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- FAIR Study Aids/Seminary/Old Testament/Week 2
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- 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
- Fabricated quotes from Brigham Young
- Facts Mormons Won't Tell You When They Call at Your Door
- Failure of the Kirtland Safety Society
- FairMormon Does Not Speak for the Church/Further Reading
- FairMormon Study Aids
- Faith crisis draft 1
- Fall of Adam and Eve
- Fallibility of prophets
- Fallibility of prophets/Quotations
- Fanny Alger
- Fanny Alger was Joseph Smith's first plural wife
- Fanny Young
- Farewell to Eden
- Fayette, New York
- Firesides
- Firesides/28 November 2010 - Sweden
- Firesides/28 November 2010 - Sweden/1
- Firesides/28 November 2010 - Sweden/10
- Firesides/28 November 2010 - Sweden/11
- Firesides/28 November 2010 - Sweden/12
- Firesides/28 November 2010 - Sweden/13
- Firesides/28 November 2010 - Sweden/14
- Firesides/28 November 2010 - Sweden/15
- Firesides/28 November 2010 - Sweden/16
- Firesides/28 November 2010 - Sweden/2
- Firesides/28 November 2010 - Sweden/3
- Firesides/28 November 2010 - Sweden/4
- Firesides/28 November 2010 - Sweden/5
- Firesides/28 November 2010 - Sweden/6
- Firesides/28 November 2010 - Sweden/7
- Firesides/28 November 2010 - Sweden/8
- Firesides/28 November 2010 - Sweden/9
- First Presidency statements about the priesthood ban
- First Vision in the CES Letter
- First Vision seldom mentioned in Church publications before 1877
- Flora Ann Woodworth
- Forgeries/Burrows Cave artifacts/Further Reading
- Forgeries/Mark Hofmann/Church reaction to forgeries/Church statement 31 July 1987
- Forgeries/Mark Hofmann/Church reaction to forgeries/Dallin H. Oaks 6 August 1987 remarks on Hofmann
- Forgeries/Mark Hofmann/Church reaction to forgeries/Ensign list of Hofmann documents
- Forgeries related to Mormonism/Bat Creek Stone/Further Reading
- Forgeries related to Mormonism/Oliver Cowdery's 1839 Defence in a Rehearsal of my Grounds for Separating Myself from the Latter Day Saints
- Forgeries related to Mormonism/Personalities
- Foundation for Apologetic Information & Research
- Freemasonry and the Book of Mormon
- Fulfillment of prophecy
- Gardner: "a correct approach to a Mesoamerican battle required all three elements: king, litter, and battle beast"
- Gee: "Ferguson is largely unknown to the vast majority of Latter-day Saints; his impact on Book of Mormon studies is minimal"
- Geographical issues related to DNA and the Book of Mormon
- George A. Smith (1864 - quoting Joseph Smith): "When the light rested upon me I saw two personages, whose brightness and glory defy all description...'This is my beloved son, hear him'"
- George A. Smith (1868): "revealed to Joseph by the ministration of angels, the true condition of the religious world"
- George Albert Smith (Oct 1940): "They will find that it contains, in addition to what the Bible has told us about the world, what the Lord has said about this Western Hemisphere"
- George F. Richards: "The Lord has given me dreams which to me are just as real and as much from God as was the dream of King Nebuchadnezzar"
- George F. Richards (1922): "The land of North and South America is a very much favored portion of our Father's footstool"
- George Mantle (1888): Martin Harris said "Do you know that is the sun shining on us? Because as sure as you know that...he translated that book by the power of God"
- George Q. Cannon (1896): "I know that God lives. I know that Jesus lives; for I have seen him"
- Gold plates and the translation process
- Golden Plates
- Golden Pot theory of Book of Mormon authorship
- GospeLink quick links
- Gospel Topics:Are Mormons Christian:Latter-day Saints Do Not Accept the Creeds of Post–New Testament Christianity
