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- Question: How do Church members assume that Joseph would have "used the plates" during translation? (3 categories)
- Prothero (2003): "in the 1832 version, Jesus appears to Smith alone, and does all the talking himself. Such complaints, however, are much ado about relatively nothing" (3 categories)
- Question: Why do some New Testament phrases appear in the Book of Mormon? (3 categories)
- Mormonism and apologetics/"ad hominem"/Case study/An attempt to discredit Hugh Nibley by accusing him of child abuse (3 categories)
- Question: Are the original Temple Lot Case transcripts available online? (3 categories)
- Source:Charles Penrose:Improvement Era:September 1912:Do you believe in "blood-atonement"? (3 categories)
- Criticisms of Paul H. Dunn (3 categories)
- Question: Is the Church trying to hide something through its use of artwork? (3 categories)
- Criticisms related to Latter-day Saint Temples (3 categories)
- Source:Christofferson:The Prophet Joseph Smith:BYUI Devotional:2013:Critics have also claimed that there were no religious revivals in the Palmyra, New York, area in 1820 (3 categories)
- Question: Were any of the changes to the Book of Mormon made in reaction to sectarian criticism? (3 categories)
- Hamblin: "there are no references to Nephite steel after 400 B.C." (3 categories)
- City Creek Center in Salt Lake City (3 categories)
- Mormonism and Wikipedia/Golden plates/Story (3 categories)
- Question: What was the real purpose of the letter written by Joseph Smith to the parents of Sarah Ann Whitney? (3 categories)
- Plan of salvation/Resurrection/Mormon views regarding (3 categories)
- James Strang movement (3 categories)
- Science and the Church of Jesus Christ/Book of Mormon (3 categories)
- Question: Were there not enough people available in Nephi's time to build a temple "after the manner of the temple of Solomon"? (3 categories)
- Criticism of Mormonism/Books/No Man Knows My History: The Life of Joseph Smith/Chapter 27 (3 categories)
- Question: What is the Strengthening Church Members Committee? (3 categories)
- Question: Was the original head of the priest in Book of Abraham Facsimile 1 actually the jackal head of Anubis? (3 categories)
- Question: Is someone unreliable because they practiced "treasure hunting" and believed in the use of seer stones to find lost objects? (3 categories)
- Question: What does the lion couch scene in Book of Abraham Facsimile 1 normally represent? (3 categories)
- Multiple accounts of the First Vision/Oliver Cowdery not aware of First Vision in 1834-35 (3 categories)
- Question: Are Mormons polytheists because they don't accept the Nicene Creed? (3 categories)
- Question: What criticisms are put forth regarding the restoration of the Melchizedek Priesthood? (3 categories)
- Question: Is there anything wrong with early Church leaders using the term "angel" to refer to Jesus Christ? (3 categories)
- Question: Why did the Church modify the introduction to the Book of Mormon from "principal ancestors" to "among the ancestors?" (3 categories)
- Question: Did B.H. Roberts state that it was possible for Joseph Smith to have come up with the Book of Mormon on his own? (3 categories)
- Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Do Christians Believe in Three Gods/Origins of Nicene Trinitarianism (3 categories)
- Question: Were the changes to the revelations hidden from the Church members? (3 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith become a member of the Methodist Church while he was translating the Book of Mormon? (3 categories)
- Source:Gardner:Joseph the Seer:2009 FAIR Conference:long before golden plates complicated his position as a local seer (3 categories)
- Question: What is the story of Zelph? (3 categories)
- Question: How exactly did Joseph Smith translate the gold plates? (3 categories)
- Question: How did Joseph Smith actually use the gold plates? (3 categories)
- Question: Did the story of Moroni's visit to Joseph Smith evolve from that of a magical spiritual treasure guardian to an "angel"? (3 categories)
- Question: I've seen Temple Lot court transcripts online. Are these not accurate? (3 categories)
- Question: Is it possible to deduce Joseph Smith's thoughts and dreams years after his death? (3 categories)
- Question: What caused William Law to apostatize from the Church and turn against Joseph Smith? (3 categories)
- Source:Gospel Topics:Peach and Violence:Danites (3 categories)
- Question: Why does Joseph Smith's 9 November 1835 account of the First Vision mention "many angels?" (3 categories)
- Question: Did early Mormon leaders teach that apostasy was the unforgivable sin, and that the only thing an apostate could do to redeem himself was to give his own life, willingly or unwillingly? (3 categories)
- Church finances (3 categories)
- Question: Why doesn't the art match details which have been repeatedly spelled out in Church publications? (3 categories)
- The Bible/Scripture interpretation (3 categories)
- Mormon ordinances/Marriage/Eternal marriage (3 categories)
- Wikipedia: Bighorn sheep "crossed to North America over the Bering land bridge" (3 categories)
- Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Mormonism Unmasked/Chapter 3 (3 categories)