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- Population and demographics in the Book of Mormon
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- Possible 19th Century influences on Book of Mormon
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- Possible locations for Nahom
- Possible locations for Nephi's Bountiful
- Possible locations for Shazer
- Possible locations for the Valley of Lemuel
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- Praying about other books
- Pre-existence
- Preach My Gospel: "As you pray for inspiration, you should also confirm your feelings...Certainly the Spirit of the Lord can bring strong emotional feelings, including tears, but that outward manifestation ought not to be confused with the presence of the
- Preach My Gospel: "many other nations and cultures have been blessed by those who were given that portion that God 'seeth fit that they should have'"
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- Prevalence of plural marriage in Utah
- Priesthood Restoration in the CES Letter
- Priesthood authority in the Book of Mormon
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- Primary sources/Brigham Young/7 October 1863
- Primary sources/Brigham Young/8 October 1861 discourse on plural marriage
- Primary sources/Bruce R. McConkie
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- Primary sources/David Whitmer
- Primary sources/David Whitmer/An Address to All Believers in Christ
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- Primary sources regarding Church leaders' statements about organic evolution
- Primary sources regarding Church leaders' statements about organic evolution/David O McKay 1952
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- Primary sources regarding Church leaders' statements about organic evolution/Earth and Man
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- Primary sources regarding Church leaders' statements about organic evolution/Eyring Bennion Letter
- Primary sources regarding Church leaders' statements about organic evolution/First Presidency 1909
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- Primary sources regarding Church leaders' statements about organic evolution/First Presidency 1925
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- Primary sources regarding Church leaders' statements about organic evolution/McKay Letter 1959
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- Principles for assessing anachronisms
- Production of the Book of Abraham
- Prophecy
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- Purpose of plural marriage
- Purpose of the Kirtland Egyptian Papers
- Quentin L. Cook
- Question:Did the Jaredites bring swarms of bees across the ocean in their barges
- Question:Is it true that Mormon doctrine teaches a "genealogy of gods," in which God the Father had/has a god, and this god had a god, and so forth?
- Question: Are Book of Mormon phrases or language too "modern" to be of ancient origin?
- Question: Are Christians monotheists?
- Question: Are Elohim and Jehovah the same deity?
- Question: Are General Authorities paid more than $300,000 per year?
- Question: Are General Authorities very silent about some issues, allowing academic or volunteer organizations take their place?
- Question: Are LDS standards required by the mall?
- Question: Are Latter-day Saint prophets not really "prophets" because they don't foretell unknown events?
- Question: Are Latter-day Saints ("Mormons") taught to look down upon or reject those who are not of their faith?
- Question: Are Latter-day Saints really commanded to avoid r-rated movies?
- Question: Are Mormon women placed under covenant in temples to subjugate themselves to their husbands?
- Question: Are Mormons "anti-Christian" or "anti-another faith"?
- Question: Are Mormons polytheists because they don't accept the Nicene Creed?
- Question: Are Mormons the only ones who believe in the concept of a life before this one?
- Question: Are all Amerindians the exclusive descendants of the Book of Mormon prophet Lehi?
- Question: Are all spiritual experiences conditioned by our current cultural surroundings?
- Question: Are all swords mentioned in the Book of Mormon made of metal?
- Question: Are apologists isolated from other members because of differences in their beliefs?
- Question: Are chariots an anachronism for the Book of Abraham?
- Question: Are gunpowder, pistols or firearms mentioned in the Book of Mormon?
- Question: Are hens anachronistic to the Book of Mormon?
- Question: Are lions anachronistic to the Book of Mormon?
- Question: Are moths anachronistic to the Book of Mormon?
- Question: Are olives anachronistic to the Book of Mormon?
- Question: Are prophets simply "men of their time," without any special ability to guide the Church?
- Question: Are sacred garments used in religious traditions other than Mormonism?
- Question: Are slings anachronistic to the Book of Mormon?
- Question: Are some Mormon publications misrepresented as "official" publications of the Church?
- Question: Are study aids in Mormon scriptures considered binding or authoritative?
- Question: Are the ''Lectures on Faith'' not made available through Latter-day Saint sources?
