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13 January 2021
- 21:2621:26, 13 January 2021 diff hist −23 Question: Did LDS scholar Hugh Nibley support the "Heartland model" of Book of Mormon geography? →Nibley repeatedly mentioned a variety of geographical theories, including Central America
- 21:2221:22, 13 January 2021 diff hist +6 Question: Is everything that is published by the Church considered Mormon doctrine? →We consider the inspired words of the prophets as scripture for our time. Not everything taught in the 19th century applies to the 21st century
- 21:2021:20, 13 January 2021 diff hist +28 Question: How does the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints establish new doctrine? →Establishing new doctrine
- 21:1821:18, 13 January 2021 diff hist +28 Question: What is official or core Mormon doctrine? →Question: What is official or core Mormon doctrine?
8 January 2021
- 03:4803:48, 8 January 2021 diff hist +108 Question: Was the Joseph Smith Translation intended to be a restoration of original Bible text? →The JST is not intended primarily or solely as a restoration of lost Bible text
- 03:4503:45, 8 January 2021 diff hist +10 Question: Was the Joseph Smith Translation intended to be a restoration of original Bible text? →The JST is not intended primarily or solely as a restoration of lost Bible text
- 03:4403:44, 8 January 2021 diff hist +163 Question: Was the Joseph Smith Translation intended to be a restoration of original Bible text? →The JST is not intended primarily or solely as a restoration of lost Bible text
4 January 2021
- 21:5621:56, 4 January 2021 diff hist −25 Question: Are the scriptures misogynistic/sexist? →"The Weaker Vessell" 1 Peter 3:7
- 21:5521:55, 4 January 2021 diff hist +1 Question: Are the scriptures misogynistic/sexist? →More bitter than the woman…whose heart is in snares (Ecclesiastes 7:26)
- 21:4821:48, 4 January 2021 diff hist −65 Question: Are the scriptures misogynistic/sexist? →Deuteronomy 25:11-12 - Female Mutilation?
- 21:4321:43, 4 January 2021 diff hist +4 Question: Are the scriptures misogynistic/sexist? →Impurity at Birth (Leviticus 12:1-8)
- 21:4221:42, 4 January 2021 diff hist +63 Question: Are the scriptures misogynistic/sexist? →Exodus 21:7-11
- 21:3721:37, 4 January 2021 diff hist −53 Question: Are the scriptures misogynistic/sexist? →General lack of female writers in the scriptures
- 21:3621:36, 4 January 2021 diff hist +104 Question: Are the scriptures misogynistic/sexist? →Polygamy and Concubinage
- 20:5620:56, 4 January 2021 diff hist +1,225 Question: Many who listened to Elder Dunn's stories felt the spirit. Why would one feel the spirit upon hearing a story that was fabricated? Doesn't this confirm a lie? →Simply receiving a warm feeling about a speech or article is not enough to call it revelation or a confirmation of the spirit
- 20:4120:41, 4 January 2021 diff hist −32 Question: Is the Latter-day Saint conception of testimony from the Holy Ghost threatened by neuroscience or psychology? →A Review of The Different Neurological Phenomena
- 20:2520:25, 4 January 2021 diff hist −1 Question: Is the Latter-day Saint conception of testimony from the Holy Ghost threatened by neuroscience or psychology? →Confirmation Bias
- 20:2420:24, 4 January 2021 diff hist −1 Question: Is the Latter-day Saint conception of testimony from the Holy Ghost threatened by neuroscience or psychology? →Confirmation Bias
- 20:2020:20, 4 January 2021 diff hist −1 Question: Is the Latter-day Saint conception of testimony from the Holy Ghost threatened by neuroscience or psychology? →Confirmation Bias
- 20:1920:19, 4 January 2021 diff hist +251 Question: Is the Latter-day Saint conception of testimony from the Holy Ghost threatened by neuroscience or psychology? →Confirmation Bias
- 20:0920:09, 4 January 2021 diff hist −4 Question: Is the Latter-day Saint conception of testimony from the Holy Ghost threatened by neuroscience or psychology? →Review of the Criticism
- 20:0420:04, 4 January 2021 diff hist −458 Question: Is the Latter-day Saint conception of testimony from the Holy Ghost threatened by neuroscience or psychology? →The Latter-day Saint Conception of the Soul
- 20:0120:01, 4 January 2021 diff hist +121 Question: Is the Latter-day Saint conception of testimony from the Holy Ghost threatened by neuroscience or psychology? →Spiritual Experiences Bring Not Just Feelings But Knowledge
- 20:0020:00, 4 January 2021 diff hist −1 Question: Is the Latter-day Saint conception of testimony from the Holy Ghost threatened by neuroscience or psychology? →Question: Is the Latter-day Saint conception of testimony from the Holy Ghost threatened by neuroscience or psychology?
- 19:5919:59, 4 January 2021 diff hist −3,990 Question: Is the Latter-day Saint conception of testimony from the Holy Ghost threatened by neuroscience or psychology? →Question: Is the Latter-day Saint conception of testimony from the Holy Ghost threatened by neuroscience or psychology?
