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- Fabricated quotes from Brigham Young
- Fabricated quotes from Brigham Young/I am the voice of God
- Fabricated quotes from Brigham Young/Non-existent quotes/Brigham Young/I am the voice of God
- Fabricated quotes from Brigham Young/Pulling the wool over America's eyes
- Fabricated quotes from Brigham Young/The "I have never given counsel that is wrong" quote
- Facsimile 3
- Facts Mormons Won't Tell You When They Call at Your Door
- Failure of the Kirtland Safety Society
- FairMormon:NeedCite
- FairMormon Does Not Speak for the Church
- FairMormon Does Not Speak for the Church/Further Reading
- FairMormon Study Aids
- Faith crisis draft 1
- Faithful History (GD Smith)
- 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
- Fate of the Sons of Perdition
- Fate of the Sons of Perdition/Will sons of perdition be resurrected
- Fawn McKay Brodie
- Fayette, New York
- Fifty questions
- 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
- Firm foundation
- First Corinthians 15 and spirit bodies
- First Presidency statement (1931): "Leave geology, biology, archaeology and anthropology, no one of which has to do with the salvation of the souls of mankind, to scientific research"
- First Presidency statements about the priesthood ban
- First Vision
- First Vision/1830 statement about seeing "God"
- First Vision/1830 statement about seeing "God"/CriticalSources
- First Vision/1832 account/Only one Personage appears
- First Vision/1838 account modified to offset leadership crisis
- First Vision/Accounts
- First Vision/Accounts/1832
- First Vision/Accounts/1832/Different age provided
- First Vision/Accounts/1832/Different age provided/CriticalSources
- First Vision/Accounts/1832/Doesn't forbid joining a church
- First Vision/Accounts/1832/Doesn't forbid joining a church/CriticalSources
- First Vision/Accounts/1832/Doesn't mention a revival
- First Vision/Accounts/1832/Doesn't mention a revival/CriticalSources
- First Vision/Accounts/1832/Doesn't mention new dispensation
- First Vision/Accounts/1832/Doesn't mention new dispensation/CriticalSources
- First Vision/Accounts/1832/Doesn't mention persecution
- First Vision/Accounts/1832/Doesn't mention persecution/CriticalSources
- First Vision/Accounts/1832/Eternal life regardless of church affiliation
- First Vision/Accounts/1832/Eternal life regardless of church affiliation/CriticalSources
- First Vision/Accounts/1832/Motivation is different
- First Vision/Accounts/1832/Motivation is different/CriticalSources
- First Vision/Accounts/1832/Only one Personage appears
- First Vision/Accounts/1832/Only one Personage appears/CriticalSources
- First Vision/Accounts/1832/Says wicked will be destroyed but 1838 doesn't
- First Vision/Accounts/1832/Says wicked will be destroyed but 1838 doesn't/CriticalSources
- First Vision/Accounts/1832/Struggle with Satan not mentioned
- First Vision/Accounts/1832/Struggle with Satan not mentioned/CriticalSources
- First Vision/Accounts/1832/Vision set in heaven or on earth
- First Vision/Accounts/1832/Vision set in heaven or on earth/CriticalSources
- First Vision/Accounts/1835
- First Vision/Accounts/1835/Mentions "Angels"
- First Vision/Accounts/1835/Mentions "Angels"/CriticalSources
- First Vision/Accounts/1838
- First Vision/Accounts/1838/Account modified to offset leadership crisis
- First Vision/Accounts/1838/Account modified to offset leadership crisis/CriticalSources
- First Vision/Accounts/Andrew Jenson called personage an "angel"
- First Vision/Accounts/Andrew Jenson called personage an "angel"/CriticalSources
- First Vision/Accounts/Brigham Young never mentioned the First Vision
- First Vision/Accounts/Brigham Young never mentioned the First Vision/CriticalSources
- First Vision/Accounts/Brigham Young said the Lord didn't appear
- First Vision/Accounts/George A. Smith said First Vision was an "angel"
- First Vision/Accounts/George A. Smith said First Vision was an "angel"/CriticalSources
- First Vision/Accounts/George Q. Cannon referred to "angels"
- First Vision/Accounts/Heber C. Kimball denied the Father appeared
- First Vision/Accounts/Heber C. Kimball denied the Father appeared/CriticalSources
- First Vision/Accounts/John Taylor's understanding of the First Vision
