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A user with 11,124 edits. Account created on 6 November 2017.
20 December 2020
- 05:4705:47, 20 December 2020 diff hist +421 Question: How can one approach reconciling confusing, seemingly disturbing, or otherwise troubling texts from the scriptures? →Question: How can one approach reconciling confusing, seemingly disturbing, or otherwise troubling texts from the scriptures?
- 02:3902:39, 20 December 2020 diff hist 0 Question: What is the history of Brigham Young's Adam-God Theory and why was it rejected by the Church? →Rejection of Adam-God by the LDS Church
- 02:3802:38, 20 December 2020 diff hist −1 Question: What is the history of Brigham Young's Adam-God Theory and why was it rejected by the Church? →Origins
- 02:3802:38, 20 December 2020 diff hist +6,559 Question: What is the history of Brigham Young's Adam-God Theory and why was it rejected by the Church? →Question: What is the history of Brigham Young's Adam-God Theory and why was it rejected by the Church?
18 December 2020
- 08:0308:03, 18 December 2020 diff hist +8 Question: Isn't the Mormon opposition to same-sex marriage hypocritical, considering that they used to ban black from holding the priesthood until 1978? →2020
- 08:0208:02, 18 December 2020 diff hist +965 Question: Isn't the Mormon opposition to same-sex marriage hypocritical, considering that they used to ban black from holding the priesthood until 1978? →The prohibition on homosexual behavior has repeatedly been declared as a never-changing standard.
20 November 2020
- 01:5201:52, 20 November 2020 diff hist +677 Detailed response to CES Letter, First Vision /* Response to claim: "...the following is what LDS historian and member of the Joseph Smith Papers project, Ronald O. Barney, has to say about Fawn Brodie and her book, No Man Knows My History...Richard Bushman extensively used No Man Knows My History...
- 01:2701:27, 20 November 2020 diff hist +1,274 Detailed response to CES Letter, Book of Mormon No edit summary
9 November 2020
- 02:4202:42, 9 November 2020 diff hist +146 Question: Is the Book of Mormon's anti-universalism derived merely from Joseph Smith's contemporary religious culture? →Examples from the Ancient World of Universalism
6 November 2020
- 22:4622:46, 6 November 2020 diff hist −2 Question: What were the circumstances surrounding the sealing of Helen Mar Kimball to Joseph Smith? →Helen became an advocate of plural marriage and vigorously defended it
- 22:4622:46, 6 November 2020 diff hist +2 Question: What were the circumstances surrounding the sealing of Helen Mar Kimball to Joseph Smith? →Helen became an advocate of plural marriage and vigorously defended it
- 22:4522:45, 6 November 2020 diff hist −1 Question: What were the circumstances surrounding the sealing of Helen Mar Kimball to Joseph Smith? →Helen was not called to testify in the Temple Lot case, in which the Church was attempting to prove that Joseph had normal marital relations with some of his plural wives, even though she was available
- 22:4522:45, 6 November 2020 diff hist +129 Question: What were the circumstances surrounding the sealing of Helen Mar Kimball to Joseph Smith? →Helen was not called to testify in the Temple Lot case, in which the Church was attempting to prove that Joseph had normal marital relations with some of his plural wives, even though she was available
- 22:4422:44, 6 November 2020 diff hist −1 Question: What were the circumstances surrounding the sealing of Helen Mar Kimball to Joseph Smith? →Helen was not called to testify in the Temple Lot case, in which the Church was attempting to prove that Joseph had normal marital relations with some of his plural wives, even though she was available
- 22:4322:43, 6 November 2020 diff hist 0 Question: What were the circumstances surrounding the sealing of Helen Mar Kimball to Joseph Smith? →Helen was not called to testify in the Temple Lot case, in which the Church was attempting to prove that Joseph had normal marital relations with some of his plural wives, even though she was available
- 22:4222:42, 6 November 2020 diff hist −255 Question: What were the circumstances surrounding the sealing of Helen Mar Kimball to Joseph Smith? →Question: What were the circumstances surrounding the sealing of Helen Mar Kimball to Joseph Smith?
