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- Source:Orson Pratt:JD 7:309-310:to obtain those revelations and visions that belong to the High Priesthood and to the Apostleship
- Source:Parley P. Pratt:13 Mar 1852:Four-fifths, or perhaps nine-tenths of the vast population of Peru, as well as of most other countries of Spanish America, are of the blood of Lehi
- Source:Parley P. Pratt:15 Nov 1841:with it their prophecies and their testimony of Jesus as the risen Messiah and the Saviour of the world, not of Asia only, but of America also
- Source:Parley P. Pratt:Feb 1841:What heart can be so indifferent as not to wish to peruse the record of half a world?
- Source:Parley P. Pratt:Mar 1842:Mr Stephens...penetrated a dense forest, till then unexplored by modern travellers , and actually finds the ruins of those very cities mentioned by Mormon
- Source:Parry:Symbolic Action as Prophetic Curse:This prophetic symbolic action by Isaiah represented a prophetic curse that destruction and ruin would come upon the Egyptians
- Source:Penrose:Peculiar Questions Briefly Answered:Improvement Era:Sept 1912:We do not know anything about Jesus Christ being married
- Source:Priesthood:Millennial Star 14:38:none are required to tamely and blindly submit to a man because he has a portion of the Priesthood
- Source:Rediscovering the Book of Mormon:Ch:19:1:Kingship patterns in Mosiah 1-6
- Source:Revelations in Context:The Word of Wisdom:it required time to wind down practices that were so deeply ingrained
- Source:Revelations in Context:Word of Wisdom:The Word of Wisdom rejected the idea of a substitute for alcohol. “Hot drinks”
- Source:Ricks:'Holy War' in the Book of Mormon and the Ancient Near East:every conflict...was considered to be prosecuted under the divine direction of the gods or of God
- Source:Ricks:Some Notes on Book of Mormon Names:Interpreter:Three altar inscriptions containing NHM
- Source:Robert D. Hales:The Divine Law of Tithing:The First Presidency has written what the law of tithing is for us today
- Source:Robert F. Smith:Some 'Neologisms' from the Mormon Canon:Sheum
- Source:Roper:Eyewitness Descriptions of Mesoamerican Swords:the Mesoamerican weapon the macuahuitl fits the criteria for the Book of Mormon "sword"
- Source:Roper:Review of Books on the Book of Mormon:While apparently not used for the burnt offering, firstlings could and frequently were used along with other animals in the sacrificial peace offering
- Source:Roper:Right on Target: Boomerang Hits and the Book of Mormon:FairMormon Conference 2001:Sheum
- Source:Roper et al:Joseph Smith, the ''Times and Seasons'', and Central American Ruins:have applied the latest iteration of computer analyses to the unsigned editorials that appear in 1842 in the Times and Seasons
- Source:Roper et al:“If there be faults:BYU Studies 53:3:Nephi had been a Jew politically, but his ancestors were of Manasseh
- Source:Saints: Vol. 1 (2018): The Church's official history does not name the hill in which Joseph found the plates
- Source:Samuel Smith Eight Witnesses statements
- Source:Snow:An Experience of My Father’s:Improvement Era:1933:It was right here that the Lord Jesus Christ appeared to me at the time of the death of President Woodruff
- Source:Sorenson:Ancient American Setting:289-290:Swine
- Source:Sorenson:Ancient American Setting:297-298:Elephants
- Source:Sorenson:Seasonality of Warfare in the Book of Mormon and in Mesoamerica:war was normally carried on by the pre-Columbian inhabitants during a short annual period
- Source:Sorenson:the Opata of northern Mexico used a drink made from native grapes
- Source:Stephen E. Robinson:1998:an often misunderstood concept: the great and abominable church of the devil
- Source:Steven E. Snow:Deseret News:9 Dec 2013:The First Presidency and the Quorum of the Twelve both have been very supportive of this process
- Source:Stewart W. Brewer:JBMS:8:1:1999:Professor M. Wells Jakeman...claimed that the scene carved in bas-relief on the stone was a representation of Lehi's vision of the tree of life
- Source:Stick of Ephraim/Erastus Snow statement
- Source:Szink:An Oath of Allegiance in the Book of Mormon:Often, to instill this loyalty, an oath of allegiance is administered to recruits
- Source:Tertullian:Away with all attempts to produce a mottled Christianity of Stoic, Platonic, and dialectic composition!
