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- Question: Was the "Pentecost" at the Kirtland Temple dedication actually a drunken orgy? (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: Did John Whitmer, one of the Eight Witnesses, actually say that he saw the plates by a "supernatural power"? (2 categories)
- Question: Is a man unreliable because he lived in the 19th-Century? (2 categories)
- Armitage: "It is suggested by de Ávila Blomberg that wild silk was used in Oaxaca in pre-Columbian times" (2 categories)
- Question: What is the correct interpretation of Facsimile 3? (2 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith plagiarize Shakespeare? (2 categories)
- Question: Was the Church forthright in identifying the rediscovered papyri prior to their examination by non-LDS Egyptologists? (2 categories)
- Question: What did contemporary witnesses have to say about the Book of Mormon translation process? (2 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph own a Bible at the time of the Book of Mormon translation? (2 categories)
- 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)
- Logical fallacies/Page 2 (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)
- 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)
- Question: If Gordon B. Hinckley were a true prophet, why did he not discern the nature of the Hofmann forgeries? (2 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith send William Law, Robert D. Foster, and Henry Jacobs on missions so that he could steal their wives? (2 categories)
- Question: How does the Grammar and Alphabet of the Egyptian Language (GAEL) relate to the Book of Abraham? (2 categories)
- Question: How many times was Joseph Smith involved with legal issues? (2 categories)
- The Apocalypse of Abraham: "Go out from thy father Terah, and get thee out from the house, that thou also be not slain" (2 categories)
- Detailed response to CES Letter, Book of Abraham (2 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph claim that an angel threatened him with a "drawn sword" or "flaming sword" if a woman refused to marry him? (2 categories)
- Question: Does the Book of Abraham state that the sun gets its photons from Kolob? (2 categories)
- Question: What did the husband of Sarah Kingsley know about her sealing to Joseph Smith for eternity? (2 categories)
- Question: How is the Joseph Smith Translation best understood? (2 categories)
- Question: What archaeological evidence might be considered the minimal irrefutable proof needed to convince a non-believing world of the authenticity of the Nephite scripture? (2 categories)
- Elder's Journal/1/2 (2 categories)
- Question: Could Joseph Smith have acquired the names "Moroni" and "Cumorah" from a map of the Comoro archipelago off the coast of Africa? (2 categories)
- Question: Is there a link between Ethan Smith, author of ''View of the Hebrews'', and Oliver Cowdery? (2 categories)
- Question: How do the First Vision accounts compare on the subject of Joseph's motivation for praying? (2 categories)
- Orson Pratt (1840): "a very bright and glorious light in the heavens...He expected to have seen the leaves and boughs of the trees consumed, as soon as the light came in contact with them" (2 categories)
- Source:Penrose:Peculiar Questions Briefly Answered:Improvement Era:Sept 1912:We do not know anything about Jesus Christ being married (2 categories)
- Question: How is it possible that there were three days of darkness in the New World and not in the Old World? (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: Did Fanny Alger have a child by Joseph Smith? (2 categories)
- Question: When and how did plural marriage begin in the Church? (2 categories)
- Question: What did Joseph Capron claim about Joseph Smith in the Hurlbut affidavits? (2 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith produce any children by his plural wives? The case for children (2 categories)
- Question: Has the Church hidden the fact that Joseph fired a gun while in Carthage Jail? (2 categories)
- Source:Nibley:CW06:Ch19:9:Mourning by the daughters of Ishmael (2 categories)
- Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Becoming Gods/Use of sources/Changing Biblical text (2 categories)
- Question: Is the Spalding theory of Book of Mormon authorship credible? (2 categories)
- Question: Do Latter-day Saints discount the spiritual witnesses that members of other religions may receive? (2 categories)
- Source:Nicholson:The Spectacles, The Stone:This essay focuses primarily on the methods and instruments used in the translation process (2 categories)
- The Mormon Concept of God: A Philosophical Analysis (2 categories)
- Question: Did the Church repudiate the idea of neutrality in the "war in heaven?" (2 categories)
- Question: Which sources mention Nephi as the angelic visitor who told Joseph Smith about the gold plates? (2 categories)
- Question: Who is the author of ''History of the Church''? (2 categories)
- Question: Does the Bible forbid plural marriage? (2 categories)