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- Mormonism and Wikipedia/Joseph Smith, Jr.
- Mormonism and Wikipedia/Joseph Smith, Jr./1827 to 1830
- Mormonism and Wikipedia/Joseph Smith, Jr./1827 to 1830/051909
- Mormonism and Wikipedia/Joseph Smith, Jr./1831 to 1834: Kirtland/051909
- Mormonism and Wikipedia/Joseph Smith, Jr./1831 to 1838
- Mormonism and Wikipedia/Joseph Smith, Jr./1831 to 1838/051909
- Mormonism and Wikipedia/Joseph Smith, Jr./1838 to 1839
- Mormonism and Wikipedia/Joseph Smith, Jr./1838 to 1839/051909
- Mormonism and Wikipedia/Joseph Smith, Jr./1839 - 1844
- Mormonism and Wikipedia/Joseph Smith, Jr./1839 - 1844/051909
- Mormonism and Wikipedia/Joseph Smith, Jr./Death
- Mormonism and Wikipedia/Joseph Smith, Jr./Death/051909
- Mormonism and Wikipedia/Joseph Smith, Jr./Distinctive views and teachings
- Mormonism and Wikipedia/Joseph Smith, Jr./Early years
- Mormonism and Wikipedia/Joseph Smith, Jr./Early years/051909
- Mormonism and Wikipedia/Joseph Smith, Jr./Legacy
- Mormonism and Wikipedia/Joseph Smith, Jr./Legacy/051909
- Mormonism and Wikipedia/Martin Harris
- Mormonism and Wikipedia/Oliver Cowdery
- Mormonism and Wikipedia/Three Witnesses
- Mormonism and Wikipedia/Three Witnesses/Importance
- Mormonism and Wikipedia/Three Witnesses/Introduction
- Mormonism and Wikipedia/Three Witnesses/Testimony
- Mormonism and Wikipedia/Three Witnesses/The Three Witnesses
- Mormonism and agency
- Mormonism and agency/Free will
- Mormonism and apologetics
- Mormonism and apologetics/"ad hominem"
- Mormonism and apologetics/"ad hominem"/Case study
- Mormonism and apologetics/"ad hominem"/Case study/An attempt to discredit Hugh Nibley by accusing him of child abuse
- Mormonism and apologetics/"ad hominem"/Case study/An attempt to dismiss Rosalynde Welch because of who she is related to
- Mormonism and apologetics/"ad hominem"/Case study/An attempt to portray Dan Peterson as dishonest and possibly mentally ill
- Mormonism and apologetics/"ad hominem"/Case study/An attempt to portray FAIR as delusional, dishonest and deceptive
- Mormonism and apologetics/"ad hominem"/Case study/Attempt to discredit Brian Hales as a scholar
- Mormonism and apologetics/"ad hominem"/Case study/Jeremy Runnells
- Mormonism and apologetics/"ad hominem"/Case study/John Dehlin
- Mormonism and apologetics/"ad hominem"/Case study/Robert Ritner
- Mormonism and church finances/Nineteenth century/Immigration
- Mormonism and church integrity
- Mormonism and church integrity/"Lying for the Lord"
- Mormonism and church integrity/Accusations of hypocrisy in Church practices
- Mormonism and church integrity/Accusations of lying and hypocrisy on the part of the Church
- Mormonism and church integrity/Accusations of lying in the 19th century
- Mormonism and church integrity/Dealing with doubts about the Church
- Mormonism and church leadership/Ancient apostles
- Mormonism and church leadership/Independent thought
- Mormonism and church organization/Changes in the name of the Church
- Mormonism and church organization/Location of the organization
- Mormonism and culture
- Mormonism and culture/Attitude toward non-members
- Mormonism and culture/Attitude toward non-members/Further Reading
- Mormonism and culture/Attitude toward non-members/Statements
- Mormonism and culture/Attitude toward others
- Mormonism and culture/Cultural biases
- Mormonism and culture/Cultural priorities
- Mormonism and culture/Presentations
- Mormonism and culture/Preserving diverse cultural traditions/Further Reading
- Mormonism and culture/Response to "Why People Leave the LDS Church" (2008)
- Mormonism and culture/Response to "Why People Leave the LDS Church" (2008)/Historical and doctrinal issues
- Mormonism and culture/Response to "Why People Leave the LDS Church" (2008)/Social and cultural issues
- Mormonism and culture/Wayward family members/Other quotes
- Mormonism and disability
- Mormonism and disability/Statements from Latter-day Saint leaders regarding disability
- Mormonism and doctrine
- Mormonism and doctrine/Adam
- Mormonism and doctrine/Beliefs
- Mormonism and doctrine/Changing
- Mormonism and doctrine/Doctrine of the past
- Mormonism and doctrine/Establishing new doctrine
- Mormonism and doctrine/Establishing new doctrine/Procedures
- Mormonism and doctrine/Publications
- Mormonism and doctrine/Publications/Statements by Church leaders
- Mormonism and doctrine/Repudiated concepts
- Mormonism and doctrine/Repudiated concepts/Blood atonement
