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- Question: What are the criticisms related to Facsimile 3?
- Question: What are the criticisms related to the "gold plates" of the Book of Mormon?
- Question: What are the differences between Genesis 11-12 and Abraham 2?
- Question: What are the differences between the Endowment and Freemasonry?
- Question: What are the differences between the Genesis account of creation and that of the Book of Abraham?
- Question: What are the differences between the Strangite witness statements and those of the Three and Eight Witnesses to the Book of Mormon?
- Question: What are the different levels of knowledge that members may have about Church history?
- Question: What are the essential features of a valid Book of Mormon geography?
- Question: What are the geographical assumptions upon which DNA-based attacks on the Book of Mormon are based?
- Question: What are the historical approaches that have been take in an attempt to understand the Kirtland Egyptian Papers?
- Question: What are the problems of trying to associate Quetzalcoatl with Jesus Christ?
- Question: What are the reasons for the changes to the Doctrine and Covenants?
- Question: What are the responses to critical arguments concerning the name "Nahom" in the Book of Mormon?
- Question: What are the risks of participating in apologetics?
- Question: What are the similarities and differences between ''View of the Hebrews'' and the Book of Mormon?
- Question: What are the two 1835 First Vision accounts that refer to angels?
- Question: What are the worthiness requirements to enter a Mormon temple?
- Question: What authorship theories are proposed by non-believers to account for the authorship of the Book of Mormon?
- Question: What can I do to "undo" proxy baptisms and temple work?
- Question: What can textual criticism tell us about the Bible?
- Question: What can the writings of early Christians tell us about how to receive salvation in Jesus Christ?
- Question: What can we learn about the Book of Mormon as an ancient text?
- Question: What changes were made to the 1837 edition of the Book of Mormon?
- Question: What changes were made to the Doctrine and Covenants?
- Question: What criticisms are associated with Doctrine and Covenants Section 132?
- Question: What criticisms are associated with the Kirtland Egyptian Papers?
- Question: What criticisms are associated with the temple ritual and its relationship to Freemasonry?
- Question: What criticisms are put forth regarding the restoration of the Melchizedek Priesthood?
- Question: What criticisms are raised with regard to Book of Mormon archaeology compared to that of the Bible?
- Question: What criticisms are related to Oliver Cowdery's 1834-1835 history of the Church?
- Question: What descriptions exist of the "gold" plates' hiding place?
- Question: What did Alva Hale claim about Joseph Smith in the Hurlbut affidavits?
- Question: What did B.H. Roberts say about ''View of the Hebrews'' and the Book of Mormon?
- Question: What did Barton Stafford claim about Joseph Smith in the Hurlbut affidavits?
- Question: What did C.R. Stafford claim about Joseph Smith in the Hurlbut affidavits?
- Question: What did David Stafford claim about Joseph Smith in the Hurlbut affidavits?
- Question: What did David Whitmer's associates say about his character?
- Question: What did G. W. Stoddard claim about Joseph Smith in the Hurlbut affidavits?
- Question: What did Henry Harris claim about Joseph Smith in the Hurlbut affidavits?
- Question: What did Isaac Hale claim about Joseph Smith in the Hurlbut affidavits?
- Question: What did James Henry Moyle say about his visit to David Whitmer?
- Question: What did Joseph Capron claim about Joseph Smith in the Hurlbut affidavits?
- Question: What did Joseph Smith say about efforts that were made to steal the gold plates from him?
- Question: What did Joshua M'Kune claim about Joseph Smith in the Hurlbut affidavits?
- Question: What did Joshua Stafford claim about Joseph Smith in the Hurlbut affidavits?
- Question: What did Lemon Copley claim about Joseph Smith in the Hurlbut affidavits?
- Question: What did Martin Harris's non-Mormon associates say about his character?
- Question: What did Nathaniel Lewis claim about Joseph Smith in the Hurlbut affidavits?
- Question: What did Oliver Cowdery's associates say about his character?
- Question: What did Oliver Cowdery say about his witness experience after Joseph died?
- Question: What did Orson Pratt state about Joseph Smith's First Vision?
- Question: What did Parley Chase claim about Joseph Smith in the Hurlbut affidavits?
- Question: What did Peter Ingersoll claim about Joseph Smith in the Hurlbut affidavits?
