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- Question: Where can I learn more about the Sidney Rigdon/Solomon Spalding authorship theory? (3 categories)
- Question: Why did the Prophet construct the 1832 narrative in a manner such as to exclude explicit mention of the Father's appearance? (3 categories)
- Question: Did Lucy Mack Smith join the Presbyterian Church after her son Alvin died in 1823? (3 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith copy the name "Nephi" from the Apocrypha? (3 categories)
- Portal:Test2/box-header (3 categories)
- Question: Do Mormons believe Jesus Christ was married? (3 categories)
- Origin of the Book of Mormon (3 categories)
- Joseph Smith/Seer stones (3 categories)
- David Whitmer (3 categories)
- Question: Why did the author of the ''Letter to a CES Director'' feel the need to make a single hostile quote appear as if it were two separate quotes? (3 categories)
- Book of Abraham (3 categories)
- Question: In what context are chariots mentioned in the Book of Mormon? (3 categories)
- Question: By what name did Joseph Smith refer to the First Vision? (3 categories)
- Question: Did Oliver Cowdery ever deny his Book of Mormon witness because he thought that Joseph Smith was a fallen prophet? (3 categories)
- William Smith (1884): "When the plates were brought in they were wrapped up in a tow frock. My father then put them into a pillow case. Father said, 'What, Joseph, can we not see them?'" (3 categories)
- Question: Why would the Church remove or alter elements of the temple ceremony if these ceremonies were revealed by God? (3 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith have a Jupiter talisman on his person at the time of his death? (3 categories)
- Question: Is it true that the Danites were pledged to “plunder, lie, and even kill if deemed necessary?" (3 categories)
- Question: In the Kirtland Egyptian Papers, why is each Egyptian character matched to an entire paragraph of English text? (3 categories)
- Improvement Era (1946): "Did Joseph Smith Introduce Plural Marriage?...It is also possible, though the Church does not now permit it, to seal two living people for eternity only, with no association on earth" (3 categories)
- Question: Who was Paul H. Dunn and what happened to him? (3 categories)
- Question: Were the Isaiah passages in the Book of Mormon simply plagiarized from the King James Bible? (3 categories)
- Latter-day Saint Temples/Endowment (3 categories)
- Question: What is the relationship of the Joseph Smith Papyri to the Book of Abraham? (3 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith write a "love letter" to his plural wife Sarah Ann Whitney to request a secret rendezvous? (3 categories)
- Question: Why is ''History of the Church'' written in first-person, as if Joseph Smith himself wrote it? (3 categories)
- Question: Did any of Joseph's scribes ever say anything about Joseph's story of the vision changing over time? (3 categories)
- Question: What references to the First Vision exist in published documents from the 1830s? (3 categories)
- Criticism of Mormonism/Books/No Man Knows My History: The Life of Joseph Smith/Chapter 5 (3 categories)
- Mormonism and Wikipedia/Golden plates/Claimed engravings (3 categories)
- Mormonism and Wikipedia/Golden plates/Origin and historicity (3 categories)
- Topical Guide/Book of Mormon/Archaeology (3 categories)
- Question: Why were textual changes made to the Book of Mormon over the years after it was first published? (3 categories)
- Sorenson: "There is an animal which they call chic, wonderfully active, as large as a small dog, with a snout like a sucking pig. The Indian women raise them" (3 categories)
- Gardner: "a correct approach to a Mesoamerican battle required all three elements: king, litter, and battle beast" (3 categories)
- Question: Was there no mention of revival activity in 1820 in the newspaper? (3 categories)
- William Smith (1893): "I did not see them uncovered, but I handled them and hefted them while wrapped in a tow frock and judged them to have weighed about sixty pounds" (3 categories)
- Question: Was the United Order simply a form of communism? (3 categories)
- Question: What is the Adam-God Theory? (3 categories)
- Question: Was there an oath in a former version of the Mormon temple endowment that required vengeance upon the government of the United States? (3 categories)
- Question: What is the source of the story about Joseph Smith possessing a Jupiter talisman? (3 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph hide his plural marriages from Emma, his first wife? (3 categories)
- Question: How were Joseph Smith's seer stones involved in the translation of the Book of Mormon? (3 categories)
- Question: How were the activities of the Danite band exposed? (3 categories)
- Miller and Roper: "Evidence of goats associated with pre-Columbian man also comes from caves in Yucatan" (3 categories)
- Question: Many who listened to Elder Dunn's stories felt the spirit. Why would one feel the spirit upon hearing a story that was fabricated? Doesn't this confirm a lie? (3 categories)
- Question: Does Book of Abraham Facsimile 1 show a hand, or does it show the wing of a second bird? (3 categories)
- Question: Why does the Book of Abraham state that it was written by Abraham's "own hand upon papyrus" if the papyri date to after the Abrahamic period? (3 categories)
- Question: What is Lorenzo Snow claimed to have said about plural marriages being adultery prior to 1843? (3 categories)
- Juncker (1994): "Unknown to many, the early church fathers often referred to Jesus as an Angel....in antiquity the word 'angel' meant 'messenger'" (3 categories)