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- Question: Why would the Church remove or alter elements of the temple ceremony if these ceremonies were revealed by God? (used on 8 pages)
- Sorenson: "The Miami Indians, for example, were unfamiliar with the buffalo and simply called them 'wild cows'" (used on 8 pages)
- Question: Could ancient Americans have expanded the definition of "horse" to include new meanings? (used on 7 pages)
- Question: Did Church leaders ever teach that Blacks were neutral in the "war in heaven?" (used on 7 pages)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith and Sidney Rigdon support the formation of a vigilante band called the Danites? (used on 7 pages)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith believe that the Book of Mormon explained local legends associated with the "Mound Builders" of the Eastern United States? (used on 7 pages)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith claim at one time that Kirtland Safety Society notes would be "as good as gold"? (used on 7 pages)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith incorporate his father's dream of the tree of life into the Book of Mormon? (used on 7 pages)
- Question: Did Joseph attempt to translate the Kinderhook Plates using the "gift and power of God?" (used on 7 pages)
- 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? (used on 7 pages)
- Question: Did Martin Harris claim that he only saw the gold plates as they were covered "as a city through a mountain"? (used on 7 pages)
- Question: Did the Church cover up the fact that the Civil War prophecy was made during the 1832 rebellion in South Carolina? (used on 7 pages)
- Question: Did the Church repudiate the idea of neutrality in the "war in heaven?" (used on 7 pages)
- Question: Do Latter-day Saints believe that the scriptural terms "church of the devil," the "great and abominable church," and the "whore of all the earth" refer to a specific religion? (used on 7 pages)
- Question: Do Mormon men believe that they will become "gods of their own planets" and rule over others? (used on 7 pages)
- Question: Do Mormons believe Jesus Christ was married? (used on 7 pages)
- Question: Does the Book of Mormon contain mistakes? (used on 7 pages)
- Question: Has the Church hidden the fact that Joseph fired a gun while in Carthage Jail? (used on 7 pages)
- Question: How did newspaper accounts describe the nature of the witnesses experience? (used on 7 pages)
- Question: How did the apostle Paul describe spiritual experiences? (used on 7 pages)
- Question: How does David Whitmer's account of the attempt to sell the Book of Mormon copyright compare to those of the eyewitnesses? (used on 7 pages)
- Question: If the Book of Mormon is an accurate translation, why would it contain translational errors that exist in the King James Bible? (used on 7 pages)
- Question: Is any book of scripture perfect? (used on 7 pages)
- Question: Is it possible to deduce Joseph Smith's thoughts and dreams years after his death? (used on 7 pages)
- Question: Is there a "Priesthood of All Believers" which eliminates the need for unbroken lines of priesthood authority? (used on 7 pages)
- Question: Was Ezra Booth commanded to take a wife from among the Indians? (used on 7 pages)
- Question: Was Joseph Smith's 1832 prophecy of the Civil War invalid because a civil war was "inevitable," and "anyone" could have predicted it? (used on 7 pages)
- Question: Was Joseph Smith married or sealed to women who were already married to other living men? (used on 7 pages)
- Question: Was Oliver Cowdery aware that some in the Church were practicing polygamy in 1835 at the time he authored the "Article on Marriage"? (used on 7 pages)
- Question: Was a "forged" prophecy about Stephen A. Douglas added to the ''History of the Church''? (used on 7 pages)
- Question: Was a "vagabond fortune-teller" named Walters Joseph Smith's "mentor"? (used on 7 pages)
- Question: Was the practice of polygamy general knowledge among Latter-day Saints in 1835 when the "Article on Marriage" was published? (used on 7 pages)
- Question: What are the Hurlbut affidavits? (used on 7 pages)
- Question: What are the differences between the Strangite witness statements and those of the Three and Eight Witnesses to the Book of Mormon? (used on 7 pages)
- Question: What did Martin Harris's non-Mormon associates say about his character? (used on 7 pages)
- Question: What did the other witnesses say regarding "spiritual" versus "natural" viewing of the plates? (used on 7 pages)
- Question: What is "reformed Egyptian"? (used on 7 pages)
- Question: What is Adam-ondi-Ahman? (used on 7 pages)
- Question: When was the Danite band formed and why? (used on 7 pages)
- Question: Why did Joseph Smith claim that Thomas B. Marsh, who later apostatized, would be "exalted," and that he would preach "unto the ends of the earth"? (used on 7 pages)
- Question: Why did Joseph describe the United Order in revelation as "everlasting" and "immutable and unchangeable" until Jesus comes? (used on 7 pages)
- Question: Why do Mormons use the Aaronic Priesthood, since Hebrews 7 states that the Aaronic/Levitical Priesthood was "changed" to the unique priesthood "after the order of Melchizedek" held by Jesus Christ? (used on 7 pages)
- Question: Why does Joseph Smith's 1832 account of the First Vision not mention two personages? (used on 7 pages)
- Question: Why does Joseph Smith state in his 1832 First Vision account that he was in his "16th year" of age? (used on 7 pages)
- Roper: "For example, an iron knife was found in an eleventh century Philistine tomb showed evidence of deliberate carburization" (used on 7 pages)
- Roper: "archaeologists have discovered a carburized iron sword near Jericho" (used on 7 pages)
- Seminary Teacher Resource Manual: "We have no knowledge that plural marriage will be a requirement for exaltation" (used on 7 pages)
- Sorenson: "By 1400 BC, smiths in Armenia had discovered how to carburize iron by prolonged heating in contact with carbon" (used on 7 pages)
- Sorenson: "Iron use was documented in the statements of early Spaniards, who told of the Aztecs using iron-studded clubs" (used on 7 pages)
- Sorenson: "Lumps of hematite, magnetite, and ilmenite were brought into Valley of Oaxaca" (used on 7 pages)