translation wiki articles

• And the Book of Mormon
• As a restoration of the original Bible text
• As the Church's official Bible
  • JST an embarrassment to leaders?
• Discrepancies Between Translations: Book of Mormon, King James Version, Joseph Smith Translation

The Book of Mormon

Book of Mormon wiki articles

• Archaeology
  • Book of Mormon archaeology "does not exist"?
  • The Hill Cumorah
  • Smithsonian statement on Book of Mormon archaeology
  • Dee F. Green (Dialogue 1969) on BoM archaeology
• Book of Mormon basics
• Chronology
• Demographics
• Did Joseph Smith attempt to sell the Book of Mormon copyright?
• DNA evidence
• "Familiar spirit", Book of Mormon as a
• Fulness of the gospel, Book of Mormon and the
  • Why is baptism for the dead not taught in the Book of Mormon?
• Historicity
• Isaiah, multiple authors of
• Joseph Smith Translation and the Book of Mormon
• Lamanite curse
• Most correct book, Book of Mormon as the
• Plain and precious Book of Mormon doctrines
• Book of Mormon/Red skin curse
• Textual changes
  • "the Son of" added
  • "or out of the waters of baptism" added
  • "white" changed to "pure"
  • "Benjamin" changed to "Mosiah"
  • Missing words in Alma 32:30?
• Translation chronology, Book of Mormon
  • Anthon transcript
• Translation method, Book of Mormon
  • Mainly italics altered?

See also: "Anachronisms"•Authorship•DNA issues•Geography issues•Hebraic influence•Witnesses

Book of Mormon and KJV Bible text wiki articles

• Book of Mormon plagiarized from Bible?
  • Mainly altered italics in the KJV?
• Book of Mormon "translation errors" from KJV?
• Book of Mormon translation method
• Book of Mormon and the Dead Sea Scrolls

Joseph Smith Translation wiki articles

• And the Book of Mormon
• As a restoration of the original Bible text
• As the Church's official Bible
  • JST an embarrassment to leaders?
• Discrepancies Between Translations: Book of Mormon, King James Version, Joseph Smith Translation

Anachronisms?

Book of Mormon "Anachronisms"

• Anachronisms (summary page)
  • "Adieu"
  • Animals
  • Bible text and word choice
    • French word: "adieu"?
    • Greek words: alpha and omega?
    • Malachi text?
    • New Testament text?
  • Cement
  • Coins
  • Compass
  • Demographics
  • DNA issues
  • Gadianton Robbers as Masons?
  • "Gold" plates?
  • Holy Ghost
  • Jeremiah in prison
  • Jerusalem as site of Jesus' birth
  • KJV translation "errors" in Book of Mormon?
  • Legal codes and concepts
  • Metals
  • Metal Plates
  • Mulek
  • Names
    • Comoros Islands and Moroni
  • Olive culture
  • Plants
  • Population sizes
  • Red Sea vs Reed Sea
  • Reformed Egyptian
  • Satyrs
  • Serpents and drought
  • Shiz struggles to breathe
  • Snow
  • Sweat and skin pores
  • Synagogues
  • Temple in the New World
  • Three days of darkness
  • Translation errors from the KJV?
    • Lord's Prayer
  • Warfare
    • Swords
  • Windows

Authorship

Book of Mormon authorship theories

• Authorship theories (Summary page)
  • Automatic writing
  • Epilepsy
  • Joseph Smith as "author and proprietor"
  • Joseph Smith, Sr.'s dream and Lehi's vision
  • Seer stones, use of
  • Wordprint studies

Book of Mormon plagiarism accusations—wiki articles

• Plagiarism accusations (Summary page)
  • Apocrypha
  • The Golden Pot
  • The King James Bible
  • Shakespeare
  • The Spalding manuscript
    • Vernal Holley (1983) geography
  • View of the Hebrews
    • Analysis of Isaiah use in View of Hebrews
    • "Unparallels"
  • The Westminster Confession
  • The Wonders of Nature and Providence Displayed by Josiah Priest
• North American place names
• The Comoros Islands and Moroni

Evidences of authenticity

Book of Mormon evidences—wiki articles

• Book of Mormon evidences (Summary page)
  • And it came to pass

Hebrew influences on Book of Mormon text—wiki articles

• Chiasmus
• Hebraisms
• Hebrew and Native American languages
• Kingship and Coronation
• Names
• Poetic forms

A Few Hundred Hints of Egyptian and Northwest Semitic in Uto-Aztecan, Brian Stubbs, 2006 FAIR Conference (YouTube Video)

• Part 1: A Few Hundred Hints of Egyptian and Northwest Semitic in Uto-Aztecan
• Part 2: A Few Hundred Hints of Egyptian and Northwest Semitic in Uto-Aztecan
• Part 3: A Few Hundred Hints of Egyptian and Northwest Semitic in Uto-Aztecan
• Part 4: A Few Hundred Hints of Egyptian and Northwest Semitic in Uto-Aztecan
• Part 5: A Few Hundred Hints of Egyptian and Northwest Semitic in Uto-Aztecan
• Plain and Precious Book of Mormon doctrines

Geography

Book of Mormon Geography

• Book of Mormon geography
  • Statements made by LDS leaders
    • Joseph Smith statements about geography
    • First Presidency Letter

Models and settings

• Old World
  • Nahom
• New World
  • New World geography models in table form
  • Hemispheric geography theory (HGT)
  • Limited geography theory (LGT)
    • Mesoamerica
      • Maya and Olmec as Book of Mormon peoples?
      • Plates to New York
    • Great Lakes geography?
      • Vernal Holley (1983) geography
      • "Heartland" (Meldrum, 2003) model
      • Burrows Cave
      • Michigan artifacts

Nineteenth century issues

• Borders of the Lamanites
• "Continents" in Joseph Smith's era
• Lamanites in the Doctrine and Covenants
• Joseph Smith statements about geography
• Book of Mormon and the Mound Builders
• Place names from Joseph's environment?
  • Comoros Islands and Moroni
• Zarahemla near Nauvoo, Illinois?
• Zelph
• Zion: location of Zion

Modern issues

• Archaeology, the Bible, and Book of Mormon
• DNA and geographic issues
  • Haplotype X2a?
• Demographics and Population sizes
• "Disdaining or dismissing" Joseph's views?
• Historicity of Book of Mormon

Witnesses

Book of Mormon witnesses wiki articles

• Book of Mormon witnesses (Summary page)

Three Witnesses

• Martin Harris and Charles Anthon
• "Mass hypnosis" of the witnesses?
• Character and mental stability of witnesses
• Faithfulness of witnesses to testimony
  • Did Oliver Cowdery admit to a hoax?
• "Eye of Faith"/"Spiritual Eye" statements by Martin Harris
• Literal nature of witness experience
• Strangite parallels for witnesses?
• David Whitmer told to leave the Church?
• David Whitmer said was not an actual visitation?