- Source:The Church also addressed issues of Book of Mormon geography in the Gospel Topics essays available on the Church's official website
- Source:Times and Seasons:15 Dec 1844:As to the original inhabitants of the continent of America, the Book of Mormon, backs up the description of immense "ruins" in central America
- Source:Times and Seasons:15 Jan 1842:Christopher Columbus...the discovery of America—the land of Joseph—a land more blessed of the Lord than any other land
- Source:Times and Seasons:15 Jul 1841:I have always thought that there had been a more enlightened people on this continent, than the present Indians
- Source:Times and Seasons:15 Jun 1841:We feel great pleasure in laying before our readers the following interesting account of the Antiquities of central America
- Source:Times and Seasons:15 Nov 1841:The bible was written by a people upon the Eastern continent, but the Book of Mormon by a people upon this continent
- Source:Times and Seasons:15 Sep 1842:these wonderful ruins of Palenque are among the mighty works of the Nephites
- Source:Times and Seasons:15 Sep 1842:we read in the Book of Mormon that Jared and his brother came on to this continent...and covered the whole continent from sea to sea
- Source:Times and Seasons:1 Jan 1842:Near Newark in the county of Licking, Ohio, is situated one of the immense works or fortifications of the ancient nations of America
- Source:Times and Seasons:1 Jan 1844:We have been informed by a gentleman who has traversed a large portion of the Indian country of Northern Texas...that there are vestiges of ancient cities and ruined castles or temples
- Source:Times and Seasons:1 Oct 1842:The city of Zarahemla, burnt at the crucifixion of the Savior, and rebuilt afterwards, stood upon this land
- Source:Times and Seasons:2 May 1842:The Book of Mormon gives an account of a number of the descendants of Israel coming to this continent
- Source:Walker:Joseph Smith's Introduction to the Law:129-130:Under New York law, being just thirteen, Joseph's testimony about the work he had performed was admissible only after the court found him competent
- Source:Walter Scott:1 May 1841:Having already shown that the Book of Mormon describes the christian religion as being on the Western Continent
- Source:Warren:Secret Combinations, Warfare, and Captive Sacrifice in Mesoamerica and the Book of Mormon:The source of secret combinations in the Book of Mormon
- Source:Webb:BYUS:2011:10:Preexistent Jesus and a divinized humanity
- Source:Webb:BYUS:2011:11:Do Mormons make too much of Jesus Christ
- Source:Webb:BYUS:2011:12:Mormons are not Arians
- Source:Webb:BYUS:2011:13:Mormons reject Augustinian ideas about depravity and original sin
- Source:Webb:BYUS:2011:1:Sameness of Jesus' humanity
- Source:Webb:BYUS:2011:20:Joseph Smith does not deny grace or claim to earn salvation
- Source:Webb:BYUS:2011:21:Joseph Smith's theosis does not supplant God or veer into polytheism
- Source:Webb:BYUS:2011:2:Mormonism a mirror for other Christians
- Source:Webb:BYUS:2011:3:Mormonism does justice to glory and majesty of Christ
- Source:Webb:BYUS:2011:4:Mormons don't know where to stop giving glory to Jesus
- Source:Webb:BYUS:2011:5:Mormons, Nicea, and Plato
- Source:Webb:BYUS:2011:6:Mormons retrieved early Christian beliefs rejected by creeds
- Source:Webb:BYUS:2011:8:Revelation vs historical guesswork about Jesus
- Source:Webb:BYUS:2011:9:Mormon trinitarian views are not polytheistic
- Source:Welch:Exemption from Military Duty:people of Ammon...the grant of this exceptional privilege was consistent with ancient Israelite law
- Source:Welch:The Destruction of Ammonihah and the Law of Apostate Cities:Alma effectively showed in the record that this fate befell them in accordance with divine law
- Source:Welch:Warfare in the Book of Mormon:even war cannot be conducted successfully in a total state of anarchy or chaos
- Source:When the Prophet Speaks, Is the Thinking Done?
