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- Question: How would Book of Mormon archaeology compare to that of the Bible? (2 categories)
- Question: Who was the "angel" in the First Vision that Andrew Jenson was referring to? (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: 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: 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: Where is the Hill Cumorah? (2 categories)
- Question: Does Martin Harris' involvement with other faiths after the Restoration discredit him? (2 categories)
- Question: Were revivals and religious excitement too common to be noticed in the newspapers? (2 categories)
- Questions: Are Mormons Christians (2 categories)
- Joseph Smith/Polygamy/Essays/Illegal marriages in Ohio (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)
- Brigham Young and the Mountain Meadows Massacre (2 categories)
- Moroni's visit/Nephi or Moroni (2 categories)
- Source:Brown:Nahom and the "Eastward" Turn:JBMS 12:1 (2 categories)
- Question: Do Mormons believe that the temple garment will protect them from physical harm? (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: Do Mormons who do not eat meat "sparingly" violate the Word of Wisdom? (2 categories)
- Joseph Smith (9 Nov. 1835): "a pillar of fire appeared above my head...a personage appeard in the midst of this pillar of flame" (2 categories)
- Question: Was the ''History of the Church'' falsified when "first visitation of Angels" was changed to "my first vision"? (2 categories)
- Question: Does Church manual, ''The Teachings of the Presidents of the Church: Brigham Young'', attempt to "hide history" by portraying Brigham Young (a well-known polygamist) as having only one wife? (2 categories)
- Question: Aren't tithing funds from "long ago" ultimately the source of all current Church funds? (2 categories)
- Question: Did federal officials flee Utah because they feared for their lives? (2 categories)
- Question: What if the "rod of nature" was indeed a physical object such as a divining rod? (2 categories)
- Criticism of Mormonism/Books/One Nation Under Gods/Chapter 8 (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)
- Preach My Gospel: "As you pray for inspiration, you should also confirm your feelings...Certainly the Spirit of the Lord can bring strong emotional feelings, including tears, but that outward manifestation ought not to be confused with the presence of the (2 categories)
- Painesville Telegraph (1831): Martin Harris said that "He had seen and handled them all" (2 categories)
- Question: What was the thickness of each gold plate? (2 categories)
- Question: What is the probability that Joseph Smith possessed items related to "magic"? (2 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith send men on missions in order to "steal" their wives while they were gone? (2 categories)
- Question: Do we have all of the papyri that Joseph Smith had? (2 categories)
- Muhlestein and Gee: "It is now apparent that human sacrifice did indeed occur in ancient Egypt" (2 categories)
- Detailed response to CES Letter, First Vision (2 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith give a woman only one day to decide about entering a plural marriage, and would refusal mean terrible consequences? (2 categories)
- Helen Mar Kimball: "I have encouraged and sustained my husband in the celestial order of marriage because I knew it was right" (2 categories)
- Question: What is the light which comes from the presence of God? (2 categories)
- Question: Is the concept of "original sin" part of all Christian theology? (2 categories)
- Matthews: "To regard the New Translation...as a product of divine inspiration given to Joseph Smith does not necessarily assume that it be a restoration of the original Bible text" (2 categories)
- Joseph Smith's First Vision/Personages that appeared referred to by Church leaders as "angels" (2 categories)
- Question: What did the husband of Mary Heron know about her sealing to Joseph Smith for eternity? (2 categories)
- Question: What do we find when we turn to the records of the ancient (i.e. before A.D. 400) Americas? (2 categories)
- Elder's Journal/1/1 (2 categories)
- Question: How could Joseph and Fanny have been married in 1831 if the sealing power had not yet been restored? (2 categories)