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- Question: Was the original head of the priest in Book of Abraham Facsimile 1 actually the jackal head of Anubis? (3 categories)
- Question: Is someone unreliable because they practiced "treasure hunting" and believed in the use of seer stones to find lost objects? (3 categories)
- Question: What does the lion couch scene in Book of Abraham Facsimile 1 normally represent? (3 categories)
- Multiple accounts of the First Vision/Criticisms/Overview (3 categories)
- Question: Are Mormons polytheists because they don't accept the Nicene Creed? (3 categories)
- Brigham Young (1871): "whether the Lord...made it in six days or in as many millions of years, is and will remain a matter of speculation in the minds of men unless he give revelation on the subject" (3 categories)
- Question: What criticisms are put forth regarding the restoration of the Melchizedek Priesthood? (3 categories)
- Portal:Test2/box-header (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: What did Church leaders after Brigham Young think of the priesthood ban? (3 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith become a member of the Methodist Church while he was translating the Book of Mormon? (3 categories)
- Source:Gardner:Joseph the Seer:2009 FAIR Conference:long before golden plates complicated his position as a local seer (3 categories)
- Question: What is the story of Zelph? (3 categories)
- Question: How exactly did Joseph Smith translate the gold plates? (3 categories)
- Joseph Smith/Other visions (3 categories)
- Question: What did the husband of Presendia L. Huntington know about her sealing to Joseph Smith for eternity? (3 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith being sealed to mothers, daughters and sisters violate a biblical prohibition? (3 categories)
- Question: Did the story of Moroni's visit to Joseph Smith evolve from that of a magical spiritual treasure guardian to an "angel"? (3 categories)
- Question: Is it possible to deduce Joseph Smith's thoughts and dreams years after his death? (3 categories)
- Question: What caused William Law to apostatize from the Church and turn against Joseph Smith? (3 categories)
- Source:Gospel Topics:Peach and Violence:Danites (3 categories)
- Question: Did early Mormon leaders teach that apostasy was the unforgivable sin, and that the only thing an apostate could do to redeem himself was to give his own life, willingly or unwillingly? (3 categories)
- Opposition to baptism for the dead (3 categories)
- Mormon ordinances (3 categories)
- Question: What did the other witnesses say regarding "spiritual" versus "natural" viewing of the plates? (3 categories)
- Question: What do we find in Mesoamerican archaeology with respect to place names, such as city names? (3 categories)
- Did Joseph have lustful motives for practicing polygamy? (3 categories)
- Joseph Smith listed as author and proprietor of the Book of Mormon (3 categories)
- Topical Guide/Book of Mormon/Coming Forth (3 categories)
- Use of Church funds (3 categories)
- Question: What does Lecture 5 of the Lectures on Faith say about the nature of God? (3 categories)
- David Whitmer (1878): "I saw them just as plain as I see this bed" (3 categories)
- Mormonism and Wikipedia/Golden plates/Finding (3 categories)
- Statements by Church leaders related to the identity of the Lamanites (3 categories)
- Miller and Roper: "two distinct species of peccary live in Mesoamerica....They were hunted and eaten as early as Olmec times" (3 categories)
- Sorenson: "Iron use was documented in the statements of early Spaniards, who told of the Aztecs using iron-studded clubs" (3 categories)
- Question: Is Joseph Smith papyri Facsimile 1 common and similar to other such scenes? (3 categories)
- Question: Why would the Church remove or alter elements of the temple ceremony if these ceremonies were revealed by God? (3 categories)
- Racial issues and the Church of Jesus Christ/Blacks and the priesthood (3 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith place his seer stone in his hat while looking for lost objects? (3 categories)
- Question: How reliable are the accounts of the discovery of Zelph? (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: Is there any reference to God the Father being present in Joseph Smith's 1832 account? (3 categories)
- Question: Was a "vagabond fortune-teller" named Walters Joseph Smith's "mentor"? (3 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith's mother say that the First Vision was of an "angel"? (3 categories)
- Question: What is Joseph Smith's 1832 prophecy of the Civil War? (3 categories)
- Question: What have Latter-day Saint leaders actually said about the method of procreation in the afterlife? (3 categories)
- Latter-day Saint Temples/Endowment (3 categories)
- Question: By what name did Joseph Smith refer to the First Vision? (3 categories)