- Question: What did Roswell Nichols claim about Joseph Smith in the Hurlbut affidavits?
- Question: What did Willard Chase claim about Joseph Smith in the Hurlbut affidavits?
- Question: What did William McLellin say about Joseph Smith and Fanny Alger's relationship?
- Question: What did William Stafford claim about Joseph Smith in the Hurlbut affidavits?
- Question: What did contemporary witnesses have to say about the Book of Mormon translation process?
- Question: What did early Christians think about alterations to the scriptures?
- Question: What did early Mormon leaders think of Christians?
- Question: What did hostile witnesses say regarding Joseph Smith, Fanny Alger and Emma Smith?
- Question: What did the Book of Mormon witnesses mean when they used the word "supernatural" to describe their experiences?
- Question: What did the Book of Mormon witnesses say about the faithfulness of other witnesses?
- Question: What did the Church announce in 1968 when the Joseph Smith papyri fragments were discovered?
- Question: What did the Hurlbut affidavits say about Martin Harris?
- Question: What did the Jews and early Christians really believe with regard to a three-part heaven?
- Question: What did the husband of Mary Heron know about her sealing to Joseph Smith for eternity?
- Question: What did the husband of Presendia L. Huntington know about her sealing to Joseph Smith for eternity?
- Question: What did the husband of Sarah Ann Whitney know about her sealing to Joseph Smith for eternity?
- Question: What did the other witnesses say regarding "spiritual" versus "natural" viewing of the plates?
- Question: What did those in Joseph Smith's day know about sweat and pores?
- Question: What do "if-and conditionals" tell us about the Book of Mormon translation?
- Question: What do Latter-day Saints ("Mormons") think about skin color?
- Question: What do Mormons believe regarding the nature of angels?
- Question: What do the Hurlbut affidavits claim about the Smith family's character and reliability?
- Question: What do the Hurlbut affidavits claim about the Smith family and treasure digging?
- Question: What do the Hurlbut affidavits say about Charles Anthon and the characters copied from the gold plates?
- Question: What do the Hurlbut affidavits say about Joseph Smith claiming that he was "as good as Jesus Christ"?
- Question: What do the Hurlbut affidavits say about the Spalding manuscript and the Book of Mormon?
- Question: What do the Joseph Smith papyri fragments consist of?
- Question: What do the italicized words in the Bible represent, and why is it relevant to the Book of Mormon?
- Question: What do the scriptures say about the issue of abortion?
- Question: What do we find in Mesoamerican archaeology with respect to place names, such as city names?
- Question: What do we find when we turn to the records of the ancient (i.e. before A.D. 400) Americas?
- Question: What do we know about Orson F. Whitney's "Strength of the Mormon Position" claim regarding a Catholic theologian?
- Question: What do we know about the chronology of the Book of Mormon translation and publication?
- Question: What do wordprint studies say about the Book of Mormon?
- Question: What does 1 John 5:7-8 have to do with Trinitariansim?
- Question: What does John 10:30 have to do with Trinitarianism?
- Question: What does Latter-day Saint revelation say about pre-mortal life?
- Question: What does Lecture 5 of the Lectures on Faith say about the nature of God?
- Question: What does The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints teach about modesty and what is its importance?
- Question: What does it mean to Mormons when Jesus is declared to be the "alpha and omega"?
- Question: What does it mean when it is said that the Book of Mormon contains the "fulness of the gospel?"
- Question: What does it mean when two people receive revelation with contradictory answers to the same question?
- Question: What does not fall within the scope of Church discipline?
- Question: What does the Bible teach about priesthood in the Church of Jesus Christ?
- Question: What does the Book of Mormon actually say about the finding of the record of the Jaredites, and the name of the king who could translate it?
- Question: What does the Church say on the propriety of Church members publicizing personal revelations, dreams or visions?
- Question: What does the Church teach investigators and members regarding the method by which the Book of Mormon was produced?
- Question: What does the Lord intend by commanding that we refrain from “loud laughter”?
- Question: What does the lion couch scene in Book of Abraham Facsimile 1 normally represent?
- Question: What does the term "anti-Mormon" mean?
- Question: What effect did the 90% death rate in the New World after European contact have on genetics and its relationship to the Book of Mormon?
- Question: What effect did the Hofmann forgeries have upon the study of early Latter-day Saint history?
- Question: What evidence can The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints give for their possession of God's priesthood?