Eight Witnesses

• Eight witnesses
  • "shown to me by a supernatural power"

Other Witnesses

• Gold plates would be too heavy?
• Other witnesses
• Weight and materials of plates

Other Book of Mormon topics

Slaying Laban wiki articles

• Book of Mormon anachronisms:Holy Ghost
• Legal codes in Book of Mormon
• Nephi's killing of Laban
  • Could Satan deceive Nephi?

Other Book of Mormon

• Amerindians as Lamanites
• Moroni as an angel of Satan
• Moroni or Nephi?
• Sami Hanna on the Book of Mormon
• Stick of Ephraim

Doctrine and Covenants

D&C Wiki articles

• Contradiction between D&C 132 and Jacob 2
• Independence temple to be built "in this generation"
• Lamanites in the Doctrine and Covenants
• Official Declaration—1 the result of political pressure
• Revelation after Joseph Smith
• Rod of Aaron / Rod of nature / Working with the rod
• Textual changes
  • Adam and Michael conflated in D&C 137?
  • Changes to "translation" in D&C 7?
  • Were changes to the D&C hidden from the Church?

Lectures on Faith

• The Father: A Spirit vs. Embodied
• God a personage of spirit?
• Lectures on Faith removed from Doctrine and Covenants

The Pearl of Great Price

• Textual changes ^{[needs work]}
• Book of Enoch ^{[needs work]}
• Book of Moses ^{[needs work]}

The Book of Abraham

FAIR Book of Abraham wiki articles

• Frequently-asked questions
• Book of Abraham papyri (summary)
  • Book of Abraham papyri (full-length version)
• Book of Joseph
• Hiding Book of the Dead connection?
• Book of Abraham/Size of missing papyrus
• Kirtland Egyptian Papers
• Why would Abraham lie?
• Was Joseph Smith's theology influenced by the writings of Thomas Dick?

Evidences of authenticity

• Book of Abraham:Hits

Joseph Smith—History

First Vision wiki articles

Overview

• Summary page

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Leading up to the vision:

• Methodist camp meetings in 1820
• Religious revivals in 1820
• Place of residence in 1820

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The vision:

• 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"
• Paul's accounts of his vision
  • Scholars solved discrepancies?
• Can't see God without priesthood?

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After the vision:

• 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?

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Others' accounts:

• George Q. Cannon
• Cowdery version of 1834-5?
• Orson Hyde
• Andrew Jenson
• Heber C. Kimball|
• Orson Pratt
• George A. Smith
• Lucy Mack Smith
• Orson Spencer
• John Taylor
• Brigham never spoke of 1st vision?
• Brigham claimed an angel?
• Seldom published pre-1877 (short)
  • (long)

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Other criticisms:

• D&C 121:28 contradicts vision?
• Father: Spirit vs. Embodied
• Personages seen by Joseph

Joseph Smith other visionary issues wiki articles

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Moroni's visit:

• Moroni's visit (summary)
  • Nephi or Moroni in 1823?
  • A "spirit" visited Joseph in 1827?
  • Moroni as an "angel of Satan"
• Joseph Smith's early conception of God
• Personages who appeared to Joseph Smith
• Swedenborg and three degrees of glory  ^{[needs work]}

God wiki articles

• The Father: A Spirit vs. Embodied
  • Lectures on Faith teaches the Father is "a personage of spirit"?
• Corporeality of God
  • God is "not a man"?
  • Flesh and blood cannot enter the kingdom of Heaven?
  • Lectures on Faith teaches the Father is "a personage of spirit"?
• Creatio ex nihilo / Creation out of nothing
  • Creation in Colossians 1:16
  • Creation of spirits
• Dallin H. Oaks on God as seen by LDS and other Christians
• Elohim and Jehovah
  • Downplaying the King Follett discourse?
  • Do Mormons believe they will be "gods of their own planets"?
  • Does Elohim have a father God above him?
• Foreknowledge of God
• God is a Spirit
  • Book of Mormon says God is a spirit?
• Godhead and the Trinity
• Heavenly Mother?
  • Latter-day Saints believe in Celestial Sex?
• Infinite regress of Gods?
• Kolob
• "No God beside me" - (includes Isaiah 43-46 issues)
• No man has seen God
• Polytheism - Are Mormons polytheists?
• Spirit bodies for humans and 1 Cor 15
  • Early Christians on literal resurrection
• Theosis or human deification
  • Do Mormons believe they will be "gods of their own planets"?
  • Latter-day Saints believe in Celestial Sex?
  • Primary sources/Theosis
• Unchanging Nature of God

Video

Revised or Unaltered?: Joseph Smith's Foundational Stories, Matthew Brown, 2006 FAIR Conference

• Part 1: Revised or Unaltered?: Joseph Smith's Foundational Stories
• Part 2: Revised or Unaltered?: Joseph Smith's Foundational Stories
• Part 3: Revised or Unaltered?: Joseph Smith's Foundational Stories
• Part 4: Revised or Unaltered?: Joseph Smith's Foundational Stories
• Part 5: Revised or Unaltered?: Joseph Smith's Foundational Stories
• Part 5: Revised or Unaltered?: Joseph Smith's Foundational Stories

Articles of Faith

• Differing versions of the Articles of Faith

LDS Church history

Joseph Smith, Jr.

