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- Question: Did Joseph Smith claim that the Kirtland Safety Society was established by a revelation from God? (15:14, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith consummate any of these marriages with married women? (15:14, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith copy Masonic material in order to create the Mormon temple rites? (15:14, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith copy the name "Nephi" from the Apocrypha? (15:14, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith create the story of Nephi and Laban by plagiarizing concepts and phrases from the story of Judith and Holofernes in the Apocrypha? (15:14, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith create the temple ceremony as a way of teaching polygamy to certain members while keeping it a secret from the general public? (15:14, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith derive his religious ideas in part from a mysticism called Kabbalah? (15:14, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith develop the story of Moroni's visit based upon information contained in the story ''The Golden Pot''? (15:14, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith endorse slavery? (15:14, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith engage in "land speculation" in Nauvoo? (15:14, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith give Brigham Young and Heber C. Kimball divining rods "as a symbol of gratitude for their loyalty"? (15:14, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith have a Jupiter talisman on his person at the time of his death? (15:14, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith have access to materials related to Nahom at Allegheny College? (15:14, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith have any children through any of his polyandrous marriages? (15:14, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith hit a Baptist preacher and throw him to the ground? (15:14, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith identify any elements of Facsimile 2 that are in agreement with what Egyptologists say they represent? (15:14, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith issue a prophecy that the Nauvoo House would stand forever and ever? (15:14, 13 April 2024)
- Elias and Elijah at the Kirtland Temple (15:14, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith originally identify the angel that visited him as "Nephi" instead of "Moroni"? (15:15, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith perform marriages between brothers and sisters? (15:15, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith plagiarize a book by Charles Anthon to provide names for the Book of Mormon? (15:15, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith plagiarize an 1811 book of Marco Polo's travels? (15:15, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith plagiarize John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress? (15:15, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith plagiarize John Dee’s The Secret Book of Madoc for his creation of the Book of Mormon? (15:15, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith plagiarize John Walker's "Key to Greek, Latin, and Scripture Proper Names"? (15:15, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith plagiarize John Walker's a Key to Latin and Greek, Latin, and Scripture Proper Names? (15:15, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith plagiarize passages from Gilbert Hunt's book ''The Late War, between the United States and Great Britain, from June, 1812, to February, 1815''? (15:15, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith plagiarize Shakespeare? (15:15, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith plagiarize Shakespeare's ''Hamlet''? (15:15, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith plagiarize the History of Mexico to produce the Book of Ether? (15:15, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith produce the Book of Mormon by using a Methodist homiletic composition technique known as “laying down heads”? (15:15, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith really tell Orrin Porter Rockwell 'it was right to steal'? (15:15, 13 April 2024)
- 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? (15:15, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith say that viewing the gold plates would result in death? (15:15, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith teach a hemispheric, rather than a limited, geography model for the Book of Mormon? (15:15, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith use his own seer stone to translate the Book of Mormon? (15:15, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith use his seer stone to view the location of the gold plates in the Hill Cumorah? (15:15, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith use the Nephite interpreters to translate? Or did he use his own seer stone? (15:15, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith write in the Book of Mormon, "every error and truth discussed in New York"? (15:15, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did large numbers of people resign from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints resign because of its support of Prop 8? (15:15, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did Latter-day Saints wish to avoid being classified as Christians? (15:15, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did LDS leaders claim that Christians were no longer present on the earth after the apostasy? (15:15, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did Levi Edgar Young state that his prayer was that "thousands would turn not to God, but to Joseph"? (15:15, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did Levi Lewis claim that Joseph tried to seduce Eliza Winters in 1830? (15:15, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did Lorenzo Snow state that polygamy was actually adultery prior to 1843? (15:15, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did Martin Harris change his religion five times prior to the Restoration? (15:16, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did Martin Harris claim that he only saw the gold plates as they were covered "as a city through a mountain"? (15:16, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did Martin Harris ever deny his Book of Mormon witness because he thought that Joseph Smith was a fallen prophet? (15:16, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did Martin Harris state that there would never be another president of the United States elected? (15:16, 13 April 2024)
- Question: Did Martin Harris tell people that he did not see the plates with his natural eyes, but rather the "eye of faith"? (15:16, 13 April 2024)