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- Deification of man:Quotes
- Delcena Diadamia Johnson Sherman
- Denver C. Snuffer
- Denver Snuffer
- Desdemona Catlin Wadsworth Fulmmer
- Deseret Book
- Deseret Book Company
- Deseret News
- Detailed response to CES Letter, Book of Abraham
- Detailed response to CES Letter, Book of Mormon
- Detailed response to CES Letter, Book of Mormon Translation
- Detailed response to CES Letter, Conclusion
- Detailed response to CES Letter, First Vision
- Detailed response to CES Letter, Introduction
- Detailed response to CES Letter, Kinderhook Plates & Translator Claims
- Detailed response to CES Letter, Other
- Detailed response to CES Letter, Polygamy and Polyandry
- Detailed response to CES Letter, Priesthood Restoration
- Detailed response to CES Letter, Prophets
- Detailed response to CES Letter, Science
- Detailed response to CES Letter, Scriptures
- Detailed response to CES Letter, Temples & Freemasonry
- Detailed response to CES Letter, Testimony and Spiritual Witness
- Detailed response to CES Letter, Witnesses
- Did 19th century church leaders have a list of crimes that were "worthy of death?"
- Did Gordon B. Hinckley say that Latter-day Saints do not believe in the Biblical Christ?
- Did Joseph Smith "retrofit" his "treasure seeking" to have a religious explanation
- Did Joseph Smith 'boast' of keeping the Church intact
- Did Joseph Smith and his contemporaries believe in supernatural entities with real power
- Did Joseph Smith attempt to sell the Book of Mormon copyright?
- Did Joseph Smith believe that he was better than Jesus Christ?
- Did Joseph Smith coerce women to marry him?
- Did Joseph Smith go to Salem to hunt for treasure?
- Did Joseph Smith practice polygamy for the purpose of monetary gain?
- Did Joseph Smith sacrifice a dog while treasure seeking
- Did Joseph Smith send men on missions in order to steal their wives?
- Did Joseph Smith send men on missions in order to steal their wives?/CriticalSources
- Did Joseph have lustful motives for practicing polygamy?
- Did Joseph have lustful motives for practicing polygamy?/CriticalSources
- Did early Church leaders speak of plural marriage difficulties?
- Did early LDS leaders denounce Christianity
- Did early LDS leaders denounce Christianity/CriticalSources
- Dieter F. Uchtdorf
- Differences in First Vision accounts
- Different age provided in the 1832 text
- Differing versions of the Articles of Faith
- Differing versions of the Articles of Faith/CriticalSources
- Difficulties with plural marriage
- Dinosaurs
- Discrepancies Between Translations: Book of Mormon, King James Version, Joseph Smith Translation
- Discrepancies Between Translations: Book of Mormon, King James Version, Joseph Smith Translation/CriticalSources
- Discrepancies Between Translations: Book of Mormon, King James Verson, Inspired Version
- Discrepancies Between Translations: Book of Mormon, King James Verson, Joseph Smith Translation
- Disobey Brigham and be sheared down
- Disobey Brigham and be sheared down/CriticalSources
- Divination
- Divine manifestations to plural wives and families
- Divine manifestions to plural wives and families
- Divine manifestions to plural wives and families/Further Reading
- Divorce not allowed except for fornication
- Do Latter-day Saints believe that Christ suffered on the cross
- Do Mormons believe that "God is a man"
- Do modern Mormon temple rituals have analogues in early Christian practice?