Joseph Smith, Jr. wiki articles

• The Council of Fifty
• Did Joseph boast of keeping the Church intact?
• Joseph Smith's supposed narcissism?
  • Joseph Smith, mathematical truth, and God's right hand man
  • Did Joseph boast of keeping the Church intact?
  • Did Joseph claim to be "better than Jesus"?
  • Joseph as a "second Mohammad"?
• Greek psalter
• Healings and miracles?
• Holy Ghost, Joseph Smith is the
• Kinderhook Plates
• King of the world, anointed
• Joseph Smith land speculation
• Lazy Smiths?
• Lucy Mack Smith and Joseph's "amusing recitals" of Ancient Americans
• Was Joseph Smith a martyr?
  • Hiding Joseph's use of a gun at the martyrdom?
  • Martyrdom in Christian history
  • Was the Nauvoo Legion to come rescue Joseph?
• Masonic cry of distress
• Money digging/treasure seeking
  • Joseph Smith's "treasure hunting" trip to Salem
• Moonmen
• Occult activities or "magick"?
  • Magician Walters as a mentor?
• Personal failings
  • Lazy?
  • No positive witnesses about the Smith family?
• Political activities
• Seer stones, use of
• Status in LDS belief
  • Joseph Smith as subject of hymns?
  • Worship: do Mormons worship Joseph Smith?
  • Did Bruce R. McConkie say we must "turn to Joseph to gain salvation"?
• Teller of tall tales?
• As translator

Joseph Smith and legal issues wiki articles

• D&C 98 teaches Saints to disobey secular law?
• Joseph Smith and legal trials
  • 1826 trial
• Kirtland Safety Society
  • False charges against Warren Parrish?
  • Money boxes filled with sand?
  • Notes from KSS to be "as good as gold"?
• Nauvoo city charter
  • Habeas corpus
  • Usurpation of power?
• Nauvoo Expositor
  • Nauvoo Expositor Full Text

Prophecy wiki articles

• Joseph Smith prophecies
  • Can't be killed within 5 years of August 1843
  • Civil War prophecy
    • Attitude of Saints to Civil War prophecy
  • David Patten to serve a mission?
  • Forged prophecy about Saints in Rocky Mountains?
    • Tanners' use of sources
  • Government to be overthrown and wasted
  • Independence temple to be built "in this generation"
  • Joseph and Orson Hyde to drink of wine in Palestine?
  • Notes from Kirtland Safety Society to be "as good as gold"?
  • Prophetic test in Deuteronomy
  • Queens to pay respect to Relief Society within ten years?
  • Second Coming in 1890 (56 years)
  • Stephen A. Douglas prophecy
  • Ten tribes return and wicked swept away?
  • Thomas B. Marsh to be "exalted"
  • United Order everlasting, immutable, and unchangeable?
  • Zion redeemed by September 1836?
• Official doctrine: what is it?
• LDS prophets don't prophesy?
• Prophetic inerrancy?
• Revelation after Joseph Smith
  • John Taylor 1886 revelation
  • Joseph F. Smith on revelation at Smoot hearings
  • Wilford Woodruff's 1889 revelation
• When the Prophet speaks, the thinking is done? (non-wiki)

First Vision wiki articles

Overview

• Summary page

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Leading up to the vision:

• Methodist camp meetings in 1820
• Religious revivals in 1820
• Place of residence in 1820

---

The vision:

• 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"
• Paul's accounts of his vision
  • Scholars solved discrepancies?
• Can't see God without priesthood?

---

After the vision:

• 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?

---

Others' accounts:

• George Q. Cannon
• Cowdery version of 1834-5?
• Orson Hyde
• Andrew Jenson
• Heber C. Kimball|
• Orson Pratt
• George A. Smith
• Lucy Mack Smith
• Orson Spencer
• John Taylor
• Brigham never spoke of 1st vision?
• Brigham claimed an angel?
• Seldom published pre-1877 (short)
  • (long)

---

Other criticisms:

• D&C 121:28 contradicts vision?
• Father: Spirit vs. Embodied
• Personages seen by Joseph

Joseph Smith other visionary issues wiki articles

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Moroni's visit:

• Moroni's visit (summary)
  • Nephi or Moroni in 1823?
  • A "spirit" visited Joseph in 1827?
  • Moroni as an "angel of Satan"
• Joseph Smith's early conception of God
• Personages who appeared to Joseph Smith
• Swedenborg and three degrees of glory  ^{[needs work]}

God wiki articles

• The Father: A Spirit vs. Embodied
  • Lectures on Faith teaches the Father is "a personage of spirit"?
• Corporeality of God
  • God is "not a man"?
  • Flesh and blood cannot enter the kingdom of Heaven?
  • Lectures on Faith teaches the Father is "a personage of spirit"?
• Creatio ex nihilo / Creation out of nothing
  • Creation in Colossians 1:16
  • Creation of spirits
• Dallin H. Oaks on God as seen by LDS and other Christians
• Elohim and Jehovah
  • Downplaying the King Follett discourse?
  • Do Mormons believe they will be "gods of their own planets"?
  • Does Elohim have a father God above him?
• Foreknowledge of God
• God is a Spirit
  • Book of Mormon says God is a spirit?
• Godhead and the Trinity
• Heavenly Mother?
  • Latter-day Saints believe in Celestial Sex?
• Infinite regress of Gods?
• Kolob
• "No God beside me" - (includes Isaiah 43-46 issues)
• No man has seen God
• Polytheism - Are Mormons polytheists?
• Spirit bodies for humans and 1 Cor 15
  • Early Christians on literal resurrection
• Theosis or human deification
  • Do Mormons believe they will be "gods of their own planets"?
  • Latter-day Saints believe in Celestial Sex?
  • Primary sources/Theosis
• Unchanging Nature of God

Video

Revised or Unaltered?: Joseph Smith's Foundational Stories, Matthew Brown, 2006 FAIR Conference

