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- Question: Does the Mormon doctrine that God has a physical body contradict the Bible's statement in John 4:24 that "God is a Spirit"? (used on 5 pages)
- Question: Does the belief by the witnesses that the experience had visionary qualities contradict the claim that the Book of Mormon plates were real? (used on 5 pages)
- Question: Does the belief that the experience had visionary qualities contradict the claim that the plates were real? (used on 5 pages)
- Question: Does the fact that Jesus said, "upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it" mean that universal apostasy was impossible? (used on 5 pages)
- Question: Does the fact that the Bible states that nothing should be "added to" or "taken away" from the book mean that the Book of Mormon is false? (used on 5 pages)
- Question: Does the papyri consist of Egyptian funerary documents? (used on 5 pages)
- Question: Has the Church "whitewashed" some of the information about its origins to appear more palatable to members and investigators? (used on 5 pages)
- Question: Has the implementation and enforcement of the Word of Wisdom changed over time? (used on 5 pages)
- Question: Have any relationships been found between New World languages and Hebrew? (used on 5 pages)
- Question: How can President Hinckley claim that polygamy is "not doctrinal" if it was a required practice in the 19th-Century Church? (used on 5 pages)
- Question: How could Joseph and Fanny have been married in 1831 if the sealing power had not yet been restored? (used on 5 pages)
- Question: How did Christ achieve deification before mortality? (used on 5 pages)
- Question: How did Latter-day Saint scholars respond to the attempt to sell the Book of Mormon copyright prior to Page's letter coming to light? (used on 5 pages)
- Question: How do non-Mormon artists treat the Nativity? (used on 5 pages)
- Question: How does one identify "Jewish" or "Middle Eastern" DNA? (used on 5 pages)
- Question: How long did the Church know about the papyri before they published information about them? (used on 5 pages)
- Question: How many times was the name of the Church changed through revelation? (used on 5 pages)
- Question: If the Garden of Eden was in Missouri, how did Abraham, Moses and other prophets end up in the Old World? (used on 5 pages)
- Question: If the Joseph Smith Translation (JST) is Joseph Smith's 'correction' of Biblical errors, why do these corrections not match known Biblical manuscripts? (used on 5 pages)
- Question: In the spirit world after this life, will those who lived in President Hinckley's time will be bowed to? (used on 5 pages)
- Question: Is Joseph Smith papyri Facsimile 1 common and similar to other such scenes? (used on 5 pages)
- Question: Is a "burning in the bosom" simply a subjective, emotion-based, unreliable way to practice self-deception? (used on 5 pages)
- Question: Is finding links between Hebrew and ancient American languages realistic? (used on 5 pages)
- Question: Is it possible that the Nephites and Lamanites are associated with the pre-Classic Maya, and the Jaredites are associated with the Olmec? (used on 5 pages)
- Question: Is the fact that Salt Lake City has many plastic surgeons indicative of Mormon vanity and concern with appearance? (used on 5 pages)
- Question: Is the prophecy concerning OIiver Granger contained in section 117 of the Doctrine and Covenants an example of a false prophecy? (used on 5 pages)
- Question: Is the prophecy contained in Doctrine and Covenants 84:114 an example of a false prophecy? (used on 5 pages)
- Question: Is there a cave in the Hill Cumorah containing the Nephite records? (used on 5 pages)
- Question: Is there any mention of the First Vision in non-Mormon literature before 1843? (used on 5 pages)
- Question: Is there any reference to God the Father being present in Joseph Smith's 1832 account? (used on 5 pages)
- Question: Of what did the Strangite witnesses testify? (used on 5 pages)
- Question: Should the restoration of Book of Abraham Facsimile 1 include a phallus? (used on 5 pages)
- Question: Was Brigham Young's hearse displayed in front of Disneyland's Haunted Mansion? (used on 5 pages)
- Question: Was Catholic support for a Rome Italy temple due to Mormon efforts to pass California Proposition 8? (used on 5 pages)
- Question: Was Joseph Smith ever charged with adultery under Illinois law? (used on 5 pages)
- Question: Was Martin Harris a gullible witness who would simply believe anything he was told? (used on 5 pages)
- Question: Was Nephi's temple "similar in splendor" to Solomon's temple? (used on 5 pages)
- Question: Was it normal not to obtain a formal civil divorce in 19th century America? (used on 5 pages)
- Question: Was the Limited Geography model created in response to DNA claims? (used on 5 pages)
- Question: Was the original head of the priest in Facsimile 1 actually the jackal head of Anubis? (used on 5 pages)
- Question: Was there no death on the entire earth before the Fall? (used on 5 pages)
- Question: Were Joseph Smith's spiritual experiences originally products of magic and the occult? (used on 5 pages)
- Question: Were any of the changes to the Book of Mormon made in reaction to sectarian criticism? (used on 5 pages)
- Question: Were missing portions of Facsimile 2 incorrectly restored? (used on 5 pages)
- Question: Were there any similar cases under Illinois adultery statute which demonstrate that Joseph was not breaking the law? (used on 5 pages)
- Question: Were women put under "tremendous pressure" to accept a proposal of plural marriage? (used on 5 pages)
- Question: What Biblical scriptures discuss the doctrine of the deification of man? (used on 5 pages)
- Question: What are Mormon "faith promoting rumors"? (used on 5 pages)
- Question: What are the criticisms related to Joseph Smith's accounts of the First Vision? (used on 5 pages)
- Question: What did Brigham Young say that leads one to believe that he denied the First Vision? (used on 5 pages)