- Question: What evidence is there that Orson Hyde was familiar with the details of the First Vision at the time he made his statement about "angels"?
- Question: What examples exist of writing on gold or other metal plates from around the ancient world?
- Question: What forms of chiasmus exist in the ''Book of Mormon''?
- Question: What happened to the original Book of Mormon manuscript?
- Question: What happened to the papyri after Joseph's death?
- Question: What happened to the stone box in which gold plates were deposited?
- Question: What happens when a Mormon criticizes Church leaders?
- Question: What has the Church done to help members learn about historical issues?
- Question: What have Latter-day Saint leaders actually said about the method of procreation in the afterlife?
- Question: What have been the responses to Joseph's interpretations of Facsimile 3?
- Question: What if the "rod of nature" was indeed a physical object such as a divining rod?
- Question: What influence might the Jaredites have had on New World DNA?
- Question: What influences led to the development of Grant Palmer's "Golden Pot" theory of Book of Mormon origin?
- Question: What is "Polyandry?"
- Question: What is "apologetics"?
- Question: What is "blood atonement"?
- Question: What is "brass" in the Book of Mormon?
- Question: What is "cognitive dissonance" and how does it relate to Mormonism?
- Question: What is "empirical evidence"?
- Question: What is "loan-shifting"?
- Question: What is "reformed Egyptian"?
- Question: What is Adam-ondi-Ahman?
- Question: What is Book of Abraham Facsimile 2?
- Question: What is Contender Ministries' "Questions All Mormons Should Ask Themselves?"
- Question: What is Lehi's ancestry?
- Question: What is Lorenzo Snow claimed to have said about plural marriages being adultery prior to 1843?
- Question: What is Moroni's promise?
- Question: What is a 'Hebraism'?
- Question: What is a writ of Habeas corpus?
- Question: What is an anachronism, and what should be borne in mind when assessing the Book of Mormon (or any other text) for supposed "anachronisms"?
- Question: What is apologetics? Why are you apologizing?
- Question: What is baptism for the dead?
- Question: What is chiasmus?
- Question: What is epistemology?
- Question: What is known about battle tactics in Book of Mormon?
- Question: What is known about possible children through Joseph Smith's polygamous marriages?
- Question: What is known about strategy in Book of Mormon warfare?
- Question: What is known about the name "Ammon" in the Book of Mormon?
- Question: What is known about the name "Helaman" in the Book of Mormon?
- Question: What is known about the name "Himni" in the Book of Mormon?
- Question: What is known about the name "Irreantum" in the Book of Mormon?
- Question: What is known about the name "Ishmael" in the Book of Mormon?
- Question: What is known about the name "Kish" in the Book of Mormon?
- Question: What is known about the name "Korihor" in the Book of Mormon?
- Question: What is known about the name "Kumenonhi" in the Book of Mormon?
- Question: What is known about the name "Lachoneus" in the Book of Mormon?
- Question: What is known about the name "Laman" in the Book of Mormon?
- Question: What is known about the name "Liahona" in the Book of Mormon?
- Question: What is known about the name "Mathoni" in the Book of Mormon?
- Question: What is known about the name "Mulek" in the Book of Mormon?
- Question: What is known about the name "Nephi" in the Book of Mormon?
- Question: What is known about the name "Pacumeni" in the Book of Mormon?
- Question: What is known about the name "Sam" in the Book of Mormon?
- Question: What is known about the name Greek name "Timothy" in the Book of Mormon?
- Question: What is sexism?
- Question: What is special about the chiasmus found in Alma 36?
- Question: What is the "Law of Adoption" practiced among 19-century Mormons and why has it changed?
- Question: What is the "second anointing"?
- Question: What is the Anthon transcript?
- Question: What is the Book of Abraham "Missing Papyrus theory"?
- Question: What is the Book of Mormon?
- Question: What is the Book of Mormon "printer's manuscript" and why is it entirely in the handwriting of Oliver Cowdery?
- Question: What is the Catholic view of the apostasy?
- Question: What is the Heartland Model of Book of Mormon geography
- Question: What is the Limited Geography Theory and model?
- Question: What is the Mormon concept of Hell?
- Question: What is the Mormon understanding of the nature of angels?
- Question: What is the New World Archaeological Foundation? What does it have to do with the Book of Mormon?
