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- Question: Did Fanny Alger have a child by Joseph Smith? (2 categories)
- Question: Was the fact that the recovery of the Book of Mormon plates occurred on the autumnal equinox somehow significant? (2 categories)
- Question: Does the Book of Mormon describe the Lamanites as being "cursed" with a "red skin"? (2 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith say that he would be a "second Muhammad," threatening to spread his beliefs with the sword? (2 categories)
- Question: Do Mormon men believe that they will become "gods of their own planets" and rule over others? (2 categories)
- Question: Did Brigham Young order that the Mount Meadows monument be destroyed? (2 categories)
- Question: Were William Parrish and his son murdered as they attempted to leave Utah because leaving Utah was "forbidden"? (2 categories)
- Question: Did Brigham Young issue orders that no food or grain should be sold to "Gentiles" that were passing through Utah? (2 categories)
- Question: Were 19th century Utah Mormons complicit in the deaths of Judge Leonidas Shaver, John Gunnison, and Almon Babbitt? (2 categories)
- Question: Did federal officials flee Utah because they feared for their lives? (2 categories)
- Question: What if the "rod of nature" was indeed a physical object such as a divining rod? (2 categories)
- Dallin H. Oaks (1987): "It should be recognized that such tools as the Urim and Thummim, the Liahona, seerstones, and other articles have been used appropriately in biblical, Book of Mormon, and modern times" (2 categories)
- Gospel Topics: "the Bible mentions other physical instruments used to access God’s power: the rod of Aaron, a brass serpent, holy anointing oils, the Ark of the Covenant, and even dirt from the ground mixed with saliva" (2 categories)
- Question: Do Mormons believe that other religions can be inspired by God? (2 categories)
- Question: Do all other religions confirm their beliefs through spiritual witness? (2 categories)
- Question: How can you know if your answer to prayer, your personal revelation, is true? (2 categories)
- Joseph Smith (1843): "I am just as ready to die in defending the rights of a Presbyterian, a Baptist, or a good man of any other denomination" (2 categories)
- Question: Do Latter-day Saints discount the spiritual witnesses that members of other religions may receive? (2 categories)
- Dr. Wendy Ulrich (2005): "How do the goosebumps and tearfulness I experience when someone speaks in a testimony meeting differ from the goosebumps and tearfulness I experience when the 4:00 parade begins at Disneyland?" (2 categories)
- Question: What is Moroni's promise? (2 categories)
- Question: Is prayer the only element required in the determination of truth? (2 categories)
- Preach My Gospel: "As you pray for inspiration, you should also confirm your feelings...Certainly the Spirit of the Lord can bring strong emotional feelings, including tears, but that outward manifestation ought not to be confused with the presence of the (2 categories)
- Question: What about those who pray and don't receive a confirmation the Book of Mormon is true? (2 categories)
- Question: How could Joseph Smith come to the conclusion that all churches were wrong on his own? (2 categories)
- Painesville Telegraph (1831): Martin Harris said that "He had seen and handled them all" (2 categories)
- Question: What material were the plates made from? (2 categories)
- Question: What was the size of each of the gold plates? (2 categories)
- Question: What was the thickness of each gold plate? (2 categories)
- Question: What was the thickness of the entire volume of gold plates? (2 categories)
- Painesville Telegraph (1830): "Cowdry claims that he and his associates are the only persons on earth who are qualified to administer in his name. By this authority, they proclaim to the world" (2 categories)
- The Palmyra Reflector (1831): "Jo Smith had now received a commission from God...Cowdery and his friends had frequent interviews with angels" (2 categories)
- Question: Did John Whitmer, one of the Eight Witnesses, actually say that he saw the plates by a "supernatural power"? (2 categories)
- Question: What is "empirical evidence"? (2 categories)
- Question: Is a man unreliable because he lived in the 19th-Century? (2 categories)
- Question: Was Joseph Smith afraid to reproduce the text of the lost 116 pages of Book of Mormon manuscript because he could not do so? (2 categories)
- Question: What are the criticisms related to Facsimile 3? (2 categories)
- Question: What is the correct interpretation of Facsimile 3? (2 categories)
- Question: What have been the responses to Joseph's interpretations of Facsimile 3? (2 categories)
- Question: Are there any known parallels between elements of Joseph's interpretation of Facsimile 3 with other ancient texts? (2 categories)
- Question: What are the criticisms regarding Joseph's interpretation of specific textual elements of Facsimile 3? (2 categories)
- Question: Was the Church forthright in identifying the rediscovered papyri prior to their examination by non-LDS Egyptologists? (2 categories)
- Improvement Era (January 1968): "Often the funerary texts contained passages from the 'Book of the Dead,' a book that was to assist in the safe passage of the dead person into the spirit world" (2 categories)
- Question: What did the Church announce in 1968 when the Joseph Smith papyri fragments were discovered? (2 categories)
- Question: How long did the Church know about the papyri before they published information about them? (2 categories)
- Alleged whitewashing of Church history (2 categories)
- Question: How is it possible that there were three days of darkness in the New World and not in the Old World? (2 categories)
- Question: Did William Smith claim that a religious revival led to the Joseph's "first vision" of an angel in 1823? (2 categories)
- Question: Who was James Strang? (2 categories)
- Question: What authorship theories are proposed by non-believers to account for the authorship of the Book of Mormon? (2 categories)
- Question: Is original sin a biblical doctrine? (2 categories)