- Gospel Topics: "As Joseph grew to understand his prophetic calling, he learned that he could use this stone for the higher purpose of translating scripture"
- Gospel Topics: "During the first two decades of the Church’s existence, a few black men were ordained to the priesthood"
- Gospel Topics: "Joseph Smith and his associates often used the term 'Urim and Thummim' to refer to the single stone as well as the interpreters"
- Gospel Topics: "Joseph Smith’s explanations of the facsimiles of the book of Abraham contain additional earmarks of the ancient world"
- Gospel Topics: "The Book of Mormon...does not claim that the peoples it describes were either the predominant or the exclusive inhabitants of the lands they occupied"
- Gospel Topics: "The phrase can be understood to mean that Abraham is the author and not the literal copyist"
- Gospel Topics: "the Bible mentions other physical instruments used to access God’s power: the rod of Aaron, a brass serpent, holy anointing oils, the Ark of the Covenant, and even dirt from the ground mixed with saliva"
- Gospel Topics: Our theology begins with heavenly parents. Our highest aspiration is to be like them
- Gospel Topics on LDS.org: "Joseph Smith was sealed to a number of women who were already married. Neither these women nor Joseph explained much about these sealings, though several women said they were for eternity alone"
- Gospel Topics on LDS.org: "Mormon and non-Mormon Egyptologists agree that the characters on the fragments do not match the translation given in the book of Abraham"
- Gospel Topics on LDS.org: "Some evidence suggests that Joseph studied the characters on the Egyptian papyri and attempted to learn the Egyptian language"
- Gospel of Judas
- Grayson: "extinct North American mammals...losses began in Mexico and Alaska during the Pleistocene and ended in Florida perhaps as recently as 2000 years ago"
- Great Lakes Model of Book of Mormon geography
- Hamblin: "there are no references to Nephite steel after 400 B.C."
- Hannah S. Ells
- Harold B. Lee: "I have received a witness that I cannot or dare not deny. When I see Jesus, I cannot mistake His identity. I know that He lives!"
- Harold B. Lee (11 Nov 1959) "it seems all are in agreement that the followers of Lehi came to the western shores of South America"
- Harold B. Lee (8 Jul 1966): "if the Lord wanted us to know where it was, or where Zarahemla was, he’d have given us latitude and longitude, don’t you think?"
- Haun's Mill massacre
- Head: "The indigenous American bee is the melipona (a stingless bee). It produces only about one kilogram of honey per year"
- Heading Templates
- Heartland Model of Book of Mormon geography
- Heber C. Kimball (1865): "I know it by revelation by the Spirit of God, for in this way my Heavenly Father communes with me"
- Heber J. Grant (1937): "I am a firm believer that this country, both North and South America, is the choice land of the world"
- Hebraisms in the Book of Mormon
- Hebrew and Native American languages
- Helaman
- Helen Mar Kimball
- Helps for Church teachers
- Helps for Church teachers/Seminary
- Helps for Church teachers/Seminary/Old Testament/Week 1/Week 2
- Hemispheric Geography Model of Book of Mormon geography
- Henry B. Eyring
- Henry B. Eyring (1996): "I know as surely as did the Apostles Peter, James, and John that Jesus is the Christ, our risen Lord"
- Henry Caswall
- Henry Eyring: "Is there any conflict between science and religion? There is no conflict in the mind of God, but often there is conflict in the minds of men"
- Historical summary of the Mountain Meadows Massacre
- Histories written by scholars
- History of the Church
- History of the Church (6-volume history)
- History scholars and Church discipline
- Hoaxes related to Book of Mormon geography claims
- Holy Ghost
- Holy Ghost/"Feeling the spirit" while listening to ex-Mormon exit stories
