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- "Adding to" or "taking away from" the Bible
- "Adding to" or "taking away from" the Bible/CriticalSources
- "Adieu" in the Book of Mormon
- "Approaching Mormon Doctrine," LDS Newsroom (May 2007): "Not every statement made by a Church leader, past or present, necessarily constitutes doctrine"
- "Big Love" and the temple
- "Celestial sex"
- "Celestial sex"/CriticalSources
- "Eye of Faith"/"Spiritual Eye" statements by Martin Harris
- "Lying for the Lord"
- "Masonry," Church History Topics: "There are different ways of understanding the relationship between Masonry and the temple"
- "Miss Smith"
- "No God beside me"
- "Recognizing the Voice of the Spirit" (Podcast): "How can I come to know that spiritual experience is not just a product of chemical processes in the brain?"
- "shown to me by a supernatural power"
- ''Doctrine and Covenants and Church History Gospel Doctrine Teacher’s Manual'' (1999): "the Lord commanded some of the early Saints to practice plural marriage. The Prophet Joseph Smith and those closest to him...were challenged by this command"
- ''Ensign'' (1992): Emma Smith's "great trial came when the prophet revealed to Emma that they would be required to live the ancient law of Abraham—plural marriage"
- ''Gospel Topics'': "Even after 1852, at least two black Mormons continued to hold the priesthood"
- 17 Points of the True Church
- 1830 statement about seeing "God"
- 1832 account doesn't forbid joining a church
- 1832 account doesn't mention a revival
- 1832 account doesn't mention new dispensation
- 1832 account doesn't mention persecution
- 1832 says wicked will be destroyed but 1838 doesn't
- 1832 vision set in heaven or on earth?
- 1835 Apostolic Charge
- 1835 Doctrine and Covenants denies polygamy
- 1835 Doctrine and Covenants denies polygamy/CriticalSources
- 1838 account modified to offset leadership crisis?
- 1844 Succession to Joseph Smith
- 19th century crimes alleged to "worthy of death
- 19th century crimes alleged to "worthy of death"
- 19th century crimes alleged to be "worthy of death"
- 1 Nephi
- 2 Nephi
- 3 Nephi
- 4 Nephi
- 50 Answers
- 50 questions
- 8: The Mormon Proposition
- A Book of Commandments, for the Government of the Church of Christ
- A Portrait of Religious Excess
- A critic of the Book of Mormon (1843): "the ruins of Central America...the existence of such ruins were known long before the publication of the Book of Mormon"
- Aaronic Priesthood
- Abolitionism
- Abraham lying about his wife Sarah
- Abuse
- Abuse and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
- Abuse and the Boy Scouts of America
- Abuse victims and lack of culpability
- Accounts of Joseph Smith's First Vision
- Accounts of Joseph Smith's First Vision/1832
- Accounts of Joseph Smith's First Vision/1835
- Accounts of Joseph Smith's First Vision/1835 (Erastus Holmes account)
- Accounts of Joseph Smith's First Vision/1840 (Orson Pratt account)
- Accounts of Joseph Smith's First Vision/1842 (Joseph Smith History of the Church)
- Accounts of Joseph Smith's First Vision/1842 (Orson Hyde account)
- Accounts of Joseph Smith's First Vision/1842 Wentworth Letter
- Accounts of Joseph Smith's First Vision/1842 Wentworth Letter account)
- Accounts of Joseph Smith's First Vision/1843 (Levi Richards account)
- Accounts of Joseph Smith's First Vision/1843 (The Pittsburgh Weekly Gazette account)
- Accounts of Joseph Smith's First Vision/1844 (Alexander Neibaur account)
- Accounts of Joseph Smith's First Vision/1844 (Daniel Rupp account)
- Accounts of Joseph Smith's First Vision/1893 (Charles L. Walker account)
- Accuracy of Church art
- Accuracy of Church history
- Accuracy of Church history/The Seer
- Accuracy of the bible
- Ad hominem
- Adam-God
- Adam-God and the "Lecture at the Veil"
- Adam-God theory
- Adam and Eve as historical figures
- Adam and Eves inability to procreate pre-fall
- Adam god
- Added quotes on finances
- Adding sections to the Doctrine and Covenants
- Adieu in the Book of Mormon:Further examples
- Adulation of Joseph Smith
- Adultery
- Afterlife
- Age of the Earth
- Age of the Earth/CriticalSources
- Age of the earth
- Agency (Mormonism)
- Agnes Moulton Coolbrith
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Alleged contradiction between Book of Mormon and Book of Moses versus Book of Abraham on number of Creators
- Alleged contradiction between Doctrine and Covenants and Book of Mormon about the order in which one receives baptism and a remission of sins
- Alleged contradiction between Lehi and Jeremiah 27
- Alleged false prophecies of Joseph Smith
- Alleged hiding of facts in Church history
- Alleged whitewashing of Church history
- Alleged whitewashing of Church history/CriticalSources