- First Vision/Accounts/John Taylor's understanding of the First Vision/CriticalSources
- First Vision/Accounts/Oliver Cowdery not aware of First Vision in 1834-35
- First Vision/Accounts/Oliver Cowdery not aware of First Vision in 1834-35/CriticalSources
- First Vision/Accounts/Orson Hyde referred to "angels"
- First Vision/Accounts/Orson Hyde referred to "angels"/CriticalSources
- First Vision/Accounts/Orson Pratt confused about "angel" or Father-Son
- First Vision/Accounts/Orson Pratt confused about "angel" or Father-Son/CriticalSources
- First Vision/Accounts/Orson Spencer said an "angel" was the first manifestation
- First Vision/Accounts/Parley P. Pratt only said that "God" appeared
- First Vision/Accounts/Parley P. Pratt only said that "God" appeared/CriticalSources
- First Vision/Accounts/Prophet's mother said First Vision was of an "angel"
- First Vision/Accounts/Prophet's mother said First Vision was of an "angel"/CriticalSources
- First Vision/Accounts/Wilford Woodruff spoke of an "angel"
- First Vision/Accounts/William Smith said First Vision was an "angel"
- First Vision/Accounts/William Smith said First Vision was an "angel"/CriticalSources
- First Vision/Brigham Young
- First Vision/Church Hides Accounts (1910-1968)
- First Vision/Church Hides Accounts (1969-1978)
- First Vision/Church Hides Accounts (1979-1983)
- First Vision/Church Hides Accounts (1984-1989)
- First Vision/Church Hides Accounts (1989-1997)
- First Vision/Church Hides Accounts (1990-1997)
- First Vision/Church Hides Accounts (1998-2003)
- First Vision/Church Hides Accounts (2004-Present)
- First Vision/Church Hides Accounts Part 1
- First Vision/Contradiction about knowing all churches were wrong
- First Vision/D&C:84 says God not seen without priesthood
- First Vision/Do Greek scholars solve the discrepancies in Paul's vision accounts
- First Vision/Doctrine and Covenants 121:28 contradicts vision
- First Vision/Doctrine and Covenants 84 says God not seen without priesthood
- First Vision/Doctrine and Covenants 84 says God not seen without priesthood/CriticalSources
- First Vision/Fabricated to give "Godly authority"
- First Vision/Fabricated to give "Godly authority"/CriticalSources
- First Vision/Joseph Smith's early conception of God
- First Vision/Joseph Smith's early conception of God/CriticalSources
- First Vision/Joseph Smith did not know if God existed in 1823
- First Vision/Joseph Smith joined other churches
- First Vision/Joseph Smith joined other churches/CriticalSources
- First Vision/Joseph became "partial to the Methodist sect" in 1820
- First Vision/Lack of contemporary Father and Son vision until 1838
- First Vision/Lack of contemporary Father and Son vision until 1838/CriticalSources
- First Vision/Lucy Mack Smith and the Presbyterians
- First Vision/Lucy Mack Smith and the Presbyterians/CriticalSources
- First Vision/Methodist camp meetings
- First Vision/Methodist camp meetings/CriticalSources
- First Vision/No mention in non-LDS literature before 1843
- First Vision/No mention in non-LDS literature before 1843/CriticalSources
- First Vision/No reference to First Vision in 1830s publications
- First Vision/No reference to First Vision in 1830s publications/CriticalSources
- First Vision/Paul's accounts
- First Vision/Religious revivals in 1820
- First Vision/Religious revivals in 1820/CriticalSources
- First Vision/Seldom mentioned in LDS publications before 1877
- First Vision/Seldom mentioned in LDS publications before 1877/CriticalSources
- First Vision/Smith family place of residence in 1820
- First Vision/Smith family place of residence in 1820/CriticalSources
- First Vision/Story became more detailed and colorful after 1832
- First Vision/The Father as Spirit vs. Embodied
- First Vision/The Father as Spirit vs. Embodied/CriticalSources
- First Vision accounts
- First Vision accounts/Do Greek scholars solve the discrepancies in Paul's vision accounts
- First Vision accounts in Church publications
- First Vision fabricated to give "Godly authority"
- First Vision in the CES Letter
- First Vision not mentioned in local newspapers
- First Vision seldom mentioned in Church publications before 1877
- First Vision seldom mentioned in Church publications before 1877/CriticalSources
- First Vision story became more detailed and colorful after 1832?
