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- Question: Who was the "angel" in the First Vision that Andrew Jenson was referring to? (2 categories)
- Question: Was Brigham Young's letter ordering immigrants to be left alone "mysteriously lost"? (2 categories)
- Question: Was the fact that the recovery of the Book of Mormon plates occurred on the autumnal equinox somehow significant? (2 categories)
- Criticism of Mormonism/Books/An Insider's View of Mormon Origins/Use of sources/To copy or not to copy (2 categories)
- Question: Were Joseph Smith's spiritual experiences originally products of magic and the occult? (2 categories)
- Question: What does the Church teach on the subject of death before the Fall of Adam? (2 categories)
- Question: Are Church members required to believe in a global flood? (2 categories)
- Joseph Smith's First Vision/John Taylor (2 categories)
- Forgeries/Mark Hofmann/Church reaction to forgeries/Dallin H. Oaks 6 August 1987 remarks on Hofmann (2 categories)
- John Whitmer (1876): "I have never heard that any one of the three or eight witnesses ever denied the testimony that they have borne to the Book as published in the first edition of the Book of Mormon" (2 categories)
- Understanding revelation (2 categories)
- Question: Did ceremonies or practices ever change in the ancient Church? (2 categories)
- Question: Were the characters on the papyri written by Abraham himself? (2 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith make an error by claiming that Elias and Elijah are two different people, when they are in fact one and the same? (2 categories)
- Book of Jubilees 12:1-8: "Abram said to Terah his father...What help and profit have we from those idols which thou dost worship...And his father said unto him...Keep silent, my son, lest they slay thee" (2 categories)
- Detailed response to CES Letter, Polygamy and Polyandry (2 categories)
- Question: Was Joseph Smith ever charged with adultery under Illinois law? (2 categories)
- Question: What did the husband of Patty Bartlett know about her sealing to Joseph Smith for eternity? (2 categories)
- Question: Did Gordon B. Hinckley claim that polygamy was "not doctrinal" on Larry King Live? (2 categories)
- Question: How would an archaeologist distinguish a Christian's pot from that of a non-Christian? (2 categories)
- Question: Were the names "Moroni" and "Cumorah" available on maps accessible to Joseph Smith? (2 categories)
- Question: Why did Joseph Smith make changes to the Book of Mormon such as modifying "God" to read "the Son of God"? (2 categories)
- Joseph Smith (1842): "surrounded with a brilliant light which eclipsed the sun at noon-day" (2 categories)
- Question: If a person faithfully practices Mormonism during this life, do they become a god after they die? (2 categories)
- Question: Did federal officials flee Utah because they feared for their lives? (2 categories)
- Question: What if the "rod of nature" was indeed a physical object such as a divining rod? (2 categories)
- Question: What happens when a Mormon criticizes Church leaders? (2 categories)
- Preach My Gospel: "As you pray for inspiration, you should also confirm your feelings...Certainly the Spirit of the Lord can bring strong emotional feelings, including tears, but that outward manifestation ought not to be confused with the presence of the (2 categories)
- Criticism of Mormonism/Online documents/Denver Snuffer/Inconsistent claims/Misleading citation of Brigham Young, Heber C. Kimball, and George A. Smith (2 categories)
- Question: Did Orson Hyde state that it was permissible to "steal & be influenced by the spirit of the Lord to do it" as long as it was against non-Mormons? (2 categories)
- Elder's Journal/1/4 (2 categories)
- Painesville Telegraph (1831): Martin Harris said that "He had seen and handled them all" (2 categories)
- Question: What was the thickness of each gold plate? (2 categories)
- Question: Were the Kirtland Egyptian Papers and Egyptian Alphabet and Grammar produced prior to the Book of Abraham? (2 categories)
- Question: What is "reformed Egyptian"? (2 categories)
- Question: What is the probability that Joseph Smith possessed items related to "magic"? (2 categories)
- Book of Mormon/Plagiarism accusations/Comoros Islands and Moroni/Captain Kidd (2 categories)
- Question: Could Joseph Smith have utilized place names and locations from the region in which he lived to create the Book of Mormon? (2 categories)
- Question: What criticisms are raised with regard to Book of Mormon archaeology compared to that of the Bible? (2 categories)
- Question: What do the Hurlbut affidavits say about the Spalding manuscript and the Book of Mormon? (2 categories)
- Source:Palmyra Register:28 June 1820:5 July 1820:It was far from our intention to charge the Methodists with retailing ardent spirits while professedly met for the worship of their God (2 categories)
- Question: Why is the French word "adieu" in the Book of Mormon? (2 categories)
- Source:Gardner:The Gift and the Power:it’s stone that becomes the trigger that allows the seer to do what the seer does (2 categories)
- Answers to Questions All Mormons Should Ask Themselves (2 categories)
- Question: Does the Book of Mormon refer to "coins"? (2 categories)
- Logical fallacies/Page 3 (2 categories)
- Question: Is the concept of "original sin" part of all Christian theology? (2 categories)
- Multiple accounts of the First Vision/Brigham Young said the Lord didn't appear (2 categories)
- Joseph Smith's First Vision/Personages that appeared referred to by Church leaders as "angels" (2 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith violate marriage laws in Ohio by performing marriages? (2 categories)