- Alleged whitewashing of polygamy in Church history
- Allen:Improvement Era:April 1970:he continued to do so in varying detail until the year of his death
- Allen (1970): "the Prophet described his experience to friends and acquaintances at least as early as 1831-32...he continued to do so in varying detail until the year of his death"
- Alma
- Almera Johnson
- Alpha and Omega
- American Crucifixion
- American Massacre
- American Massacre/Index
- American Massacre/Index/Chapter 1
- American Massacre/Index/Chapter 10
- American Massacre/Index/Chapter 11
- American Massacre/Index/Chapter 12
- American Massacre/Index/Chapter 13
- American Massacre/Index/Chapter 14
- American Massacre/Index/Chapter 15
- American Massacre/Index/Chapter 16
- American Massacre/Index/Chapter 2
- American Massacre/Index/Chapter 3
- American Massacre/Index/Chapter 4
- American Massacre/Index/Chapter 5
- American Massacre/Index/Chapter 6
- American Massacre/Index/Chapter 7
- American Massacre/Index/Chapter 8
- American Massacre/Index/Chapter 9
- American Revivalist (2 Feb 1833): "The Book of Mormon is a record of the forefathers of our western tribes of Indians"
- Amerindians as Lamanites
- Amerindians as Lamanites/Maya and Olmec
- Amerindians as Lamanites:Summary
- An Examination of "Do Christians Believe in Three Gods"
- An Examination of "Do Christians Believe in Three Gods"/Bible and Nicea
- An Examination of "Do Christians Believe in Three Gods"/Do Christians Believe in Three Gods
- An Examination of "Do Christians Believe in Three Gods"/Jesus is God
- An Examination of "Do Christians Believe in Three Gods"/One God
- An Examination of "Do Christians Believe in Three Gods"/Origins of Nicene Trinitarianism
- An Examination of "Do Christians Believe in Three Gods"/Origins of Nicene trinitarianism
- An Examination of "Do Christians Believe in Three Gods"/Relationship between Father, Son, and Holy Spirit
- An Examination of "Do Christians Believe in Three Gods/Jesus is God
- An Insider's View of Mormon Origins
- An Insider's View of Mormon Origins/Index
- An Insider's View of Mormon Origins/Index/Chapter 1
- An Insider's View of Mormon Origins/Index/Chapter 2
- An Insider's View of Mormon Origins/Index/Chapter 3
- An Insider's View of Mormon Origins/Index/Chapter 4
- An Insider's View of Mormon Origins/Index/Chapter 5
- An Insider's View of Mormon Origins/Index/Chapter 6
- An Insider's View of Mormon Origins/Index/Chapter 7
- An Insider's View of Mormon Origins/Index/Chapter 8
- An Insider's View of Mormon Origins/Index/Conclusion
- An Insider's View of Mormon Origins/Quotes and Responses
- An Insider's View of Mormon Origins/Use of sources
- An Insider's View of Mormon Origins/Use of sources/"Copying" becomes "translation"
- An Insider's View of Mormon Origins/Use of sources/Redefining the "witnesses"
- An Insider's View of Mormon Origins/Use of sources/The silent witness
- An Insider's View of Mormon Origins/Use of sources/The use of the rod
- An Insider's View of Mormon Origins/Use of sources/To copy or not to copy
- Analysis of books critical of Mormonism
- Ancient of Days
- Andrew Jenson called personage an "angel"
- Angel Moroni
- Angels
- Animal sacrifice
- Animals in the Book of Mormon
- Answering Mormon Scholars Vol. 1
- Answering Mormon Scholars Vol. 2
- Answers to Questions All Mormons Should Ask Themselves
- Answers to Questions All Mormons Should Ask Themselves/Questions 1-28
- Answers to Questions All Mormons Should Ask Themselves/Questions 29-58
- Anthon transcript
- Anthony W. Ivins (Apr 1929): "Where was the land of Zarahemla? Where was the City of Zarahemla?...There has never been anything yet set forth that definitely settles that question"
- Anti-American nineteenth century Saints
- Anti-Mormon
- Anti-Mormon/CriticalSources
- Anti-Mormon/History
- Antiquity of the Book of Abraham
- Apologetics
- Apostasy
- Apostasy/Evidence of
- Apostasy/Evidence of in the Bible
- Apostasy/Extent of
- Apostasy/Individual versus organizational
- Apostasy/Members didn't notice
- Apostasy/No true Christians
- Apostasy/Not complete
- Apostasy/Not complete/CriticalSources
- Apostasy/Patristic evidence of
- Apostasy/Prediction of
- Apostasy/Prediction of/CriticalSources
- Apostasy/Priesthood on earth during the apostasy
- Apostasy/Priesthood on earth during the apostasy/CriticalSources
- Apostasy/Reasons for
- Apostasy/Relationship of the Church to other branches of Christianity
- Apostasy/The "gates of hell"
- Apostasy/The "gates of hell"/CriticalSources
- Apostasy/Visible evidence of
- Apostasy/Why did God allow it
- Apostasy/Why it occurred
- Apostasy and the "gates of hell"
- Apostles
- Apostles as personal witnesses of Christ
- Apostles married in early Church?