• Part 1: Revised or Unaltered?: Joseph Smith's Foundational Stories
• Part 2: Revised or Unaltered?: Joseph Smith's Foundational Stories
• Part 3: Revised or Unaltered?: Joseph Smith's Foundational Stories
• Part 4: Revised or Unaltered?: Joseph Smith's Foundational Stories
• Part 5: Revised or Unaltered?: Joseph Smith's Foundational Stories
• Part 5: Revised or Unaltered?: Joseph Smith's Foundational Stories

"Magic" wiki links

• Joseph Smith and legal trials
  • 1826 trial
• Joseph Smith and money digging
• Joseph Smith and the "occult" or "magick"
  • Early members believed in "witchcraft"
  • Book of Mormon recovered on autumnal equinox
  • Joseph influenced by Kabbalah?
  • Lucy Mack Smith on "faculty of Abrac" and "magic circles"
  • Jupiter talisman
  • Magician Walters as a mentor?
  • Magick parchments
  • Mars dagger
• Seer stones, use of

Brigham Young

First Vision and Brigham Young

• Brigham said Lord didn't appear in First Vision?
• Brigham Young never mentioned the First Vision?

Mormon Reformation

• Brigham Young's preaching style
• Crimes alleged to be "worthy of death"
• Brigham Young: "bowie knife" (JD 1:83)
• Brigham Young: "cut their throats" (JD 2:311)
• Brigham Young: "cutting off from the earth" (JD 4:53)
• Brigham Young: "killing the evil doers" (JD 3:50}
• Brigham Young: "meanest devils" (JD 6:176)
• Brigham Young: murder unfaithful Mormons to save souls? (JD 4:219-20)
• Brigham Young: dictator? (JD 14:205)
• Brigham Young: President of the US?

Mountain Meadows Massacre and Brigham Young

• Brigham Young ordered Mountain Meadows Massacre?
  • Brigham's letter mysteriously lost?
• Brigham Young ordered MMM memorial demolished?
• Brigham Young and the prosecution of Mountain Meadows Massacre
• Orders to starve Gentiles?

Plural marriage and Brigham Young

• Brigham Young and polygamy
  • Brigham said polygamist go 'beyond normal bounds'?
  • Boasted could get more wives?
  • Brigham Young 8 October 1861 discourse on plural marriage
  • Emma Smith and Brigham Young
  • Hiding history—does the Church try to hide Brigham's polygamy?
  • Polygamy required for exaltation? Brigham Young in Journal of Discourses 11:269
  • Brigham Young: Women not to meddle?

Reviews of works about Brigham Young

• Will Bagley
  • Blood of the Prophets: Brigham Young and the Massacre at Mountain Meadows
• George D. Smith
  • Nauvoo Polygamy — (Index of claims)
• Carol Whang Shutter
  • September Dawn (film)

Teachings of Brigham Young

• Brigham Young and moonmen?
• Brigham Young and people on the sun?
• Racist?
  • The "curse of Cain" and "curse of Ham"
  • Do blacks go to heaven as slaves?
  • Death the penalty for race mixing?
  • Slavery in Utah?
• Brigham says his sermons are "scriptures"?
  • Quote mining JD 13:95 on sermons as scripture
• Brigham Young on need to know for ourselves
• Brigham's speeches are "scripture"?
• Brigham Young as Young Earth Creationist?
• Did Brigham Young think too much education was damaging?

Miscellaneous Brigham Young issues

• Counterfeiting by Brigham Young and other apostles at Nauvoo?
• Brigham announced his own death and resurrection?
• Threats against early federal officials?
• Women not to meddle?
• Whistling and whittling brigades
• Urban legend: Was Brigham's hearse used at Disneyland?

Plural marriage

Plural marriage wiki links

Scriptural and doctrinal issues

• Book of Mormon Condemns Polygamy
• Contradiction between D&C 132 and Jacob 2
• 1835 Doctrine and Covenants denies polygamy
• Plural marriage is not Biblical?
  • No biblical mandate for plural marriage?
  • Early Christians on Plural Marriage
  • Paul forbids plural marriage in 1 Timothy and Titus?
• The Law of Adoption
• Purpose of plural marriage
• Brigham Young 8 October 1861 discourse on plural marriage
• Polygamists are to go beyond normal "bounds"?

Joseph Smith

• Joseph Smith and polygamy (Summary article)

Youth

• Youthful struggles with immorality?
• Was Joseph an early womanizer?
  • Eliza Winters
  • Marinda Nancy Johnson

Beginnings

• Initiation of the practice
• Eternal marriage—introduction of the doctrine
• Divine manifestations to plural wives and families

Emma

• Emma Smith
  • Emma to be "annihilated"?
  • Emma, Eliza, and the stairs

Wives

• Fanny Alger—affair or marriage?
• Fanny Alger—William McLellin account
• Helen Mar Kimball
• Sarah Ann Whitney
• Zina Huntington Jacobs
• Mismanagement of the Lawrence estate?

Controversies

• Adulterous before 12 July 1843, according to Lorenzo Snow?
• John C. Bennett
• "Censorship" and "revision" of LDS history?
  • Wilford Woodruff criticizes publication of polygamists
  • LDS histories over many years omit plural marriage
• Lustful motives?
• Ohio marriages illegal?
• Polygamy/Remarrying without civil divorce
• Women locked in a room?
• Polygamous marriages to young women
  • Polygamy book/Age of wives
• Polyandry
  • Polygamy book/Polyandry
  • Zina and Henry Jacobs
  • Children by Presendia Buell?
• Children by plural marriage?
  • Polygamy book/Children_of_polygamous_marriages
• "Love letters?"
• Did some women turn Joseph down?
• Incestuous sealings of brother and sister?
• Hiding history? (non-wiki) - has the Church hidden plural marriage?