- Flesh and blood cannot enter the kingdom of Heaven
- Flora Ann Woodworth
- Folk magic
- Folk religion
- Fonte:Hamblin:The Bow and Arrow in the Book of Mormon:Após a espada, o arco é a segunda arma mais frequentemente mencionados no Livro de Mórmon
- Foreknowledge of God
- Forgerers
- Forgeries
- Forgeries/Burrows Cave artifacts
- Forgeries/Burrows Cave artifacts/Further Reading
- Forgeries/Mark Hofmann
- Forgeries/Mark Hofmann/Church reaction to forgeries
- 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/Mark Hofmann/Known forged documents
- Forgeries/Mentinah Papers
- Forgeries/Michigan artifacts
- Forgeries related to Mormonism
- Forgeries related to Mormonism/Ang Aklatan
- Forgeries related to Mormonism/Ang Aklatan/CriticalSources
- Forgeries related to Mormonism/Artifacts
- Forgeries related to Mormonism/Bat Creek Stone
- Forgeries related to Mormonism/Bat Creek Stone/Further Reading
- Forgeries related to Mormonism/Documents
- Forgeries related to Mormonism/Joseph Smith and the Kinderhook Plates
- Forgeries related to Mormonism/Joseph Smith and the Kinderhook Plates/Accounts
- Forgeries related to Mormonism/Joseph Smith and the Kinderhook Plates/Could the "Egyptian Alphabet" have been the Anthon transcript
- Forgeries related to Mormonism/Joseph Smith and the Kinderhook Plates/CriticalSources
- Forgeries related to Mormonism/Joseph Smith and the Kinderhook Plates/Further Reading
- Forgeries related to Mormonism/Kinderhook Plates
- Forgeries related to Mormonism/Kinderhook Plates/CriticalSources
- Forgeries related to Mormonism/Mark Hofmann
- Forgeries related to Mormonism/Mark Hofmann/Ang Aklatan
- Forgeries related to Mormonism/Mark Hofmann/Church reaction to forgeries
- Forgeries related to Mormonism/Mark Hofmann/Church reaction to forgeries/Further Reading
- Forgeries related to Mormonism/Mark Hofmann/Further Reading
- Forgeries related to Mormonism/Mentinah Papers
- 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
- Forgers
- Foundation for Apologetic Information & Research
- Franklin D. Richards on the stick of Ephraim
- Free will and science
- Freemason
- Freemasonry
- Freemasonry/Hugh W. Nibley quotes
- Freemasonry/Origins
- Freemasonry (summary)
- Freemasonry - summary
- Freemasonry Origins
- Freemasonry and the Book of Mormon
- Freemasonry and the Latter Day Saint movement
- From Captain Kidd's Treasure Ghost to the Angel Moroni: Changing Dramatis Personae in Early Mormonism
- Fulfillment of prophecy
- Garden of Eden in Missouri
- Garden of Eden in Missouri/CriticalSources
- Garden of Eden in Missouri?