- Mormonism and doctrine/Repudiated concepts/Why were some doctrines later repudiated
- Mormonism and education
- Mormonism and education/Modern
- Mormonism and gender issues
- Mormonism and gender issues/Transgenderism
- Mormonism and gender issues/Women/Doctrinal questions
- Mormonism and gender issues/Women/Political and social
- Mormonism and gender issues/Women/Political and social/Equal rights
- Mormonism and gender issues/Women/Political and social/Victims of sexual abuse
- Mormonism and gender issues/Women/Role in the Church/Marriage
- Mormonism and gender issues/Women/Taught to be subservient to men/Statements
- Mormonism and government
- Mormonism and government/19th century Mormons' attitude toward the United States government
- Mormonism and government/Relationship with the United States government
- Mormonism and government/The Council of Fifty
- Mormonism and government/The Kingdom of God on Earth
- Mormonism and government/United States Constitution
- Mormonism and history/"Magic" in Mormon history
- Mormonism and history/Attitude of the Church toward historians/Boyd K. Packer
- Mormonism and history/Boyd K. Packer's talk: "The Mantle is Far, Far Greater Than the Intellect"
- Mormonism and history/Censorship and revision/LDS histories over many years omit plural marriage
- Mormonism and history/Church response
- Mormonism and history/Gospel Topics essays
- Mormonism and history/Histories written by Mormon historians
- Mormonism and history/Publications
- Mormonism and other religions
- Mormonism and other religions/Growth of the Church
- Mormonism and other religions/Spiritual witnesses
- Mormonism and persecution
- Mormonism and persecution/Danites
- Mormonism and politics
- Mormonism and politics/California Proposition 8
- Mormonism and politics/California Proposition 8/Post-Election Events
- Mormonism and politics/California Proposition 8/Questions and myths
- Mormonism and politics/Church involvement
- Mormonism and politics/Church involvement in the 19th Century
- Mormonism and politics/Economics of LDS immigration
- Mormonism and politics/Immigration reform in the U.S.A.
- Mormonism and popular media
- Mormonism and popular media/"Big Love" and the temple
- Mormonism and popular media/Books
- Mormonism and popular media/Dan Brown's next book and Mormonism
- Mormonism and popular media/Video
- Mormonism and priesthood
- Mormonism and priesthood/Administration
- Mormonism and priesthood/Christians don't need a mediating priesthood
- Mormonism and priesthood/Criticisms
- Mormonism and priesthood/Criticisms by excommunicated Mormons
- Mormonism and priesthood/Criticisms by traditional Christians
- Mormonism and priesthood/Evidence for Possession of Priesthood Authority
- Mormonism and priesthood/Exercising priesthood authority
- Mormonism and priesthood/Granting priesthood authority
- Mormonism and priesthood/Healing the sick
- Mormonism and priesthood/Is there a "Priesthood of All Believers"
- Mormonism and priesthood/Manner in which the priesthood was restored
- Mormonism and priesthood/Restoration
- Mormonism and the environment/Quotes from Church leaders
- Mormonism and the internet
- Mormonism and the nature of God
- Mormonism and the nature of God/"Celestial sex"
- Mormonism and the nature of God/"God is a man"
- Mormonism and the nature of God/Characteristics of God
- Mormonism and the nature of God/Corporeality of God
- Mormonism and the nature of God/Criticisms
- Mormonism and the nature of God/Deification of man
- Mormonism and the nature of God/Deification of man/Gods of their own planets
- Mormonism and the nature of God/Deification of man/Gods of their own planets/Statements
- Mormonism and the nature of God/Early beliefs
- Mormonism and the nature of God/Early teachings
- Mormonism and the nature of God/Elohim and Jehovah
- Mormonism and the nature of God/Foreknowledge
- Mormonism and the nature of God/God is a Spirit
- Mormonism and the nature of God/God is a Spirit/Lecture of Faith 5 teaches the Father is "a personage of spirit"
- Mormonism and the nature of God/Heavenly Mother
- Mormonism and the nature of God/Infinite regress of Gods
- Mormonism and the nature of God/Interaction with God
- Mormonism and the nature of God/King Follett Discourse
- Mormonism and the nature of God/Multiplicity of Gods
- Mormonism and the nature of God/Nicene creed
- Mormonism and the nature of God/No man has seen God
- Mormonism and the nature of God/Polytheism
- Mormonism and the nature of God/Theodicy