Other Nauvoo period

• John C. Bennett
• William Clayton and plural marriage
• Sarah Pratt
• Nancy Rigdon
• Sidney Rigdon

Utah period

• Breaking the law (non-wiki)
• Prevalence of polygamy
• Brigham Young and polygamy
  • Brigham said polygamist go 'beyond normal bounds'?
  • Boasted could get more wives?
  • Brigham Young 8 October 1861 discourse on plural marriage
  • Emma Smith and Brigham Young
  • Hiding history—does the Church try to hide Brigham's polygamy?
  • Polygamy required for exaltation? Brigham Young in Journal of Discourses 11:269
  • Brigham Young: Women not to meddle?
• Leaders worried missionaries take the best converts for wives?
• Required for exaltation?
  • Brigham Young in JD 11, page 269
  • Deseret News 7 Nov 1855 - Polygamy never go away?
  • First Presidency Counselor on the Polygamy / Exaltation Question
  • Is God the Father a polygamist?
  • Was Jesus a polygamist?
• Parley P. Pratt's marriage and murder
• Plural marriage during the Mormon Reformation
• Remarrying without civil divorce?
• Quote mining—marrying "all the women you want"; having "thousands of wives"?
• Quote mining—plural marriage difficulties

Cessation of plural marriage

• The Manifesto the result of political pressure
  • John Taylor 1886 revelation
    • Works of Abraham
  • Wilford Woodruff's 1889 revelation
• Post-Manifesto plural marriages

Reviews and theories

• In Sacred Loneliness Book Reviews
• The modern Church and polygamous groups
• Anti-Mormon polygamy polemic: 19th century and modern (non-wiki)
• Polygamy and depression in nineteenth century? (non-wiki)
• What are the "Works of Abraham"?

Lying about polygamy?

• Lying about polygamy? (non-wiki)
• Lying in Nauvoo era? (non-wiki)
• Lying in Utah before Manifesto (1890)? (non-wiki)
• Lying after the Manifesto? (non-wiki)

Mountain Meadows Massacre

Mormon Reformation (1857) wiki articles

• Anti-American nineteenth century Saints?
  • Brigham Zion speech on 24 July 1857
  • Cursing the U.S. president?
  • Quote mining—Brigham is "above the law"?
• Blood atonement (summary article)
  • Castration in Utah?
  • Heber C. Kimball: apostles killed Judas? (JD 6:125-6)
  • Crimes alleged to be "worthy of death"
  • Brigham Young: "bowie knife" (JD 1:83)
  • Brigham Young: "cut their throats" (JD 2:311)
  • Brigham Young: "cutting off from the earth" (JD 4:53)
  • Brigham Young: "killing the evil doers" (JD 3:50}
  • Brigham Young: "meanest devils" (JD 6:176)
  • Brigham Young: murder unfaithful Mormons to save souls? (JD 4:219-20)
  • Heber C. Kimball: murder unfaithful Mormons to save souls? (JD 4:173-4)
  • Unpardonable sin and blood atonement?
• Brigham Young on thieves
• Brigham Young's preaching style
  • Hymns calling for vengeance?
• Council of Fifty
• Danites
  • Danites in anti-Mormon polemic
• Sworn enemies of the United States? ^{[needs work]}
• Mormon Reformation
  • "Highly intrusive" questions asked during Reformation?
• Oath of vengeance in the temple endowment?
• Penalties in the endowment
• Unforgivable sin
• Murder (general; see below for victims)
  • D&C 98 justifies murder?
  • Judge William W. Drummond charges complicity in murder?
  • Hymns calling for vengeance?
  • Murders by Council of Fifty?
  • Nauvoo police violence
• Murders (alleged) (alphabetical by last name of victim or accuser)
  • Orrin Porter Rockwell admitting shooting Gov. Boggs?
  • Territorial representative Almon Babbitt murdered?
  • Suicide/murder of Jonathan Dunham
  • Captain John Gunnison murdered?
  • Murder of Irvine Hodge
  • Parrish-Potter murders
  • Judge Leonidas Shaver murdered?
  • Murder of Samuel H. Smith?
  • Murder of Lambert Symes?
• Violence and lawlessness
  • Beating Governor John W. Dawson
  • Brigham Young: dictator? (JD 14:205)
  • Brigham Young: President of the US?
  • Crime and violence in Nauvoo  ^{[needs work]}
  • Crime and violence in Utah
  • John Taylor: 'Church and state all one now' (JD 5:266)
  • Counterfeiting by Joseph Smith and apostles at Nauvoo?
  • Disobey Brigham and be sheared down?
  • Gentiles have no right to property?
  • Heber C. Kimball—violence and intimidation
  • Joseph Smith taught "it was right to steal"?
  • Joseph Smith hit a Baptist preacher?
  • Leaving_Utah_forbidden  ^{[needs work]}
  • Nauvoo police violence
  • Orson Hyde says Spirit of Lord may influence to steal
  • Warsaw Signal reports "Mormon thieves" in Illinois
  • Oath of vengeance
  • Threats against early federal officials?
  • Surveyor general David H. Burr threatened with death?
  • Whistling and whittling brigades

Mountain Meadows Massacre wiki articles

• Mountain Meadows Massacre
  • Brigham Young ordered Mountain Meadows Massacre?
    • Amerindians as instrument of vengeance?
    • Huntington diary says Indians to "raise allies" for the planned massacre?
    • Indian chief Arapeen given booty from Massacre?
    • Indian chiefs Tutsegabit and Youngwuds sent by Brigham to Mountain Meadows?
    • Indian chief Tutsegabit "rewarded" for massacre with priesthood ordination?
    • Brigham's letter mysteriously lost?
  • Brigham Young ordered MMM memorial demolished?
  • Brigham Young and the prosecution of Mountain Meadows Massacre
    • Church blocked prosecution?
    • Church interference in trials?
    • Deal with Brigham Young for massacre prosecution?
    • Frank Lee evidence?
    • John D. Lee scapegoated?
    • Judge and the deal?
    • Prosecutors bribed?
    • Prosecution dictated to jurors?
    • Witnesses told what to say?
  • Orders to starve Gentiles?
  • Rape by Albert Hamblin?
  • September Dawn film (2007)

Personalities in Mountain Meadows

• Anonymous source: "Argus"
• Thomas Kane: cover-up?
• Bishop Philip Klingensmith
• Thomas Kane: negative portrayal
• George A. Smith carried orders?
• Worries about Capt. Stewart Van Vliet?
• Charles W. Wandell - the "Argus" source

Restoration of the Church and priesthood

FAIR Priesthood wiki articles

• Bible teachings about priesthood
• Christians don't need a mediating priesthood?
• Elias and Elijah at the Kirtland Temple
• Jesus is the only Melchizedek priesthood holder
• Location of the organization of the Church
• No Paid Ministry
• Priesthood non-transferable?
• Need for priesthood restoration
• Date of the restoration of the Melchizedek priesthood
• Women and the priesthood
  • Brigham Young: Women not to meddle?
• Resurrection as a Priesthood Ordinance
• Is There a "Priesthood of All Believers"?