- Question: Are the Book of Mormon's and the Late War's descriptions of travel to "faraway lands" similar enough to suggest an authorial relationship?
- Question: Are the Book of Mormon and the Late War's descriptions of the pitching of tents similar?
- Question: Are the Book of Mormon witnesses unreliable because many of them were related?
- Question: Are the Gadianton robbers in the Book of Mormon actually references to the anti-Masonic panic of Joseph Smith's era?
- Question: Are the Michigan Artifacts evidence for the Book of Mormon?
- Question: Are the dead being "baptized into the Mormon faith?"
- Question: Are the descriptions of Nephi (from the Book of Mormon) and Fulton’s (from The Late War) ships similar enough to suggest authorial relationship?
- Question: Are the fortifications described in the Book of Mormon consistent with those built in ancient Mesoamerica?
- Question: Are the large population counts described in the Book of Mormon during the final battle at the Hill Cumorah accurate?
- Question: Are the major thematic elements of the Spalding manuscript similar to those in the Book of Mormon?
- Question: Are the mysterious "Danites" in Utah a source of Mormon power, terror, and control?
- Question: Are the names on the Holley Map in the correct locations relative to one another?
- Question: Are the original Temple Lot Case transcripts available online?
- Question: Are the scenes contained in the facsimiles anachronistic to the time of Abraham?
- Question: Are the scriptures mysoginistic/sexist?
- Question: Are theories that do not agree with the Heartland model "apostate?"
- Question: Are there any Biblical, Jewish, or early Christian teachings about marriage which lasts beyond the grave?
- Question: Are there any eyewitness accounts of the events that resulted in the trip to Canada to sell the Book of Mormon copyright?
- Question: Are there any known parallels between elements of Joseph's interpretation of Facsimile 3 with other ancient texts?
- Question: Are there any other witnesses to the Book of Mormon plates besides the Three and Eight witnesses?
- Question: Are there any poetic forms other than chiasmus in the Book of Mormon?
- Question: Are there biblical examples of prophets which evangelical interpretations of Deuteronomy 18 would cause one to have to reject as true prophets?
- Question: Are there circumstances in which lying is necessary in order to avoid a greater harm?
- Question: Are there different degrees of glory assigned to "Mormons" versus "non-Mormons"?
- Question: Are there government records that prove that the apostles were involved in counterfeiting in Nauvoo?
- Question: Are there new ideas necessary for creedal Trinitarianism?
- Question: Are there no mentions of the seer stone and/or its use with a hat on LDS.org?
- Question: Are there obvious contradictions between the Book of Mormon and the Bible?
- Question: Are there similarities between the description of forts in the Book of Mormon and Gilbert Hunt's ''The Late War''?
- Question: Are there sources which identify the angel that visited Joseph as "Moroni" that date prior to the "Nephi" error?
- Question: Are we allowed to pray to our "Heavenly Mother"
- Question: Are we allowed to pray to our "Heavenly Mother"?
- Question: Are wine and grapes considered anachronisms for the Book of Mormon?
- Question: Aren't tithing funds from "long ago" ultimately the source of all current Church funds?
- Question: At the Reed Smoot Senate hearings, did Joseph F. Smith tesify that he never received revelation?
- Question: Can Latter-day Saints be divided into two distinct groups called "Internet Mormons" and "Chapel Mormons"?
- Question: Can Latter-day Saints have a non-literal view of the creation story, or have a somewhat more mythic view of the first five books of Moses given the Church's teaching of a historical Adam?
- Question: Can a person "feel the spirit" while watching movies?
- Question: Can a person receive a spiritual witness about any book?
- Question: Can a prophet make mistakes?
- Question: Can it be proven that Joseph Smith claimed to have seen the Father and the Son as separate personages prior to 1835?
- Question: Can non-Mormons feel a spiritual experience that cause them to devote themselves to service within another Church?
- Question: Can one pay tithing on only net or surplus income and still be a temple worthy and faithful Latter-day Saint?
- Question: Can one simply decide when one feels and doesn't feel the Spirit?
- Question: Can skin pores produce blood?