- Do temples always face east
- Doctrinal completeness of the Bible
- Doctrine and Covenants
- Doctrine and Covenants/Articles of Faith
- Doctrine and Covenants/Articles of Faith/Differing versions
- Doctrine and Covenants/Articles of Faith/Differing versions/CriticalSources
- Doctrine and Covenants/Articles of Faith/Differing versions/Text of various versions
- Doctrine and Covenants/Articles of Faith/Differing versions/Text of various versions/1834 (Cowdery)
- Doctrine and Covenants/Articles of Faith/Differing versions/Text of various versions/1836 (Joseph Young)
- Doctrine and Covenants/Articles of Faith/Differing versions/Text of various versions/1840 (Orson Pratt)
- Doctrine and Covenants/Articles of Faith/Differing versions/Text of various versions/1842 (Orson Hyde)
- Doctrine and Covenants/Articles of Faith/Differing versions/Text of various versions/1842 (Wentworth letter)
- Doctrine and Covenants/Articles of Faith/Differing versions/Text of various versions/1849 (Flanigan)
- Doctrine and Covenants/Articles of Faith/Differing versions/Text of various versions/1853 (Findly)
- Doctrine and Covenants/Articles of Faith/Differing versions/Text of various versions/1853 (Haven)
- Doctrine and Covenants/Articles of Faith/Differing versions/Text of various versions/1855-57(John Taylor)
- Doctrine and Covenants/Contradiction between Section 132 and Jacob 2
- Doctrine and Covenants/Contradiction between Section 132 and Jacob 2/CriticalSources
- Doctrine and Covenants/Criticism
- Doctrine and Covenants/Criticism/Alleged contradictions
- Doctrine and Covenants/Criticism/New Testament in Doctrine and Covenants
- Doctrine and Covenants/Direct quotation from God
- Doctrine and Covenants/Geography
- Doctrine and Covenants/Geography/Lamanites
- Doctrine and Covenants/Geography/Locations
- Doctrine and Covenants/Lectures on Faith
- Doctrine and Covenants/Lectures on Faith/Removed
- Doctrine and Covenants/Lectures on Faith/Removed/CriticalSources
- Doctrine and Covenants/Lectures on Faith removed
- Doctrine and Covenants/Lectures on Faith removed/CriticalSources
- Doctrine and Covenants/Oliver Cowdery and the "rod of nature"
- Doctrine and Covenants/Oliver Cowdery and the "rod of nature"/CriticalSources
- Doctrine and Covenants/Oliver Cowdery and the "rod of nature"/Further Reading
- Doctrine and Covenants/Polygamy
- Doctrine and Covenants/Polygamy/Scriptures
- Doctrine and Covenants/Textual changes
- Doctrine and Covenants/Textual changes/Adam and Michael conflated in D&C 137
- Doctrine and Covenants/Textual changes/Adam and Michael conflated in Doctrine and Covenants 137
- Doctrine and Covenants/Textual changes/Adam and Michael conflated in Doctrine and Covenants 137/CriticalSources
- Doctrine and Covenants/Textual changes/CriticalSources
- Doctrine and Covenants/Textual changes/Further Reading
- Doctrine and Covenants/Textual changes/Why did Joseph Smith edit revelations
- Doctrine and Covenants/Textual changes/Why did Joseph Smith edit revelations/CriticalSources
- Doctrine and Covenants/Textual changes/Why did Joseph Smith edit revelations/Further Reading
- Doctrine and Covenants 132:51-52: "all those that have been given unto my servant Joseph"
- 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, but they ob
- 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"
- Doctrine and Covenants of the Church of the Latter Day Saints: Carefully Selected from the Revelations of God
- Doctrine and Covenants textual changes
- Does Elohim have a father God above him
- Does the Church discourage reading critical material?
- Downplaying the King Follett Discourse
- Downplaying the King Follett discourse
- Dr. Wendy Ulrich (2005): "How do the goosebumps and tearfulness I experience when someone speaks in a testimony meeting differ from the goosebumps and tearfulness I experience when the 4:00 parade begins at Disneyland?"
- Dudes at the Door
- E. B. Grandin
- Early Christian views on salvation
- Early Christians on plural marriage
- Early Mormonism and the Magic World View
- Early Mormonism and the Magic World View/Apologetics
- Early Mormonism and the Magic World View/Index
- Early Mormonism and the Magic World View/Index/Chapter 1
- Early Mormonism and the Magic World View/Index/Chapter 2
- Early Mormonism and the Magic World View/Index/Chapter 3
- Early Mormonism and the Magic World View/Index/Chapter 4
- Early Mormonism and the Magic World View/Index/Chapter 5
- Early Mormonism and the Magic World View/Index/Chapter 6
- Early Mormonism and the Magic World View/Index/Chapter 7
- Early Mormonism and the Magic World View/Use of sources
- Early Mormonism and the Magic World View/Use of sources/Anthromorphism in Kabbalah
- Early Mormonism and the Magic World View/Use of sources/Book peddlers
- Early Mormonism and the Magic World View/Use of sources/Cheap magic books
- Early Mormonism and the Magic World View/Use of sources/Jugglers or conjurors
- Early Smith family history
- Early Smith family history/Lazy Smiths
- Early Smith family history/Lazy Smiths/CriticalSources
- Early Smith family history/No positive witnesses
- Early Smith family history/No positive witnesses/CriticalSources
- Early life of Joseph Smith, Jr.