- Holy Ghost/Burning in the bosom
- Holy Ghost/Divinity without a body
- Holy Ghost/Feeling "the spirit" while watching movies
- Holy Ghost/Problems with revelation
- Holy Ghost/ Latter-day Saint Epistemology
- Homosexuality and the Church of Jesus Christ
- Homosexuality and the Church of Jesus Christ/Boyd K. Packer October 2010 conference talk/Critics' tactics
- Homosexuality and the Church of Jesus Christ/Boyd K. Packer October 2010 conference talk/Table
- Horses in the Book of Mormon
- Hoskisson: "the mistaken assumption that scimitars did not exist in the pre-Islamic Old World"
- Hot drinks in the Word of Wisdom
- Hugh Nibley
- Hugh Nibley/Abuse charges/Beck husband reaction
- Hugh Nibley (1978): "one tragically short-lived religious civilization that once flourished in Mesoamerica and then vanished toward the northeast in the course"
- Hugh Nibley (19 Aug 1983): "All this took place in Central America"
- Human sacrifice in the Book of Mormon
- Hyrum Smith
- Identifying ancient DNA related to Book of Mormon people
- Identity of the Lamanites in the Book of Mormon
- Improvement Era (1946): "Did Joseph Smith Introduce Plural Marriage?...It is also possible, though the Church does not now permit it, to seal two living people for eternity only, with no association on earth"
- Improvement Era (1946): "That Joseph Smith actually was the person who introduced plural marriage into the Church and that he practised it himself are amply proved by existing facts"
- Improvement Era (January 1968): "Often the funerary texts contained passages from the 'Book of the Dead,' a book that was to assist in the safe passage of the dead person into the spirit world"
- Improvement Era index
- Independence, Missouri
- Indian Student Placement Services program
- Indigenous Americans
- Initiation of the practice of plural marriage
- Initiation of the practice of plural marriage/Joseph Smith practiced plural marriage
- InsightsList:Summary
- InsightsList:Vol 19:Num 10
- InsightsList:Vol 19:Num 11
- InsightsList:Vol 19:Num 12
- InsightsList:Vol 19:Num 4
- InsightsList:Vol 19:Num 5
- InsightsList:Vol 19:Num 6
- InsightsList:Vol 19:Num 7
- InsightsList:Vol 19:Num 8
- InsightsList:Vol 19:Num 9
- InsightsList:Vol 20:Num 1
- InsightsList:Vol 20:Num 10
- InsightsList:Vol 20:Num 11
- InsightsList:Vol 20:Num 12
- InsightsList:Vol 20:Num 2
- InsightsList:Vol 20:Num 3
- InsightsList:Vol 20:Num 4
- InsightsList:Vol 20:Num 5
- InsightsList:Vol 20:Num 6
- InsightsList:Vol 20:Num 7
- InsightsList:Vol 20:Num 8
- InsightsList:Vol 20:Num 9
- InsightsList:Vol 21:Num 1
- InsightsList:Vol 21:Num 10
- InsightsList:Vol 21:Num 11
- InsightsList:Vol 21:Num 2
- InsightsList:Vol 21:Num 3
- InsightsList:Vol 21:Num 4
- InsightsList:Vol 21:Num 5
- InsightsList:Vol 21:Num 6
- InsightsList:Vol 21:Num 7
- InsightsList:Vol 21:Num 8
- InsightsList:Vol 21:Num 9
- InsightsList:Vol 22:Num 1
- InsightsList:Vol 22:Num 10
- InsightsList:Vol 22:Num 11
- InsightsList:Vol 22:Num 2
- InsightsList:Vol 22:Num 3
- InsightsList:Vol 22:Num 4
- InsightsList:Vol 22:Num 5
- InsightsList:Vol 22:Num 6
- InsightsList:Vol 22:Num 7
- InsightsList:Vol 22:Num 8
- InsightsList:Vol 22:Num 9
- InsightsList:Vol 23:Num 1
- InsightsList:Vol 23:Num 2
- InsightsList:Vol 23:Num 3
- InsightsList:Vol 23:Num 4
- InsightsList:Vol 23:Num 5
- InsightsList:Vol 24:Num 1
- InsightsList:Vol 24:Num 2
- InsightsList:Vol 24:Num 5
- InsightsList:Vol 24:Num 6
- InsightsList:Vol 25:Num 1
- InsightsList:Vol 25:Num 2
- InsightsList:Vol 25:Num 4
- InsightsList:Vol 25:Num 5
- InsightsList:Vol 25:Num 6
- Intelligent life on other worlds
- Introduction, Title Page, Witnesses' Testimonies; Historical Studies of its Coming Forth; and Miscellaneous Items of Interest
- Introduction in the CES Letter
- Introduction to apologetics
- Is polygamy sexist?
