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- Reformed Egyptian and the Book of Mormon
- Relationship between the temple endowment and Freemasonry
- Relationship of the Maya and the Olmec to the Lamanites and the Jaredites
- Religious revivals in 1820/Primary sources
- Repudiated ideas about race
- Responding to criticisms about Church history
- Response: Mormoninfographic:Elizabeth Davis
- Response: Mormoninfographic:Elvira Annie Cowles
- Response: Mormoninfographic:Joseph Smith vs. Warren Jeffs:Number of wives
- Response: Mormoninfographic:Lucinda Pendleton
- Response: Mormoninfographic:Marinda Nancy Johnson
- Response: Mormoninfographic:Mary Elizabeth Rollins
- Response: Mormoninfographic:Patty Bartlett
- Response: Mormoninfographic:Presendia Huntington Buell
- Response: Mormoninfographic:Ruth Vose Sayers
- Response: Mormoninfographic:Sarah Kingsley
- Response: Mormoninfographic:Sylvia Sessions
- Response: Mormoninfographic:Zina Huntington Jacobs
- Response to Under the Banner of Heaven, Chapter 5
- Response to Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith
- Response to Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith/Index
- Response to Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith/The Justin Wise Dialogues
- Revelation
- Revelation after Joseph Smith/Missouri myths
- Revelations in Context on history.lds.org: "Cowdery was among those who believed in and used a divining rod"
- Reviews of books about Brigham Young
- Rhoda Richards
- Richard Abanes
- Richard Anderson: All eleven Book of Mormon witnesses publicly reaffirmed their testimony as printed
- Richard Bushman
- Richard G. Scott
- Ritual child abuse accusations in the 1990s
- Robert D. Hales
- Robert D. Hales (2013): "Gaining a testimony and becoming converted begins with study and prayer, then living the gospel with patience and persistence"
- Robots.txt
- Rochester, New York
- Roper: "Critics of the Book of Mormon have claimed that the limited geography is only a late, desperate attempt to defend the Book of Mormon"
- Roper: "For example, an iron knife was found in an eleventh century Philistine tomb showed evidence of deliberate carburization"
- Roper: "a strange double-curved weapon held in the left hand of the warrior figure on the Loltún cave relief might be considered a scimitar/cimeter"
- Roper: "archaeologists have discovered a carburized iron sword near Jericho"
- Russell M. Nelson
- Ruth Vose Sayers
- Sacrament
- Saint's Herald
- Saints: "'Joseph,' the Savior said, 'thy sins are forgiven.' His burden lifted, Joseph repeated his question: "What church shall I join?'"
- Samuel H. Smith
- Sarah Allen's Response to Letter For My Wife
- Sarah Allen CES Response Posts
- Sarah Ann Whitney
- Sarah Kingsley Howe Cleveland
- Sarah Lawrence
- Science and the Church of Jesus Christ
- Science and the Church of Jesus Christ/Are they compatible
- Science and the Church of Jesus Christ/Book of Mormon
- Science and the Church of Jesus Christ/Determining truth
- Science and the Church of Jesus Christ/Dinosaurs
- Science and the Church of Jesus Christ/Global or local Flood/Statements
- Science and the Church of Jesus Christ/Joseph Fielding Smith claimed that man would never walk on the Moon
- Science and the Church of Jesus Christ/Latter-day Saint approaches
- Science and the Church of Jesus Christ/Latter-day Saint attitude toward
- Science and the Church of Jesus Christ/Statements
- Science in the CES Letter
- Scripture:ALWTest
- Search for the Truth DVD/Call to Leaders/Individual witness
- Search for the Truth DVD:Book of Abraham:Book of Dead Scan (full size)
- Search for the Truth DVD:Book of Abraham:Book of Dead Scan (full size zoom)
- Search for the Truth DVD:Book of Abraham:Book of Dead Scan (small)
- Search for the Truth DVD:Burning in the Bosom:Holy Ghost in Acts
- Search for the Truth DVD review in PDF Format
- Seer stones and the Urim and Thummim
- Seminary Teacher Resource Manual: "We have no knowledge that plural marriage will be a requirement for exaltation"