- Question: What is the Strengthening Church Members Committee?
- Question: What is the Vernal Holley map?
- Question: What is the best way to define Latter-day Saint epistemology?
- Question: What is the best way to understand the story of Jonah and the Whale scientifically?
- Question: What is the correct interpretation of Facsimile 3?
- Question: What is the date of the Smith family's "removal to Manchester"?
- Question: What is the description of the stone box in which the plates were hidden?
- Question: What is the difference between agency and freedom?
- Question: What is the difference between the "curse" and the "mark" of the Lamanites?
- Question: What is the distinction between belief in "folk magic" and a religious belief in the supernatural?
- Question: What is the focus of Latter-day Saint research regarding the Maya?
- Question: What is the historic church's concept of the Trinity and why do Mormons reject it?
- Question: What is the history and origin of the term "anti-Mormon?"
- Question: What is the history behind the Mormon practice called the "Law of Adoption"?
- Question: What is the history of name changes of the Church?
- Question: What is the light which comes from the presence of God?
- Question: What is the list of Book of Mormon editions?
- Question: What is the meaning of "eternal" life?
- Question: What is the nature of "endless" or "eternal" punishment?
- Question: What is the origin of the doctrine of original sin?
- Question: What is the origin of the modern horse in the New World?
- Question: What is the provenance of the Kirtland Egyptian Papers?
- Question: What is the publication history of the Kirtland Egyptian Papers?
- Question: What is the purpose of Church discipline?
- Question: What is the reformation view of the apostasy?
- Question: What is the relationship between Captain Kidd and the Comoro archipelago?
- Question: What is the relationship of the Joseph Smith Papyri to the Book of Abraham?
- Question: What is the significance of the chiasmus in Alma 41:12-15?
- Question: What is the significance of the temple garment worn by members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and what is the appropriate way to wear them?
- Question: What is the source of the story about Joseph Smith possessing a Jupiter talisman?
- Question: What is the story of Zelph?
- Question: What is the value of a ritual presentation?
- Question: What material were the plates made from?
- Question: What methods of DNA tests are available?
- Question: What might be the Latter-day Saint response to criticism from epistemic responsibility?
- Question: What might the witnesses to the Book of Mormon have gained if they had denied their testimonies?
- Question: What names did the Church go by prior to the revelation which established the correct one?
- Question: What part of Paul's advice regarding marriage actually represents Paul's opinion?
- Question: What portions of the image were missing from Facsimile 1?
- Question: What prior knowledge did George Q. Cannon have of the First Vision?
- Question: What role did Joseph fill in the community as a youth?
- Question: What role do horses ''not'' play in the Book of Mormon?
- Question: What scriptures explain the Mormon view of Jesus' divine Sonship?
- Question: What scriptures in the Book of Mormon affirm the presence of other people in the Book of Mormon in the New World?
- Question: What scriptures might challenge the view of a limited geography and the Nephites not being alone on the continent or other issues regarding DNA?
- Question: What specific transgressions might result in Church discipline?
- Question: What statements have Latter-day Saints leaders made regarding the location of the Garden of Eden?
- Question: What to Latter-day Saints believe regarding the concept of "original sin"?
- Question: What was Brigham Young's attitude toward the Mountain Meadows Massacre in 1861?
- Question: What was Brigham Young's position on punishing theft without due process?
- Question: What was Gordon B. Hinckley's opinion about the King Follett Discourse?
- Question: What was Joseph Smith referring to when he said that "I attended their several meetings as often as occasion would permit"?
- Question: What was Paul's teaching on marriage?
- Question: What was known about iron in ancient America?
- Question: What was known about steel in ancient America?
- Question: What was the Council of Fifty?
- Question: What was the Lamanite curse?
- Question: What was the MX Missile System?
- Question: What was the appearance of the engravings on the gold plates?
- Question: What was the fate of the original Lehite colonists?
- Question: What was the nature of Joseph Smith's "polyandrous" marriages?
- Question: What was the purpose of an eternity-only sealing, which was performed during Joseph Smith's lifetime?
- Question: What was the relationship between William McLellin and Emma Smith?
- Question: What was the relative size of Nephite population compared to Lamanite population?
- Question: What was the size of each of the gold plates?
- Question: What was the thickness of each gold plate?
- Question: What was the thickness of the entire volume of gold plates?