- Economics of LDS immigration
- Economics of LDS immigration/CriticalSources
- Edit Summary
- Education and belief
- Edward Stevenson (1870): Martin Harris said "my belief is swallowed up in knowledge; for I want to say to you that as the Lord lives I do know that I stood with the Prophet Joseph Smith in the presence of the angel"
- Egbert Bratt Grandin
- Egyptian Scimiter from Tell El-Dab'a in the Eastern Nile Delta (circa before 1500 BC)
- Egyptian language
- Eight Witnesses
- Elder's Journal
- Elder's Journal/1
- Elder's Journal/1/1
- Elder's Journal/1/2
- Elder's Journal/1/3
- Elder's Journal/1/4
- Elder's Journal/2
- Elder Jeffery R. Holland: "it is a characteristic of our age that if people want any gods at all, they want them to be gods who do not demand much"
- Election fraud
- Elephants
- Elephants in the Book of Mormon
- Eleven official witnesses to the Book of Mormon
- Eli Gilbert (24 Sep 1834): "was not the book of Mormon also written by men who were divinely inspired by the Holy Spirit, on the continent of America?"
- Elias and Elijah at the Kirtland Temple
- Elias and Elijah at the Kirtland Temple/Further Reading
- Eliza Partridge
- Eliza R. Snow
- Elizabeth Davis Goldsmith Brackenbury Durfee
- Eloheim and Jehovah
- Elohim and Jehovah
- Elvira Annie Cowles Holmes
- Emily Partridge
- Emma Hale Smith
- Emma Smith
- Emma Smith's reaction to Joseph Smith's plural marriages
- Emma Smith's reaction to Joseph Smith's plural marriages/CriticalSources
- Emma Smith/Brigham Young
- Emma Smith/Relationship with Brigham Young
- Emma Smith/Relationship with the Church after Joseph's death
- Emma Smith/Relationship with the Church after Joseph's death/Brigham Young
- Emma Smith and Brigham Young
- Emma Smith and polygamy
- Emma Smith in Doctrine and Covenants 132
- Encyclopedia of Mormonism (1992): "The Church has not taken an official position with regard to location of geographical places"
- Encyclopedia of Mormonism (K. Carter Codell): "Epistemology"
- Encyclopedia of Mormonism (Ralph C. Hancock): "Reason and Revelation"
- Endowment (Mormonism)
- Engravings on and sealed portion of the gold plates
- Enos
- Ensign (1977): "plural marriage...Starting during Joseph Smith’s own lifetime but limited to a few dozen families until its official announcement in 1852"
- Ensign (1989): "The Prophet introduced several doctrines relating to the temple, including the temple ceremonies and plural marriage"
- Ensign (Jan. 2013): "He...referred to it using an Old Testament term, Urim and Thummim...He also sometimes applied the term to other stones he possessed"
- 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
- Ensign (Sept. 1977): "If his translation was essentially the same as that of the King James version, he apparently quoted the verse from the Bible"
- Equal Rights Amendment and the Church
- Equalrightsamendment
- Erastus Snow on the stick of Ephraim
- Eschatology
- Esther Dutcher
- Eternal life regardless of church affiliation in 1832 text?