1978 Priesthood revelation wiki articles

• Blacks and the priesthood (summary)
  • 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
• Fallibility of prophets
• 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?

Evidences of authenticity

Temple worship

Vicarious baptism for the dead wiki articles

• Baptism for the dead
• How do I keep someone from performing vicarious baptism for me?
  • Baptism for the dead = ancestor worship: quoting mining
• Baptism for the dead not in Book of Mormon?
• Refusing baptism for the dead
• Temple work for Holocaust victims

Wiki temple articles

• Adam-God and the "Lecture at the Veil"
• Baptism for the dead
• Christians wouldn't build temples
• Do LDS temples always face east?
• Why does the Church build expensive temples?
• Marriage and related issues
  • Marriage beyond this life / Eternal marriage
  • Apostles married in early Church?
  • Jews and early Christians on marriage after death
  • "Neither marry nor are given in marriage"
  • Paul: it is good "not to marry"?
  • Unmarried Latter-day Saints and others
• Oath of vengeance
• Penalties in the endowment
• Symbols on the Nauvoo Temple
  • Inverted Stars on LDS Temples
• Temple endowment and Freemasonry
  • All Seeing Eye
• Temple endowment changes
• Temple garments = "magic underwear"?
• Temple obsolete after Christ

Evidences of authenticity

Other Church history

Emma Smith wiki articles

• Emma Smith and Brigham Young
• Emma Smith and plural marriage
• Prophetic inerrancy?

Forgery wiki articles

• Christopher Marc Nemelka
• Forgeries
• Kinderhook plates
• "Lost 116 pages"?
• Mark Hofmann
  • Church reaction to forgeries
  • Known forged documents
• James Strang

Hugh Nibley wiki articles

• Hugh Nibley ^{[needs work]}
  • Charges of abuse
  • Faked footnotes?

Political issues in Church history wiki articles

• Authoritarianism and Church leaders?
  • Brigham Young on need to know for ourselves
  • Quotes on authoritarianism
• Church involvement in politics
• Communism and the United Order the same?
• Latter-day Saints and California Proposition 8
• Joseph Smith and politics
• Brigham Young: women not to meddle?

Other Church history

• Authorship of History of the Church
  • History of the Church is "the most correct" of any history?
• B.H. Roberts' testimony of the Book of Mormon
  • [[../Use of sources/Madsen-B.H. Roberts and the Book of Mormon|Use of sources—Roberts and the Book of Mormon in Abanes' Becoming Gods]]
• Blood atonement
• Castration of sinners in Utah?
• Censorship and revision of LDS history?
• Danites
• Excommunication of scholars ^{[needs work]}
  • President Boyd K. Packer on the truth
  • Boyd K. Packer address to CES: "Mantle is Far, Far Greater than the intellect"
• Economics of LDS immigration
• Garden of Eden in Missouri?
• Hyrum Smith ^{[needs work]}
• Journal of Discourses
• Kirtland Safety Society
• Lying for the Lord?
• Missionaries exploited poverty in England
• Modern prophets
• Name of the Church
• Nauvoo Expositor
• Predestination  ^{[needs work]}
• Reports of Drunken Behavior at the Kirtland Temple Dedication
• The Seer (periodical by Orson Pratt)
• Succession in the Presidency of the Church ^{[needs work]}
  • Seniority in the Quorum of the Twelve
• Women and the priesthood ^{[needs work]}

Doctrinal questions and controversies

God

God wiki articles

• The Father: A Spirit vs. Embodied
  • Lectures on Faith teaches the Father is "a personage of spirit"?
• Corporeality of God
  • God is "not a man"?
  • Flesh and blood cannot enter the kingdom of Heaven?
  • Lectures on Faith teaches the Father is "a personage of spirit"?
• Creatio ex nihilo / Creation out of nothing
  • Creation in Colossians 1:16
  • Creation of spirits
• Dallin H. Oaks on God as seen by LDS and other Christians
• Elohim and Jehovah
  • Downplaying the King Follett discourse?
  • Do Mormons believe they will be "gods of their own planets"?
  • Does Elohim have a father God above him?
• Foreknowledge of God
• God is a Spirit
  • Book of Mormon says God is a spirit?
• Godhead and the Trinity
• Heavenly Mother?
  • Latter-day Saints believe in Celestial Sex?
• Infinite regress of Gods?
• Kolob
• "No God beside me" - (includes Isaiah 43-46 issues)
• No man has seen God
• Polytheism - Are Mormons polytheists?
• Spirit bodies for humans and 1 Cor 15
  • Early Christians on literal resurrection
• Theosis or human deification
  • Do Mormons believe they will be "gods of their own planets"?
  • Latter-day Saints believe in Celestial Sex?
  • Primary sources/Theosis
• Unchanging Nature of God

