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- Question: Can it be proven that Joseph Smith claimed to have seen the Father and the Son as separate personages prior to 1835? (21:11, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Can Latter-day Saints have a non-literal view of the creation story, or have a somewhat more mythic view of the first five books of Moses given the Church's teaching of a historical Adam? (21:11, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Can non-Mormons feel a spiritual experience that cause them to devote themselves to service within another Church? (21:11, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Can one pay tithing on only net or surplus income and still be a temple worthy and faithful Latter-day Saint? (21:11, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Can one simply decide when one feels and doesn't feel the Spirit? (21:11, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Can skin pores produce blood? (21:11, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Can someone feel the spirit when listening to stories of apostasy? (21:11, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Can spiritual experiences be simply willed to reality? (21:11, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Can the Book of Mormon be considered a genuine translation if the plates weren’t even used during the translation process? (21:11, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Can the Holy Ghost not be fully God, because he does not have a physical body? (21:11, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Can the Lemba and Cohen modal haplotype be used to either prove or disprove the Book of Mormon? (21:11, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Can the Newark "Holy Stones" be used as evidence to support the Book of Mormon? (21:11, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Could Gilbert Hunt's ''The Late War'' have given Joseph Smith the idea of using brass plates as a way of recording information? (21:11, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Could Joseph have used a Bible during and simply dictated from it during Book of Mormon translation? (21:11, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Could Joseph Smith have hypnotized the witnesses to the Book of Mormon? (21:11, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Could Joseph Smith have learned about Hebraisms from Gilbert Hunt's "The Late War"? (21:11, 13 April 2024)
- 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? (21:11, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Could Joseph Smith have modeled the "wicked character" named "Lemuel" in the Book of Mormon upon the Smith's landlord, Lemuel Durfee? (21:11, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Could Joseph Smith have used Ethan Smith's ''View of the Hebrews'' as a guideline for creating the Book of Mormon? (21:11, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Could Joseph Smith have utilized place names and locations from the region in which he lived to create the Book of Mormon? (21:11, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Could Joseph Smith have written the Book of Mormon through a process known as "automatic writing?" (21:11, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Could Moroni have been an "angel of Satan"? (21:11, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Could the angel which came to Nephi have been a demonic "angel of light" sent to deceive him? (21:11, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Could the Book of Mormon been influenced by the Late War in its use of lions in similes? (21:11, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Could the fact that Orson Pratt considered cureloms to possibly be mammoths support the theory that Joseph Smith used Gilbert Hunt's The Late War in "authoring" The Book of Mormon? (21:11, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Could the list of items on Joseph's person at the time of his death have been incomplete? (21:11, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Couldn't the "Egyptian Alphabet" have referred to the "reformed Egyptian" characters on the Anthon transcript? (21:11, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did Abraham himself pen the Joseph Smith Papyri? (21:11, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did any publications prior to 1870 mention the phrase "This is My Beloved Son" in connection with the First Vision? (21:11, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did B.H. Roberts lose his faith in the Church and the Book of Mormon? (21:11, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did B.H. Roberts state that it was possible for Joseph Smith to have come up with the Book of Mormon on his own? (21:11, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did Bishop Warren S. Snow forcibly castrate twenty-four-year-old Thomas Lewis? (21:11, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did Boyd K. Packer say, "I have a hard time with historians because they idolize the truth"? (21:11, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did Brigham Young "proudly admit" to being a dictator? (21:12, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did Brigham Young advocate that apostates have their throats cut? (21:12, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did Brigham Young and Heber C. Kimball encourage members to kill apostates in an attempt to save their souls? (21:12, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did Brigham Young call for blood atonement in order to punish Washington politicians? (21:12, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did Brigham Young claim that the Kingdom of God was already organized on earth, and that the inhabitants of the earth did not know it? (21:12, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did Brigham Young create a 'culture of violence' in 19th century Utah with his incendiary speeches? (21:12, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did Brigham Young give the Indian chief Arapeen spoils from the Mountain Meadows Massacre? (21:12, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did Brigham Young imply that he had poisoned a gift of salt that he gave to Johnston's Army? (21:12, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did Brigham Young indicate in a speech in 1857 that the American government would fall to the Mormons? (21:12, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did Brigham Young institute slavery in Utah? (21:12, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did Brigham Young issue orders that no food or grain should be sold to "Gentiles" that were passing through Utah? (21:12, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did Brigham Young order that the Mount Meadows monument be destroyed? (21:12, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did Brigham Young plan to "rule over all the earth"? (21:12, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did Brigham Young set the stage for the Mountain Meadows Massacre by teaching the concept of "blood atonement"? (21:12, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did Brigham Young state the Joseph Smith's character was easily on par with that of Jesus Christ? (21:12, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did Brigham Young tell Ettie V. Smith that he was her savior? (21:12, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did Brigham Young's preaching style induce people to perform "blood atonement"? (21:12, 13 April 2024)