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- Criticism of Mormonism/Online documents/Denver Snuffer/Inconsistent claims/Misleading citation of Brigham Young, Heber C. Kimball, and George A. Smith (2 categories)
- Question: What is "reformed Egyptian"? (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)
- 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: Does the Book of Mormon refer to "coins"? (2 categories)
- Elder's Journal/1/1 (2 categories)
- Multiple accounts of the First Vision/Brigham Young said the Lord didn't appear (2 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith violate marriage laws in Ohio by performing marriages? (2 categories)
- Criticism of Mormonism/Books/One Nation Under Gods/Use of sources/Brigham as President of the United States (2 categories)
- Question: Is the Mormon temple garment simply "magic underwear"? (2 categories)
- Criticism of Mormonism/Books/One Nation Under Gods/Overview (2 categories)
- Question: Was Helen Mar Kimball's marriage to Joseph Smith ever consummated? (2 categories)
- Question: What about those who pray and don't receive a confirmation the Book of Mormon is true? (2 categories)
- Question: What did the husband of Ruth Vose Sayers know about her sealing to Joseph Smith for eternity? (2 categories)
- Question: How could Joseph Smith come to the conclusion that all churches were wrong on his own? (2 categories)
- Joseph Smith (9 Nov. 1835): "I saw many angels in this vision...I was about 14 years old when I received this first communication" (2 categories)
- Question: What did the husband of Elvira Annie Cowles know about her sealing to Joseph Smith for eternity? (2 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith have access to materials related to Nahom at Allegheny College? (2 categories)
- Question: Was the only purpose of polygamy to "multiply and replenish the earth" and "bear the souls of men"? (2 categories)
- Question: What was the thickness of the entire volume of gold plates? (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)
- Question: How do non-Mormon artists treat the Nativity? (2 categories)
- Question: Do Latter-day Saints believe that they were the only ones with a "legitimate right to be stewards" of all property on the earth? (2 categories)
- Question: Did the actual words "God the Father" and "Jesus Christ" appear in Joseph's 1838 account of the First Vision? (2 categories)
- Question: What did William Stafford claim about Joseph Smith in the Hurlbut affidavits? (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: Why did Elder Boyd K. Packer state that "Some things that are true are not very useful"? (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)
- Question: What are the criticisms related to Facsimile 3? (2 categories)
- Multiple accounts of the First Vision (2 categories)
- Question: What changes have been made to the ''Gospel Principles'' manual regarding the question of death on the earth before the Fall of Adam? (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)
- Joseph Smith's First Vision/Lucy Mack Smith and the Presbyterians (2 categories)
- Criticism of Mormonism/Books/American Massacre/Chapter 2 (2 categories)
- Question: Did Heber C. Kimball claim that the apostles killed Judas? (2 categories)
- The Bat Creek Stone (2 categories)
- Question: Was the "Pentecost" at the Kirtland Temple dedication actually a drunken orgy? (2 categories)
- Question: In what manner was the Melchizedek Priesthood restored? (2 categories)
- Question: How can we accept David Whitmer as a valid Book of Mormon witness if God told him to leave the Saints? (2 categories)
- 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)
- Olson (2004): "People may like to think that they're descended from some ancient group while other people are not. But human ancestry doesn't work that way, since we all share the same ancestors just a few millenniums ago" (2 categories)
- Question: If a doctrine is repudiated, does that mean that it was false when it was being taught? (2 categories)
- Doctrine and Covenants and Church History Study Guide: "These papyri contain authentic Egyptian writings, but they do not date to the time of Abraham, nor do they contain the actual personally handwritten account of Abraham" (2 categories)
- Question: Do Mormon men believe that they will become "gods of their own planets" and rule over others? (2 categories)
- Question: What did contemporary witnesses have to say about the Book of Mormon translation process? (2 categories)
- Criticism of Mormonism/Books/By His Own Hand upon Papyrus: A New Look at the Joseph Smith Papyri/Larson "restoration" of Facsimile 1 (2 categories)