Jesus Christ

Jesus Christ wiki articles

• Alpha and Omega
• Atonement not carried out on the cross?
• Are LDS Christians?
  • Have LDS only recently claimed to be Christian?
  • If LDS are Christians, why do they preach to other Christians?
  • Do the LDS worship a "different Jesus"?
  • Did Gordon B. Hinckley say that Latter-day Saints do not believe in the Biblical Christ?
  • Other Christians on different denominations
• Brother of Satan
  • Creation in Colossians 1:16
• Conception
• Could the premortal Jesus be divine without a physical body?
• Elohim and Jehovah
• Jesus Christ: Lord of the Universe: do LDS see God as 'local'?
• Jesus is the only Melchizedek priesthood holder
• "Rapture": What is it, and do Latter-day Saints believe in it?
• Savior of other worlds
• Was Jesus Christ married?
  • Is God the Father a polygamist?
  • Was Jesus a polygamist?
• Was Jesus crucified on a cross?
• Gospel of Judas

The Holy Ghost

Holy Ghost wiki articles

• Anachronistic Holy Ghost in Book of Mormon?
• Will the Holy Ghost receive a body?
• Burning in the bosom
• Divinity without a body?
• Identity
• Joseph Smith is the Holy Ghost?
• Moroni's promise
• Testimony and doubt reconciliation

Adam

Wiki articles involving Adam

• Adam-God
• Ancient of Days
• Lecture at the veil
• Garden of Eden in Missouri?
• General authorities' statements as scripture
• Original sin
• Procreation before the Fall
• Temple endowment changes

Evolution

• Age of the Earth
  • Brigham Young as Young Earth Creationist
• Creatio ex nihilo
  • Creation in Colossians 1:16
• Death before the Fall
• Dinosaurs
• Evolution (official statements)
• Noah's flood
• Peleg
• Pre-Adamites
• Procreation before the Fall
• Un-official primary sources on evolution

Grace and works

Grace wiki articles

• Have Mormons been saved? (off-site, non-wiki)
• Do members of the Church despair because they cannot keep all the commandments?
• Does the Church neglect the doctrine of grace?
• Early Christian views on salvation
• Perfection
• Relationship between works and grace
• Salvation by faith alone?
• Unforgivable sin?
• Grace, the meaning of Baptism

Obedience

• Authoritarianism and Church leaders

Relationships

Mormon culture and attitudes wiki articles

• Anti-Mormon
• Attitude to non-members
  • Primary sources
• Bias against Mormons
• Birth control
• Church over family?
• Depression and the Latter-day Saints
• Education—does it threaten faith?
  • Did Brigham Young think education was damaging?
• Internet Mormons vs. Chapel Mormons
• Marriage not needed for exaltation?
• Marriage and related issues
  • Marriage beyond this life / Eternal marriage
  • Apostles married in early Church?
  • Jews and early Christians on marriage after death
  • "Neither marry nor are given in marriage"
  • Paul: it is good "not to marry"?
  • Unmarried Latter-day Saints and others
• Mental health and the Latter-day Saints
• Mormonism and native cultural traditions
• Salvation of non-members
• Temple work for Holocaust victims
• Wayward family members, attitude toward
• Whore of the earth

Other questions and controversies

Apostasy wiki articles

• Apostasy (Overview)
  • Apostasy and the "gates of hell"
  • Early Church Fathers and evidence of the apostasy
  • Evidence of the apostasy in the Bible
  • Individual versus organizational apostasy
  • No complete apostasy?
  • Prediction of the apostasy
  • Priesthood on earth during the apostasy?
• Hell, LDS concept of
• Baptism essential
• Children are capable of sin?
• Original sin
  • Infant baptism?
• Why does the Church preach to other Christians?
• Three degrees of glory

Accusations of dishonesty wiki articles

Joseph Smith period

• Crime in Nauvoo
• Counterfeiting by Joseph Smith and apostles at Nauvoo?
• Joseph Smith land speculation
• Lying for the Lord?
• Joseph Smith taught 'it was right to steal'
• Orson Hyde says Spirit of Lord may influence to steal
• Hiding Joseph's use of a gun at the martyrdom?

Utah period

• Brigham Young—pulling the wool over Americans' eyes?
• Lying for the Lord?

Present day

• Church art and historical accuracy
• Brigham Young manual hides the truth about polygamy
• "Censorship" and "revision" of LDS history?
  • Brigham Young destroys Lucy Mack Smith's history of Joseph?
  • Did David B. Haight use astrological ideas about the moon, only to be censored later?
  • Lucy Mack Smith letter about First Vision suppressed?
  • President Boyd K. Packer on the truth
  • Elder Packer address to CES: "Mantle is Far, Far Greater than the intellect"
  • Sidney Rigdon trial in Times and Seasons versus History of the Church
  • Wilford Woodruff criticizes publication of polygamists
• Cognitive dissonance
• History of the Church—authorship?
• Hypocrisy claimed in Church financial holdings
• Lying for the Lord?
  • Gordon B. Hinckley cited false information on the First Vision?
• Paid clergy
• Testimony and doubt reconciliation

Word of Wisdom wiki articles

• Word of Wisdom (Summary article)
  • Almon Babbitt copied Joseph's violations?
  • Eat meat sparingly
  • Hot drinks
    • Cola drinks and caffeine
    • Joseph Smith used tea?
    • Tea: a bar to the celestial kingdom?
  • Tobacco
    • Tobacco: for Willard Richards
    • Tobacco: Joseph and the cigar?
    • Brigham Young and tobacco
  • Alcohol
    • Brigham Young's whiskey distillery
    • Joseph Smith sold liquor in Nauvoo
    • Wine for the stomach
• Does the Church control Coca Cola, or companies marketing tobacco and alcohol?
• Joseph Smith asked for a pipe and tobacco for Willard Richards?
• Sacrament uses water instead of wine

Other

• 17 Points of the True Church
• Angels
• Animal sacrifice taught by Joseph?
• Anti-Mormon
• Apologetics
  • Does the Church discourage reading critical material?
• Apostles married in early Church?
• Atheism
• Creatio ex nihilo
• Cult, LDS Church is a
  • Graven Images
• Deification of man / theosis
  • Downplaying the King Follett Discourse
• Excommunication and Church discipline ^{[needs work]}
• Fate of the Sons of Perdition
  • Will Sons of Perdition be resurrected?
  • Women as "sons of perdition"?
• Feelings and emotions as the basis of a testimony
• Flesh and blood cannot enter the kingdom of Heaven
• Free will and science
• Government during the Millennium
• Grace
• General authorities' statements as scripture
• Latter-day Saints aren't Christians
  • Have LDS only recently claimed to be Christian?
• Location of Lost Ten Tribes? ^{[needs work]}
• Myths about the Church
• Premortal existence ^{[needs work]}
• Progression between kingdoms of glory
• Prophets don't prophesy
• Sabbath changed to Sunday
• Satan's dominion over waters
• How is tithing calculated?
• Women as "sons of perdition"?

