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- Question: Was Joseph Smith, Sr. a believer in witchcraft and the supernatural? (5 revisions)
- Reference templates/To learn more boxes/Joseph Smith (5 revisions)
- Question: Is the suicide rate in Utah higher than the national average? (5 revisions)
- Question: Journal of Discourses 2:210 says Jesus was being married to Mary and Martha in Cana. Why would Jesus be invited to his own wedding? (5 revisions)
- Reference templates/Videos/FAIR (5 revisions)
- LDS Department of Education Study Manual (1938): "the Book of Mormon deals only with the history and expansion of three small colonies which came to America and it does not deny or disprove the possibility of other immigrations" (5 revisions)
- Question: Did Heber C. Kimball encourage violence and intimidation in order to keep followers "in line"? (5 revisions)
- Reference templates/Videos/FAIR Conference (5 revisions)
- Latter-day Saint teachings (5 revisions)
- Latter-day Saints and the symbol of the cross (5 revisions)
- Source:Chadwick:Glimpses of Lehi's Jerusalem:Lehi's land of inheritance was most likely not located within the borders of the southern kingdom of Judah (5 revisions)
- Lowell T. Bennion (Sunday School - 1955): "The Book of Mormon itself does not purport to be a history of all pre-Columbian peoples in the Western Hemisphere" (5 revisions)
- Source:Book of Mormon and DNA Studies:Gospel Topics:Basic principles of population genetics suggest the need for a more careful approach to the data (5 revisions)
- Question: Since Nephi beheaded Laban, wouldn't there be a large amount of blood afterward? (5 revisions)
- Question: Should there be archaeological evidence for the Book of Mormon? (5 revisions)
- Source:Book of Mormon and DNA Studies:Gospel Topics:Much as critics and defenders of the Book of Mormon would like to use DNA studies to support their views, the evidence is simply inconclusive (5 revisions)
- Marion G. Romney (6 Apr 1963): "I have for the past two years been supervising the Latin American missions...the Lamanites, many of whom live in these missions" (5 revisions)
- Source:Book of Mormon and DNA Studies:Gospel Topics:These events may severely reduce or totally eliminate certain genetic profiles (5 revisions)
- Source:Daniel C. Peterson:Ensign:Jan 2000:But the region of Mesoamerica—particularly southern Mexico and Guatemala, where many suggest that much of the Book of Mormon story may have happened (5 revisions)
- Melvin J. Ballard (Apr 1930): "We were made to know that the Gospel message would find thousands who had the blood of Israel in their veins in South America" (5 revisions)
- Source:Chadwick:Glimpses of Lehi's Jerusalem:Lehi's House at Jerusalem and the Land of His Inheritance:Going "up" to Jerusalem (5 revisions)
- Melvin J. Ballard (Apr 1938): "for these millions who are in Mexico, Central America and South America their day must come" (5 revisions)
- Reference templates/FAIR Conferences/2011 (5 revisions)
- Source:Brigham Young:15 Aug 1852:it takes North and South America to make the land of Joseph (5 revisions)
- Question: Did Brigham Young plan to "rule over all the earth"? (5 revisions)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith boast of his "violent deeds"? (5 revisions)
- Sexism in the scriptures (5 revisions)
- Harold B. Lee (8 Jul 1966): "if the Lord wanted us to know where it was, or where Zarahemla was, he’d have given us latitude and longitude, don’t you think?" (5 revisions)
- Harold B. Lee (11 Nov 1959) "it seems all are in agreement that the followers of Lehi came to the western shores of South America" (5 revisions)
- Question: Was stealing a crime that was "worthy of death" among 19th century Mormons? (5 revisions)
- Question: Was the establishment of the Kirtland Safety Society "anti-bank" illegal? (5 revisions)
- Reference templates/FARMS Review/Volume 21 (5 revisions)
- Question: Was failure to keep the Word of Wisdom grounds for a disciplinary council in the 19th century Church? (5 revisions)
- Millennial Star (Sep 1840): "We learn these gentlemen will continue their journey, and after their visit to Palenque, will proceed to Mexico" (5 revisions)
- Source:Gospel Topics:Decisions about birth control and the consequences of those decisions rest solely with each married couple (5 revisions)
- Missionary responds to critic (1843): "I contend that it is North and South America both that includes the promised land to the branches of Joseph" (5 revisions)
- Source:Hinckley:Deseret News:2002:What the church requires is only belief that Adam was the first man of what we would call the human race (5 revisions)
- Mark E. Peterson (1982): "Now, a General Authority might speculate, I suppose. We have had speculation, for instance, on the part of some with respect to Book of Mormon geography" (5 revisions)
- Question: Was Joseph Smith aware that the date of the autumnal equinox was somehow significant? (5 revisions)
- Question: Was the Latter-day Saint periodical The Evening and Morning Star claiming that Missouri "rightfully belonged to Mormons?" (5 revisions)
- Mormonism/Atheism/Epistemic Responsibility (5 revisions)
- Journal of Discourses/24/1 (5 revisions)
- Reference templates/FARMS Review/Volume 3 (5 revisions)
- Question: Did any publications prior to 1870 mention the phrase "This is My Beloved Son" in connection with the First Vision? (5 revisions)
- Question: Did historian Thomas Alexander claim that "the Indians" forced Mormons to commit the Mountain Meadows Massacre? (5 revisions)
- Question: Should “the plains” of Moreh in the Book of Abraham actually be “the oak” of Moreh? (5 revisions)
- Question: Was Paul a "real" apostle, with authority over the Church like the original Twelve? (5 revisions)
- Question: Did Heber C. Kimball and Orson Hyde order Nauvoo's police force to kill an apostate named Lambert Symes? (5 revisions)
- George F. Richards (1922): "The land of North and South America is a very much favored portion of our Father's footstool" (5 revisions)
- Sexual assault victims and lack of culpability (5 revisions)