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- Question: What does the lion couch scene in Book of Abraham Facsimile 1 normally represent? (3 categories)
- Question: Is Joseph Smith papyri Facsimile 1 common and similar to other such scenes? (3 categories)
- Question: Does the belief by the witnesses that the experience had visionary qualities contradict the claim that the Book of Mormon plates were real? (3 categories)
- Painesville Telegraph (1830): "The name of the person here, who pretends to have a divine mission, and to have seen and conversed with Angels, is Cowdray" (3 categories)
- Martin Harris: "As sure as you see my hand so sure did I see the angel and the plates" (3 categories)
- Edward Stevenson (1870): Martin Harris said "my belief is swallowed up in knowledge; for I want to say to you that as the Lord lives I do know that I stood with the Prophet Joseph Smith in the presence of the angel" (3 categories)
- Question: What criticisms are put forth regarding the restoration of the Melchizedek Priesthood? (3 categories)
- Question: Why did several years pass before Oliver Cowdery talked about the priesthood restoration? (3 categories)
- Question: Why did the Church modify the introduction to the Book of Mormon from "principal ancestors" to "among the ancestors?" (3 categories)
- 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? (3 categories)
- Question: Were the Isaiah passages in the Book of Mormon simply plagiarized from the King James Bible? (3 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith revise his account of the First Vision in 1838 to respond to a leadership crisis? (3 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith become a baptized member of the Baptist Church in 1822? (3 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith become a member of the Methodist Church while he was translating the Book of Mormon? (3 categories)
- Question: Is there a cave in the Hill Cumorah containing the Nephite records? (3 categories)
- Source:Gardner:Joseph the Seer:2009 FAIR Conference:long before golden plates complicated his position as a local seer (3 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith place his seer stone in his hat while looking for lost objects? (3 categories)
- Question: What is the story of Zelph? (3 categories)
- Question: How reliable are the accounts of the discovery of Zelph? (3 categories)
- 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? (3 categories)
- Question: Does the Book of Mormon plagiarize the King James Bible? (3 categories)
- Question: How exactly did Joseph Smith translate the gold plates? (3 categories)
- Gospel Topics on LDS.org: "Mormon and non-Mormon Egyptologists agree that the characters on the fragments do not match the translation given in the book of Abraham" (3 categories)
- Question: What is the relationship of the Joseph Smith Papyri to the Book of Abraham? (3 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith misidentify a Greek "psalter" as a containing "reformed Egyptian" hieroglyphics? (3 categories)
- Question: Why do some New Testament phrases appear in the Book of Mormon? (3 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith copy the name "Nephi" from the Apocrypha? (3 categories)
- Question: What references to the First Vision exist in published documents from the 1830s? (3 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith give Brigham Young and Heber C. Kimball divining rods "as a symbol of gratitude for their loyalty"? (3 categories)
- Question: Did some Church leaders believe that the skin of the Lamanites would turn white? (3 categories)
- Question: Is it possible to deduce Joseph Smith's thoughts and dreams years after his death? (3 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith's mother say that the First Vision was of an "angel"? (3 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith have a Jupiter talisman on his person at the time of his death? (3 categories)
- Question: What is the source of the story about Joseph Smith possessing a Jupiter talisman? (3 categories)
- Question: Could the list of items on Joseph's person at the time of his death have been incomplete? (3 categories)
- Stephen Robinson: "In the case of the Jupiter coin, this same extrapolation error is compounded with a very uncritical acceptance of the artifact in the first place" (3 categories)
- Question: How were Joseph Smith's seer stones involved in the translation of the Book of Mormon? (3 categories)
- Question: In the Kirtland Egyptian Papers, why is each Egyptian character matched to an entire paragraph of English text? (3 categories)
- Question: What have Latter-day Saint leaders actually said about the method of procreation in the afterlife? (3 categories)
- Miller and Roper: "Evidence of goats associated with pre-Columbian man also comes from caves in Yucatan" (3 categories)
- Miller and Roper: "In post-biblical Jewish literature some Jewish writers distinguished between wild and domestic cattle such as goats" (3 categories)
- Question: Does the Church claim that Native Americans were the exclusive descendants of Lehi or Mulek? (3 categories)
- Question: Does Book of Abraham Facsimile 1 show a hand, or does it show the wing of a second bird? (3 categories)
- Bell: "the questionable traces above the head of the Osiris figure are actually the remains of his right hand" (3 categories)
- Question: Should the restoration of Book of Abraham Facsimile 1 include a phallus? (3 categories)
- Question: Was the original head of the priest in Book of Abraham Facsimile 1 actually the jackal head of Anubis? (3 categories)
- Question: Why would Joseph be sealed to the wife of someone who was not only married to someone else, but pregnant with her husband's child? (3 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith and Brigham Young steal Henry Jacobs' family? (3 categories)
- Question: Do Latter-day Saints believe that they will one day 'supplant' God? (3 categories)
- Question: Are Mormons polytheists because they don't accept the Nicene Creed? (3 categories)