- Mormonism and the nature of God/Theodicy/Death of innocents
- Mormonism and the nature of God/Trinity
- Mormonism and the nature of God/Worship of God
- Moroni
- Moroni's promise of the Book of Mormon
- Moroni's visit
- Moroni's visit/Angel of Satan
- Moroni's visit/Identity of the angel
- Moroni's visit/Joseph reported "a spirit" visiting in him in 1827
- Moroni's visit/Moroni would have struck his head on the ceiling
- Moroni's visit/Nephi or Moroni
- Moroni's visit/Nephi or Moroni/Later Nephi copies
- Moroni's visit/Physical characteristics
- Moroni's visit/Siblings remained asleep
- Moroni's visit/Spirit versus resurrected being
- Mosiah
- Mountain Meadows Massacre
- Mountain Meadows Massacre/FAQ
- Mountain Meadows Massacre/History
- Muhammad
- Muhlestein: Sacrifice could be extended to foreigners who lived beyond the boundaries of Egypt
- Muhlestein and Gee: "It is now apparent that human sacrifice did indeed occur in ancient Egypt"
- Muhlestein and Gee: "Sacrifice was a penalty for desecrating the sacred house of an Egyptian god"
- Multiple accounts of the First Vision
- Multiple accounts of the First Vision/1832
- Multiple accounts of the First Vision/1832/Doesn't mention a revival
- Multiple accounts of the First Vision/1835
- Multiple accounts of the First Vision/1835/Mentions "Angels"
- Multiple accounts of the First Vision/1838
- Multiple accounts of the First Vision/1838/Account modified to offset leadership crisis
- Multiple accounts of the First Vision/Criticisms
- Multiple accounts of the First Vision/Criticisms/Overview
- Multiple accounts of the First Vision/George A. Smith said First Vision was an "angel"
- Multiple accounts of the First Vision/George Q. Cannon referred to "angels"
- Multiple accounts of the First Vision/Heber C. Kimball's statements regarding the First Vision
- Multiple accounts of the First Vision/Oliver Cowdery not aware of First Vision in 1834-35
- Multiple accounts of the First Vision/Orson Hyde referred to "angels"
- Multiple accounts of the First Vision/Orson Pratt's statements regarding the First Vision
- Multiple accounts of the First Vision/Parley P. Pratt only said that "God" appeared
- Multiple accounts of the First Vision/Wilford Woodruff spoke of an "angel"
- Murder
- Mushrooms and entheogenics theory of Book of Mormon authorship
- 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"
- Myths about the Church
- Names in the Book of Mormon
- Nancy Maria Winchester
- Native Americans and the Lamanites
- Nature of prophets
- Nature of the priesthood ban
- Nauvoo Legion
- Nauvoo city charter
- Neal A. Maxwell (1986): "Whether located in Meso–America or elsewhere, they were one people among many peoples on this planet and perhaps even on the western hemisphere"
- Neil L. Andersen
- Neil L. Andersen: "The doctrine...is not hidden in an obscure paragraph of one talk...The leaders of the Church are honest but imperfect men"
- Neil L. Andersen (2012): "A few question their faith when they find a statement made by a Church leader decades ago that seems incongruent with our doctrine"
- Nephite burnt offerings
- New Jerusalem
- Nineteenth century leader divine visions after Joseph Smith
- No links to critical websites
- Non-existent quotes
- Non-existent quotes/Haight: assistance of the moon
- Not Before the World
- Oakland Township, Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania
- Oaks: "We are supposed to learn by both reason and revelation, and that does not happen when we compartmentalize science and religion"
- Oaks (1987): "it is wrong to make statements of fact out of an evil motive, even if the statements are true"
- Oaks (1997): "rarely speak of them publicly because...because we understand that the channels of revelation will be closed if we show these things before the world"
- Oaks (2000): "it is usually inappropriate to recite miraculous circumstances to a general audience that includes people with very different levels of spiritual maturity"
- Obedience to Church leaders
- Objects and artifacts in the Book of Mormon
- Observer and Telegraph (Nov 1830): "the Aborigines of America; who, as they affirm, are a part of the tribe of Manasseh, and whose ancestors landed on the coast of Chile"
- Official Declaration—1
- Official Declaration Number 1
- Official doctrine in the Church
- Old Question: Are Latter-day Saints are not true Christians because they do not use the cross and believe that the atonement occurred in the Garden of Gethsemane?