- Sexism in the scriptures
- Sexual assault victims and lack of culpability
- Sidney B. Sperry (1995): "Questions arise as to how Jeremiah's prophecies appeared on the brass plates"
- Sidney Rigdon
- Similarities between ancient and modern temple rituals
- Simon & Schuster
- Slavery in the scriptures
- Social issues and the Church of Jesus Christ
- Social pressure and the priesthood ban
- Sorenson: "At the time of the Spanish conquest, natives in Mexico would gather cocoons from a type of wild silkworm and spin the thread into expensive cloth"
- Sorenson: "By 1400 BC, smiths in Armenia had discovered how to carburize iron by prolonged heating in contact with carbon"
- Sorenson: "Iron use was documented in the statements of early Spaniards, who told of the Aztecs using iron-studded clubs"
- Sorenson: "Lumps of hematite, magnetite, and ilmenite were brought into Valley of Oaxaca"
- Sorenson: "The Miami Indians, for example, were unfamiliar with the buffalo and simply called them 'wild cows'"
- Sorenson: "There is an animal which they call chic, wonderfully active, as large as a small dog, with a snout like a sucking pig. The Indian women raise them"
- Sorenson: "linen-like cloth made from plants other than flax"
- Sorenson: Horse bones in Yucatan "considered to be pre-Columbian on the basis of depth of burial and degree of mineralization"
- Sorenson: Linen and silk textiles in ancient America
- Sorenson: The grain "Amaranth" in Mexico
- Sorenson and Smith: "three types of wild barley have long been known to be native to the Americas"
- Source:Anderson:Confirming Records of Moroni's Coming:Improvement Era:73 9:This wording in the present Pearl of Great Price is modified from the first printing, in which the messenger was identified as "Nephi"
- Source:Ashurst-McGee"A Pathway to Prophethood:This argument falls short theoretically. For those who do not believe in Joseph's visions, there was nothing to wake anyone anyway.
- Source:B.H. Roberts:CHC 2:360-361:Joseph Smith was a man of like passions with other men; struggling with the same weaknesses; subjected to the same temptations
- Source:Book of Mormon Index:1842:The discovery of America predicted
- Source:Book of Mormon and DNA Studies:Gospel Topics:Basic principles of population genetics suggest the need for a more careful approach to the data
- Source:Book of Mormon and DNA Studies:Gospel Topics:Much as critics and defenders of the Book of Mormon would like to use DNA studies to support their views, the evidence is simply inconclusive
- Source:Book of Mormon and DNA Studies:Gospel Topics:These events may severely reduce or totally eliminate certain genetic profiles
- Source:Book of Mormon and the Mormonites:Jul 1841:The history of the settlements of the emigrants in North and South America
- Source:Book of Mormon as Stick of Ephraim:Franklin D. Richards statement
- Source:Book of Mormon as Stick of Ephraim:Joseph Fielding Smith statement
- Source:Book of Mormon as Stick of Ephraim:Orson Pratt statement
- Source:Brigham Young, Jr.:25 Mar 1883:The leaders of the Church have in view the 5,000,000 of Lamanites located in Mexico
- Source:Brigham Young:15 Aug 1852:it takes North and South America to make the land of Joseph
- Source:Brigham Young:1855:JD 3:43:I do not wish any Latter-day Saint...to be satisfied with anything I do
- Source:Brigham Young:1855:JD 3:51:we know that he was an honorable man and dealt justly, we know his true character
- Source:Brigham Young:1862:JD 9:150:I am more afraid that this people have so much confidence in their leaders that they will not inquire for themselves of God
- Source:Brown:Nahom and the "Eastward" Turn:JBMS 12:1
- Source:Chadwick:Glimpses of Lehi's Jerusalem:Lehi's House at Jerusalem and the Land of His Inheritance:Going "up" to Jerusalem
- Source:Chadwick:Glimpses of Lehi's Jerusalem:Lehi's land of inheritance was most likely not located within the borders of the southern kingdom of Judah
- Source:Charles Penrose:Improvement Era:September 1912:Do you believe in "blood-atonement"?
