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18 April 2020
- 05:2605:26, 18 April 2020 diff hist +238 Question: How did Latter-day Saint scholars respond to the attempt to sell the Book of Mormon copyright prior to Page's letter coming to light? →Question: How did Latter-day Saint scholars respond to the attempt to sell the Book of Mormon copyright prior to Page's letter coming to light?
- 05:2505:25, 18 April 2020 diff hist +238 Question: How does David Whitmer's account of the attempt to sell the Book of Mormon copyright compare to those of the eyewitnesses? →Question: How does David Whitmer's account of the attempt to sell the Book of Mormon copyright compare to those of the eyewitnesses?
- 05:2505:25, 18 April 2020 diff hist +238 Question: How did the erroneous story of the attempt to sell the Book of Mormon copyright develop over time? →Question: How did the erroneous story of the attempt to sell the Book of Mormon copyright develop over time?
- 05:2505:25, 18 April 2020 diff hist +238 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: After receiving the revelation to attempt to sell the Book of Mormon copyright in Canada, did Joseph Smith later claim that the revelation was false?
- 05:2405:24, 18 April 2020 diff hist +238 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 eyewitness accounts of the events that resulted in the trip to Canada to sell the Book of Mormon copyright?
17 April 2020
- 10:3310:33, 17 April 2020 diff hist +719 Question: How do we explain multiple "Isaiahs" and the Book of Mormon? →Additional Reading
- 10:2410:24, 17 April 2020 diff hist +19 Question: How do we explain multiple "Isaiahs" and the Book of Mormon? →A Proposed Scenario
12 April 2020
- 18:3218:32, 12 April 2020 diff hist +258 Question: Did Joseph Smith simply conflate elements of the 1818 and 1824-25 revivals in his story of the First Vision? →Question: Did Joseph Smith simply conflate elements of the 1818 and 1824-25 revivals in his story of the First Vision?
6 April 2020
- 11:3411:34, 6 April 2020 diff hist −7 Question: Is there any reference to God the Father being present in Joseph Smith's 1832 account? →"The Lord opened the heavens and I saw the Lord"
4 April 2020
- 17:4717:47, 4 April 2020 diff hist −4 Nineteenth century leader divine visions after Joseph Smith →Brigham Young
- 17:4517:45, 4 April 2020 diff hist +543 Twentieth century leader divine visions →Question: Did any twentieth century leader after Joseph Smith report divine visions?
2 April 2020
- 22:0022:00, 2 April 2020 diff hist −12 Question: What is the difference between Joseph Smith's first vision and other reported visions of God at the time? →The type of event that we now refer to as Joseph Smith's First Vision was not entirely uncommon at the time
- 20:2820:28, 2 April 2020 diff hist +251 Question: What is the difference between Joseph Smith's first vision and other reported visions of God at the time? →Question: What is the difference between Joseph Smith's first vision and other reported visions of God at the time?
29 March 2020
- 22:5122:51, 29 March 2020 diff hist +484 Question: What was Joseph Smith's motivation for going to the grove to pray in 1820? →Question: What was Joseph Smith's motivation for going to the grove to pray in 1820?
- 22:5022:50, 29 March 2020 diff hist +2,395 Question: What was Joseph Smith's motivation for going to the grove to pray in 1820? →Question: What was Joseph Smith's motivation for going to the grove to pray in 1820?
- 07:3507:35, 29 March 2020 diff hist +52 Question: Is the Latter-day Saint conception of testimony from the Holy Ghost threatened by neuroscience or psychology? →Illusory Truth Effect
- 07:2807:28, 29 March 2020 diff hist +214 Question: Is the Latter-day Saint conception of testimony from the Holy Ghost threatened by neuroscience or psychology? →Conclusion
24 March 2020
- 09:0109:01, 24 March 2020 diff hist −1 Question: What do the scriptures say about plural marriage? →Abrahamic Test
- 09:0109:01, 24 March 2020 diff hist 0 Question: What do the scriptures say about plural marriage? →Restoration of All Things
- 09:0109:01, 24 March 2020 diff hist +1 Question: What do the scriptures say about plural marriage? →=Raise Up A Faithful Seed
- 09:0109:01, 24 March 2020 diff hist +2,773 Question: What do the scriptures say about plural marriage? →Question: What do the scriptures say about plural marriage?