1 January 2021
- 02:4502:45, 1 January 2021 diff hist +360 Criticism of Mormonism/Online documents/Letter to a CES Director No edit summary
22 December 2020
- 06:0806:08, 22 December 2020 diff hist +163 Bible passages in the Book of Mormon No edit summary
20 December 2020
- 21:2221:22, 20 December 2020 diff hist +2 Question: Can Latter-day Saints have a non-literal view of the creation story, or have a somewhat more mythic view of the first five books of Moses given the Church's teaching of a historical Adam? →Less Core or More Negotiable Things
- 21:2221:22, 20 December 2020 diff hist +821 Question: Can Latter-day Saints have a non-literal view of the creation story, or have a somewhat more mythic view of the first five books of Moses given the Church's teaching of a historical Adam? →Less Core or More Negotiable Things
- 21:0821:08, 20 December 2020 diff hist −1,189 Question: Can Latter-day Saints have a non-literal view of the creation story, or have a somewhat more mythic view of the first five books of Moses given the Church's teaching of a historical Adam? →More Core or Non-Negotiable Propositions
- 05:4905:49, 20 December 2020 diff hist +86 Question: How can one approach reconciling confusing, seemingly disturbing, or otherwise troubling texts from the scriptures? →Kenton Sparks on recognizing that scripture is in need of redemption and not immune from criticism
- 05:4705:47, 20 December 2020 diff hist +421 Question: How can one approach reconciling confusing, seemingly disturbing, or otherwise troubling texts from the scriptures? →Question: How can one approach reconciling confusing, seemingly disturbing, or otherwise troubling texts from the scriptures?
- 02:3902:39, 20 December 2020 diff hist 0 Question: What is the history of Brigham Young's Adam-God Theory and why was it rejected by the Church? →Rejection of Adam-God by the LDS Church
- 02:3802:38, 20 December 2020 diff hist −1 Question: What is the history of Brigham Young's Adam-God Theory and why was it rejected by the Church? →Origins
- 02:3802:38, 20 December 2020 diff hist +6,559 Question: What is the history of Brigham Young's Adam-God Theory and why was it rejected by the Church? →Question: What is the history of Brigham Young's Adam-God Theory and why was it rejected by the Church?
18 December 2020
- 08:0308:03, 18 December 2020 diff hist +8 Question: Isn't the Mormon opposition to same-sex marriage hypocritical, considering that they used to ban black from holding the priesthood until 1978? →2020
- 08:0208:02, 18 December 2020 diff hist +965 Question: Isn't the Mormon opposition to same-sex marriage hypocritical, considering that they used to ban black from holding the priesthood until 1978? →The prohibition on homosexual behavior has repeatedly been declared as a never-changing standard.
20 November 2020
- 01:5201:52, 20 November 2020 diff hist +677 Detailed response to CES Letter, First Vision /* Response to claim: "...the following is what LDS historian and member of the Joseph Smith Papers project, Ronald O. Barney, has to say about Fawn Brodie and her book, No Man Knows My History...Richard Bushman extensively used No Man Knows My History...
- 01:2701:27, 20 November 2020 diff hist +1,274 Detailed response to CES Letter, Book of Mormon No edit summary
9 November 2020
- 02:4202:42, 9 November 2020 diff hist +146 Question: Is the Book of Mormon's anti-universalism derived merely from Joseph Smith's contemporary religious culture? →Examples from the Ancient World of Universalism
6 November 2020
- 22:4622:46, 6 November 2020 diff hist −2 Question: What were the circumstances surrounding the sealing of Helen Mar Kimball to Joseph Smith? →Helen became an advocate of plural marriage and vigorously defended it
- 22:4622:46, 6 November 2020 diff hist +2 Question: What were the circumstances surrounding the sealing of Helen Mar Kimball to Joseph Smith? →Helen became an advocate of plural marriage and vigorously defended it
- 22:4522:45, 6 November 2020 diff hist −1 Question: What were the circumstances surrounding the sealing of Helen Mar Kimball to Joseph Smith? →Helen was not called to testify in the Temple Lot case, in which the Church was attempting to prove that Joseph had normal marital relations with some of his plural wives, even though she was available
- 22:4522:45, 6 November 2020 diff hist +129 Question: What were the circumstances surrounding the sealing of Helen Mar Kimball to Joseph Smith? →Helen was not called to testify in the Temple Lot case, in which the Church was attempting to prove that Joseph had normal marital relations with some of his plural wives, even though she was available
- 22:4422:44, 6 November 2020 diff hist −1 Question: What were the circumstances surrounding the sealing of Helen Mar Kimball to Joseph Smith? →Helen was not called to testify in the Temple Lot case, in which the Church was attempting to prove that Joseph had normal marital relations with some of his plural wives, even though she was available
- 22:4322:43, 6 November 2020 diff hist 0 Question: What were the circumstances surrounding the sealing of Helen Mar Kimball to Joseph Smith? →Helen was not called to testify in the Temple Lot case, in which the Church was attempting to prove that Joseph had normal marital relations with some of his plural wives, even though she was available
- 22:4222:42, 6 November 2020 diff hist −255 Question: What were the circumstances surrounding the sealing of Helen Mar Kimball to Joseph Smith? →Question: What were the circumstances surrounding the sealing of Helen Mar Kimball to Joseph Smith?
- 22:3622:36, 6 November 2020 diff hist +213 Joseph Smith's marriage to Helen Mar Kimball →Helen spoke out on the subject later in her life
- 22:3622:36, 6 November 2020 diff hist −53 Joseph Smith's marriage to Helen Mar Kimball →There is no evidence whatsoever that Helen's marriage to Joseph was ever consummated--even where such evidence might be expected.
- 22:3322:33, 6 November 2020 diff hist +4 Joseph Smith's marriage to Helen Mar Kimball →There is no evidence whatsoever that Helen's marriage to Joseph was ever consummated--even where such evidence might be expected.