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- Question: Do Mormons use 2 Corinthians 12:2-4 as a "proof text" to support the Three Degress of Glory?
- Question: Do apologists tell members how "scientists continue to get it wrong"?
- Question: Do the Late War and the Book of Mormon describe "burned martyrs" in a similar way?
- Question: Do the Late War and the Book of Mormon describe a "Spiritual being entering hearts" in a similar way?
- Question: Do the Late War and the Book of Mormon describe their battle casualties in a similar way?
- Question: Do the Late War and the Book of Mormon share a similarity in describing women as "tender"—prey to the lusts of men?
- Question: Do the conversion narratives of the Book of Mormon resemble a Methodist conversion narrative as would have been understood in Joseph Smith's time?
- Question: Do the earliest manuscripts of the Book of Abraham demonstrate that Joseph was translating from the Grammar and Alphabet of the Egyptian Language?
- Question: Do the names "Elkenah," "Libnah," "Mahmackrah," and "Korash" in Facsimile 1 have any correlation to known ancient deities?
- Question: Do the temple endowment's similarities to Masonic initiation rites have ancient roots?
- Question: Do the temple endowment's similarities to Masonic rites have ancient roots?
- Question: Do we need to know where the Book of Mormon took place?
- Question: Does Doctrine and Covenants 5 stipulate that there be only three witnesses to the gold plates from which the Book of Mormon was translated?
- Question: Does Doctrine and Covenants 98:31 justify the murder of one's personal enemies?
- Question: Does FAIR provide "official" answers to questions?
- Question: Does Gilbert Hunt's book ''The Late War'' contain rare phrases that do not appear in other works but only appear in the Book of Mormon?
- Question: Does Jesus's statement that in the resurrection they "neither marry nor given in marriage" a refutation of the Mormon concept of eternal marriage?
- Question: Does The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints prohibit its members from using playing cards?
- Question: Does an association of Quetzalcoatl with Jesus Christ constitute "snake worship"?
- Question: Does the 1845 Proclamation say some would live to see Second Coming
- Question: Does the Bible predict an apostasy?
- Question: Does the Biblical reference by Paul to "apostles and prophets" refer to Church offices?
- Question: Does the Book of Mormon rely primarily on those chapters from Isaiah mentioned in Ethan Smith's ''View of the Hebrews''?
- Question: Does the Book of Mormon support the idea that "eternal" or "endless" punishment can be temporary?
- Question: Does the Book of Mormon’s reference to “slippery treasures” stem from Joseph Smith’s involvement in money digging and the occult?
- Question: Does the Church claim that Native Americans were the ''exclusive'' descendants of Lehi or Mulek?
- Question: Does the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints distort its membership numbers and rate of growth for public relations purposes?
- Question: Does the Church teach that it is okay to "Lie for the Lord"?
- Question: Does the Nicene Creed define who is Christian, and who is not?
- Question: Does the definition of the Trinity predate the Nicene and Athanasian Creeds?
- Question: Does the film "September Dawn" about the Mountain Meadows Massacre accurately portray the historical events?
- Question: Does the film ''The God Makers'' accurately represent Mormon beliefs?
- Question: Does the mistaken "discovery" of cold fusion by Pons and Fleishman in Utah reflect on Mormon gullibility, inability to do science, or dishonesty?
- Question: Does the ordination blessing given to Heber C. Kimball contain a false prophecy that he may "stand unto the coming of our Lord"?
- Question: Does the present-day Church seek to hide or downplay the Journal of Discourses?
- Question: Does the use of tribal affiliation in the Book of Mormon imply a genetic link between the members?
- Question: Gordon L. Weight's booklet ''Miracle on Palmyra’s Main Street" claims that the rate at which the first edition of the Book of Mormon was printed could only have occurred miraculously. Is this true?
- Question: Has The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints deceived its members regarding controversial issues about its origins, history, and/or scripture?
- Question: Has the Church deemphasized references to Joseph Smith in recent years?
- Question: Have Mormon apologists ignored aspects of Quetzalcoatl which are inconsistent with Jesus Christ?
- Question: How accurately does Bill Maher's film Religulous portray Latter-day Saints?
- Question: How can Latter-day Saints reconcile having other people receive spiritual experiences that motivate them to believe in and become part of other religions?
- Question: How can a Latter-day Saint approach responding to criticism of the Church on biblical grounds?
- Question: How can a Latter-day Saint reconcile claimed theological anachronisms in the scriptures?
- Question: How can one address arguments from reliability against the use of spiritual experiences in Latter-day Saint epistemology?
- Question: How can one properly view scriptural texts that appear to endorse genocide, pillage, and plunder in the Bible?
- Question: How can one reconcile alleged unfulfilled prophecies of Jesus Christ’s Second Coming given in patriarchal blessings?
- Question: How can one reconcile unfulfilled promises in patriarchal blessings?
- Question: How can you know if an answer to prayer, a personal revelation, is true?
- Question: How could Lehi and his family, being Israelites, be allowed to offer sacrifices "according to the Law of Moses," since only Levites were authorized to perform sacrificial rites in Israel?