Mormon culture and attitudes

Mormon culture and attitudes wiki articles

• Anti-Mormon
• Attitude to non-members
  • Primary sources
• Bias against Mormons
• Birth control
• Church over family?
• Depression and the Latter-day Saints
• Education—does it threaten faith?
  • Did Brigham Young think education was damaging?
• Internet Mormons vs. Chapel Mormons
• Marriage not needed for exaltation?
• Marriage and related issues
  • Marriage beyond this life / Eternal marriage
  • Apostles married in early Church?
  • Jews and early Christians on marriage after death
  • "Neither marry nor are given in marriage"
  • Paul: it is good "not to marry"?
  • Unmarried Latter-day Saints and others
• Mental health and the Latter-day Saints
• Mormonism and native cultural traditions
• Salvation of non-members
• Temple work for Holocaust victims
• Wayward family members, attitude toward

Science and the Church

Mormonism and science

• Mormonism and science (Summary article)
  • Age of the Earth
  • Archaeology and the Book of Mormon
    • Thomas Stuart Ferguson
  • Burning in the bosom
  • Changing doctrine
  • Cold fusion
  • Dinosaurs
  • DNA and the Book of Mormon
  • Evolution
  • Free will and science
  • Global or local Flood

Statistical claims

Statistical issues wiki

• Antidepressant use among Mormons
• Bankruptcy rate in Utah
• Is the LDS population in Utah shrinking?
• Pornography use in Utah?
• Suicide rate among Mormons

Women and the Church

Women and the Church wiki articles

• Women and the Church (Summary)
  • Childbearing
  • Marriage  ^{[needs work]}
  • Priesthood
  • Brigham Young: women not to meddle?
• Proposed Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) and the Church
• Women as "sons of perdition"?
• Women prophets

Specific Authors, Works and Ministries

Critical Works

• Richard Abanes
  • One Nation Under Gods — (Index of claims)
  • Becoming Gods: A Closer Look at 21st-Century Mormonism — (Index of claims)
  • Inside Today's Mormonism (2007 re-issue of Becoming Gods)
• Will Bagley
  • Blood of the Prophets: Brigham Young and the Massacre at Mountain Meadows
• Fawn McKay Brodie
  • No Man Knows My History: The Life of Joseph Smith — (Index of claims)
• Ed Decker
  • The God Makers (film)
• Dan Erickson
• Norman L. Geisler
  • "Scripture," in The Counterfeit Gospel of Mormonism
• Hurlbut-Howe affidavits
  • The Hurlbut affidavits
• Ronald V. Huggins
  • From Captain Kidd's Treasure Ghost to the Angel Moroni: Changing Dramatis Personae in Early Mormonism
• Charles Larson
  • By His Own Hand upon Papyrus: A New Look at the Joseph Smith Papyri
• Bob McCue
• McKeever & Johnson
  • Mormonism 101
• Christopher Marc Nemelka
  • The "Lost 116 pages"
  • The "Sealed Portion"
• Richard N. Ostling and Joan K. Ostling
  • Mormon America: The Power and the Promise — (Index of claims)
• Grant Palmer
  • An Insider's View of Mormon Origins — (Index of claims)
• D. Michael Quinn
  • Early Mormonism and the Magic World View — (Index of claims)
  • "LDS Church Authority and New Plural Marriages, 1890–1904"
  • The Mormon Hierarchy: Origins of Power
  • The Mormon Hierarchy: Extensions of Power — (Index of claims)
  • Same-Sex Dynamics Among Nineteenth-Century Americans: A Mormon Example — (Index of claims)
• George D. Smith
  • Nauvoo Polygamy — (Index of claims)
• Carol Whang Shutter
  • September Dawn (film)
• Simon G. Southerton
  • Losing a Lost Tribe: Native Americans, DNA, and the Mormon Church — (Index of claims)
• Jerald and Sandra Tanner
  • The Changing World of Mormonism — (Index of claims)
  • Mormonism: Shadow or Reality? — (Index of claims)

Other works

• Todd Compton
  • In Sacred Loneliness: The Plural Wives of Joseph Smith
• Linda King Newell and Valeen Tippetts Avery
  • Mormon Enigma

Anti-Mormon Ministries

• Institute for Religious Research
• Mormonism Research Ministry

Critical films wiki links

• Religulous
• September Dawn
• The God Makers

Other subjects

• Dan Brown's next book and Mormonism
• Logical fallacies
• Rumors, hoaxes, and urban legends
  • Sami Hanna on the Book of Mormon
  • Frank Graham and hurricane relief
  • President Packer: 12 October 2008 talk?
  • Boyd K. Packer: Youth generals in war in heaven?
  • Pandemic warning e-mail from Susan Puls - Did the Church's medical coordinator for Humanitarian Emergency Response warn about an impending flu pandemic?
  • Those living in President Hinckley's time will be bowed to?
  • Prophecy of Catholic Priest?
  • Paul Allen of Microsoft on the "Mormons"?
  • Brigham Young's hearse used in Disneyland?

• Testimony and doubt reconciliation ^{[needs work]}
• Joseph Smith's reference library [Humor]  ^{[needs work]}
• FAIR Errata

Reference

• Scripture index
• Online textual sources and materials
• Primary Sources at FAIR Wiki ^{[needs work]}
• GospeLink quick links

Templates

Templates

All templates master list

FARMS Review

FARMS Insights

Journal of Book of Mormon Studies (JBMS)

Other books and periodicals

Scripture auto-links!

GospeLink quick links

Critical works

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