- Source:Chas. W. Wandell:27 Jul 1841:in speaking of the writing found on the ruins of the stone city found in Mexico
- Source:Chicago Times:1875:Three times David Whitmer has been at the Hill Cumorah and seen the casket that contained the tablets and seerstone
- Source:Christian Advocate and Journal:29 Jul 1841:This little band, after wandering long and far, came at last to America, and planted themselves in the western part of the present State of New York
- Source:Christofferson:BYU-Idaho Devotional:Recording mistakes, for example, have sometimes been seized on as evidence of misrepresentations or bumbling by the Prophet
- Source:Christofferson:Devotional Address:24 Sep 2013:The absence of evidence is not proof
- Source:Christofferson:The Prophet Joseph Smith:BYUI Devotional:2013:The June 1839 Manuscript History of the Church says it was Nephi who appeared to Joseph Smith in 1823 rather than Moroni
- Source:Church News:15 Sept 2007:Henry B. Eyring:What was done here long ago by members of our Church represents a terrible and inexcusable departure from Christian teaching and conduct
- Source:Church spokesman:2006:The belief that Christ was married has never been official church doctrine
- Source:Clark:A Key for Evaluating Nephite Geographies:This should be our second question, the first being whether the geography fits the facts of the Book of Mormon
- Source:Clement of Rome:For this reason righteousness and peace are now far departed from you
- Source:Cyprian:Cyprian argued that since the Saints had sunk to such low levels of depravity they rightly deserved the harsh judgments of God
- Source:Cyril of Jerusalem:For men have fallen from the right faith; and some preach the identity of the Son with the Father...This, therefore, is the falling away
- Source:Damrosch:The Narrative Covenant:Naham means "to mourn"
- Source:Daniel C. Peterson:Ensign:Jan 2000:But the region of Mesoamerica—particularly southern Mexico and Guatemala, where many suggest that much of the Book of Mormon story may have happened
- Source:David Whitmer:Rebuttal to John Murphy 19 March 1881:EMD 5:69:Which has so long since been published with that book as one of the three witnesses
- Source:David Whitmer Three Witness statements
- Source:Echoes:Ch12:18:Martin Harris on the translation process
- Source:Echoes:Ch2:18:Land of Jerusalem
- Source:Echoes:Ch5:12:First camp to Nahom - Mountains
- Source:Echoes:Ch5:23:Old world Bountiful
- Source:Echoes:Ch5:24:Old world Bountiful - fruit
- Source:Echoes:Ch5:25:Old world Bountiful - honey
- Source:Echoes:Ch5:26:Old world Bountiful - timber
- Source:Echoes:Ch5:27:Old world Bountiful - mists
- Source:Echoes:Ch5:28:Old world Bountiful - ore
- Source:Echoes:Ch5:29:Lehi's desert journey and Joseph Smith
- Source:Gardner:The Gift and the Power:it’s stone that becomes the trigger that allows the seer to do what the seer does
- Source:George Q. Cannon:1 Jan 1890:For these reasons we have strong objections to the introduction of maps and their circulation among our people which profess to give the location of the Nephite cities and settlements
- Source:Gospel Topics:Are Mormons Christian?:Members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints unequivocally affirm themselves to be Christians
- Source:Gospel Topics:Becoming Like God:Latter-day Saints see all people as children of God in a full and complete sense
- Source:Gospel Topics:Becoming Like God:Our theology begins with heavenly parents. Our highest aspiration is to be like them
- Source:Gospel Topics:Bible, Inerrancy of:As the Bible was compiled, organized, translated, and transcribed, many errors entered the text
- Source:Gospel Topics:Book of Mormon Translation:According to these accounts, Joseph placed either the interpreters or the seer stone in a hat
- Source:Gospel Topics:Book of Mormon Translation:Joseph placed either the interpreters or the seer stone in a hat
- Source:Gospel Topics:Book of Mormon Translation:These two instruments—the interpreters and the seer stone—were apparently interchangeable
- Source:Gospel Topics:Book of Mormon and DNA Studies:The evidence assembled to date suggests that the majority of Native Americans carry largely Asian DNA