- Question: Can someone feel the spirit when listening to stories of apostasy?
- Question: Can spiritual experiences be simply willed to reality?
- Question: Can the Book of Mormon be considered a genuine translation if the plates weren’t even used during the translation process?
- Question: Can the Holy Ghost not be fully God, because he does not have a physical body?
- Question: Can the Lemba and Cohen modal haplotype be used to either prove or disprove the Book of Mormon?
- Question: Can the Newark "Holy Stones" be used as evidence to support the Book of Mormon?
- Question: Can the Spirit confirm to me that I'm okay to leave the Church?
- Question: Can the priesthood authority be re-conferred by heavenly messengers?
- Question: Could Gilbert Hunt's ''The Late War'' have given Joseph Smith the idea of using brass plates as a way of recording information?
- Question: Could Joseph Smith have acquired the names "Moroni" and "Cumorah" from a map of the Comoro archipelago off the coast of Africa?
- Question: Could Joseph Smith have acquired the names "Moroni" and "Cumorah" from stories of Captain Kidd that he read in his youth?
- Question: Could Joseph Smith have acquired the names “Moroni” and “Cumorah” from stories he read as a youth, maps that he would have had access to, or other people within his local vicinity?
- Question: Could Joseph Smith have heard the names "Moroni" and "Cumorah" from American whalers?
- Question: Could Joseph Smith have hypnotized the witnesses to the Book of Mormon?
- Question: Could Joseph Smith have learned about Hebraisms from Gilbert Hunt's "The Late War"?
- Question: Could Joseph Smith have manufactured some metal plates out of tin, copper, or some other metal in order to trick witnesses into thinking he had gold plates?
- Question: Could Joseph Smith have modeled the "wicked character" named "Lemuel" in the Book of Mormon upon the Smith's landlord, Lemuel Durfee?
- Question: Could Joseph Smith have used Ethan Smith's ''View of the Hebrews'' as a guideline for creating the Book of Mormon?
- Question: Could Joseph Smith have utilized place names and locations from the region in which he lived to create the Book of Mormon?
- Question: Could Joseph Smith have written the Book of Mormon through a process known as "automatic writing?"
- Question: Could Joseph Smith have written the Book of Mormon under the influence of an "epileptic fit?"
- Question: Could Joseph have used a Bible during and simply dictated from it during Book of Mormon translation?
- Question: Could Lehi's group have made a transoceanic crossing as described in the Book of Mormon?
- Question: Could Moroni have been an "angel of Satan"?
- Question: Could Satan have deceived Nephi into killing Laban?
- Question: Could ancient Americans have expanded the definition of "horse" to include new meanings?
- Question: Could the Book of Mormon be a clumsy, amateurish forgery?
- Question: Could the Book of Mormon been influenced by the Late War in its use of lions in similes?
- Question: Could the angel which came to Nephi have been a demonic "angel of light" sent to deceive him?
- Question: Could the fact that Orson Pratt considered cureloms to possibly be mammoths support the theory that Joseph Smith used Gilbert Hunt's The Late War in "authoring" The Book of Mormon?
- Question: Could the list of items on Joseph's person at the time of his death have been incomplete?
- Question: Couldn't the "Egyptian Alphabet" have referred to the "reformed Egyptian" characters on the Anthon transcript?
- Question: Did Aaron DeWitt, an ex-Mormon in Utah, receive threats to his life from the Church?
- Question: Did Abraham himself pen the Joseph Smith Papyri?
- Question: Did B.H. Roberts lose his faith in the Church and the Book of Mormon?
- Question: Did B.H. Roberts state that it was possible for Joseph Smith to have come up with the Book of Mormon on his own?
- Question: Did Bishop Warren S. Snow forcibly castrate twenty-four-year-old Thomas Lewis?
- Question: Did Boyd K. Packer say, "I have a hard time with historians because they idolize the truth"?
- Question: Did Brigham Young's preaching style induce people to perform "blood atonement"?
- Question: Did Brigham Young "proudly admit" to being a dictator?
- Question: Did Brigham Young advocate that apostates have their throats cut?