- 05:5005:50, 24 March 2020 diff hist +215 Specific works/Indian Origins and the Book of Mormon →Reviews of this work
23 March 2020
- 09:0009:00, 23 March 2020 diff hist +158 Standards for prophetic succession No edit summary
- 08:5708:57, 23 March 2020 diff hist +133 Question: Who was James Strang? →James Strang claimed that Joseph wrote a letter appointing him as president of the Church after Joseph's death
- 08:5108:51, 23 March 2020 diff hist 0 Question: Who was James Strang? →James Strang's Letter of Appointment
- 08:5108:51, 23 March 2020 diff hist 0 Question: Who was James Strang? →James Strang's Letter of Appointment
18 March 2020
- 09:3109:31, 18 March 2020 diff hist −131 Detailed response to CES Letter, Witnesses →Response to claim: "It doesn’t matter because of this one simple fact: Joseph did not use the gold plates for translating the Book of Mormon"
- 09:2509:25, 18 March 2020 diff hist +485 Detailed response to CES Letter, Kinderhook Plates & Translator Claims No edit summary
- 09:2009:20, 18 March 2020 diff hist −1,020 Question: Did Moroni bury the gold plates in the Hill Cumorah referenced in the Book of Mormon? →Moroni wandered for 36 years before burying the plates of Mormon
- 09:1909:19, 18 March 2020 diff hist +206 Mesoamerican Model of Book of Mormon geography →Question: If the gold plates were originally in Mesoamerica, how did they get to New York?
17 March 2020
- 03:0203:02, 17 March 2020 diff hist +21 Question: Is the Latter-day Saint conception of testimony from the Holy Ghost threatened by neuroscience or psychology? →The God Helmet
- 02:5902:59, 17 March 2020 diff hist −71 Question: Is the Latter-day Saint conception of testimony from the Holy Ghost threatened by neuroscience or psychology? →The God Helmet
- 02:5302:53, 17 March 2020 diff hist 0 Question: Is the Latter-day Saint conception of testimony from the Holy Ghost threatened by neuroscience or psychology? →A Review of The Different Neurological Phenomena
- 02:5202:52, 17 March 2020 diff hist +56 Question: Is the Latter-day Saint conception of testimony from the Holy Ghost threatened by neuroscience or psychology? →The Latter-day Saint Conception of the Soul
16 March 2020
- 10:0910:09, 16 March 2020 diff hist +15 Criticism of Mormonism/Books/The Mormon Hierarchy: Extensions of Power No edit summary
- 10:0010:00, 16 March 2020 diff hist +167 Question: What to Latter-day Saints believe regarding the concept of "original sin"? →Original Sin in the Book of Mormon?
- 09:5709:57, 16 March 2020 diff hist +133 Question: What to Latter-day Saints believe regarding the concept of "original sin"? →Original Sin in the Book of Mormon?
- 09:5509:55, 16 March 2020 diff hist +51 Question: What to Latter-day Saints believe regarding the concept of "original sin"? →Original Sin in the Book of Mormon?
- 09:5209:52, 16 March 2020 diff hist +2,946 Question: What to Latter-day Saints believe regarding the concept of "original sin"? →Question: What to Latter-day Saints believe regarding the concept of "original sin"?
14 March 2020
- 09:4609:46, 14 March 2020 diff hist −2 The Documentary Hypothesis →But what about the P source?
- 09:4409:44, 14 March 2020 diff hist −1 The Documentary Hypothesis →The Book of Abraham
- 09:4409:44, 14 March 2020 diff hist +124 The Documentary Hypothesis →Question: What is the Documentary Hypothesis and what do critics of Mormonism claim about it as it regards restoration scripture?
- 09:2809:28, 14 March 2020 diff hist −1 Question: Why didn't the newspapers in Palmyra take notice of Joseph Smith's First Vision? →Question: Why didn't the newspapers in Palmyra take notice of Joseph Smith's First Vision?
- 09:2809:28, 14 March 2020 diff hist −1 Question: What references to the First Vision exist in published documents from the 1830s? →Question: What references to the First Vision exist in published documents from the 1830s?
- 09:2709:27, 14 March 2020 diff hist +272 Question: What references to the First Vision exist in published documents from the 1830s? →Question: What references to the First Vision exist in published documents from the 1830s?
- 09:2609:26, 14 March 2020 diff hist +241 Question: Why didn't the newspapers in Palmyra take notice of Joseph Smith's First Vision? →Question: Why didn't the newspapers in Palmyra take notice of Joseph Smith's First Vision?
- 09:2209:22, 14 March 2020 diff hist +231 Question: Is there any reference to God the Father being present in Joseph Smith's 1832 account? →Question: Is there any reference to God the Father being present in Joseph Smith's 1832 account?
- 09:2009:20, 14 March 2020 diff hist −1 Question: Is there any reference to God the Father being present in Joseph Smith's 1832 account? →"The Lord opened the heavens and I saw the Lord"
- 09:0309:03, 14 March 2020 diff hist +195 Question: Is there a case where Joseph stated that his age was 17 rather than 14 at the time of the First Vision? →Question: Is there a case where Joseph stated that his age was 17 rather than 14 at the time of the First Vision?
- 09:0209:02, 14 March 2020 diff hist +195 Question: Are the ages stated in Joseph's accounts of the First Vision 'all over the place?' →Question: Are the ages stated in Joseph's accounts of the First Vision "all over the place?"