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- Question: Why does the Church teach that the flood was a global event? (2 categories)
- Multiple accounts of the First Vision/George A. Smith said First Vision was an "angel" (2 categories)
- Question: Do Mormon men believe that they will become "gods of their own planets" and rule over others? (2 categories)
- George Mantle (1888): Martin Harris said "Do you know that is the sun shining on us? Because as sure as you know that...he translated that book by the power of God" (2 categories)
- Dallin H. Oaks (1987): "It should be recognized that such tools as the Urim and Thummim, the Liahona, seerstones, and other articles have been used appropriately in biblical, Book of Mormon, and modern times" (2 categories)
- Forgeries/Mark Hofmann/Church reaction to forgeries/Church statement 31 July 1987 (2 categories)
- John S. Lewis: "Considering that Doctrine and Covenants 77:6 refers to “…this earth during the seven thousand years of its continuance, or its temporal existence,” what led Phelps to speak of Earth as 2,555 million years old?" (2 categories)
- Joseph Smith/Polygamy/Polyandry (2 categories)
- Mormonism and doctrine/Repudiated concepts/Blood atonement (2 categories)
- Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Nauvoo Polygamy/Chapter 1 (2 categories)
- Logical fallacies/Page 4 (2 categories)
- Criticism of Mormonism/Books/One Nation Under Gods/Use of sources/Brigham Young ordered MMM (2 categories)
- Question: Is it true that Joseph killed two men by firing at the mob? (2 categories)
- Question: Did the daughter of Hugh Nibley accuse him of abusing her? (2 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith issue a prophecy that the Nauvoo House would stand forever and ever? (2 categories)
- Question: What was known about steel in ancient America? (2 categories)
- Mormonism and doctrine (2 categories)
- Understanding revelation (2 categories)
- Question: Did ceremonies or practices ever change in the ancient Church? (2 categories)
- Question: Did Emma Smith discover her husband Joseph with Fanny Alger in a barn? (2 categories)
- Question: Does the Book of Mormon rely primarily on those chapters from Isaiah mentioned in Ethan Smith's ''View of the Hebrews''? (2 categories)
- The Palmyra Reflector (1831): "Jo Smith had now received a commission from God...Cowdery and his friends had frequent interviews with angels" (2 categories)
- Question: Were the characters on the papyri written by Abraham himself? (2 categories)
- Question: What is the meaning of "eternal" life? (2 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith make an error by claiming that Elias and Elijah are two different people, when they are in fact one and the same? (2 categories)
- Book of Jubilees 12:1-8: "Abram said to Terah his father...What help and profit have we from those idols which thou dost worship...And his father said unto him...Keep silent, my son, lest they slay thee" (2 categories)
- Detailed response to CES Letter, Polygamy and Polyandry (2 categories)
- Question: Why is confidentiality associated with the temple ordinances? (2 categories)
- Question: Did John Whitmer, one of the Eight Witnesses, actually say that he saw the plates by a "supernatural power"? (2 categories)
- Question: Was Joseph Smith ever charged with adultery under Illinois law? (2 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith give some of the brethren money to purchase whiskey in violation of the Word of Wisdom? (2 categories)
- Question: Is a man unreliable because he lived in the 19th-Century? (2 categories)
- Question: Does Jesus Christ's statement "they neither marry, nor are given in marriage" contradict the Latter-day Saint doctrine of eternal marriage? (2 categories)
- Question: What did the husband of Patty Bartlett know about her sealing to Joseph Smith for eternity? (2 categories)
- Question: What is the correct interpretation of Facsimile 3? (2 categories)
- Question: Did Gordon B. Hinckley claim that polygamy was "not doctrinal" on Larry King Live? (2 categories)
- Question: Was the Church forthright in identifying the rediscovered papyri prior to their examination by non-LDS Egyptologists? (2 categories)
- Question: How would an archaeologist distinguish a Christian's pot from that of a non-Christian? (2 categories)
- Question: Were the names "Moroni" and "Cumorah" available on maps accessible to Joseph Smith? (2 categories)
- Question: Why did Joseph Smith make changes to the Book of Mormon such as modifying "God" to read "the Son of God"? (2 categories)
- Joseph Smith (1842): "surrounded with a brilliant light which eclipsed the sun at noon-day" (2 categories)
- Question: Where was the Melchizedek Priesthood restored? (2 categories)
- Source:Gospel Topics:The Manifesto and the End of Plural Marriage:Reed Smoot hearings (2 categories)
- Question: Are Christians monotheists? (2 categories)
- Question: If the Garden of Eden was in Missouri, how did Abraham, Moses and other prophets end up in the Old World? (2 categories)
- Question: What does the Church teach on the subject of death before the Fall of Adam? (2 categories)
- Mountain Meadows Massacre/Brigham Young (2 categories)
- Question: Does the Book of Mormon describe the Lamanites as being "cursed" with a "red skin"? (2 categories)
- Martin Harris: "Just as plain as you see that chopping block, I saw the plates" (2 categories)
- Question: Why does the Book of Mormon mention "synagogues" when they were not present among the Jews until after the Babylonian captivity? (2 categories)