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- Question: Did William Smith claim that a religious revival led to the Joseph's "first vision" of an angel in 1823? (2 categories)
- Joseph Smith's First Vision/Did Joseph Smith join other churches/Methodist membership procedures (2 categories)
- Countercult ministries/Tower to Truth Ministries (2 categories)
- Question: Is original sin a biblical doctrine? (2 categories)
- Question: Are the Michigan Artifacts evidence for the Book of Mormon? (2 categories)
- Source:David Whitmer:Rebuttal to John Murphy 19 March 1881:EMD 5:69:Which has so long since been published with that book as one of the three witnesses (2 categories)
- Question: How do we reconcile the actual age of the earth to the "seven thousand years of its continuance" mentioned in D&C 77:6? (2 categories)
- Roper: "For example, an iron knife was found in an eleventh century Philistine tomb showed evidence of deliberate carburization" (2 categories)
- Mormonism and apologetics/"ad hominem"/Case study/An attempt to dismiss Rosalynde Welch because of who she is related to (2 categories)
- Question: How valid are the names used in the Holley Map? (2 categories)
- Turley claimed that John Whitmer said: "I now say I handled those plates. there was fine engravings on both sides. I handled them...and they were shown to me by a supernatural power" (2 categories)
- Question: Did LDS leaders claim that Christians were no longer present on the earth after the apostasy? (2 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith say that he would be a "second Muhammad," threatening to spread his beliefs with the sword? (2 categories)
- Woodruff (1842): "The Lord is Blessing Joseph with Power to reveal the mysteries of the kingdom of God; to translate through the urim & Thummim Ancient records & Hyeroglyphics as old as Abraham or Adam" (2 categories)
- Question: Did Brigham Young issue orders that no food or grain should be sold to "Gentiles" that were passing through Utah? (2 categories)
- Detailed response to CES Letter, Science (2 categories)
- Question: Were women put under "tremendous pressure" to accept a proposal of plural marriage? (2 categories)
- Question: What were Helen Mar Kimball's views on plural marriage? (2 categories)
- Question: Did Martin Harris ever deny his Book of Mormon witness because he thought that Joseph Smith was a fallen prophet? (2 categories)
- Question: How can you know if your answer to prayer, your personal revelation, is true? (2 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith have any children through any of his polyandrous marriages? (2 categories)
- Question: Did Brigham Young attempt to suppress and destroy all copies of Lucy Mack Smith's ''Biographical Sketches of Joseph Smith''? (2 categories)
- Question: What did the husband of Mary Elizabeth Rollins know about her sealing to Joseph Smith for eternity? (2 categories)
- Question: What is Moroni's promise? (2 categories)
- Question: Why are many of the quotes from Isaiah in the Book of Mormon identical to those in the King James Bible? (2 categories)
- Question: What happened to the papyri after Joseph's death? (2 categories)
- Question: How would Book of Mormon archaeology compare to that of the Bible? (2 categories)
- Question: Did Brigham Young tell Henry Jacobs in front of hundreds of people that he needed to find another wife? (2 categories)
- Question: When and how did plural marriage begin in the Church? (2 categories)
- Truman Madsen: "Among readers who came to the Book of Mormon with hard, skeptical assumptions, B.H. Roberts is notable" (2 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith produce any children by his plural wives? The case for children (2 categories)
- Question: Are the ages stated in Joseph's accounts of the First Vision 'all over the place?' (2 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph utter a false prophecy and show disregard for the Word of Wisdom in telling Orson Hyde that he would drink wine with him in Palestine? (2 categories)
- Question: Do Latter-day Saints believe that no genuine Christians exist outside of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints? (2 categories)
- Joseph Smith (1832): "a piller of fire light above the brightness of the sun at noon day come down from above" (2 categories)
- Question: Has the Church hidden the fact that Joseph fired a gun while in Carthage Jail? (2 categories)
- Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Becoming Gods/Use of sources/Changing Biblical text (2 categories)
- The Mormon Concept of God: A Philosophical Analysis (2 categories)
- Question: Are the Gadianton robbers in the Book of Mormon actually references to the anti-Masonic panic of Joseph Smith's era? (2 categories)
- Source:Brown:Nahom and the "Eastward" Turn:JBMS 12:1 (2 categories)
- Source:Nelson:A Treasured Testament:Ensign:July 1993:The details of this miraculous method of translation are still not fully known. Yet we do have a few precious insights (2 categories)
- Question: Did Mormons only recently claim to be Christian? (2 categories)
- Source:Revelations in Context:The Word of Wisdom:it required time to wind down practices that were so deeply ingrained (2 categories)
- Question: Did Solomon Spaulding's doctor state that Spaulding talked to him about the Nephites in his manuscript? (2 categories)
- Mountain Meadows Massacre/History (2 categories)
- Question: Which method of translation was more "believable": seer stone or Nephite interpreters? (2 categories)
- Question: Does Martin Harris' involvement with other faiths after the Restoration discredit him? (2 categories)
- John A. Widtsoe (1943): "The Old Testament records a flood that was just over fifteen cubits (sometimes assumed to be about twenty-six feet) deep and covered the entire landscape" (2 categories)
- Criticism of Mormonism/Articles/Mormon Women, Prozac(R) and Therapy (2 categories)
- Multiple accounts of the First Vision/Orson Pratt's statements regarding the First Vision (2 categories)