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- Question: Did Heber C. Kimball and Orson Hyde order Nauvoo's police force to kill an apostate named Lambert Symes? (5 revisions)
- Question: Was stealing a crime that was "worthy of death" among 19th century Mormons? (5 revisions)
- Melvin J. Ballard (Apr 1938): "for these millions who are in Mexico, Central America and South America their day must come" (5 revisions)
- Question: Was Joseph Smith, Sr. a believer in witchcraft and the supernatural? (5 revisions)
- Source:Larsen and Rencher:Who Wrote the Book of Mormon? An Analysis of Wordprints:Our approach is sometimes referred to as the science of stylometry, which can be defined loosely as statistical analysis of style (5 revisions)
- Reference templates/FARMS Review/Volume 4 (5 revisions)
- Question: Are chariots an anachronism for the Book of Abraham? (5 revisions)
- Times and Seasons/4/8 (5 revisions)
- Reference templates/Interpreter/Volume 1 (5 revisions)
- Source:Christian Advocate and Journal:29 Jul 1841:This little band, after wandering long and far, came at last to America, and planted themselves in the western part of the present State of New York (5 revisions)
- Question: Why is the name "Lucifer" used to represent Satan in Latter-day Saint scriptures and the temple ceremony? (5 revisions)
- Why do the Latter-day Saints not wear or use the cross (5 revisions)
- Question: Is the suicide rate in Utah higher than the national average? (5 revisions)
- Reference templates/Interpreter/Volume 61 (5 revisions)
- Joseph Smith (Nov 1835): "he said the indians were the literal descendants of Abraham" (5 revisions)
- Times and Seasons/5/12 (5 revisions)
- Times and Seasons/5/24 (5 revisions)
- Evening and the Morning Star (Jun 1833): "NO people that have lived on this continent, since the flood, understood many of the arts and sciences, better that the Jaredites and Nephites" (5 revisions)
- Source:Parry:Symbolic Action as Prophetic Curse:This prophetic symbolic action by Isaiah represented a prophetic curse that destruction and ruin would come upon the Egyptians (5 revisions)
- Times and Seasons/4/3 (5 revisions)
- Elder's Journal (5 revisions)
- Journal of Discourses/7/34 (5 revisions)
- Question: Was 19th century Mormonism perceived as a group of "radical, immoral, and un-American band of religious zealots"? (5 revisions)
- Source: Testimony of Three Witnesses (5 revisions)
- Textual criticism of the Bible (5 revisions)
- FAIR Study Aids/Church History (5 revisions)
- Source:Steven E. Snow:Deseret News:9 Dec 2013:The First Presidency and the Quorum of the Twelve both have been very supportive of this process (5 revisions)
- J. Reuben Clark (1940): "Thus the hemisphere – Zion in its full area –was becoming “a land of liberty" (5 revisions)
- Times and Seasons/4/13 (5 revisions)
- Source:John Whitmer:Letter to Mark Forscutt:1876:Oliver Cowdery would not have denied his witness "at the peril of his life" (6 revisions)
- Question: Was lying a crime that was "worthy of death" among 19th century Mormons? (6 revisions)
- Question: Was using the name of the Lord in vain a crime that was "worthy of death" among 19th century Mormons? (6 revisions)
- Book of Mormon/Archaeology (6 revisions)
- Source:Joseph Smith:Bernhisel letter:1841:I received your kind present...of all histories that have been written pertaining to the antiquities of this country it is the most correct (6 revisions)
- Question: Was the Latter-day Saint concept of deification derived from Greek philosophy? (6 revisions)
- Source:Joint Eight Witnesses statements (6 revisions)
- Reference templates/Interpreter/Volume 2 (6 revisions)
- Source:Joseph Smith:15 Jul 1842:Stephens and Catherwood's researches in Central America abundantly testify of this thing (6 revisions)
- Question: Did Levi Edgar Young state that his prayer was that "thousands would turn not to God, but to Joseph"? (6 revisions)
- Question: Did Oliver Cowdery "neglect to mention" that Joseph Smith consulted a Bible during the Book of Mormon translation process? (6 revisions)
- Question: Did Orson Hyde state that it was permissible to "steal & be influenced by the spirit of the Lord to do it" as long as it was against non-Mormons? (6 revisions)
- Question: Were Brigham Young and the entire Church hierarchy responsible for the "Parrish-Potter" murders? (6 revisions)
- Cameron J. Packer (2004): "Joseph Smith and others returned the plates to a cave in the Hill Cumorah after he finished translating them" (6 revisions)
- Question: Were the early apostles married? (6 revisions)
- Question: What "plain and precious" teachings does the Book of Mormon provide regarding Satan? (6 revisions)
- Question: Did Porter Rockwell admit to shooting Lilburn Boggs? (6 revisions)
- Question: Did no one ever actually see the gold plates from which the Book of Mormon was translated? (6 revisions)
- Question: Did William McLellin ever mention drinking in association with the Kirtland Temple? (6 revisions)
- Reference templates/Interpreter/Volume 31 (6 revisions)
- John E. Clark, "Archaeology and Cumorah Questions,": "The hill the plates came from is not at issue; the question is whether this final resting place is the same hill where the ending battles occurred" (6 revisions)