- Question: What was unique about the city of Nauvoo's charter and why did it anger some non-Mormons?
- Question: What were early Christian beliefs on the nature of God?
- Question: What were the attitudes of Joseph Smith and his contemporaries toward "magic"?
- Question: What were the characteristics of the rings which held the gold plates together?
- Question: What were the characteristics of the sealed vs. unsealed portion of the gold plates?
- Question: What were the views of early Christians on the deification of man?
- Question: What’s the best way to understand the Tower of Babel scientifically?
- Question: What’s the best way to understand the ages of antediluvian patriarchs scientifically?
- Question: What’s the best way to understand the story of Sodom and Gomorrah and Lot turning into a pillar of salt scientifically?
- Question: When, if ever, is it okay to disagree with Church leaders?
- Question: When Brigham Young talked of "cutting off" from the earth, was he using a euphemism for killing?
- Question: When and where was the name "Benjamin" changed to "Mosiah" in the Book of Mormon?
- Question: When did God tell David Whitmer to separate himself from the Latter-day Saints?
- Question: When did Joseph Smith demonstrate knowledge of the elements of the endowment ritual?
- Question: When the Bible talks about being "born again," what does this mean?
- Question: When was the "Grammar and Alphabet of the Egyptian Language" produced?
- Question: When was the Danite band formed and why?
- Question: When was the scroll containing Facsimile 1 damaged?
- Question: When were skin pores discovered?
- Question: Where can I learn more about the Sidney Rigdon/Solomon Spalding authorship theory?
- Question: Where did 19th-Century Latter-day Saints believe that Freemasonry came from?
- Question: Where is Zion located since the Mormons were driven out of Missouri?
- Question: Where is the Hill Cumorah?
- Question: Where was the Melchizedek Priesthood restored?
- Question: Which method of translation was more "believable": seer stone or Nephite interpreters?
- Question: Which sources mention Nephi as the angelic visitor who told Joseph Smith about the gold plates?
- Question: Which sources which mention Nephi as the angelic visitor who told Joseph Smith about the gold plates?/Later Moroni labels
- Question: Who are the Maya, and how might they be related to the Nephites or Lamanites?
- Question: Who authored the Gospel of John?
- Question: Who can be called "Lamanites"?
- Question: Who is this Egyptian god "Min"?
- Question: Who made the changes to the Doctrine and Covenants?
- Question: Who qualifies for the title "Mormon scholar?"
- Question: Who was James Strang?
- Question: Who was Paul H. Dunn and what happened to him?
- Question: Who wrote the ''Lectures on Faith''
- Question: Who wrote the Lectures on Faith?
- Question: Who wrote the book of Revelation?
- Question: Why are Latter-day Saint men encouraged to wear white shirts to Sunday services in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints?
- Question: Why are horses considered an anachronism in the Book of Mormon?
- Question: Why are men encouraged to wear white shirts to Sunday services in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints?
- Question: Why are revelations no longer published on an ongoing basis?
- Question: Why are there different versions of the Articles of Faith?
- Question: Why aren't other inhabitants of the America's mentioned in the Book of Mormon?
- Question: Why did B.H. Roberts write ''Studies of the Book of Mormon''?
- Question: Why did Elder Boyd K. Packer state that "Some things that are true are not very useful"?
- Question: Why did Elder Dunn exaggerate elements of these stories?
- Question: Why did George Q. Cannon say that Joseph Smith was visited by an "angel" during the First Vision?
- Question: Why did God allow the Apostasy to occur?
- Question: Why did Jesus call Twelve Apostles?
- Question: Why did Jesus say “Never have I showed myself unto man whom I have created” to the Brother of Jared, when Enoch and others had already seen Jehovah face to face?
- Question: Why did Joseph Smith change the wording in Mormon 7:7 from "is one God" to "are one God"?
- Question: Why did Joseph Smith claim that the religious excitement in the Palmyra area in 1820 "commenced with the Methodists"?
- Question: Why did Joseph Smith make changes to the Book of Mormon such as modifying "God" to read "the Son of God"?
- Question: Why did Joseph Smith state the he was visited by two personages and then just five days later say that he was visited by angels?
- Question: Why did Mormon leaders oppose the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) in the United States?
- Question: Why did Oliver Cowdery and David Whitmer accept Hiram Page's seer stone revelations as authoritative?