- Source:Wilford Woodruff:13 Sep 1841:a flood of testimony in proof of the book of mormon in the discovery & survey of the city Copan
- Source:Winchester:1 Mar 1841:The antiquities of America spread from the great lakes of the North and the West to Central America, and the Southern parts of Peru on the South
- Source:Wright:Heartland as Hinterland:The core locations and events detailed in the text of the Book of Mormon took place in Mesoamerica, but many Nephites and Lamanites migrated and established settlements far northward
- Source: David Whitmer literal experience quotes
- Source: Hyrum Smith's character
- Source: K. Codell Carter: "Epistemology" in Encyclopedia of Mormonism
- Source: Martin Harris literal experience quotes
- Source: Oliver Cowdery literal experience quotes
- Source: Testimony of Eight Witnesses
- Source: Testimony of Three Witnesses
- Source of the temple endowment
- Southerton (2008/2014): "It's true that if a small group (say 10 people) entered a massive population (say 1 million), that it would be hard to detect their mitochondrial or Y chromosome DNA"
- Specific works
- Specific works/A Portrait of Religious Excess
- Specific works/An Insider's View of Mormon Origins/Quotes and Responses
- Specific works/Ashamed of Joseph
- Specific works/Behind the Mask
- Specific works/By His Own Hand Upon Papyrus
- Specific works/D. Michael Quinn
- Specific works/DNA Evidence for Book of Mormon Geography (DVD)
- Specific works/DNA Evidence for Book of Mormon Geography (DVD)/"Discounting" or "disdaining" Joseph Smith
- Specific works/DNA Evidence for Book of Mormon Geography (DVD)/BYU criticized for teaching evolution
- Specific works/DNA Evidence for Book of Mormon Geography (DVD)/DNA and religious claims
- Specific works/DNA Evidence for Book of Mormon Geography (DVD)/DNA and religious claims/Further Reading
- Specific works/DNA Evidence for Book of Mormon Geography (DVD)/DNA science error and misrepresentation
- Specific works/DNA Evidence for Book of Mormon Geography (DVD)/DNA science error and misrepresentation/Further Reading
- Specific works/DNA Evidence for Book of Mormon Geography (DVD)/Geographical claims
- Specific works/DNA Evidence for Book of Mormon Geography (DVD)/Hierarchy of doctrinal authority
- Specific works/DNA Evidence for Book of Mormon Geography (DVD)/Joseph had revelation
- Specific works/DNA Evidence for Book of Mormon Geography (DVD)/Joseph had revelation/Further Reading
- Specific works/Decker's Complete Handbook
- Specific works/Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Mormonism
- Specific works/Faithful History (GD Smith)
- Specific works/In Sacred Loneliness
- Specific works/In Sacred Loneliness/Index
- Specific works/Indian Origins and the Book of Mormon
- Specific works/Inventing Mormonism
- Specific works/Is the Mormon My Brother
- Specific works/Jerald and Sandra Tanner
- Specific works/Joseph Smith's New York Reputation Reexamined
- Specific works/Joseph Smith and the Origins of The Book of Mormon
- Specific works/Joseph Smith and the Origins of The Book of Mormon/Index
- Specific works/Joseph Smith and the Origins of The Book of Mormon/Index/Chapter 10
- Specific works/Joseph Smith and the Origins of The Book of Mormon/Index/Chapter 2
- Specific works/Joseph Smith and the Origins of The Book of Mormon/Index/Chapter 3
- Specific works/Joseph Smith and the Origins of The Book of Mormon/Index/Chapter 4
- Specific works/Kurt van Gorden's Mormonism
- Specific works/Leaving the Saints
- Specific works/New Approaches to the Book of Mormon
- Specific works/New Mormon Challenge
- Specific works/One Nation Under Gods/Use of sources/America's Fighting Prophet?
- Specific works/One Nation Under Gods/Use of sources/D&C 98:31 justifies murder
- Specific works/One Nation Under Gods/Use of sources/D&C 98 justifies murder
- Specific works/Prophecies and Promises
- Specific works/Rediscovering the Book of Mormon Remnant through DNA
- Specific works/Refiner's Fire (Brooke)
- Specific works/The Making of a Prophet
- Specific works/The Mormon Mirage
- Specific works/Trouble Enough
- Specific works/Word of God (Vogel)
- Spencer W. Kimball (Feb 1977): "There are probably sixty million Lamanites in America"
- Spirit
- Spiritual manifestations at the dedication of the Kirtland temple
- Standards for prophetic succession
- Statement of the Eight Witnesses
- Statement of the Three Witnesses
- Statements by Church leaders related to the identity of the Lamanites
- Statements from Church leaders about Polynesian origins
- Stephen Burnett on Martin Harris: "But he never saw them only as he saw a city through a mountain"
- Stephen O. Smoot: "The added geographical (Olishem/Ulišum) and cultural details (an Egyptian presence at Abraham’s homeland) in the Book of Abraham make a northern location for Ur essentially inescapable"
- Stephen O. Smoot (2017): "The added geographical (Olishem/Ulišum) and cultural details (an Egyptian presence at Abraham’s homeland) in the Book of Abraham make a northern location for Ur essentially inescapable."
