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- Question: Is it possible that Joseph Smith is not a martyr because, while in jail, he had a gun and he had the temerity to defend himself? (2 categories)
- Question: How do Latter-day Saints understand the significance of the blood shed by Christ? (2 categories)
- Question: Has the Church hidden the fact that Joseph fired a gun while in Carthage Jail? (2 categories)
- Question: Do Mormons believe that the Bible has less value because it contains errors? (2 categories)
- Question: Do Mormons believe that the temple garment will protect them from physical harm? (2 categories)
- Question: Is the Mormon temple garment simply "magic underwear"? (2 categories)
- Multiple accounts of the First Vision (2 categories)
- Multiple accounts of the First Vision/Orson Hyde referred to "angels" (2 categories)
- Multiple accounts of the First Vision/Heber C. Kimball's statements regarding the First Vision (2 categories)
- Multiple accounts of the First Vision/Orson Pratt's statements regarding the First Vision (2 categories)
- Multiple accounts of the First Vision/George A. Smith said First Vision was an "angel" (2 categories)
- Joseph Smith's First Vision/John Taylor (2 categories)
- Joseph Smith's First Vision/Lucy Mack Smith and the Presbyterians (2 categories)
- Joseph Smith's First Vision/Did Joseph Smith join other churches/Methodist membership procedures (2 categories)
- The Burrows Cave artifacts (2 categories)
- Question: Are the Michigan Artifacts evidence for the Book of Mormon? (2 categories)
- Forgeries/Mark Hofmann/Church reaction to forgeries/Church statement 31 July 1987 (2 categories)
- Forgeries/Mark Hofmann/Church reaction to forgeries/Dallin H. Oaks 6 August 1987 remarks on Hofmann (2 categories)
- Forgeries/Mark Hofmann/Known forged documents (2 categories)
- Forgeries/Mark Hofmann/Church reaction to forgeries/Ensign list of Hofmann documents (2 categories)
- The Bat Creek Stone (2 categories)
- Question: Can the Newark "Holy Stones" be used as evidence to support the Book of Mormon? (2 categories)
- Question: How do we reconcile the actual age of the earth to the "seven thousand years of its continuance" mentioned in D&C 77:6? (2 categories)
- John S. Lewis: "Considering that Doctrine and Covenants 77:6 refers to “…this earth during the seven thousand years of its continuance, or its temporal existence,” what led Phelps to speak of Earth as 2,555 million years old?" (2 categories)
- Jesus Christ (2 categories)
- Similarities between ancient and modern temple rituals (2 categories)
- Question: Did ceremonies or practices ever change in the ancient Church? (2 categories)
- Question: Is it ever allowable to modify a religious ceremony? (2 categories)
- Southerton (2008/2014): "It's true that if a small group (say 10 people) entered a massive population (say 1 million), that it would be hard to detect their mitochondrial or Y chromosome DNA" (2 categories)
- Olson (2004): "People may like to think that they're descended from some ancient group while other people are not. But human ancestry doesn't work that way, since we all share the same ancestors just a few millenniums ago" (2 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith send men on missions in order to "steal" their wives while they were gone? (2 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith send William Law, Robert D. Foster, and Henry Jacobs on missions so that he could steal their wives? (2 categories)
- Question: What possible modern lessons can we learn from Emma and Joseph's struggle with plural marriage? (2 categories)
- Doctrine and Covenants and Church History Study Guide: "These papyri contain authentic Egyptian writings, but they do not date to the time of Abraham, nor do they contain the actual personally handwritten account of Abraham" (2 categories)
- Question: Do we have all of the papyri that Joseph Smith had? (2 categories)
- Question: How does the Grammar and Alphabet of the Egyptian Language (GAEL) relate to the Book of Abraham? (2 categories)
- Question: Were the characters on the papyri written by Abraham himself? (2 categories)
- Question: Does the Joseph Smith papyri consist of Egyptian funerary documents? (2 categories)
- Question: Do the Joseph Smith papyri date back to the time of Abraham? (2 categories)
- Turley claimed that John Whitmer said: "I now say I handled those plates. there was fine engravings on both sides. I handled them...and they were shown to me by a supernatural power" (2 categories)
- Question: How many times was Joseph Smith involved with legal issues? (2 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith make an error by claiming that Elias and Elijah are two different people, when they are in fact one and the same? (2 categories)
- Criticism of Mormonism/Books/By His Own Hand upon Papyrus: A New Look at the Joseph Smith Papyri/Larson "restoration" of Facsimile 1 (2 categories)
- Detailed response to CES Letter, First Vision (2 categories)
- Detailed response to CES Letter, Book of Abraham (2 categories)
- Detailed response to CES Letter, Polygamy and Polyandry (2 categories)
- Detailed response to CES Letter, Witnesses (2 categories)
- Detailed response to CES Letter, Science (2 categories)
- Question: How does archaeology in the Old World compare to the first chapters in the Book of Mormon? (2 categories)
- Question: What is "Polyandry?" (2 categories)