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- Question: Did Martin Harris tell people that he only saw the plates with his "spiritual eye"? (6 categories)
- Question: Do Martin Harris's statements related to the "spiritual eye" or "eye of faith" contradict the reality of his witness? (6 categories)
- Question: What did B.H. Roberts say about ''View of the Hebrews'' and the Book of Mormon? (6 categories)
- Question: How did Joseph Smith use his seer stones as a youth? (6 categories)
- Question: Are there any eyewitness accounts of the events that resulted in the trip to Canada to sell the Book of Mormon copyright? (6 categories)
- Question: What does it mean when it is said that the Book of Mormon contains the "fulness of the gospel?" (6 categories)
- Question: How can the Book of Mormon contain the "fulness of the Gospel" if it does not speak of ordinances such as baptism for the dead or celestial marriage? (6 categories)
- Criticism of Mormonism/Books/The Changing World of Mormonism/Chapter 5 (6 categories)
- Question: Why does Joseph Smith state in his 1832 First Vision account that he was in his "16th year" of age? (6 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith originally identify the angel that visited him as "Nephi" instead of "Moroni"? (6 categories)
- Peterson: "Thomas Stuart Ferguson's biographer...makes every effort to portray Ferguson's apparent eventual loss of faith as a failure for 'LDS archaeology'" (6 categories)
- Gee: "Ferguson is largely unknown to the vast majority of Latter-day Saints; his impact on Book of Mormon studies is minimal" (6 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith ever publicly attempt to teach the doctrine of plural marriage? (6 categories)
- Question: Why did Joseph keep the doctrine of plural marriage private? (6 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith receive a revelation instructing him to to sell the copyright to the Book of Mormon in Canada and later claim that the revelation was false? (6 categories)
- Miller and Roper: "Bones of domesticated cattle...have been reported from different caves in the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico" (6 categories)
- Question: Why are horses considered an anachronism in the Book of Mormon? (6 categories)
- Question: What is the origin of the modern horse in the New World? (6 categories)
- Verses in the Book of Mormon that talk about "horses" (6 categories)
- Question: What role do horses ''not'' play in the Book of Mormon? (6 categories)
- Question: Have any ancient horse remains from the Nephite period been found in the New World? (6 categories)
- Question: Why don't potential pre-Columbian horse remains in the New World receive greater attention from scientists? (6 categories)
- Question: Could ancient Americans have expanded the definition of "horse" to include new meanings? (6 categories)
- Grayson: "extinct North American mammals...losses began in Mexico and Alaska during the Pleistocene and ended in Florida perhaps as recently as 2000 years ago" (6 categories)
- Question: What are the reasons for the changes to the Doctrine and Covenants? (6 categories)
- Question: Is plural marriage required in order to achieve exaltation? (6 categories)
- Source:Webb:BYUS:2011:15:Christian beliefs do not need to have Neo-Platonic influence to be true (6 categories)
- Source:Webb:BYUS:2011:16:Joseph Smith more coherent than Augustine on matter and the divine (6 categories)
- Criticism of Mormonism/Books/No Man Knows My History: The Life of Joseph Smith/Chapter 3 (6 categories)
- The Lamanite curse (6 categories)
- Source:Webb:BYUS:2011:1:Sameness of Jesus' humanity (6 categories)
- Gospel Topics: "Joseph Smith and his associates often used the term 'Urim and Thummim' to refer to the single stone as well as the interpreters" (6 categories)
- Ensign (Jan. 2013): "He...referred to it using an Old Testament term, Urim and Thummim...He also sometimes applied the term to other stones he possessed" (6 categories)
- W.W. Phelps (1833): "through the aid of a pair of Interpreters, or spectacles—(known, perhaps, in ancient days as Teraphim, or Urim and Thummim)" (6 categories)
- Question: Did some of Joseph Smith's associates believe that he had an affair with Fanny Alger? (6 categories)
- Question: Was Oliver Cowdery aware that some in the Church were practicing polygamy in 1835 at the time he authored the "Article on Marriage"? (6 categories)
- Question: Was the practice of polygamy general knowledge among Latter-day Saints in 1835 when the "Article on Marriage" was published? (6 categories)
- Neuenschwander (2009): "Joseph's vision was at first an intensely personal experience...it became the founding revelation of the Restoration" (5 categories)
- Gordon B. Hinckley (1984): "I am not worried that the Prophet Joseph Smith gave a number of versions of the first vision" (5 categories)
- Question: After the end of the rebellion in South Carolina, did the Church not mention the Civil War prophecy for many years? (5 categories)
- Question: How was the decision reached to destroy the ''Nauvoo Expositor''? (5 categories)
- Question: Why did the Nauvoo City Council feel it was necessary to destroy the ''Nauvoo Expositor''? (5 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith or his associates attempt to reconcile with William Law before he published the ''Nauvoo Expositor''? (5 categories)
- Question: When was the Danite band formed and why? (5 categories)
- Question: Did the three witnesses's experience of seeing the plates and the angel take place only in their minds? (5 categories)
- Question: What are the differences between the Strangite witness statements and those of the Three and Eight Witnesses to the Book of Mormon? (5 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith attempt to translate the Kinderhook Plates? (5 categories)
- Question: What are the Kinderhook Plates? (5 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph attempt to translate the Kinderhook Plates using the "gift and power of God?" (5 categories)
- Question: Did B.H. Roberts lose his faith in the Church and the Book of Mormon? (5 categories)