- Isaac Hale
- Isaiah and the Book of Mormon
- J. Reuben Clark (1940): "Thus the hemisphere – Zion in its full area –was becoming “a land of liberty"
- JBMRS list
- Jackson County, Missouri
- Jacob
- James B. Allen (historian)
- James E. Faust (1995): "Jesus is our divine Savior, Redeemer, and the son of God the Father. I know of his reality by a sure perception so sacred I cannot give utterance to it"
- James E. Talmage (Apr 1929): "the Book of Mormon does not give us precise and definite information whereby we can locate those places with certainty"
- James Strang movement
- Jan Shipps
- Jarom
- Jeffrey R. Holland
- Jeffrey R. Holland: "All I’m saying is that what got translated got translated into the word of God"
- Jesus Christ
- Jesus Christ/Accusations that Latter-day Saints aren't Christians
- Jesus Christ/Accusations that Mormons aren't Christians/Evangelical arguments
- Jesus Christ/Alpha and Omega/CriticalSources
- Jesus Christ/Atonement
- Jesus Christ/Atonement/Latter-day Saint perspective
- Jesus Christ/Atonement/The garden and the cross
- Jesus Christ/Atonement/The importance of the atonement of Jesus Christ to the Latter-day Saints
- Jesus Christ/Biblical
- Jesus Christ/Brother of Satan
- Jesus Christ/Conception
- Jesus Christ/Creator
- Jesus Christ/Date of birth
- Jesus Christ/Gordon B. Hinckley states that Latter-day Saints don't believe in the "traditional" Christ/CriticalSources
- Jesus Christ/Jesus as the Jewish Messiah
- Jesus Christ/Latter-day Saint views of Jesus Christ
- Jesus Christ/Marital status
- Jesus Christ/Relationship to Quetzalcoatl
- Jesus Christ/Relationships
- Jesus Christ/The "Mormon" vs. the "Christian" Jesus
- Jesus Christ/Was Jesus married
- Jesus Christ/Was Jesus married/Was Jesus a polygamist
- Jesus Christ/Worship
- Jesus Christ bled from every pore
- John A. Widtsoe (1943): "The Old Testament records a flood that was just over fifteen cubits (sometimes assumed to be about twenty-six feet) deep and covered the entire landscape"
- John A. Widtsoe (Jul 1950): "under the Prophet's editorship Central America was denominated the region of Book of Mormon activities"
- John A. Widtsoe (apostle, 1943): "That Joseph Smith actually was the person who introduced plural marriage into the Church and that he practiced it himself are amply proved by existing facts"
- John C. Bennett and plural marriage at Nauvoo
- John E. Clark, "Archaeology and Cumorah Questions,": "The hill the plates came from is not at issue; the question is whether this final resting place is the same hill where the ending battles occurred"
- John F. Boynton
- John Foxe
- John Gee: "If Oylum Hoyuk is Olishem, the Ur of the Chaldees should be one of the dozens of Middle Bronze II sites in the Kilis plain"
- John L. Sorenson: "Several puzzles about the history of the Nephites and Lamanites are linked to the question of whether they found others already living in their promised land"
- John Sorenson, Ensign (1984): "the immediate land covered by the book’s events was probably only hundreds rather than thousands of miles long and wide"
- John Taylor's statements regarding polygamy
- John Welch (1999): "This sidelight in the book of Alma contains enough facts to support meaningful parallels between King Mosiah's weights and measures and those used in other ancient cultures"
- John Whitmer
- John Whitmer: "Joseph the Seer saw these Record(s) and by the revelation of Jesus Christ could translate these records"
- John Whitmer (1876): "I have never heard that any one of the three or eight witnesses ever denied the testimony that they have borne to the Book as published in the first edition of the Book of Mormon"
- John Whitmer reaffirmed his published testimony of the Book of Mormon
- John Whitmer reaffirmed his testimony as printed in the Book of Mormon even after he left the Church
- John the Baptist
- Johnson: "Probably it is safe to say that American Proboscidea have been extinct for a minimum of 3000 years"
- Joseph F. Smith
- Joseph F. Smith (25 May 1903): "the question of the situation of the city (of Zarahemla) was one of interest certainly, but if it could not be located the matter was not of vital importance"
- Joseph F. Smith (circa 1918): "President Smith declined to officially approve of the map, saying that the Lord had not yet revealed it"
- Joseph Fielding Smith
- Joseph Fielding Smith: "when the millennium comes...There will be millions of people...of all beliefs, still permitted to remain upon the face of the earth"
- Joseph Fielding Smith (1941): "While the Church, as well as the world, would recognize that marriage while they are in the world, yet the fact remains that when they are dead the marriage comes to an end"
- Joseph Fielding Smith (1951): Jesus "says unto those who are married for time only, and those who do not believe in marriage for eternity"
- Joseph Knight, Sr.