- Question: Did Brigham Young and Heber C. Kimball encourage members to kill apostates in an attempt to save their souls?
- Question: Did Brigham Young believe that one could not enter the Celestial Kingdom unless they were a polygamist?
- Question: Did Brigham Young call for blood atonement in order to punish Washington politicians?
- Question: Did Brigham Young claim that the Kingdom of God was already organized on earth, and that the inhabitants of the earth did not know it?
- Question: Did Brigham Young commit blasphemy by applying 1 John 4:3 to Joseph Smith?
- Question: Did Brigham Young create a 'culture of violence' in 19th century Utah with his incendiary speeches?
- Question: Did Brigham Young give the Indian chief Arapeen spoils from the Mountain Meadows Massacre?
- Question: Did Brigham Young imply that he had poisoned a gift of salt that he gave to Johnston's Army?
- Question: Did Brigham Young indicate in a speech in 1857 that the American government would fall to the Mormons?
- Question: Did Brigham Young institute slavery in Utah?
- Question: Did Brigham Young issue orders that no food or grain should be sold to "Gentiles" that were passing through Utah?
- Question: Did Brigham Young order that the Mount Meadows monument be destroyed?
- Question: Did Brigham Young plan to "rule over all the earth"?
- Question: Did Brigham Young set the stage for the Mountain Meadows Massacre by teaching the concept of "blood atonement"?
- Question: Did Brigham Young state the Joseph Smith's character was easily on par with that of Jesus Christ?
- Question: Did Brigham Young tell Ettie V. Smith that he was her savior?
- Question: Did Bruce R. McConkie claim in Mormon Doctrine that our heavenly parents created our spirits "through some kind of sexual union"?
- Question: Did Bruce R. McConkie discourage people from attempting to form a "personal relationship" with Christ?
- Question: Did Charles Anthon validate the characters that Martin Harris brought to him that had been copied from the Book of Mormon plates?
- Question: Did Christ establish a Church while on the earth?
- Question: Did David O. McKay like to be "recognized, lauded, and lionized"?
- Question: Did David Whitmer believe his witness experience was "only a vision"?
- Question: Did David Whitmer ever deny his Book of Mormon witness because he thought that Joseph Smith was a fallen prophet?
- Question: Did David Whitmer ever refute his testimony of the Book of Mormon after he left the Church?
- Question: Did David Whitmer or Oliver Cowdery test Joseph's prophetic claims?
- Question: Did David Whitmer say that his encounter with the angel Moroni was not an actual visitation?
- Question: Did David Whitmer tell John Murphy that the angel Moroni "had no appearance or shape" and that he saw "nothing"?
- Question: Did Dee F. Green say that there is no such thing as Book of Mormon archaeology?
- Question: Did Elder Boyd K. Packer's talk "To Young Men Only" encourage physical assaults on gay people?
- Question: Did Elder Boyd K. Packer suggest that we should "lie our way" into obtaining a testimony?
- Question: Did Elder Dallin H. Oaks say that it’s wrong to criticize leaders of the Church, even if the criticism is true?
- Question: Did Elder Dallin Oaks say that "so-called Christianity sees God as an entirely different kind of being"?
- Question: Did Elder David B. Haight make an astrological reference that people should 'do nothing without the assistance of the moon'?
- Question: Did FairMormon do "more to destroy" the testimony of the author of the "Letter to a CES Director" than any "anti-Mormon" source?
- Question: Did God tell David Whitmer to leave the Church and repudiate Mormonism?
- Question: Did Gordon B. Hinckley say that Latter-day Saints do not worship the biblical Jesus?
- Question: Did Harold B. Lee state that a person’s economic status or disability were the result of less valiance in the premortal existence?
- Question: Did Heber C. Kimball and Orson Hyde order Nauvoo's police force to kill an apostate named Lambert Symes?
- Question: Did Heber C. Kimball claim that the apostles killed Judas?
- Question: Did Heber C. Kimball deny that the Father appeared in the First Vision?
- Question: Did Heber C. Kimball encourage violence and intimidation in order to keep followers "in line"?
