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- David Whitmer (3 categories)
- Mormonism and apologetics/"ad hominem"/Case study/An attempt to discredit Hugh Nibley by accusing him of child abuse (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)
- Source:Charles Penrose:Improvement Era:September 1912:Do you believe in "blood-atonement"? (3 categories)
- Question: Is the Church trying to hide something through its use of artwork? (3 categories)
- Question: Is a "burning in the bosom" simply a subjective, emotion-based, unreliable way to practice self-deception? (3 categories)
- Bell: "there would not be enough available space to restore the hand of Anubis, the erect phallus of the Osiris, and the body and wings of Isis" (3 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith and Brigham Young steal Henry Jacobs' family? (3 categories)
- Question: If the Joseph Smith Translation (JST) is Joseph Smith's 'correction' of Biblical errors, why do these corrections not match known Biblical manuscripts? (3 categories)
- Question: By what name did Joseph Smith refer to the First Vision? (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: 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: Did Joseph Smith become a baptized member of the Baptist Church in 1822? (3 categories)
- Question: Why would the Church remove or alter elements of the temple ceremony if these ceremonies were revealed by God? (3 categories)
- Joseph Smith listed as author and proprietor of the Book of Mormon (3 categories)
- Question: What does Lecture 5 of the Lectures on Faith say about the nature of God? (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)
- Latter-day Saint Temples/Endowment (3 categories)
- Question: What is the story of Zelph? (3 categories)
- Question: How exactly did Joseph Smith translate the gold plates? (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)
- 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)
- Topical Guide/Book of Mormon/Archaeology (3 categories)
- Question: What caused William Law to apostatize from the Church and turn against Joseph Smith? (3 categories)
- Question: Why were textual changes made to the Book of Mormon over the years after it was first published? (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)
- 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: Why doesn't the art match details which have been repeatedly spelled out in Church publications? (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: Is someone unreliable because they practiced "treasure hunting" and believed in the use of seer stones to find lost objects? (3 categories)
- Question: Was there no mention of revival activity in 1820 in the newspaper? (3 categories)
- Question: What does the lion couch scene in Book of Abraham Facsimile 1 normally represent? (3 categories)
- Question: Are Mormons polytheists because they don't accept the Nicene Creed? (3 categories)
- Question: What criticisms are put forth regarding the restoration of the Melchizedek Priesthood? (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)
- 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: 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)
- Source:Nibley:CW06:Ch19:9:Mourning by the daughters of Ishmael (2 categories)
- Question: Did ceremonies or practices ever change in the ancient Church? (2 categories)
- Question: Is the Spalding theory of Book of Mormon authorship credible? (2 categories)