- Gardner: "a correct approach to a Mesoamerican battle required all three elements: king, litter, and battle beast"
- Gay Mormons
- Gee: "Ferguson is largely unknown to the vast majority of Latter-day Saints; his impact on Book of Mormon studies is minimal"
- 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"
- General authorities' statements as scripture
- 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 A. Smith said First Vision was an "angel"
- 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"
- George Q. Cannon referred to "angels"
- Global or local Flood
- Global or local Flood/Statements
- God is a Spirit
- God is a Spirit/Book of Mormon teaches God is a spirit
- God is a Spirit/Book of Mormon teaches God is a spirit/CriticalSources
- God is not Great
- God of our own planet
- God of their own planet
- God the Father
- Godfrey: "Martin found a rock closely resembling the seerstone Joseph sometimes used in place of the interpreters and substituted it without the Prophet’s knowledge"
- Godhead and the Trinity
- Gods of our own planet
- Gods of their own planet
- Gold plates and the Book of Mormon
- Gold plates and the translation process
- Golden Plates
- Golden Pot theory of Book of Mormon authorship
- Golden plates
- Gordon B. Hinckley: "I remind you that no man who makes disparaging remarks concerning those of another race can consider himself a true disciple of Christ"
- Gordon B. Hinckley (1984): "I am not worried that the Prophet Joseph Smith gave a number of versions of the first vision"
- GospeLink quick links
- Gospel Topics:Are Mormons Christian:Latter-day Saints Do Not Accept the Creeds of Post–New Testament Christianity
- Gospel Topics:Book of Mormon and DNA Studies: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: "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: "Church authorities encountered faithful black and mixed-ancestry Mormons who had contributed financially and in other ways to the building of the São Paulo temple, a sanctuary they realized they would not be allowed to enter
- Gospel Topics: "Church authorities encountered faithful black and mixed-ancestry Mormons who had contributed financially and in other ways to the building of the São Paulo temple, a sanctuary they realized they would not be allowed to enter"
- Gospel Topics: "Church leaders pondered promises made by prophets such as Brigham Young that black members would one day receive priesthood and temple blessings"
- Gospel Topics: "During the first two decades of the Church’s existence, a few black men were ordained to the priesthood"
- Gospel Topics: "Even after 1852, at least two black Mormons continued to hold 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 various accounts of the First Vision tell a consistent story, though naturally they differ in emphasis and detail"
- Gospel Topics: "Today, any person who practices plural marriage cannot become or remain a member of the Church"
- Gospel Topics: "Today, the Church disavows the theories advanced in the past that black skin is a sign of divine disfavor or curse, or that it reflects actions in a premortal life
- Gospel Topics: "Today, the Church disavows the theories advanced in the past that black skin is a sign of divine disfavor or curse, or that it reflects actions in a premortal life"
- 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: There are other, more consistent ways of seeing the evidence
- 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
- Government during the Millenium
- Government during the Millennium
- Grace, the meaning of Baptism
- Grace and works
- Grace and works/CriticalSources
- Grace and works/Early Christian views on salvation
- Grace and works/Early Christian views on salvation/CriticalSources
- Grace and works/Grace and works in scripture
- Grace and works/Neglect grace
- Grace and works/Neglect grace/CriticalSources
- Grace and works/Salvation by faith alone
- Grace and works/Salvation by faith alone/CriticalSources
- Grace and works/Unforgivable sin
- Grace and works/Unforgivable sin/CriticalSources
- Grant Palmer
- Graven Images
- Graven images
- Graven images and statues of angel Mormoni
- 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 Apostasy
- Great Lakes Model of Book of Mormon geography
- Great Lakes Theory of Book of Mormon geography
- Great and abominable church
- Great and abominable church/CriticalSources
- Haight: assistance of the moon
- Hamblin: "there are no references to Nephite steel after 400 B.C."
- Handbook 2: "The only official interpretation of “hot drinks” (D&C 89:9) in the Word of Wisdom is the statement made by early Church leaders that the term “hot drinks” means tea and coffee"
- Hang by a thread
- Hanging by a thread
- 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
- Have the doctrines in the Mormon document "The Family: A Proclamation to the World" long been taught in the Church?
- 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
- Heavenly Mother
- 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 C. Kimball denied the Father appeared
- 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
- Hebrews 7 and the Aaronic Priesthood
- Hebrews 7 and the Aaronic Priesthood/CriticalSources
- Helaman
- Helen Mar Kimball
- Helen Mar Kimball: "I have encouraged and sustained my husband in the celestial order of marriage because I knew it was right"
- Helps for Church teachers
- Helps for Church teachers/Seminary
- Helps for Church teachers/Seminary/Old Testament
- Helps for Church teachers/Seminary/Old Testament/Week 1
- Helps for Church teachers/Seminary/Old Testament/Week 1/Week 2
- Helps for Church teachers/Seminary/Old Testament/Week 10
- Helps for Church teachers/Seminary/Old Testament/Week 11
- Helps for Church teachers/Seminary/Old Testament/Week 12
- Helps for Church teachers/Seminary/Old Testament/Week 13