- Question: Did Heber C. Kimball promise that after the Civil War ended, the Latter-day Saints would become the "sole rulers over every other government"?
- Question: Did Heber C. Kimball say that future generations would view Joseph Smith as "a god"?
- Question: Did Heber J. Grant include a strict observance of the Word of Wisdom in the temple recommend interview because of the repeal of prohibition?
- Question: Did Hosea Stout have three men flogged because they "were not in good fellowship"?
- Question: Did Hosea Stout murder Joseph Smith's brother Samuel H. Smith?
- Question: Did Jacob Hambin's son Albert rape two women at the Mountain Meadows Massacre and later blame John D. Lee for this act?
- Question: Did Jedediah Grant sanction "wife swapping"?
- Question: Did Jesus and the apostles believe in pre-mortal life?
- Question: Did John Taylor believe that there was no longer a separation between Church and State?
- Question: Did John Whitmer, one of the Eight Witnesses, actually say that he saw the plates by a "supernatural power"?
- Question: Did Joseph Fielding Smith acknowledge that he was wrong when he said that Man would never walk on the Moon?
- Question: Did Joseph Fielding Smith reject the theory that the final battlefield of the Book of Mormon took place in Mesoamerica rather than New York?
- Question: Did Joseph Fielding Smith remove the 1832 account of Joseph Smith's First Vision from its original letterbook and hide it in his safe?
- Question: Did Joseph Fielding Smith say that it was not reasonable for Joseph Smith to use a seer stone to translate the Book of Mormon?
- Question: Did Joseph Fielding Smith state that man would never visit the moon?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith's family and other Book of Mormon witnesses support James Strang's movement after Joseph's death?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith's mother say that the First Vision was of an "angel"?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith, Sr. practice "divination"?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith actually shoot and kill two men at Carthage Jail?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith and Sidney Rigdon support the formation of a vigilante band called the Danites?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith attempt to "cover up" Oliver Cowdery's work with a divining rod by changing the wording of the revelation that became Doctrine and Covenants 8:6–8?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith being sealed to mothers, daughters and sisters violate a biblical prohibition?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith believe that Abraham wrote the text on the papyrus himself?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith believe that the Book of Mormon explained local legends associated with the "Mound Builders" of the Eastern United States?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith believe that the lost Ten Tribes were living under the polar ice cap?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith boast of his "violent deeds"?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith brag about his strength and prowess in fighting?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith claim that all governments and religions other than Mormonism would eventually be destroyed form the earth?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith claim that the Kirtland Safety Society was established by a revelation from God?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith claim to have walked on water?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith consummate any of these marriages with married women?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith contradict Jesus’ commandment in the Book of Mormon to not add to nor take away from Jesus' Gospel?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith copy Masonic material in order to create the Mormon temple rites?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith copy the name "Nephi" from the Apocrypha?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith create the story of Nephi and Laban by plagiarizing concepts and phrases from the story of Judith and Holofernes in the Apocrypha?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith create the temple ceremony as a way of teaching polygamy to certain members while keeping it a secret from the general public?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith derive his religious ideas in part from a mysticism called Kabbalah?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith derive the idea of "three degrees of glory" from Emanuel Swedenborg's book, ''Heaven and its Wonders and Hell''?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith develop the story of Moroni's visit based upon information contained in the story ''The Golden Pot''?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith endorse slavery?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith engage in "land speculation" in Nauvoo?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith get the word Nahom from the Biblical names Naham (1 Chron. 4:19), Nehum (Ne. 7:7) and Nahum (Na. 1:1)?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith give Brigham Young and Heber C. Kimball divining rods "as a symbol of gratitude for their loyalty"?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith have a Jupiter talisman on his person at the time of his death?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith have access to materials related to Nahom at Allegheny College?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith have any children through any of his polyandrous marriages?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith hit a Baptist preacher and throw him to the ground?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith identify any elements of Facsimile 2 that are in agreement with what Egyptologists say they represent?