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- Question: Why did Joseph Smith say "I had not been married scarcely five minutes...before it was reported that I had seven wives"? (2 interwikis)
- Question: Did John Whitmer, one of the Eight Witnesses, actually say that he saw the plates by a "supernatural power"? (2 interwikis)
- Boyd K. Packer (1980): "We do not talk of those sacred interviews that qualify the servants of the Lord to bear a special witness of Him, for we have been commanded not to do so" (2 interwikis)
- Neil L. Anderson (Nov 2012): "The doctrine is taught by all 15 members of the First Presidency and Quorum of the Twelve. It is not hidden in an obscure paragraph of one talk" (2 interwikis)
- Peterson: "Thomas Stuart Ferguson's biographer...makes every effort to portray Ferguson's apparent eventual loss of faith as a failure for 'LDS archaeology'" (2 interwikis)
- 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? (2 interwikis)
- Mormon ordinances/Marriage/Divorce (2 interwikis)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith believe that Abraham wrote the text on the papyrus himself? (2 interwikis)
- Prothero (2003): "in the 1832 version, Jesus appears to Smith alone, and does all the talking himself. Such complaints, however, are much ado about relatively nothing" (2 interwikis)
- 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? (2 interwikis)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith send men on missions so that he could secretly marry their wives while they were gone? (2 interwikis)
- Roper: "archaeologists have discovered a carburized iron sword near Jericho" (2 interwikis)
- Question: Why is the statement of William Clayton regarding the Kinderhook Plates in ''History of the Church'' written as if Joseph Smith himself said it? (2 interwikis)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith incorporate his father's dream of the tree of life into the Book of Mormon? (2 interwikis)
- 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" (2 interwikis)
- Gospel Topics: "During the first two decades of the Church’s existence, a few black men were ordained to the priesthood" (2 interwikis)
- City Creek Center in Salt Lake City (2 interwikis)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith become a member of the Methodist Church while he was translating the Book of Mormon? (2 interwikis)
- The Palmyra Reflector (1831): "Jo Smith had now received a commission from God...Cowdery and his friends had frequent interviews with angels" (2 interwikis)
- Question: Why didn't Joseph's siblings wake up during Moroni's visit? (2 interwikis)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith use the Nephite interpreters to translate? Or did he use his own seer stone? (2 interwikis)
- John A. Widtsoe (1943): "The Old Testament records a flood that was just over fifteen cubits (sometimes assumed to be about twenty-six feet) deep and covered the entire landscape" (2 interwikis)
- Prevalence of plural marriage in Utah (2 interwikis)
- Question: Why didn't the newspapers in Palmyra take notice of Joseph Smith's First Vision? (2 interwikis)
- Question: Did Joseph own a Bible at the time of the Book of Mormon translation? (2 interwikis)
- Wilford Woodruff (1869): "We had the privilege of beholding the face of the prophet...and seeing the workings of the Spirit of God with him, and the revelations of Jesus Christ unto him and the fulfilment of those revelations" (2 interwikis)
- Question: Why did several years pass before Oliver Cowdery talked about the priesthood restoration? (2 interwikis)
- Accounts of Joseph Smith's First Vision/1840 (Orson Pratt account) (2 interwikis)
- Modern prophets and prophecy (2 interwikis)
- Question: Why are revelations no longer published on an ongoing basis? (2 interwikis)
- Question: Did the Church suppress a revelation given to Joseph Smith in 1831 which encouraged the implementation of polygamy by intermarriage with the Indians in order to make them a “white and delightsome” people? (2 interwikis)
- 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? (2 interwikis)
- Question: Is textual criticism of Biblical texts superior to receiving revelation on that text through a prophet of God? (2 interwikis)
- Question: Who was James Strang? (2 interwikis)
- Question: Could the list of items on Joseph's person at the time of his death have been incomplete? (2 interwikis)
- Joseph Smith's trustworthiness (2 interwikis)
- Mormon teachings/Obedience (2 interwikis)
- Question: What changes were made to the 1837 edition of the Book of Mormon? (2 interwikis)
- Question: Was Joseph Smith's 1832 prophecy of the Civil War invalid because a civil war was "inevitable," and "anyone" could have predicted it? (2 interwikis)
- Joseph Smith/Polygamy/Cochranites (2 interwikis)
- Ensign (Sept. 1977): "If his translation was essentially the same as that of the King James version, he apparently quoted the verse from the Bible" (2 interwikis)
- Question: What statements have Latter-day Saints leaders made regarding the location of the Garden of Eden? (2 interwikis)
- Source:Brigham Young:1855:JD 3:51:we know that he was an honorable man and dealt justly, we know his true character (2 interwikis)
- Question: What did the other witnesses say regarding "spiritual" versus "natural" viewing of the plates? (2 interwikis)
- Question: What is Joseph Smith's 1826 South Bainbridge "trial" for "glasslooking"? (2 interwikis)
- Joseph Fielding Smith (1941): "While the Church, as well as the world, would recognize that marriage while they are in the world, yet the fact remains that when they are dead the marriage comes to an end" (2 interwikis)
- Death before the Fall of Adam and Eve (2 interwikis)
- Question: Does Joseph Smith's 1832 account of the First Vision not mention that he was persecuted for telling others about the vision? (2 interwikis)
- Charles Penrose (1912): "Baptism for the dead—How do we know which of our deceased relatives are to be baptized for"? (2 interwikis)
- Mormonism and Freemasonry/Relationship between Freemasonry and temple ceremonies (2 interwikis)