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- Neil L. Andersen (2012): "A few question their faith when they find a statement made by a Church leader decades ago that seems incongruent with our doctrine" (2 categories)
- Criticism of Mormonism/Online documents/Denver Snuffer/Inconsistent claims (2 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith send men on missions in order to "steal" their wives while they were gone? (2 categories)
- Question: Do we have all of the papyri that Joseph Smith had? (2 categories)
- Question: Do Mormon men believe that they will become "gods of their own planets" and rule over others? (2 categories)
- Muhlestein and Gee: "It is now apparent that human sacrifice did indeed occur in ancient Egypt" (2 categories)
- Detailed response to CES Letter, First Vision (2 categories)
- Dallin H. Oaks (1987): "It should be recognized that such tools as the Urim and Thummim, the Liahona, seerstones, and other articles have been used appropriately in biblical, Book of Mormon, and modern times" (2 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith give a woman only one day to decide about entering a plural marriage, and would refusal mean terrible consequences? (2 categories)
- Helen Mar Kimball: "I have encouraged and sustained my husband in the celestial order of marriage because I knew it was right" (2 categories)
- Question: What evidence of religious excitement is there from non-Mormon sources? (2 categories)
- Question: What is the light which comes from the presence of God? (2 categories)
- Question: What about those who pray and don't receive a confirmation the Book of Mormon is true? (2 categories)
- Matthews: "To regard the New Translation...as a product of divine inspiration given to Joseph Smith does not necessarily assume that it be a restoration of the original Bible text" (2 categories)
- Question: How could Joseph Smith come to the conclusion that all churches were wrong on his own? (2 categories)
- Question: What did the husband of Mary Heron know about her sealing to Joseph Smith for eternity? (2 categories)
- Question: What do we find when we turn to the records of the ancient (i.e. before A.D. 400) Americas? (2 categories)
- Elder's Journal/1/1 (2 categories)
- Question: How could Joseph and Fanny have been married in 1831 if the sealing power had not yet been restored? (2 categories)
- Question: Did the Three Witnesses consider Joseph Smith a "fallen prophet" after they left the Church? (2 categories)
- Question: Has the book ''View of the Hebrews'' been readily available? (2 categories)
- Question: What was the thickness of the entire volume of gold plates? (2 categories)
- Question: Is there a case where Joseph stated that his age was 17 rather than 14 at the time of the First Vision? (2 categories)
- Question: Was a "magic dagger" once owned by Hyrum Smith? (2 categories)
- Painesville Telegraph (1830): "Cowdry claims that he and his associates are the only persons on earth who are qualified to administer in his name. By this authority, they proclaim to the world" (2 categories)
- Joseph Smith (9 Nov. 1835): "a pillar of fire appeared above my head...a personage appeard in the midst of this pillar of flame" (2 categories)
- Source:William Smith:The Old Soldier's Testimony:1884:It was not written from the Spaulding Romance. That story is false (2 categories)
- Question: Was the ''History of the Church'' falsified when "first visitation of Angels" was changed to "my first vision"? (2 categories)
- Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Mormon America: The Power and the Promise/Chapter 4 (2 categories)
- Question: Does Church manual, ''The Teachings of the Presidents of the Church: Brigham Young'', attempt to "hide history" by portraying Brigham Young (a well-known polygamist) as having only one wife? (2 categories)
- Question: What is the current state of the evidence for proving or disproving that Joseph Smith had children by his plural wives? (2 categories)
- Question: Aren't tithing funds from "long ago" ultimately the source of all current Church funds? (2 categories)
- Question: What is "empirical evidence"? (2 categories)
- Question: Was Joseph Smith afraid to reproduce the text of the lost 116 pages of Book of Mormon manuscript because he could not do so? (2 categories)
- Question: What are the criticisms related to Facsimile 3? (2 categories)
- Criticism of Mormonism/Books/One Nation Under Gods/Chapter 8 (2 categories)
- Criticism of Mormonism/Books/An Insider's View of Mormon Origins/Use of sources/To copy or not to copy (2 categories)
- John A. Widtsoe (1943): "The Old Testament records a flood that was just over fifteen cubits (sometimes assumed to be about twenty-six feet) deep and covered the entire landscape" (2 categories)
- Criticism of Mormonism/Articles/Mormon Women, Prozac(R) and Therapy (2 categories)
- Multiple accounts of the First Vision/Orson Pratt's statements regarding the First Vision (2 categories)
- Criticism of Mormonism/Books/American Massacre/Chapter 2 (2 categories)
- Question: What did William Stafford claim about Joseph Smith in the Hurlbut affidavits? (2 categories)
- Question: Was Isaac McWithy brought before the High Council on charges of "insolence" because he refused to sell his land to Joseph Smith for $3000? (2 categories)
- Source:Damrosch:The Narrative Covenant:Naham means "to mourn" (2 categories)
- Source:Marcus B. Nash:Joseph Smith Memorial Devotional:June 2013:This was dictated, word by word, as he looked into instruments the Lord prepared for him, using a hat to shield his eyes from extraneous light (2 categories)
- Question: Did Church leaders ever teach that Blacks were neutral in the "war in heaven?" (2 categories)
- Question: Did Heber C. Kimball claim that the apostles killed Judas? (2 categories)
- Question: Was the "Pentecost" at the Kirtland Temple dedication actually a drunken orgy? (2 categories)
- Question: What did contemporary witnesses have to say about the Book of Mormon translation process? (2 categories)
- Question: Did Charles Anthon validate the characters that Martin Harris brought to him that had been copied from the Book of Mormon plates? (2 categories)