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View (previous 50 | next 50) (20 | 50 | 100 | 250 | 500)- Question: What was the relationship between William McLellin and Emma Smith? (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: How do the accounts of Paul's vision compare to the accounts of Joseph Smith's First Vision? (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: What did hostile witnesses say regarding Joseph Smith, Fanny Alger and Emma Smith? (transclusion) (← links)
- Oliver Cowdery: "My eyes saw, my ears heard...It was no dream, no vain imagination of the mind—it was real" (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: Why did Oliver Cowdery join the Methodists if all other churches had been "condemned of God"? (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: Did the witnesses to the Book of Mormon realize that they would be ridiculed and not believed? (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: What might the witnesses to the Book of Mormon have gained if they had denied their testimonies? (transclusion) (← links)
- Source:John Whitmer:Letter to Mark Forscutt:1876:Oliver Cowdery would not have denied his witness "at the peril of his life" (transclusion) (← links)
- Source:Hyrum Smith:Liberty Jail:I felt a determination to die, rather than deny the things which my eyes had seen (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: Did the Three Witnesses have personal, subjective experiences? (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: What did the Book of Mormon witnesses say about the faithfulness of other witnesses? (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: Did the Book of Mormon witnesses hold to their published testimonies? (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: Why do some critics think that Sidney Rigdon was the author of the Book of Mormon? (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: What is the Vernal Holley map? (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: Was Joseph Smith, Jr. known as a "disreputable person" (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith engage in "land speculation" in Nauvoo? (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: What "non-parallels" are apparent in a comparison of View of the Hebrews and the Book of Mormon? (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: Could Joseph Smith have written the Book of Mormon under the influence of an "epileptic fit?" (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: Could Joseph Smith have written the Book of Mormon through a process known as "automatic writing?" (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: What influences led to the development of Grant Palmer's "Golden Pot" theory of Book of Mormon origin? (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: What is the date of the Smith family's "removal to Manchester"? (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: Why does Joseph Smith claim that his family was "proselyted to the Presbyterian faith" in 1820? (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: Why did Joseph Smith claim that the religious excitement in the Palmyra area in 1820 "commenced with the Methodists"? (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: What was Joseph Smith referring to when he said that "I attended their several meetings as often as occasion would permit"? (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: Did God tell Joseph Smith that all of the churches of the day were an "abomination"? (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: When did the Methodists acquire property near Palmyra to hold their camp meetings? (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith join the Methodists as an "exhorter" years after being told not to join another church during the First Vision? (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: When did Joseph Smith become "partial to the Methodist sect?" (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: What critical claims are related to Joseph Smith becoming "partial to the Methodist sect" near the time of the First Vision? (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: Is the fact that Latter-day Saint missionaries were teaching around 1 November 1830 that Joseph Smith had seen “God” personally a reference to having seen Jesus Christ, but not the Father? (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: Do contemporary documents shed any light on the possible persecution of the Smith family after Joseph Smith's First Vision? (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: What did Joseph Smith's mother Lucy Smith say regarding the persecution of the Smith family after the First Vision? (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: What did Joseph Smith's brother William Smith say regarding the persecution of the Smith family after the First Vision? (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: What did Joseph Smith's contemporaries say regarding the persecution of the Smith family after the First Vision? (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: Was the First Vision fabricated to give Joseph Smith "Godly authority?" (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: Is it true that there is no mention of Joseph Smith seeing the Father and Son in any “contemporary” newspaper, diary, LDS publication, or writing of any kind until the year 1838? (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: Was the general membership of the LDS Church not familiar with the First Vision story until late in the nineteenth century? (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: What LDS publications between 1840 and 1877 include references to Joseph Smith's First Vision? (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: Is there any mention of the First Vision in non-Mormon literature before 1843? (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: If the First Vision story was known by the public before 1840, then would anti-Mormons “surely” have seized upon it as an evidence of Joseph Smith’s imposture? (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith violate the Word of Wisdom by drinking tea? (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: Did Willard Richards violate the Word of Wisdom by using tobacco at Carthage Jail? (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: When and how often did Brigham Young refer to elements of Joseph Smith's First Vision in his discourses? (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: Does Doctrine and Covenants 121:28 contradict the First Vision? (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: Is the Father embodied or a spirit in the first edition of the Doctrine and Covenants? (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: How many visions of heavenly beings did Joseph Smith actually have and what was the nature of their visits? (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: Do Latter-day Saints believe Jesus was born 1830 years before the Church's organization on 6 April 1830? (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: Would the angel Moroni have struck his head on the ceiling when he appeared to Joseph Smith in his room? (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith violate the Word of Wisdom by drinking alcohol in Carthage Jail before he was killed? (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: Was the removal of the name "Michael" from the original vision of the Celestial Kingdom and attempt to hide a "slip up" by Joseph Smith? (transclusion) (← links)