- Question: Why did Oliver Cowdery join the Methodists if all other churches had been "condemned of God"?
- Question: Why did Orson Hyde say: "Do I believe that the United States will be divided? yes, I do; and the prayers of all the Saints throughout the world should be to that effect"?
- Question: Why did Paul say that it was not good for a man to touch a woman?
- Question: Why did President Tanner say: "When the prophet speaks the debate is over"?
- Question: Why did the Church get involved in a shopping center?
- Question: Why did the Church modify the introduction to the Book of Mormon from "principal ancestors" to "among the ancestors?"
- Question: Why did the Saints leave Missouri before the temple was built?
- Question: Why did the author of the ''Letter to a CES Director'' feel the need to make a single hostile quote appear as if it were two separate quotes?
- Question: Why didn't Gordon B. Hinckley say more about the King Follett Discourse in the TIME Magazine interview?
- Question: Why didn't Joseph's siblings wake up during Moroni's visit?
- Question: Why didn't Joseph ''say'' that his family didn't wake up during Moroni's visit?
- Question: Why do Latter-day Saints not pray directly to Jesus Christ?
- Question: Why do Latter-day Saints not swear?
- Question: Why do Latter-day Saints often partake of the sacrament with their right hand?
- Question: Why do Mormon's believe that ongoing divine revelation is necessary?
- Question: Why do Mormons allow divorce if Jesus said that divorce is not allowed except for fornication?
- Question: Why do Mormons follow the practice of most Christians by resting and worshiping on Sunday?
- Question: Why do Mormons use the Aaronic Priesthood, since Hebrews 7 states that the Aaronic/Levitical Priesthood was "changed" to the unique priesthood "after the order of Melchizedek" held by Jesus Christ?
- Question: Why do apologetics?
- Question: Why do critics of Mormonism who belong to other religions discount spiritual experiences?
- Question: Why do modern day prophets and Church members in general believe that Polynesians are Lamanites?
- Question: Why do modern prophets not seem "like" the Bible's prophets?
- Question: Why do most of the battles in the Book of Mormon occur between the 11th and 3rd months of the year, and none in the 6th through 9th months?
- Question: Why do some New Testament phrases appear in the Book of Mormon?
- Question: Why do the Latter-day Saints believe God has a body?
- Question: Why do we continue to use such a participatory style of teaching in the 21st century?
- Question: Why do women not hold priesthood offices in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints?
- Question: Why does "Nahom" constitute archaeological evidence for the Book of Mormon?
- Question: Why does "and it came to pass" appear so often in the Book of Mormon?
- Question: Why does '''TIME''''s report make it appear the Pres. Hinckley is downplaying Joseph Smith's statements in the King Follett Discourse?
- Question: Why does Church artwork portray Joseph as being alone during Moroni's visit?
- Question: Why does Joseph Smith claim that his family was "proselyted to the Presbyterian faith" in 1820?
- Question: Why does The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints consider the practice of masturbation sinful?
- Question: Why does The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints have rules for facial hair?
- Question: Why does The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints strongly discourage their members from getting tattoos?
- Question: Why does Utah lead the United States in subscriptions to online adult entertainment?
- Question: Why does part of the longer ending of Mark show up in the Book of Mormon?
- Question: Why does the Book of Abraham state that it was written by Abraham's "own hand upon papyrus" if the papyri date to after the Abrahamic period?
- Question: Why does the Book of Mormon contain 'New Testament' language and phrases?
- Question: Why does the Book of Mormon mention "satyrs" in 2 Nephi 23:21? Aren't satyrs mythological creatures?
- Question: Why does the Book of Mormon mention "synagogues" when they were not present among the Jews until after the Babylonian captivity?
- Question: Why does the Book of Mormon refer to chariots, when it is known that there were no wheeled vehicles in ancient America?
- Question: Why does the Book of Mormon say that Jesus would be born "at Jerusalem which is the land of our forefathers" when the Bible states that he was born in Bethlehem?
- Question: Why does the Church focus on religious freedom?
- Question: Why does the Church not publicize the reasons for excommunication of a specific member?
- Question: Why does the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons) take a stance on certain political issues?
- Question: Why does the Church teach that marriage is essential for full exaltation, when Paul says in 1 Corinthians 7:1 that it is good for a man not to marry?