- Eternal sin
- Ether
- Evaluating Book of Mormon geography theories
- Evaluating Plagiarism Accusations
- Evangelical witnessing to Mormons
- Evangelical witnessing to Mormons/Craig Blomberg - Jesus to the Mormons
- Evening and the Morning Star (Jun 1833): "Lehi was guided by the matchless power of God to this continent"
- Evening and the Morning Star (Jun 1833): "NO people that have lived on this continent, since the flood, understood many of the arts and sciences, better that the Jaredites and Nephites"
- Evening and the Morning Star (March 1833): "The continent of America is a choice land above all others"
- Events after the First Vision
- Events in Ether
- Events leading to the First Vision
- Events surrounding the death of Joseph Smith
- Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Mormonism
- Evidence of the apostasy in the Bible
- Evidences that support the Book of Abraham
- Evolution
- Evolution/Official stance
- Evolution:Primary sources
- Evolution:Primary sources:David O McKay 1957
- Evolution:Primary sources:Earth and Man
- Evolution:Primary sources:Ensign 1987
- Evolution:Primary sources:EoM Creation
- Evolution:Primary sources:EoM Earth
- Evolution:Primary sources:EoM Evolution
- Evolution:Primary sources:EoM Origin of Man
- Evolution:Primary sources:Eyring Bennion Letter
- Evolution:Primary sources:First Presidency 1909
- Evolution:Primary sources:First Presidency 1910
- Evolution:Primary sources:First Presidency 1925
- Evolution:Primary sources:IE 1910
- Evolution:Primary sources:JI Joseph F. Smith 1911
- Evolution:Primary sources:MOD 360
- Evolution:Primary sources:MOD 453
- Evolution:Primary sources:McKay Letter 1959
- Evolution:Primary sources:McKay Letter 1959 sec
- Evolution:Primary sources:Mormon Doctrine
- Evolution:Primary sources:Open letter to college students
- Evolution:Primary sources:RoS 53
- EvolutionLPrimary sources:IE 1910
- Ex nihilo
- Examples of changes to the Doctrine and Covenants
- Excommunication
- Excommunication/Scholars
- Excommunication of scholars
- Ezra Taft Benson (1972): "I wish that every person in my country, in your country, in all of the Americas on this entire continent would read the Book of Mormon, and in it the prophetic history of these lands"
- Ezra Taft Benson (Apr 1955): "the Promised Land, the land of Zion, includes all of North and South America"
- Ezra Taft Benson (Apr 1960 and Oct 1962): "This is a choice land - - all of America"
- Ezra Taft Benson (Dec 1980): "wise and inspired men in North, Central, and South America were raised up who proclaimed the sovereign truth that all men"
- Ezra Taft Benson (Jan 1979): "God raised up wise leaders among your progenitors which afforded Latin American countries political freedom and independence"
- FAIR Does Not Speak for the Church
- FAIR Does Not Speak for the Church/FAIR in the News
- FAIR Does Not Speak for the Church/Further Reading
- FAIR Errata
- FAIR Study Aids
- FAIR Study Aids/Book of Abraham
- FAIR Study Aids/Book of Mormon
- FAIR Study Aids/Book of Mormon/Lesson One
- FAIR Study Aids/Book of Mormon/Lesson Three
- FAIR Study Aids/Book of Mormon/Lesson Two
- FAIR Study Aids/Book of Mormon Resources by chapter and verse
- FAIR Study Aids/Book of Mormon Resources by chapter and verse/1 Nephi
- FAIR Study Aids/Book of Mormon Resources by chapter and verse/2 Nephi
- FAIR Study Aids/Book of Mormon Resources by chapter and verse/3 Nephi
- FAIR Study Aids/Book of Mormon Resources by chapter and verse/4 Nephi
- FAIR Study Aids/Book of Mormon Resources by chapter and verse/Alma
- FAIR Study Aids/Book of Mormon Resources by chapter and verse/Enos
- FAIR Study Aids/Book of Mormon Resources by chapter and verse/Ether
- FAIR Study Aids/Book of Mormon Resources by chapter and verse/Helaman
- FAIR Study Aids/Book of Mormon Resources by chapter and verse/Introduction, Title Page, Witnesses' Testimonies; Historical Studies of its Coming Forth; and Miscellaneous Items of Interest