- Joseph Smith
- Joseph Smith's 1826 trial
- Joseph Smith's First Vision
- Joseph Smith's First Vision/Church Hides Accounts (1910-1968)
- Joseph Smith's First Vision/Church Hides Accounts (1969-1978)
- Joseph Smith's First Vision/Church Hides Accounts (1979-1983)
- Joseph Smith's First Vision/Church Hides Accounts (1984-1989)
- Joseph Smith's First Vision/Church Hides Accounts (1990-1997)
- Joseph Smith's First Vision/Church Hides Accounts (1998-2003)
- Joseph Smith's First Vision/Church Hides Accounts (2004-Present)
- Joseph Smith's First Vision/Contradiction about knowing all churches were wrong
- Joseph Smith's First Vision/Lack of contemporary Father and Son vision until 1838
- Joseph Smith's First Vision/Multiple accounts of the First Vision
- Joseph Smith's First Vision/Multiple accounts of the First Vision/A "mormoninfographic" claims that "pillar of fire" not mentioned in 1832 account
- Joseph Smith's First Vision/Multiple accounts of the First Vision/A "mormoninfographic" indicates that the 1835 "Erastus Holmes" account describes a different vision
- Joseph Smith's First Vision/Multiple accounts of the First Vision/The first and second visitation of angels
- Joseph Smith's First Vision/No mention in non-LDS literature before 1843
- Joseph Smith's First Vision/Paul's accounts
- Joseph Smith's Rocky Mountain prophecy
- Joseph Smith's alleged narcissism
- Joseph Smith's campaign for President of the United States
- Joseph Smith's education
- Joseph Smith's family as trustworthy and hard-working
- Joseph Smith's prophecy of the Civil War
- Joseph Smith's qualification as a martyr
- Joseph Smith's reference library
- Joseph Smith's status in Latter-day Saint belief
- Joseph Smith's trustworthiness
- Joseph Smith's witness of Jesus Christ
- Joseph Smith, Sr.
- Joseph Smith/Accusations of false prophecies
- Joseph Smith/Alleged false prophecies/Forged Rocky Mountain prophecy/Tanners use of sources
- Joseph Smith/Alleged false prophecies/Government to be overthrown and wasted
- Joseph Smith/Alleged false prophecies/Thomas B. Marsh to be "exalted"
- Joseph Smith/Early Smith family history
- Joseph Smith/Healings and miracles
- Joseph Smith/Healings and miracles/Fanny Stenhouse accounts
- Joseph Smith/Miracles
- Joseph Smith/Narcissism/Pride
- Joseph Smith/Occultism and magic/Early members believed in "witchcraft"/CriticalSources
- Joseph Smith/Occultism and magic/Kabbalah influence/CriticalSources
- Joseph Smith/Occultism and magic/Magick parchments
- Joseph Smith/Occultism and magic/The magician Walters as a mentor to Joseph Smith
- Joseph Smith/Other translation claims
- Joseph Smith/Other visions
- Joseph Smith/Personality and temperament/CriticalSources
- Joseph Smith/Politics and government
- Joseph Smith/Polygamy/Children of polygamous marriages/Presendia Buell