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- Peterson (2005): The plates "are an indigestible lump in the throats of people...who contend that there were no Nephites but that Joseph Smith was nonetheless an inspired prophet" (3 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph hide his plural marriages from Emma, his first wife? (3 categories)
- Question: How was the text of the Book of Abraham produced by Joseph Smith? (3 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph use his seer stone to receive the text of the Book of Abraham in the same manner as he did for the Book of Mormon? (3 categories)
- Joseph Smith/Other visions (3 categories)
- Criticism of Mormonism/Online documents/Letter to a CES Director (3 categories)
- Improvement Era (1946): "Did Joseph Smith Introduce Plural Marriage?...It is also possible, though the Church does not now permit it, to seal two living people for eternity only, with no association on earth" (3 categories)
- The Joseph Smith Papers: "Several later documents suggest that several women who were already married to other men were, like Marinda Hyde, married or sealed to Joseph Smith" (3 categories)
- Question: Why does the Book of Abraham state that it was written by Abraham's "own hand upon papyrus" if the papyri date to after the Abrahamic period? (3 categories)
- Juncker (1994): "Unknown to many, the early church fathers often referred to Jesus as an Angel....in antiquity the word 'angel' meant 'messenger'" (3 categories)
- Question: Why does Joseph Smith's 9 November 1835 account of the First Vision mention "many angels?" (3 categories)
- Question: Does the 14 November 1835 account reference to the "first vision of Angels" mean that Joseph Smith did not see Deity? (3 categories)
- Question: What is the Strengthening Church Members Committee? (3 categories)
- Godfrey: "Martin found a rock closely resembling the seerstone Joseph sometimes used in place of the interpreters and substituted it without the Prophet’s knowledge" (3 categories)
- Brigham Young (1855): "I do not even believe that there is a single revelation, among the many God has given to the Church, that is perfect in its fulness" (3 categories)
- Question: Were the changes to the revelations hidden from the Church members? (3 categories)
- Question: Have edits to the revelations been discussed in the present day? (3 categories)
- Question: What changes were made to the Doctrine and Covenants? (3 categories)
- 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? (3 categories)
- Question: What is the Adam-God Theory? (3 categories)
- Stephen E. Robinson: "Yet another way in which anti-Mormon critics often misrepresent LDS doctrine is in the presentation of anomalies as though they were the doctrine of the Church" (3 categories)
- Matthew Brown (2009): "Brigham Young repeated these ideas and expounded upon them during the next 25 years. His viewpoints have been variously classified as doctrine, theory, paradox, heresy, speculation, and some of the mysteries" (3 categories)
- Question: What did Orson Hyde, the husband of Marinda Nancy Johnson, know about her sealing to Joseph Smith for eternity? (3 categories)
- Question: What did the husband of Presendia L. Huntington know about her sealing to Joseph Smith for eternity? (3 categories)
- Question: What did the husband of Sylvia Sessions know about her sealing to Joseph Smith for eternity? (3 categories)
- Question: Does the Bible prohibit polygamous marriages involving a mother and daughter? (3 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith being sealed to mothers, daughters and sisters violate a biblical prohibition? (3 categories)
- Question: What is Lorenzo Snow claimed to have said about plural marriages being adultery prior to 1843? (3 categories)
- Question: Did Lorenzo Snow state that polygamy was actually adultery prior to 1843? (3 categories)
- Question: Are the original Temple Lot Case transcripts available online? (3 categories)
- Question: I've seen Temple Lot court transcripts online. Are these not accurate? (3 categories)
- Question: Did Lucy Mack Smith join the Presbyterian Church after her son Alvin died in 1823? (3 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith claim that the Kirtland Safety Society was established by a revelation from God? (3 categories)
- Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Mormonism Unmasked/Chapter 3 (3 categories)
- Question: How do the goals of Freemasonry compare to those of the Latter-day Saint endowment? (3 categories)
- Question: Are there sources which identify the angel that visited Joseph as "Moroni" that date prior to the "Nephi" error? (3 categories)
- Question: Does the Book of Mormon contain mistakes? (3 categories)
- Joseph Smith listed as author and proprietor of the Book of Mormon (3 categories)
- Question: What are the Lectures on Faith? (3 categories)
- Question: What does Lecture 5 of the Lectures on Faith say about the nature of God? (3 categories)
- Question: How would a statement that "God is a spirit" be interpreted in ancient Judasism? (3 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith write a "love letter" to his plural wife Sarah Ann Whitney to request a secret rendezvous? (3 categories)
- Question: How do critics of the Church portray Joseph Smith's letter to the Whitney family as a "love letter"? (3 categories)
- Question: What was the real purpose of the letter written by Joseph Smith to the parents of Sarah Ann Whitney? (3 categories)
- Question: Why is ''History of the Church'' written in first-person, as if Joseph Smith himself wrote it? (3 categories)
- Question: Where can I learn more about the Sidney Rigdon/Solomon Spalding authorship theory? (3 categories)
- Question: Does the Bible condemn genealogical research? (3 categories)
- Neil L. Andersen (2012): "A few question their faith when they find a statement made by a Church leader decades ago that seems incongruent with our doctrine" (2 categories)
- Mormonism and apologetics/"ad hominem"/Case study/An attempt to portray Dan Peterson as dishonest and possibly mentally ill (2 categories)
- Mormonism and apologetics/"ad hominem"/Case study/An attempt to dismiss Rosalynde Welch because of who she is related to (2 categories)