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View (previous 50 | next 50) (20 | 50 | 100 | 250 | 500)- Joseph Fielding Smith (1951): Jesus "says unto those who are married for time only, and those who do not believe in marriage for eternity" (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: Was Joseph Smith's translation of the Bible ever completed? (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: Was the Joseph Smith Translation intended to be a restoration of original Bible text? (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: Why was the name "Michael" deleted from Joseph Smith's vision of the Celestial Kingdom? (transclusion) (← links)
- Criticism of Mormonism/Websites/MormonThink/Doctrine & Covenants (transclusion) (← links)
- Joseph Smith listed as author and proprietor of the Book of Mormon (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: Was the young Joseph Smith a teller of "tall tales"? (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: Did B.H. Roberts state that it was possible for Joseph Smith to have come up with the Book of Mormon on his own? (transclusion) (← links)
- Truman Madsen: "Among readers who came to the Book of Mormon with hard, skeptical assumptions, B.H. Roberts is notable" (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: Did B.H. Roberts lose his faith in the Church and the Book of Mormon? (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: When Joseph performed his inspired translation of the Bible, why didn't he rewrite the creation account in Genesis to read more like that in the Book of Abraham? (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: Why is the name "Lucifer" used to represent Satan in Latter-day Saint scriptures and the temple ceremony? (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: How did Joseph Smith use his seer stones as a youth? (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith place his seer stone in his hat while looking for lost objects? (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: How many seer stones did Joseph Smith have in his possession? (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: What did Joseph Smith's seer stones look like? (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: How were Joseph Smith's seer stones involved in the translation of the Book of Mormon? (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: Why did Joseph Smith eventually stop using the seer stones to receive revelation? (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: Are there any Biblical parallels to Joseph Smith's understanding of the use of seer stones? (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: What happened to Joseph Smith's seer stones? (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: Has the Church tried to hide Joseph's use of a seer stone? (transclusion) (← links)
- Source:Gardner:The Gift and the Power:it’s stone that becomes the trigger that allows the seer to do what the seer does (transclusion) (← links)
- Source:Nicholson:The Spectacles, The Stone:This essay focuses primarily on the methods and instruments used in the translation process (transclusion) (← links)
- 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 (transclusion) (← links)
- Source:Nelson:A Treasured Testament:Ensign:July 1993:The details of this miraculous method of translation are still not fully known. Yet we do have a few precious insights (transclusion) (← links)
- Source:Gospel Topics:Book of Mormon Translation:According to these accounts, Joseph placed either the interpreters or the seer stone in a hat (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: How exactly did Joseph Smith translate the gold plates? (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: What events resulted in Joseph Smith's 1826 court appearance in South Bainbridge? (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: What is Joseph Smith's 1826 South Bainbridge "trial" for "glasslooking"? (transclusion) (← links)
- Ensign (June 1994): "Highlights in the Prophet’s Life 20 Mar. 1826: Tried and acquitted on fanciful charge of being a “disorderly person,” South Bainbridge, Chenango County, New York (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: What did critics of the Church during Joseph Smith's lifetime think of the 1826 court hearing? (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: Didn't Hugh Nibley claim that a record of this trial would be "the most damning evidence in existence" against Joseph Smith? (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: Why was Joseph fined if he wasn't found guilty of anything? (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: What are the details of Joseph Smith's 1826 "trial" for "glasslooking"? (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: Why is the "white stone" that we are to receive upon entry to the Celestial kingdom not discussed extensively in Sunday School? (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: Did Joseph Fielding Smith say that it was not reasonable for Joseph Smith to use a seer stone to translate the Book of Mormon? (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: Was the temple in Jerusalem the sole legitimate site of worship? (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: Were there not enough people available in Nephi's time to build a temple "after the manner of the temple of Solomon"? (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: Was Nephi's temple "similar in splendor" to Solomon's temple? (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: How could Lehi, a non-Levite, perform sacrifices? (transclusion) (← links)
- John Whitmer reaffirmed his testimony as printed in the Book of Mormon even after he left the Church (transclusion) (← links)
- Turley claimed that John Whitmer said: "I now say I handled those plates. there was fine engravings on both sides. I handled them...and they were shown to me by a supernatural power" (transclusion) (← links)
- Myron H. Bond (1878): John Whitmer "knew as well as he knew he had an existence that Joseph translated the ancient writing which was upon the plates, which he saw and handled" (transclusion) (← links)
- P. Wilhelm Poulson (1878): John Whitmer said "He handed them uncovered into our hands, and we turned the leaves sufficient to satisfy us" (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: How do critics of the Church attempt to dismiss the literal experience of the Eight Witnesses of the Book of Mormon? (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: Do Latter-day Saints ("Mormons") actually believe that they are morally, ethically, spiritually superior to others? (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: Was the United Order simply a form of communism? (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: Does the Smithsonian Institution send out a letter regarding the use of the Book of Mormon as a guide for archaeological research? (transclusion) (← links)
- Source:Bradshaw:Defining Adultery:Joseph Smith could not have been properly convicted of adultery under the law of Illinois in 1844 (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: Why is priesthood authority transferred by the "laying on of hands"? (transclusion) (← links)