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- Question: I've seen Temple Lot court transcripts online. Are these not accurate? (3 categories)
- Question: Why does Joseph Smith's 9 November 1835 account of the First Vision mention "many angels?" (3 categories)
- Church finances (3 categories)
- The Bible/Scripture interpretation (3 categories)
- Mormon ordinances/Marriage/Eternal marriage (3 categories)
- Question: What is the Strengthening Church Members Committee? (3 categories)
- Multiple accounts of the First Vision/Oliver Cowdery not aware of First Vision in 1834-35 (3 categories)
- Question: Is there anything wrong with early Church leaders using the term "angel" to refer to Jesus Christ? (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: How did Joseph Smith actually use the gold plates? (3 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith give Brigham Young and Heber C. Kimball divining rods "as a symbol of gratitude for their loyalty"? (3 categories)
- Joseph Smith/Seer stones (3 categories)
- Question: Was the United Order simply a form of communism? (3 categories)
- Question: Was there an oath in a former version of the Mormon temple endowment that required vengeance upon the government of the United States? (3 categories)
- Question: What is the source of the story about Joseph Smith possessing a Jupiter talisman? (3 categories)
- David Whitmer (3 categories)
- Question: How were Joseph Smith's seer stones involved in the translation of the Book of Mormon? (3 categories)
- Question: How were the activities of the Danite band exposed? (3 categories)
- Question: Why did the author of the ''Letter to a CES Director'' feel the need to make a single hostile quote appear as if it were two separate quotes? (3 categories)
- Book of Abraham (3 categories)
- Miller and Roper: "Evidence of goats associated with pre-Columbian man also comes from caves in Yucatan" (3 categories)
- Question: Many who listened to Elder Dunn's stories felt the spirit. Why would one feel the spirit upon hearing a story that was fabricated? Doesn't this confirm a lie? (3 categories)
- Question: In what context are chariots mentioned in the Book of Mormon? (3 categories)
- Question: Does Book of Abraham Facsimile 1 show a hand, or does it show the wing of a second bird? (3 categories)
- Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Mormonism Unmasked/Chapter 3 (3 categories)
- Question: By what name did Joseph Smith refer to the First Vision? (3 categories)
- Question: Is there a cave in the Hill Cumorah containing the Nephite records? (3 categories)
- Question: How do the goals of Freemasonry compare to those of the Latter-day Saint endowment? (3 categories)
- Question: Did Oliver Cowdery ever deny his Book of Mormon witness because he thought that Joseph Smith was a fallen prophet? (3 categories)
- William Smith (1884): "When the plates were brought in they were wrapped up in a tow frock. My father then put them into a pillow case. Father said, 'What, Joseph, can we not see them?'" (3 categories)
- Question: Do Mormons believe Jesus Christ was married? (3 categories)
- Origin of the Book of Mormon (3 categories)
- The Bible/Interpretation (3 categories)
- Question: Have edits to the revelations been discussed in the present day? (3 categories)
- Question: Why is the statement of William Clayton regarding the Kinderhook Plates in ''History of the Church'' written as if Joseph Smith himself said it? (3 categories)
- Peterson (2005): The plates "are an indigestible lump in the throats of people...who contend that there were no Nephites but that Joseph Smith was nonetheless an inspired prophet" (3 categories)
- Question: How was the text of the Book of Abraham produced by Joseph Smith? (3 categories)
- Criticism of Mormonism/Online documents/Letter to a CES Director (3 categories)
- Question: What did the husband of Sylvia Sessions know about her sealing to Joseph Smith for eternity? (3 categories)
- Mormonism and Wikipedia/Golden plates/Claimed engravings (3 categories)
- Question: Did some Church leaders believe that the skin of the Lamanites would turn white? (3 categories)
- Mormonism and Wikipedia/Golden plates/Origin and historicity (3 categories)
- Question: Could the list of items on Joseph's person at the time of his death have been incomplete? (3 categories)
- Question: Did the Danite band persist even after they were exposed? (3 categories)
- Topical Guide/Book of Mormon/Archaeology (3 categories)
- Question: Why were textual changes made to the Book of Mormon over the years after it was first published? (3 categories)
- Miller and Roper: "In post-biblical Jewish literature some Jewish writers distinguished between wild and domestic cattle such as goats" (3 categories)
- Question: Why did Elder Dunn exaggerate elements of these stories? (3 categories)
- Bell: "the questionable traces above the head of the Osiris figure are actually the remains of his right hand" (3 categories)