- Old Question: Why don't Mormons use the symbol of the cross?
- Old Question: Why should Latter-day Saints not wear crosses?
- Old world geography in the Book of Mormon
- Olive Grey Frost
- Oliver Cowdery
- Oliver Cowdery/Related to Joseph Smith
- Oliver Cowdery: "My eyes saw, my ears heard...It was no dream, no vain imagination of the mind—it was real"
- Oliver Cowdery (Jul 1835): "A history of the inhabitants who peopled this continent, previous to its being discovered to Europeans by Columbus"
- Oliver Cowdery and Abraham 1:2
- Oliver Cowdery and the "rod of nature"
- Oliver Cowdery reaffirmed his published testimony of the Book of Mormon
- Oliver Cowdery statements as one of Three Witnesses
- Olson (2004): "People may like to think that they're descended from some ancient group while other people are not. But human ancestry doesn't work that way, since we all share the same ancestors just a few millenniums ago"
- Omni
- One Nation Under Gods/Use of sources/Will Bagley reviews
- One Nation Under Gods/Use of sources/Will Bagley reviews/Reeve and Parshall
- Online document index/Christian texts on-line
- Online document index/Islamic texts on-line
- Online document index/Jewish texts on-line
- Opposition to baptism for the dead
- Origin of the Book of Mormon
- Origin of the priesthood ban
- Orson F. Whitney (1926): "One night I dreamed … that I was in the Garden of Gethsemane, a witness of the Savior’s agony"
- Orson Hyde
- Orson Pratt
- Orson Pratt (1840): "a very bright and glorious light in the heavens...He expected to have seen the leaves and boughs of the trees consumed, as soon as the light came in contact with them"
- Orson Pratt (1840): "they were marvellously brought across the great deep to the shores of North America"
- Orson Pratt (1878): "I have been blessed with some revelations and prophecies, and with dreams of things that have come to pass"
- Orson Spencer (2 Jan 1843): "I only remark that Stevens’ Travels had some influence, as an external evidence of the truth of the Book of Mormon"
- Other animals in the Book of Mormon
- Other financial topics
- Other in the CES Letter
- Other witnesses to the Book of Mormon
- Others and Mountain Meadows: Captain Stewart Van Vliet
- Others and Mountain Meadows: Colonel Thomas Kane
- Others and Mountain Meadows: George A. Smith
- Others involved in the Mountain Meadows Massacre
- Overview of baptism for the dead
- Overview of changes to the Doctrine and Covenants
- Overview of the CES Letter
- Oxford University Press
- P. Wilhelm Poulson (1878): John Whitmer said "He handed them uncovered into our hands, and we turned the leaves sufficient to satisfy us"
- Padilla et al.: "The maya codex Tro-Cortesianus shows drawings of bees and parts of honey combs"
- Paid and unpaid Church leaders
- Painesville, Ohio
- Painesville Telegraph (1831): Martin Harris said that "He had seen and handled them all"
- Palmyra, New York
- Parley P. Pratt (Aug 1840): "excavating in the neighbourhood of Bahia, in Brazil...bearing a strong architectural resemblance to the ruins existing in the northern parts of Norway, in Iceland, and in Greenland"
- Parrish (1838): "I have set by his side and penned down the translation of the Egyptian Heiroglyphicks as he claimed to receive it by direct inspiration of Heaven"
- Patty Bartlett Sessions
- Paul Hoskisson (1991): "I will suggest an alternate location for the Ur of the Chaldees in the story of Abraham"
- Paul R. Cheesman (Nov 1968): "There are those who believe that there are two Hill Cumorahs...Advocates of this theory establish their analysis primarily from the internal evidences of the Book of Mormon"
- Paul on marriage in 1 Corinthians 7
- Pauline teachings
- Pearl of Great Price
- Pearl of Great Price/Textual changes/Further Reading
