FAIR is a non-profit organization dedicated to providing well-documented answers to criticisms of the doctrine, practice, and history of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
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- Question: Are olives anachronistic to the Book of Mormon? (used on 2 pages)
- Question: Are sacred garments used in other religious traditions? (used on 2 pages)
- Question: Are sacred garments used in religious traditions other than Mormonism? (used on 2 pages)
- Question: Are some Mormon publications misrepresented as "official" publications of the Church? (used on 2 pages)
- Question: Are some publications misrepresented as "official" publications of the Church? (used on 2 pages)
- Question: Are the Biblical textual variants theologically significant? (used on 2 pages)
- Question: Are the Michigan Artifacts evidence for the Book of Mormon? (used on 2 pages)
- Question: Are the ages stated in Joseph's accounts of the First Vision 'all over the place?' (used on 2 pages)
- Question: Are the large population counts described in the Book of Mormon during the final battle at the Hill Cumorah accurate? (used on 2 pages)
- Question: Are there any Biblical, Jewish, or early Christian teachings about marriage which lasts beyond the grave? (used on 2 pages)
- Question: Are there any Biblical parallels to Joseph's understanding of the use of seer stones? (used on 2 pages)
- Question: Are there any Biblical parallels to Joseph Smith's understanding of the use of seer stones? (used on 2 pages)
- Question: Are there circumstances in which lying is necessary in order to avoid a greater harm? (used on 2 pages)
- Question: Are there different degrees of glory assigned to "Mormons" versus "non-Mormons"? (used on 2 pages)
- Question: Are there new ideas necessary for creedal Trinitarianism? (used on 2 pages)
- Question: Are wine and grapes considered anachronisms for the Book of Mormon? (used on 2 pages)
- Question: Aren't tithing funds from "long ago" ultimately the source of all current Church funds? (used on 2 pages)
- Question: At the Reed Smoot Senate hearings, did Joseph F. Smith tesify that he never received revelation? (used on 2 pages)
- Question: Because Mormons do not currently practice plural marriage, does this mean that early leaders who taught that is was required were wrong? (used on 2 pages)
- Question: Can Latter-day Saints be divided into two distinct groups called "Internet Mormons" and "Chapel Mormons"? (used on 2 pages)
- Question: Can Latter-day Saints have a non-literal view of the creation story, or have a somewhat more mythic view of the first five books of Moses given the Church's teaching of a historical Adam? (used on 2 pages)
- Question: Can a Prophet Make Mistakes? (used on 2 pages)
- Source:Brigham Young:1855:JD 2:171:The Lord did not come with the armies of heaven (used on 2 pages)
- Source:Brigham Young:1855:JD 3:43:I do not wish any Latter-day Saint...to be satisfied with anything I do (used on 2 pages)
- Source:Brigham Young:1855:JD 3:51:we know that he was an honorable man and dealt justly, we know his true character (used on 2 pages)
- Source:Brigham Young:1861:JD 8:354:The Lord chose Joseph Smith, called upon him at fourteen years of age, gave him visions (used on 2 pages)
- Source:Brigham Young:1862:JD 9:150:I am more afraid that this people have so much confidence in their leaders that they will not inquire for themselves of God (used on 2 pages)
- Source:Brigham Young:1867:JD 12:67:the Lord called upon Joseph he was but a boy—a child, only about fourteen years of age (used on 2 pages)
- Source:Brown:Brigham Young’s Teachings on Adam:2009 FAIR Conference:Brigham Young repeated these ideas and expounded upon them during the next 25 years (used on 2 pages)
- Source:Brown:Nahom and the "Eastward" Turn:JBMS 12:1 (used on 2 pages)
- Source:Chicago Times:1875:Three times David Whitmer has been at the Hill Cumorah and seen the casket that contained the tablets and seerstone (used on 2 pages)
- Source:Church spokesman:2006:The belief that Christ was married has never been official church doctrine (used on 2 pages)
- Source:Dallin Oaks:Teaching and Learning by the Spirit:Ensign:March 1997:Surely, the word “burning” in this scripture signifies a feeling of comfort and serenity...That is the way revelation works (used on 2 pages)
- Source:Damrosch:The Narrative Covenant:Naham means "to mourn" (used on 2 pages)
- Source:David Whitmer:Rebuttal to John Murphy 19 March 1881:EMD 5:69:Which has so long since been published with that book as one of the three witnesses (used on 2 pages)
- Source:Echoes:Ch2:11:John Whitmer 1876:I have never heard that any one of the three or eight witnesses ever denied the testimony (used on 2 pages)
- Source:Echoes:Ch2:7:David Whitmer:Just as plain as I see this bed (used on 2 pages)
- Source:Echoes:Ch5:29:Lehi's desert journey and Joseph Smith (used on 2 pages)
- Source:FAIR Questions 2:Recognizing the Voice of the Spirit:How can I come to know that spiritual experience is not just a product of chemical processes in the brain (used on 2 pages)
- Source:George A. Smith:1868:JD 12:333-34:revealed to Joseph by the ministration of angels, the true condition of the religious world (used on 2 pages)
- Source:Gospel Topics:Are Mormons Christian?:Members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints unequivocally affirm themselves to be Christians (used on 2 pages)
- Source:Gospel Topics:Book of Mormon Translation:These two instruments—the interpreters and the seer stone—were apparently interchangeable (used on 2 pages)
- Source:Gospel Topics:Book of Mormon and DNA Studies:The evidence assembled to date suggests that the majority of Native Americans carry largely Asian DNA (used on 2 pages)
- Source:Gospel Topics:Plural Marriage and Families in Early Utah:Although some leaders had large polygamous families, two-thirds of polygamist men had only two wives at a time (used on 2 pages)
- Source:Gospel Topics:Race and the Priesthood:Church authorities encountered faithful black and mixed-ancestry Mormons who had contributed financially and in other ways to the building of the São Paulo temple (used on 2 pages)
- Source:Harold B. Lee:8 Jul 1966:if the Lord wanted us to know where it was, or where Zarahemla was, he’d have given us latitude and longitude, don’t you think? (used on 2 pages)
- Source:Hinckley:Deseret News:2002:What the church requires is only belief that Adam was the first man of what we would call the human race (used on 2 pages)
- Source:Hoskisson:Scimitars, Cimeters:Warfare in the Book of Mormon:the mistaken assumption that scimitars did not exist in the pre-Islamic Old World (used on 2 pages)
- Source:Improvement Era 1909 regards an ancient earth as consistent with scripture (used on 2 pages)
- Source:JBMS:Sorenson and Roper:Lehi saw from the beginning that Nephites and Lamanites were labels that would include a variety of groups that could have differing biological origins, cultures, and ethnic heritages (used on 2 pages)