- Apostolic succession
- Application of the endowment
- Approaching history
- Archaeology and the Bible
- Archaeology and the Bible/CriticalSources
- Archaeology and the Book of Mormon (Tanner)
- Archaeology and the Hill Cumorah
- Archaeology and the Hill Cumorah/CriticalSources
- Archaeology chart
- Archeology and the Bible
- Archeology and the Hill Cumorah
- Are LDS Christian
- Are LDS Christian?
- Are Mormons Christian
- Are mormons christians
- Are the Lamanites the principal ancestors of the American Indians?
- Armitage: "It is suggested by de Ávila Blomberg that wild silk was used in Oaxaca in pre-Columbian times"
- Articles of Faith
- Articles of Faith/Differing versions
- Articles of Faith/Differing versions/CriticalSources
- Articles of Faith/Differing versions/Text of various versions
- Articles of Faith/Differing versions/Text of various versions/1834 (Cowdery)
- Articles of Faith/Differing versions/Text of various versions/1836 (Joseph Young)
- Articles of Faith/Differing versions/Text of various versions/1840 (Orson Pratt)
- Articles of Faith/Differing versions/Text of various versions/1842 (Orson Hyde)
- Articles of Faith/Differing versions/Text of various versions/1842 (Wentworth letter)
- Articles of Faith/Differing versions/Text of various versions/1849 (Flanigan)
- Articles of Faith/Differing versions/Text of various versions/1853 (Findly)
- Articles of Faith/Differing versions/Text of various versions/1853 (Haven)
- Articles of Faith/Differing versions/Text of various versions/1855-57(John Taylor)
- Articles of Faith/Fourteen/CriticalSources
- Articles of Faith/Fourteen Articles of Faith
- Artistic depictions of the translation
- Ashamed of Joseph
- Atheism
- Atonement not carried out on the cross
- Attempt to sell the Book of Mormon copyright in Canada
- Attempt to sell the Book of Mormon copyright in Canada/CriticalSources
- Attempts to steal the gold plates from Joseph Smith
- Attitude to non-members
- Attitude to non-members:Primary sources
- Author:Kevin Christensen
- Authoritarianism and Church leaders
- Authoritarianism and Church leaders/CriticalSources
- Authoritarianism and Church leaders/Quotes
- Authorship of History of the Church
- Authorship of History of the Church/History of the Church/Authorship
- Authorship of New Testament books
- Autumn equinox
- B.H. Roberts
- B.H. Roberts' testimony of the Book of Mormon
- B.H. Roberts' testimony of the Book of Mormon/CriticalSources
- B.H. Roberts: "Joseph Smith was a man of like passions with other men; struggling with the same weaknesses; subjected to the same temptations"
- B.H. Roberts: "we need not be surprised if we sometimes find them mistaken in their conceptions and deductions"
- B.H. Roberts and "Studies of the Book of Mormon"
- B. H. Roberts
- BH Roberts
- BYU Master's Thesis (Aug 1968): Uses Mesoamerica as presumptive culture source for costumes destined for a Book of Mormon re-enactments
- BYU Studies Article: A Mother There
- Back to top test
- Backman:Ensign:January 1985:On at least four different occasions, Joseph Smith either wrote or dictated to scribes accounts
- Backman (1985): "On at least four different occasions, Joseph Smith either wrote or dictated to scribes accounts of his sacred experience of 1820"
- Bankruptcy rate in Utah
- Baptism
- Baptism essential
- Baptism for the dead
- Baptism for the dead/Ancestor worship quote mining
- Baptism for the dead/Ancestor worship quote mining/CriticalSources
- Baptism for the dead/CriticalSources
- Baptism for the dead in early Christianity
- Baptism for the dead in early Christianity/CriticalSources
- Baptism in the Book of Mormon