- Stone box where the gold plates were deposited
- Sylvia Sessions Lyon
- Symbolism in Latter-day Saint Temples
- Synagogues and churches
- Teachings of Presidents of the Church: Joseph Smith (2007): "The doctrines and principles relating to plural marriage were revealed to Joseph Smith as early as 1831"
- Template test 1
- Temple ceremonial clothing
- Temple sealings and exaltation
- Temples & Freemasonry in the CES Letter
- Temples facing east
- Temples in early Christianity
- Temples in the Book of Mormon
- Terms prophets, seers, revelators
- Test3 sandbox DavidSmith
- Testimony and Spiritual Witness in the CES Letter
- Testimony of the gospel
- Testimony of the gospel/Just a set of feelings
- Testimony of the gospel/Validity
- Textual criticism of the Bible
- Textual variants in the Bible
- The "Book of Lehi"
- The 8th Article of Faith
- The Ang Aklatan
- The Apocalypse of Abraham: "Go out from thy father Terah, and get thee out from the house, that thou also be not slain"
- The Apocrypha and the Book of Mormon
- The Bat Creek Stone
- The Bible
- The Bible/"Adding to" or "taking away from"/Further Reading
- The Bible/Born again translation/Further Reading
- The Bible/Completeness
- The Bible/Condemnation of genealogy/Further Reading
- The Bible/Cosmology/Further Reading
- The Bible/Inerrancy
- The Bible/Inerrancy/Further Reading
- The Bible/Interpretation
- The Bible/On-going divine revelation not necessary/Further Reading
- The Bible/Open canon vs. closed canon
- The Bible/Relationship to the Book of Mormon
- The Bible/Scripture interpretation
- The Bible/Textual criticism
- The Bible/Textual criticism/Further Reading
- The Bible/Translations/Further Reading
- The Bible as the word of God
- The Book of Abraham and Genesis
- The Book of Abraham and the New Testament
- The Book of Mormon and the fulness of the gospel
- The Book of Mormon as an ancient text
- The Book of Mormon as history
- The Book of Mormon as the Stick of Ephraim
- The Book of Mormon as the most correct book
- The Burrows Cave artifacts
- The Church's position on abuse
- The Church of Jesus Christ and plural marriage today
- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and the Bible/Overview
- The Doctrine and Covenants and Book of Mormon geography
- The Documentary Hypothesis
- The Evening and The Morning Star
- The Evening and The Morning Star/1
- The Evening and The Morning Star/1/1
- The Evening and The Morning Star/1/10
- The Evening and The Morning Star/1/11
- The Evening and The Morning Star/1/12
- The Evening and The Morning Star/1/2
- The Evening and The Morning Star/1/3
- The Evening and The Morning Star/1/4
- The Evening and The Morning Star/1/5
- The Evening and The Morning Star/1/6
- The Evening and The Morning Star/1/7
- The Evening and The Morning Star/1/8
- The Evening and The Morning Star/1/9
- The Evening and The Morning Star/2
- The Evening and The Morning Star/2/13
- The Evening and The Morning Star/2/14
- The Evening and The Morning Star/2/15
- The Evening and The Morning Star/2/16
- The Evening and The Morning Star/2/17
- The Evening and The Morning Star/2/18
- The Evening and The Morning Star/2/19
- The Evening and The Morning Star/2/20
- The Evening and The Morning Star/2/21
- The Evening and The Morning Star/2/22
- The Evening and The Morning Star/2/23
- The Evening and The Morning Star/2/24
- The Family: A Proclamation to the World
- The First Vision and doctrine
- The Flood
- The Hill Cumorah
- The History of Joseph Smith by His Mother
- The Holy Ghost in the Book of Mormon
- The Hurlbut affidavits
