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- John A. Widtsoe (1943): "The Old Testament records a flood that was just over fifteen cubits (sometimes assumed to be about twenty-six feet) deep and covered the entire landscape" (2 categories)
- Question: Why does the Church teach that the flood was a global event? (2 categories)
- Question: Are Church members required to believe in a global flood? (2 categories)
- Question: How could the Garden of Eden have been in Missouri if the Flood was local? (2 categories)
- Question: Doesn't the Bible say that the continents were divided immediately after the Flood? (2 categories)
- Question: Was Martin Harris a gullible witness who would simply believe anything he was told? (2 categories)
- George Mantle (1888): Martin Harris said "Do you know that is the sun shining on us? Because as sure as you know that...he translated that book by the power of God" (2 categories)
- Question: Did one of the Book of Mormon witnesses actually only handle the plates while they were covered in a "tow frock"? (2 categories)
- John Whitmer (1876): "I have never heard that any one of the three or eight witnesses ever denied the testimony that they have borne to the Book as published in the first edition of the Book of Mormon" (2 categories)
- Question: How can we accept David Whitmer as a valid Book of Mormon witness if God told him to leave the Saints? (2 categories)
- Understanding revelation (2 categories)
- Question: If a doctrine is repudiated, does that mean that it was false when it was being taught? (2 categories)
- Question: If Gordon B. Hinckley were a true prophet, why did he not discern the nature of the Hofmann forgeries? (2 categories)
- Question: Are prophets simply "men of their time," without any special ability to guide the Church? (2 categories)
- Muhlestein and Gee: "It is now apparent that human sacrifice did indeed occur in ancient Egypt" (2 categories)
- The Apocalypse of Abraham: "Go out from thy father Terah, and get thee out from the house, that thou also be not slain" (2 categories)
- Book of Jubilees 12:1-8: "Abram said to Terah his father...What help and profit have we from those idols which thou dost worship...And his father said unto him...Keep silent, my son, lest they slay thee" (2 categories)
- Parrish (1838): "I have set by his side and penned down the translation of the Egyptian Heiroglyphicks as he claimed to receive it by direct inspiration of Heaven" (2 categories)
- John Whitmer: "Joseph the Seer saw these Record(s) and by the revelation of Jesus Christ could translate these records" (2 categories)
- Woodruff (1842): "The Lord is Blessing Joseph with Power to reveal the mysteries of the kingdom of God; to translate through the urim & Thummim Ancient records & Hyeroglyphics as old as Abraham or Adam" (2 categories)
- Question: How did Elder Holland respond during a BBC interview when asked how the Book of Abraham was translated? (2 categories)
- Question: Were plural wives forced into the marriage? (2 categories)
- Question: Did any woman suffer consequences for turning down Joseph's proposal? (2 categories)
- Question: Were women put under "tremendous pressure" to accept a proposal of plural marriage? (2 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith give a woman only one day to decide about entering a plural marriage, and would refusal mean terrible consequences? (2 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph claim that an angel threatened him with a "drawn sword" or "flaming sword" if a woman refused to marry him? (2 categories)
- Question: Was Joseph Smith ever charged with adultery under Illinois law? (2 categories)
- Question: Were there any similar cases under Illinois adultery statute which demonstrate that Joseph was not breaking the law? (2 categories)
- Joseph Smith's marriage to Helen Mar Kimball (2 categories)
- Question: Was Helen Mar Kimball's marriage to Joseph Smith ever consummated? (2 categories)
- Question: Did Helen Mar Kimball "confess" to having marital relations with Joseph? (2 categories)
- Question: What were Helen Mar Kimball's views on plural marriage? (2 categories)
- Helen Mar Kimball: "I have encouraged and sustained my husband in the celestial order of marriage because I knew it was right" (2 categories)
- Question: Was Joseph Smith sealed or married to other men's wives without the knowledge or consent of their husband? (2 categories)
- Question: What did the husband of Ruth Vose Sayers know about her sealing to Joseph Smith for eternity? (2 categories)
- Question: What did the husband of Esther Dutcher know about her sealing to Joseph Smith for eternity? (2 categories)
- Question: What did the husband of Mary Elizabeth Rollins know about her sealing to Joseph Smith for eternity? (2 categories)
- Question: What did the husband of Sarah Kingsley know about her sealing to Joseph Smith for eternity? (2 categories)
- Question: What did the husband of Patty Bartlett know about her sealing to Joseph Smith for eternity? (2 categories)
- Question: What did the husband of Elizabeth Davis know about her sealing to Joseph Smith for eternity? (2 categories)
- Question: What did the husband of Lucinda Pendleton Morgan Harris know about her sealing to Joseph Smith for eternity? (2 categories)
- Question: What did the husband of Elvira Annie Cowles know about her sealing to Joseph Smith for eternity? (2 categories)
- Question: What did the husband of Mary Heron know about her sealing to Joseph Smith for eternity? (2 categories)
- Question: Did Gordon B. Hinckley claim that polygamy was "not doctrinal" on Larry King Live? (2 categories)
- Question: How can President Hinckley claim that polygamy is "not doctrinal" if it was a required practice in the 19th-Century Church? (2 categories)
- Gospel Topics: "Today, any person who practices plural marriage cannot become or remain a member of the Church" (2 categories)
- Question: Was the only purpose of polygamy to "multiply and replenish the earth" and "bear the souls of men"? (2 categories)
- Question: If the only purpose of polygamy was to "raise up seed," then why did Joseph not have children by his plural wives? (2 categories)
- Question: Do academic translators copy translations of other documents to use as a "base text"? (2 categories)
- Question: How could Joseph and Fanny have been married in 1831 if the sealing power had not yet been restored? (2 categories)