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- Gospel Topics: "Even after 1852, at least two black Mormons continued to hold the priesthood" (4 categories)
- Question: What are the "curse of Cain" and the "curse of Ham"? (4 categories)
- Question: When did a biblical curse become associated with the "Hamites?" (4 categories)
- Question: When did the "mark of Cain" become associated with black skin? (4 categories)
- Question: How did the "curse of Ham" or "curse of Cain" become associated with Mormonism? (4 categories)
- Question: Was Joseph Smith's 1832 prophecy of the Civil War invalid because a civil war was "inevitable," and "anyone" could have predicted it? (4 categories)
- Prothero (2003): "in the 1832 version, Jesus appears to Smith alone, and does all the talking himself. Such complaints, however, are much ado about relatively nothing" (3 categories)
- Question: Is there any reference to God the Father being present in Joseph Smith's 1832 account? (3 categories)
- Question: Why did the Prophet construct the 1832 narrative in a manner such as to exclude explicit mention of the Father's appearance? (3 categories)
- Question: Did any of Joseph's scribes ever say anything about Joseph's story of the vision changing over time? (3 categories)
- Mormonism and apologetics/"ad hominem"/Case study/An attempt to discredit Hugh Nibley by accusing him of child abuse (3 categories)
- Question: Did the story of Moroni's visit to Joseph Smith evolve from that of a magical spiritual treasure guardian to an "angel"? (3 categories)
- Question: Was a "vagabond fortune-teller" named Walters Joseph Smith's "mentor"? (3 categories)
- Question: Was the United Order simply a form of communism? (3 categories)
- Question: What is Joseph Smith's 1832 prophecy of the Civil War? (3 categories)
- Question: Was there an oath in a former version of the Mormon temple endowment that required vengeance upon the government of the United States? (3 categories)
- Question: What caused William Law to apostatize from the Church and turn against Joseph Smith? (3 categories)
- Source:Gospel Topics:Peach and Violence:Danites (3 categories)
- Question: Is it true that the Danites were pledged to “plunder, lie, and even kill if deemed necessary?" (3 categories)
- Question: How were the activities of the Danite band exposed? (3 categories)
- Question: Did the Danite band persist even after they were exposed? (3 categories)
- Question: What is "blood atonement"? (3 categories)
- Source:Charles Penrose:Improvement Era:September 1912:Do you believe in "blood-atonement"? (3 categories)
- Question: Did early Mormon leaders teach that apostasy was the unforgivable sin, and that the only thing an apostate could do to redeem himself was to give his own life, willingly or unwillingly? (3 categories)
- Question: Is the Church trying to hide something through its use of artwork? (3 categories)
- Question: Why doesn't the art match details which have been repeatedly spelled out in Church publications? (3 categories)
- Question: Who was Paul H. Dunn and what happened to him? (3 categories)
- Question: Many who listened to Elder Dunn's stories felt the spirit. Why would one feel the spirit upon hearing a story that was fabricated? Doesn't this confirm a lie? (3 categories)
- Question: Why did Elder Dunn exaggerate elements of these stories? (3 categories)
- Question: Is a "burning in the bosom" simply a subjective, emotion-based, unreliable way to practice self-deception? (3 categories)
- Question: What did Oliver Cowdery's associates say about his character? (3 categories)
- Question: Is someone unreliable because they practiced "treasure hunting" and believed in the use of seer stones to find lost objects? (3 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith change his stated motivation for praying in later years after he received the First Vision? (3 categories)
- Question: If the Joseph Smith Translation (JST) is Joseph Smith's 'correction' of Biblical errors, why do these corrections not match known Biblical manuscripts? (3 categories)
- Question: What does the lion couch scene in Book of Abraham Facsimile 1 normally represent? (3 categories)
- Question: Is Joseph Smith papyri Facsimile 1 common and similar to other such scenes? (3 categories)
- Question: Does the belief by the witnesses that the experience had visionary qualities contradict the claim that the Book of Mormon plates were real? (3 categories)
- Painesville Telegraph (1830): "The name of the person here, who pretends to have a divine mission, and to have seen and conversed with Angels, is Cowdray" (3 categories)
- Martin Harris: "As sure as you see my hand so sure did I see the angel and the plates" (3 categories)
- Edward Stevenson (1870): Martin Harris said "my belief is swallowed up in knowledge; for I want to say to you that as the Lord lives I do know that I stood with the Prophet Joseph Smith in the presence of the angel" (3 categories)
- Question: What criticisms are put forth regarding the restoration of the Melchizedek Priesthood? (3 categories)
- Question: Why did several years pass before Oliver Cowdery talked about the priesthood restoration? (3 categories)
- Question: Why did the Church modify the introduction to the Book of Mormon from "principal ancestors" to "among the ancestors?" (3 categories)
- Question: Did B.H. Roberts state that it was possible for Joseph Smith to have come up with the Book of Mormon on his own? (3 categories)
- Question: Were the Isaiah passages in the Book of Mormon simply plagiarized from the King James Bible? (3 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith revise his account of the First Vision in 1838 to respond to a leadership crisis? (3 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith become a baptized member of the Baptist Church in 1822? (3 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith become a member of the Methodist Church while he was translating the Book of Mormon? (3 categories)
- Question: Is there a cave in the Hill Cumorah containing the Nephite records? (3 categories)
- Source:Gardner:Joseph the Seer:2009 FAIR Conference:long before golden plates complicated his position as a local seer (3 categories)