- The Joseph Smith Papers: "Several later documents suggest that several women who were already married to other men were, like Marinda Hyde, married or sealed to Joseph Smith"
- The Joseph Smith Papyri
- The Joseph Smith Translation of the Bible
- The King James Version
- The Kirtland Egyptian Papers
- The Lamanite curse
- The Late War theory of Book of Mormon authorship
- The Mentinah Papers
- The Mormon Concept of God: A Philosophical Analysis
- The Mormon understanding of Satan
- The Mormon understanding of Satan/Abilities
- The Mormon understanding of Satan/Can Satan read our minds/Further Reading
- The Mormon understanding of Satan/Relationship to God
- The Nephite calendar
- The New Testament and the Book of Mormon
- The Sealed Book of Mormon by Mauricio Berger
- The Seer/Further Reading
- The Spalding Theory of Book of Mormon authorship
- The White Horse prophecy
- The death of Shiz
- The great and abominable church in the Book of Mormon
- The killing of Laban in the Book of Mormon
- The location of the Garden of Eden
- The name of Jesus Christ in the Book of Mormon
- The nature of God in the Book of Mormon
- The temple endowment
- The temple garment
- The temple in Independence, Missouri
- The tree of life in the Book of Mormon
- The witness of Christian Whitmer
- The witness of David Whitmer
- The witness of Hiram Page
- The witness of Hyrum Smith
- The witness of Jacob Whitmer
- The witness of John Whitmer
- The witness of Joseph Smith Sr.
- The witness of Martin Harris
- The witness of Oliver Cowdery
- The witness of Peter Whitmer Jr.
- The witness of Samuel Smith
- Theodemocracy
- Theory of Book of Mormon place names from Comoros Islands
- Theory of Book of Mormon place names from area around Joseph Smith's home
- Theosis
- Theosis Bibliography
- Thomas Dick’s The Philosophy of a Future State
- Thomas Ford (politician)
- Thomas S. Monson
- Thomas Stuart Ferguson and Mormon archaeology
- Thomas Taylor’s The Six Books of Proclus on the Theology of Plato
- Three days of darkness in the New World following Christ's death
- Times and Seasons
- Times and Seasons/1
- Times and Seasons/1/1
- Times and Seasons/1/10
- Times and Seasons/1/11
- Times and Seasons/1/12
- Times and Seasons/1/2
- Times and Seasons/1/3
- Times and Seasons/1/4
- Times and Seasons/1/5
- Times and Seasons/1/6
- Times and Seasons/1/7
- Times and Seasons/1/8
- Times and Seasons/1/9
- Times and Seasons/2
- Times and Seasons/2/1
- Times and Seasons/2/10
- Times and Seasons/2/11
- Times and Seasons/2/12
- Times and Seasons/2/13
- Times and Seasons/2/14
- Times and Seasons/2/15
- Times and Seasons/2/16
- Times and Seasons/2/17
- Times and Seasons/2/18
- Times and Seasons/2/19
- Times and Seasons/2/2
- Times and Seasons/2/20
- Times and Seasons/2/21
- Times and Seasons/2/22
- Times and Seasons/2/23
- Times and Seasons/2/24
- Times and Seasons/2/3
- Times and Seasons/2/4
- Times and Seasons/2/5
- Times and Seasons/2/6
- Times and Seasons/2/7
- Times and Seasons/2/8
- Times and Seasons/2/9
- Times and Seasons/3
- Times and Seasons/3/1
- Times and Seasons/3/10
- Times and Seasons/3/11
- Times and Seasons/3/12
- Times and Seasons/3/13
- Times and Seasons/3/14
- Times and Seasons/3/15
- Times and Seasons/3/16
- Times and Seasons/3/17
- Times and Seasons/3/18
- Times and Seasons/3/19
- Times and Seasons/3/2
- Times and Seasons/3/20
- Times and Seasons/3/21
- Times and Seasons/3/22
- Times and Seasons/3/23
- Times and Seasons/3/24
- Times and Seasons/3/3
- Times and Seasons/3/4
- Times and Seasons/3/5
- Times and Seasons/3/6
- Times and Seasons/3/7
- Times and Seasons/3/8
- Times and Seasons/3/9
- Times and Seasons/4
- Times and Seasons/4/1