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- Question: Was the idea that Blacks were neutral in the "war in heaven" ever official doctrine? (5 categories)
- Question: What are the criticisms related to Joseph Smith's accounts of the First Vision? (4 categories)
- FAIR Study Aids/Book of Mormon Resources by chapter and verse/1 Nephi (4 categories)
- FAIR Study Aids/Book of Mormon Resources by chapter and verse/2 Nephi (4 categories)
- FAIR Study Aids/Book of Mormon Resources by chapter and verse/3 Nephi (4 categories)
- FAIR Study Aids/Book of Mormon Resources by chapter and verse/4 Nephi (4 categories)
- FAIR Study Aids/Book of Mormon Resources by chapter and verse/Alma (4 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith say that viewing the gold plates would result in death? (4 categories)
- Question: What is the history of name changes of the Church? (4 categories)
- Question: When was Lucy Mack Smith baptized? (4 categories)
- Question: Did the Church cover up the fact that the Civil War prophecy was made during the 1832 rebellion in South Carolina? (4 categories)
- Question: What is Adam-ondi-Ahman? (4 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith and Sidney Rigdon support the formation of a vigilante band called the Danites? (4 categories)
- Other financial topics (4 categories)
- Question: What did Martin Harris's non-Mormon associates say about his character? (4 categories)
- Question: What did David Whitmer's associates say about his character? (4 categories)
- Question: What was Joseph Smith's motivation for going to the grove to pray in 1820? (4 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith decide that all churches were wrong before he received the First Vision? (4 categories)
- Question: Why didn't the newspapers in Palmyra take notice of Joseph Smith's First Vision? (4 categories)
- David Whitmer (1887): "We were in the spirit when we had the view...but we were in the body also" (4 categories)
- Martin Harris: "The Book of Mormon is no fake. I know what I know. I have seen what I have seen and I have heard what I have heard" (4 categories)
- Question: Of what did the Strangite witnesses testify? (4 categories)
- Question: How much did the gold plates weigh? (4 categories)
- Question: What is the date of the restoration of the Melchizedek Priesthood? (4 categories)
- Gospel Topics: "The Book of Mormon...does not claim that the peoples it describes were either the predominant or the exclusive inhabitants of the lands they occupied" (4 categories)
- Question: What does Joseph's attempt to translate the Kinderhook Plates tell us about his "gift of translation?" (4 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith join the Methodist, Presbyterian, or Baptist churches between 1820 and 1830 despite the claim made in his 1838 history that he was forbidden by Deity from joining any denomination? (4 categories)
- Questions: Are there contemporary witnesses that confirm that Joseph Smith didn't join any church after the First Vision? (4 categories)
- Question: What did the Book of Mormon witnesses mean when they used the word "supernatural" to describe their experiences? (4 categories)
- Question: Is finding links between Hebrew and ancient American languages realistic? (4 categories)
- Question: Have any relationships been found between New World languages and Hebrew? (4 categories)
- Gospel Topics: "During the first two decades of the Church’s existence, a few black men were ordained to the priesthood" (4 categories)
- Question: What do we know about the origin of the priesthood ban on Church members of African descent? (4 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith confer the priesthood on several black men? (4 categories)
- Question: Why did Brigham Young initiate the priesthood ban? (4 categories)
- Question: Why did Oliver Cowdery and David Whitmer accept Hiram Page's seer stone revelations as authoritative? (4 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith simply conflate elements of the 1818 and 1824-25 revivals in his story of the First Vision? (4 categories)
- Question: Did Martin Harris claim that he only saw the gold plates as they were covered "as a city through a mountain"? (4 categories)
- Source:Rediscovering the Book of Mormon:Ch:19:1:Kingship patterns in Mosiah 1-6 (4 categories)
- Question: What to Latter-day Saints believe regarding the concept of "original sin"? (4 categories)
- Question: Does Doctrine and Covenants 84 say that one cannot see God without holding the priesthood? (4 categories)
- Question: What are the two 1835 First Vision accounts that refer to angels? (4 categories)
- Question: How was the wording of the "rod of nature" revelation that became Doctrine and Covenants 8:6–8 altered over time? (4 categories)
- Question: Does the doctrine that God has a physical body contradict the Bible? (4 categories)
- Question: What are the Hurlbut affidavits? (4 categories)
- Question: Did Dee F. Green say that there is no such thing as Book of Mormon archaeology? (4 categories)
- Source:Gospel Topics:Becoming Like God:Our theology begins with heavenly parents. Our highest aspiration is to be like them (4 categories)
- Question: Was Ezra Booth commanded to take a wife from among the Indians? (4 categories)
- Pietro Martire d'Anghiera (1912): "the Spaniards noticed herds of deer similar to our herds of cattle" (4 categories)
- Source:Gospel Topics:The Manifesto and the End of Plural Marriage:The Second Manifesto (4 categories)