- FAIR Study Aids/Book of Mormon Resources by chapter and verse/Jacob
- FAIR Study Aids/Book of Mormon Resources by chapter and verse/Jarom
- FAIR Study Aids/Book of Mormon Resources by chapter and verse/Mormon
- FAIR Study Aids/Book of Mormon Resources by chapter and verse/Moroni
- FAIR Study Aids/Book of Mormon Resources by chapter and verse/Mosiah
- FAIR Study Aids/Book of Mormon Resources by chapter and verse/Omni
- FAIR Study Aids/Book of Mormon Resources by chapter and verse/Words of Mormon
- FAIR Study Aids/Church History
- FAIR Study Aids/Doctrine and Covenants
- FAIR Study Aids/Gospel Doctrine
- FAIR Study Aids/Gospel Doctrine/Book of Mormon
- FAIR Study Aids/Gospel Doctrine/Book of Mormon/Lesson Eight
- FAIR Study Aids/Gospel Doctrine/Book of Mormon/Lesson Eleven
- FAIR Study Aids/Gospel Doctrine/Book of Mormon/Lesson Five
- FAIR Study Aids/Gospel Doctrine/Book of Mormon/Lesson Four
- FAIR Study Aids/Gospel Doctrine/Book of Mormon/Lesson Fourteen
- FAIR Study Aids/Gospel Doctrine/Book of Mormon/Lesson Nine
- FAIR Study Aids/Gospel Doctrine/Book of Mormon/Lesson One
- FAIR Study Aids/Gospel Doctrine/Book of Mormon/Lesson Seven
- FAIR Study Aids/Gospel Doctrine/Book of Mormon/Lesson Six
- FAIR Study Aids/Gospel Doctrine/Book of Mormon/Lesson Ten
- FAIR Study Aids/Gospel Doctrine/Book of Mormon/Lesson Thirteen
- FAIR Study Aids/Gospel Doctrine/Book of Mormon/Lesson Three
- FAIR Study Aids/Gospel Doctrine/Book of Mormon/Lesson Twelve
- FAIR Study Aids/Gospel Doctrine/Book of Mormon/Lesson Two
- FAIR Study Aids/Gospel Doctrine/Book of Mormon/Lesson fifteen
- FAIR Study Aids/Gospel Doctrine/Book of Mormon/Lesson fourteen
- FAIR Study Aids/Gospel Doctrine/Book of Mormon/Lesson thirteen
- FAIR Study Aids/Gospel Doctrine/Book of Mormon/Lesson twelve
- FAIR Study Aids/Gospel Doctrine/Doctrine and Covenants
- FAIR Study Aids/Gospel Doctrine/Gospel Principles
- FAIR Study Aids/Gospel Doctrine/New Testament
- FAIR Study Aids/Gospel Doctrine/Old Testament
- FAIR Study Aids/Gospel Principles
- FAIR Study Aids/Seminary
- FAIR Study Aids/Seminary/Old Testament
- FAIR Study Aids/Seminary/Old Testament/Week 1
- FAIR Study Aids/Seminary/Old Testament/Week 10
- FAIR Study Aids/Seminary/Old Testament/Week 11
- FAIR Study Aids/Seminary/Old Testament/Week 12
- FAIR Study Aids/Seminary/Old Testament/Week 13
- FAIR Study Aids/Seminary/Old Testament/Week 14
- FAIR Study Aids/Seminary/Old Testament/Week 15
- FAIR Study Aids/Seminary/Old Testament/Week 16
- FAIR Study Aids/Seminary/Old Testament/Week 17
- FAIR Study Aids/Seminary/Old Testament/Week 18
- FAIR Study Aids/Seminary/Old Testament/Week 19
- FAIR Study Aids/Seminary/Old Testament/Week 2
- FAIR Study Aids/Seminary/Old Testament/Week 20
- FAIR Study Aids/Seminary/Old Testament/Week 21
- FAIR Study Aids/Seminary/Old Testament/Week 22
- FAIR Study Aids/Seminary/Old Testament/Week 23
- FAIR Study Aids/Seminary/Old Testament/Week 24
- FAIR Study Aids/Seminary/Old Testament/Week 25
- FAIR Study Aids/Seminary/Old Testament/Week 26
- FAIR Study Aids/Seminary/Old Testament/Week 27
- FAIR Study Aids/Seminary/Old Testament/Week 28
- FAIR Study Aids/Seminary/Old Testament/Week 29
- FAIR Study Aids/Seminary/Old Testament/Week 3
- FAIR Study Aids/Seminary/Old Testament/Week 30
- FAIR Study Aids/Seminary/Old Testament/Week 31
- FAIR Study Aids/Seminary/Old Testament/Week 32
- FAIR Study Aids/Seminary/Old Testament/Week 33
- FAIR Study Aids/Seminary/Old Testament/Week 34
- FAIR Study Aids/Seminary/Old Testament/Week 35
- FAIR Study Aids/Seminary/Old Testament/Week 36
- FAIR Study Aids/Seminary/Old Testament/Week 4
- FAIR Study Aids/Seminary/Old Testament/Week 5
- FAIR Study Aids/Seminary/Old Testament/Week 6
- FAIR Study Aids/Seminary/Old Testament/Week 7
- FAIR Study Aids/Seminary/Old Testament/Week 8
- FAIR Study Aids/Seminary/Old Testament/Week 9
- FAIR study aids/Book of Mormon
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