- 22:3622:36, 6 November 2020 diff hist +213 Joseph Smith's marriage to Helen Mar Kimball →Helen spoke out on the subject later in her life
- 22:3622:36, 6 November 2020 diff hist −53 Joseph Smith's marriage to Helen Mar Kimball →There is no evidence whatsoever that Helen's marriage to Joseph was ever consummated--even where such evidence might be expected.
- 22:3322:33, 6 November 2020 diff hist +4 Joseph Smith's marriage to Helen Mar Kimball →There is no evidence whatsoever that Helen's marriage to Joseph was ever consummated--even where such evidence might be expected.
- 22:3222:32, 6 November 2020 diff hist +3,456 Joseph Smith's marriage to Helen Mar Kimball →There is no evidence whatsoever that Helen's marriage to Joseph was ever consummated
- 22:2522:25, 6 November 2020 diff hist −2 Joseph Smith's marriage to Helen Mar Kimball →The age of menarche in America in 1840 has a normal distribution close to a mean of 15.2 years and a standard deviation of 1.85
- 22:2422:24, 6 November 2020 diff hist +4 Joseph Smith's marriage to Helen Mar Kimball →The age of menarche in America in 1840 has a normal distribution close to a mean of 15.2 years and a standard deviation of 1.85
- 22:2322:23, 6 November 2020 diff hist +30 Joseph Smith's marriage to Helen Mar Kimball →Question: Was Joseph Smith's marriage to 14-year-old Helen Mar Kimball indicative of "pedophilia"?
- 22:1322:13, 6 November 2020 diff hist +3 Joseph Smith's marriage to Helen Mar Kimball →Helen spoke out on the subject later in her life
31 October 2020
- 15:1415:14, 31 October 2020 diff hist +812 Question: Did Joseph Smith produce the Book of Mormon by using a Methodist homiletic composition technique known as “laying down heads”? →Question: Did Joseph Smith produce the Book of Mormon by using the Methodist preaching device known as “laying down heads”?
26 October 2020
- 03:3703:37, 26 October 2020 diff hist +450 Question: What is the Adam Clarke Commentary and what do critics of Mormonism claim about it as it regards the Joseph Smith Translation of the Bible? /* Kent P. Jackson, Emeritus Professor of Ancient Scripture at Brigham Young University, responded to Wayment's and Wilson-Lemmon's work on October 2, 2020 with criticisms that may have revealed devastating weaknesses in their theory. Wayment may respo...
22 October 2020
- 05:4705:47, 22 October 2020 diff hist +1,266 Question: Isn't the Mormon opposition to same-sex marriage hypocritical, considering that they used to ban black from holding the priesthood until 1978? →Question: Isn't the Mormon opposition to same-sex marriage hypocritical, considering that they used to ban black from holding the priesthood until 1978?
- 05:2805:28, 22 October 2020 diff hist +113 Question: Isn't the Mormon opposition to same-sex marriage hypocritical, considering that they used to ban black from holding the priesthood until 1978? →The prohibition on homosexual behavior has repeatedly been declared as a never-changing standard.
- 05:2705:27, 22 October 2020 diff hist +24 Question: Isn't the Mormon opposition to same-sex marriage hypocritical, considering that they used to ban black from holding the priesthood until 1978? →The prohibition on homosexual behavior has repeatedly been declared as a never-changing standard.
- 05:2505:25, 22 October 2020 diff hist +43 Question: Isn't the Mormon opposition to same-sex marriage hypocritical, considering that they used to ban black from holding the priesthood until 1978? →2013
- 05:2305:23, 22 October 2020 diff hist +5 Question: Isn't the Mormon opposition to same-sex marriage hypocritical, considering that they used to ban black from holding the priesthood until 1978? →2012
- 05:2305:23, 22 October 2020 diff hist +6 Question: Isn't the Mormon opposition to same-sex marriage hypocritical, considering that they used to ban black from holding the priesthood until 1978? →1983
- 05:2205:22, 22 October 2020 diff hist +7 Question: Isn't the Mormon opposition to same-sex marriage hypocritical, considering that they used to ban black from holding the priesthood until 1978? →The prohibition on homosexual behavior has repeatedly been declared as a never-changing standard.