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith incorporate his father's dream of the tree of life into the Book of Mormon?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith issue a prophecy that the Nauvoo House would stand forever and ever?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith misidentify a Greek "psalter" as a containing "reformed Egyptian" hieroglyphics?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith mislead investors in the Kirtland Safety Society by collecting boxes full of sand with money placed on top, in order to make it appear that the bank had more hard money than it did?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith originally identify the angel that visited him as "Nephi" instead of "Moroni"?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith perform marriages between brothers and sisters?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith plagiarize John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith plagiarize John Dee’s The Secret Book of Madoc for his creation of the Book of Mormon?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith plagiarize John Walker's "Key to Greek, Latin, and Scripture Proper Names"?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith plagiarize John Walker's a Key to Latin and Greek, Latin, and Scripture Proper Names?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith plagiarize Josiah Priest's ''The Wonders of Nature and Providence Displayed''?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith plagiarize Shakespeare's ''Hamlet''?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith plagiarize Shakespeare?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith plagiarize a book by Charles Anthon to provide names for the Book of Mormon?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith plagiarize an 1811 book of Marco Polo's travels?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith plagiarize passages from Gilbert Hunt's book ''The Late War, between the United States and Great Britain, from June, 1812, to February, 1815''?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith plagiarize sources from the American Revolution?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith plagiarize the History of Mexico to produce the Book of Ether?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith produce the Book of Mormon by using a Methodist homiletic composition technique known as “laying down heads”?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith really tell Orrin Porter Rockwell 'it was right to steal'?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith receive a revelation instructing him to to sell the copyright to the Book of Mormon in Canada and later claim that the revelation was false?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith say that viewing the gold plates would result in death?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith set up a bar to sell liquor in Nauvoo?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith teach a hemispheric, rather than a limited, geography model for the Book of Mormon?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith use entheogens to effectuate the founding of the Church?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith use his own seer stone to translate the Book of Mormon?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith use his seer stone to view the location of the gold plates in the Hill Cumorah?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith use the Nephite interpreters to translate? Or did he use his own seer stone?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith violate the Word of Wisdom by drinking alcohol in Carthage Jail before he was killed?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith write a pro-polygamy pamphlet called The Peace Maker in 1842?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith write in the Book of Mormon, "every error and truth discussed in New York"?
- Question: Did Joseph ever place the Nephite interpreters ("Urim and Thummim") into his hat?
- Question: Did Joseph know what the italics in the Bible meant?
- Question: Did Joseph mention a "pillar of fire" or a "pillar of light" in his 1832 account of the First Vision?
- Question: Did Joseph own 144 acres of land in Kirtland?
- Question: Did Joseph own a Bible at the time of the Book of Mormon translation?
- Question: Did LDS leaders claim that Christians were no longer present on the earth after the apostasy?
- Question: Did LDS scholar Hugh Nibley support the "Heartland model" of Book of Mormon geography?
- Question: Did Latter-day Saints wish to avoid being classified as Christians?
- Question: Did Levi Edgar Young state that his prayer was that "thousands would turn not to God, but to Joseph"?
- Question: Did Levi Lewis claim that Joseph tried to seduce Eliza Winters in 1830?
- Question: Did Lorenzo Snow state that polygamy was actually adultery prior to 1843?
- Question: Did Martin Harris change his religion five times prior to the Restoration?
- Question: Did Martin Harris claim that he only saw the gold plates as they were covered "as a city through a mountain"?
- Question: Did Martin Harris ever deny his Book of Mormon witness because he thought that Joseph Smith was a fallen prophet?
- Question: Did Martin Harris state that there would never be another president of the United States elected?
- Question: Did Martin Harris tell people that he did not see the plates with his natural eyes, but rather the "eye of faith"?
- Question: Did Martin Harris tell people that he only saw the plates with his "spiritual eye"?
- Question: Did Mormon Leaders use temple recommend interviews to "bully" members into supporting Proposition 8?
- Question: Did Mormon scholar Hugh Nibley fake or distort most of his footnotes?
- Question: Did Mormons only recently claim to be Christian?
- Question: Did Moroni bury the gold plates in the Hill Cumorah referenced in the Book of Mormon?