- Source:Gospel Topics:Church Disciplinary Councils:Church discipline is an inspired process that takes place over a period of time
- Source:Gospel Topics:Decisions about birth control and the consequences of those decisions rest solely with each married couple
- Source:Gospel Topics:Peach and Violence:Danites
- Source:Gospel Topics:Plural Marriage and Families in Early Utah:It is therefore difficult to accurately generalize about the experience of all plural marriages
- Source:Hamblin:The Bow and Arrow in the Book of Mormon:After the sword, the bow is the second most frequently mentioned weapon in the Book of Mormon
- Source:Hamblin and Merrill:Swords in the Book of Mormon:The Book of Mormon mentions the sword 156 times
- Source:Harold B. Lee:the Lord appeared to him, very informal, the same as I was sitting talking to him
- Source:Hegesippus:These also, as there were none of the apostles left, henceforth attempted, without shame to preach their false doctrine against the gospel of truth
- Source:Hinckley:Deseret News:2002:What the church requires is only belief that Adam was the first man of what we would call the human race
- Source:Hiram Page Eight Witnesses statements
- Source:Hyde:Ein Ruf aus der Wuste:1842:Two glorious heavenly personages stood before him, resembling each other exactly in features and stature
- Source:Hyde:JD 6:61:Hyde:why did not the Saviour come himself to communicate this intelligence to the world
- Source:Hyde:The Frontier Guardian:6 March 1850:both the Father and the Son, while he was praying, appeared unto him
- Source:Hyrum Smith:Liberty Jail:I felt a determination to die, rather than deny the things which my eyes had seen
- Source:Hyrum Smith Eight Witnesses statements
- Source:Ignatius:the false prophets and the false apostles
- Source:Irenaeus:evil is spread abroad among men
- Source:JBMS:Sorenson and Roper:Lehi saw from the beginning that Nephites and Lamanites were labels that would include a variety of groups that could have differing biological origins, cultures, and ethnic heritages
- Source:JBMS 8:1:It is true that firstlings...were not used for the normal burnt offering. However it is a mistake to think that they were not sacrificed at all
- Source:JD 11:262:Brigham Young:There is also a man down the street who tried to exhibit the endowments to a party who was here
- Source:Jacob Whitmer Eight Witnesses statements
- Source:James E. Talmage:1899:The hill, which was known by one division of the ancient peoples as Cumorah, by another as Ramah, is situated near Palmyra in the State of New York
- Source:James E. Talmage:The Vitality of Mormonism:42:God has not established His Church to make of its members irresponsible automatons
- Source:James H. Reeves:Palmyra Courier:24 May 1872:Martin Harris "quite skeptical, as well as superstitious"
- Source:John E. Clark:JBMS:8:1:1999:My purpose here is to present the latest drawing of this monument, to discuss how this drawing was made, and to suggest its implications for the Lehi hypothesis
- Source:John E. Page:1 Jul 1842:The city was in some region on the South of what is called at this time, North America
- Source:John Taylor:1 Apr 1845:cities have been discovered by Mr. Stevens in Central America'', exactly were the Book of Mormon left them
- Source:John Whitmer:Letter to Mark Forscutt:1876:Oliver Cowdery would not have denied his witness "at the peril of his life"
- Source:John Whitmer Eight Witnesses statements
- Source:Joint Eight Witnesses statements
- Source:Joseph Smith:15 Jul 1842:Stephens and Catherwood's researches in Central America abundantly testify of this thing
- Source:Joseph Smith:Bernhisel letter:1841:I received your kind present...of all histories that have been written pertaining to the antiquities of this country it is the most correct
- Source:Joseph Smith:I frequently fell into many foolish errors, and displayed the weakness of youth, and the foibles of human nature
- Source:Joseph Smith:Letter to Oliver Cowdery:December 1834:during this time, as is common to most, or all youths, I fell into many vices and follies