- 05:2005:20, 22 October 2020 diff hist +13 Question: Isn't the Mormon opposition to same-sex marriage hypocritical, considering that they used to ban black from holding the priesthood until 1978? →2016
- 05:2005:20, 22 October 2020 diff hist +864 Question: Isn't the Mormon opposition to same-sex marriage hypocritical, considering that they used to ban black from holding the priesthood until 1978? →2016
- 05:1105:11, 22 October 2020 diff hist −3 Question: Isn't the Mormon opposition to same-sex marriage hypocritical, considering that they used to ban black from holding the priesthood until 1978? →2013
- 05:0705:07, 22 October 2020 diff hist +7,014 Question: Isn't the Mormon opposition to same-sex marriage hypocritical, considering that they used to ban black from holding the priesthood until 1978? No edit summary
18 October 2020
- 07:1807:18, 18 October 2020 diff hist −6 Question: Could Joseph Smith translate Egyptian? →Some critics believe that Joseph claimed he knew Egyptian.
- 07:1607:16, 18 October 2020 diff hist +1,740 Question: Could Joseph Smith translate Egyptian? →Some critics believe that Joseph claimed he knew Egyptian.
10 October 2020
- 07:3507:35, 10 October 2020 diff hist +231 Question: What do we find in Mesoamerican archaeology with respect to place names, such as city names? →In Mesoamerica, toponyms often disappeared from one era to the next
- 07:3107:31, 10 October 2020 diff hist −5 Question: What do we find in Mesoamerican archaeology with respect to place names, such as city names? →In Mesoamerica, toponyms often disappeared from one era to the next
- 07:3007:30, 10 October 2020 diff hist +203 Question: What do we find in Mesoamerican archaeology with respect to place names, such as city names? →In Mesoamerica, toponyms often disappeared from one era to the next
8 October 2020
- 08:2608:26, 8 October 2020 diff hist +133 Book of Abraham No edit summary
- 08:2108:21, 8 October 2020 diff hist +65 Book of Abraham/Book of Abraham/Church Hides Book of Abraham Info (1969-1978) No edit summary
- 08:2008:20, 8 October 2020 diff hist +6,575 N Book of Abraham/Book of Abraham/Church Hides Book of Abraham Info (1969-1978) Created page with "{{FairMormon}} {{UnderConstructionSuggestions}} {{H1 |L=Book of Abraham/Church Hides Book of Abraham Info (1969-1978) |H= |S= |L1= |T=Publications Addressing and/or Mentioni..."
- 07:5207:52, 8 October 2020 diff hist −10 Book of Abraham/Church Hides Book of Abraham Info (1879-1968) No edit summary
6 October 2020
- 08:1008:10, 6 October 2020 diff hist +245 Book of Abraham/Church Hides Book of Abraham Info (1879-1968) →LDS-authored publications which address and/or mention Book of Abraham controversies (1879-1968)
- 08:0308:03, 6 October 2020 diff hist +8,851 Book of Abraham/Church Hides Book of Abraham Info (1879-1968) →LDS-authored publications which address and/or mention Book of Abraham controversies (1879-1968)
- 07:1007:10, 6 October 2020 diff hist +1,202 N Book of Abraham/Church Hides Book of Abraham Info (1879-1968) Created page with "{{FairMormon}} {{UnderConstructionSuggestions}} {{H1 |L=Book of Abraham/Church Hides Book of Abraham Info (1879-1968) |H=LDS-authored publications (1879-1968) |S= |L1= |T=Pu..."
- 06:5606:56, 6 October 2020 diff hist +2,493 N Book of Abraham/Publications on the Book of Abraham Created page with "{{FairMormon}} <onlyinclude> {{H2 |L=Book of Abraham/Publications on the Book of Abraham |H=Listing of Publications on the Book of Abraham from Official, Semi-Official, and Ex..."