- Perpetrators of the Mountain Meadows Massacre
- Personages who appeared to Joseph Smith
- Peter Whitmer
- Peterson: "Thomas Stuart Ferguson's biographer...makes every effort to portray Ferguson's apparent eventual loss of faith as a failure for 'LDS archaeology'"
- Peterson: "the identification of a crocodile as the idolatrous god of Pharaoh...Unas’ pyramid texts, includes the following: 'The king appears as the crocodile god Sobek'"
- Peterson (2005): The plates "are an indigestible lump in the throats of people...who contend that there were no Nephites but that Joseph Smith was nonetheless an inspired prophet"
- Peterson (2014): "It’s rather like someone to ascribe early Christian belief to the resurrection of Jesus to the supposed fact that ancient people, unlike us, hadn’t yet realized that dead people tend to stay dead"
- Peterson and Roper: "We know of no one who cites Ferguson as an authority, except countercultists"
- Philosophy and the Restored Gospel
- Pietro Martire d'Anghiera (1912): "the Spaniards noticed herds of deer similar to our herds of cattle"
- Plagiarism in General Conference
- Plan of salvation
- Plan of salvation/Biblical support for a pre-mortal existence
- Plan of salvation/Birth control
- Plan of salvation/Flesh and blood cannot enter the kingdom of Heaven/CriticalSources
- Plan of salvation/Modern revelation regarding a pre-mortal existence
- Plan of salvation/Mortal existence
- Plan of salvation/Non-Mormon belief in a pre-mortal existence
- Plan of salvation/Original sin
- Plan of salvation/Post-mortal existence
- Plan of salvation/Pre-mortal existence
- Plan of salvation/Pre-mortal existence/Further Reading
- Plan of salvation/Premortal existence/Further Reading
- Plan of salvation/Resurrection
- Plan of salvation/Resurrection/Mormon views regarding
- Plan of salvation/Sons of Perdition
- Plan of salvation/Sons of Perdition/Can women be "Sons of Perdition"/Further Reading
- Plan of salvation/Three degrees of glory
- Plan of salvation/Three degrees of glory/Not biblical/Further Reading
- Plan of salvation/Three degrees of glory/Progression between kingdoms/Further Reading
- Plan of salvation/Three degrees of glory/Swedenborg/Further Reading
- Plan of salvation/What is "endless punishment"
- Plan of salvation/When are children capable of sin/Further Reading
- Plants in the Book of Mormon
- Plural marriage
- Plural marriage/19th century attitudes toward plural marriage
- Plural marriage/19th century statements from Church leaders regarding the practice of plural marriage
- Plural marriage/Brigham Young said that the only men who become gods are those that practice polygamy
- Plural marriage/Did early Church leaders speak of plural marriage difficulties
- Plural marriage/Doctrine and Covenants Section 132
- Plural marriage/Early Christians on plural marriage
- Plural marriage/In Latter-day Saint scripture
- Plural marriage/Introduction
- Plural marriage/Lamanites to become "white and delightsome" through polygamous marriage
- Plural marriage/Lamanites to become "white and delightsome" through polygamous marriage/Further Reading
- Plural marriage/Lorenzo Snow's statements about polygamy during the Temple Lot case
- Plural marriage/Marriages involving mothers, daughters and sisters
- Plural marriage/Parley P. Pratt's marriage and murder
- Plural marriage/Polygamy as practiced anciently
- Plural marriage/Polygamy in the 19th Century
- Plural marriage/The First Manifesto
- Plural marriage/The Law of Adoption
- Plural marriage and the Bible
- Plural marriage and the law
- Plural marriage as a requirement for exaltation
- Plural marriage in early Christianity
- Plural marriage in the Book of Mormon
- Plural marriage practiced after the First Manifesto
- Plural wives of Joseph Smith