- Source:Joseph Smith:Wentworth letter:1 Mar 1842:The remnant are the Indians that now inhabit this country
- Source:LDS Newsroom:Belief in prophets and apostles at the head of the Church does not mean that members blindly follow their leaders
- Source:LDS Newsroom:the Church revelation spelling out health practices does not mention the use of caffeine
- Source:LDS missionary tract:1844:where has the seed of Joseph gone to?...There is no place except North and South America to which they could have gone
- Source:Larsen and Rencher:Who Wrote the Book of Mormon? An Analysis of Wordprints:Our approach is sometimes referred to as the science of stylometry, which can be defined loosely as statistical analysis of style
- Source:Last Testimony of Sister Emma
- Source:Levi Nicklin:18 Jan 1841:To prove the divinity of the book he assured us that a prophecy, and the description of certain cities in South America were accurately laid down
- Source:Marcus B. Nash:Joseph Smith Memorial Devotional:June 2013:This was dictated, word by word, as he looked into instruments the Lord prepared for him, using a hat to shield his eyes from extraneous light
- Source:Martin Harris:EMD 2:338:no man ever heard me in any way deny the truth of the Book of Mormon
- Source:Martin Harris:Investigating the Book of Mormon Witnesses:112-113:1:Do you know that is the sun shining on us
- Source:Martin Harris:Investigating the Book of Mormon Witnesses:113:1:As many of the plates as Joseph Smith translated I handled with my hands
- Source:Martin Harris:Investigating the Book of Mormon Witnesses:116:2:It is not a mere belief
- Source:Martin Harris:Joel Tiffany 1859:I knew that Joseph had not credit enough to buy so much lead
- Source:Martin Harris:Letter from George A. Smith:All would be damned that rejected it
- Source:Martin Harris:Metcalfe:Ten Years Before the Mast:EMD 2:346-347:While praying I passed into a state of entrancement
- Source:Martin Harris:Millennial Star 2:52:Martin Harris...gave me a particular description of the plates
- Source:Martin Harris:Mormonism Unvailed:He does not pretend that he ever saw the wonderful plates but once
- Source:Martin Harris:Origin and History of the Mormonites:Yet I saw them with the eye of faith
- Source:Martin Harris:William Harrison Homer 1869:For I saw the angel, I heard his voice
- Source:Martin Harris Three Witness statements
- Source:Matthias F. Cowley:Obedience:Talks on Doctrine:160-161:true obedience to the Lord's commands is an indication of moral courage
- Source:Millennial Star:2 Jul 1841:Canada on the north, Oregon on the West, Mexico on the south, together with all the tribes in central and South America
- Source:Millennial Star:9 Jul 1842:the American Indians were once an enlightened people and understood the arts and sciences, as the ruined cities and monuments lately discovered fully prove
- Source:Millennial Star:Sep 1842:as the western continent is separate from the eastern
- Source:Morrise:Simile Curses in the Ancient Near East, Old Testament, and Book of Mormon:The simile curse is a type of curse that appears in ancient Near Eastern, Old Testament, and Book of Mormon texts
- Source:Moses Thatcher:JD 23:203:The "Mormon" Priesthood dominates the affairs of the "Mormon" people upon the principles of righteousness and equity
- Source:Nelson:A Treasured Testament:Ensign:July 1993:The details of this miraculous method of translation are still not fully known. Yet we do have a few precious insights
- Source:New Era:Feb 2016:What does the Church believe about dinosaurs?
- Source:Nibley:CW06:Ch19:9:Mourning by the daughters of Ishmael
- Source:Nibley:CW06:Ch22:8:Greek Names
- Source:Nibley:CW06:Ch6:8:Sam
- Source:Nibley:Teachings of the Book of Mormon:Vol1:430:in Lehi's day Palestine was swarming with Greeks
- Source:Nicholson:The Spectacles, The Stone:This essay focuses primarily on the methods and instruments used in the translation process
- Source:Norwood:Review of Vernal Holley, ''Book of Mormon Authorship: A Closer Look'':Vernal Holley's contribution to the issue is a plethora of parallels
- Source:Orson Pratt:15 Feb 1871:they landed on the south-west coast of South America