- Barney: "three types of evidence favoring the conclusion that Joseph understood the meaning of the italicized words"
- Becoming Gods
- Becoming Gods/Index
- Becoming Gods/Use of sources
- Becoming Gods/Use of sources/Celestial sex
- Becoming Gods/Use of sources/Changing Biblical text
- Becoming Gods/Use of sources/Dee F. Green on Book of Mormon archaeology
- Becoming Gods/Use of sources/Madsen-B.H. Roberts and the Book of Mormon
- Becoming Gods/Use of sources/Spirits conceived through sexual union
- Becoming Gods/Use of sources/The Book of Mormon and Jesus Christ's conception
- Becoming Gods/Use of sources/Turn to Joseph to gain Salvation
- Bees
- Behind the Mask
- Behind the Mask/Index
- Behind the Mask/Index/Section 1
- Behind the Mask/Index/Section 2
- Behind the Mask/Index/Section 3
- Behind the Mask/Index/Section 4
- Behind the Mask/Index/Section 5
- Behind the Mask/Index/Section 6
- Behind the Mask/Index/Section 7
- Behind the Mask/Index/Section 8
- Bell: "the questionable traces above the head of the Osiris figure are actually the remains of his right hand"
- Bell: "there would not be enough available space to restore the hand of Anubis, the erect phallus of the Osiris, and the body and wings of Isis"
- Bernardino de Sahagun: "Fodder was provided the deer—horses—which the Spaniards rode"
- Bible
- Bible/"Adding to" or "taking away from"
- Bible/"Adding to" or "taking away from"/CriticalSources
- Bible/Basics
- Bible/Born again translation
- Bible/Born again translation/CriticalSources
- Bible/Christianity is a mystery
- Bible/Christianity is a mystery/CriticalSources
- Bible/Completeness
- Bible/Completeness/CriticalSources
- Bible/Condemnation of genealogy
- Bible/Condemnation of genealogy/CriticalSources
- Bible/Cosmology
- Bible/Hebrews 7 and the Aaronic Priesthood
- Bible/Hebrews 7 and the Aaronic Priesthood/CriticalSources
- Bible/Inerrancy
- Bible/Inerrancy/CriticalSources
- Bible/Insufficient
- Bible/Insufficient/CriticalSources
- Bible/Joseph Smith Translation
- Bible/Joseph Smith Translation/As a restoration of the original Bible text
- Bible/Joseph Smith Translation/As the Church's official Bible
- Bible/Joseph Smith Translation/As the Church's official Bible/CriticalSources
- Bible/Joseph Smith Translation/As the Church's official Bible/JST an embarrassment to leaders/CriticalSources
- Bible/Joseph Smith Translation/Relationship to the Book of Mormon
- Bible/Joseph Smith Translation/Relationship to the Book of Mormon/CriticalSources
- Bible/Lost scripture
- Bible/Lost scripture/CriticalSources
- Bible/Old Testament practices
- Bible/Old Testament practices/Animal sacrifice
- Bible/Old Testament practices/Animal sacrifice/CriticalSources
- Bible/Old Testament practices/Cursing of enemies/CriticalSources
- Bible/On-going divine revelation not necessary
- Bible/On-going divine revelation not necessary/CriticalSources
- Bible/Open canon vs. closed canon
- Bible/Open canon vs. closed canon/CriticalSources
- Bible/Textual criticism
- Bible/Three degrees of glory not biblical
- Bible/Three degrees of glory not biblical/1 Corinthians 15:40
- Bible/Three degrees of glory not biblical/2 Corinthians 12:2-4
- Bible/Three degrees of glory not biblical/2 Corinthians 12:2-4/CriticalSources
- Bible/Three degrees of glory not biblical/CriticalSources
- Bible/Translations
- Bible/Translations/CriticalSources
- Bible/Transmission versus translation
- Bible/Transmission versus translation/CriticalSources
- Bible/Trustworthy
- Bible/Trustworthy/CriticalSources
- Bible basics
- Bible cosmology
- Bible passages in the Book of Mormon
- Bible translations
- Bible translations/CriticalSources