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- FAIR Study Aids/Church History (5 revisions)
- Question: What are the "gates of hell" or "gates of Hades?" (5 revisions)
- Source:Roper:Review of Books on the Book of Mormon:While apparently not used for the burnt offering, firstlings could and frequently were used along with other animals in the sacrificial peace offering (5 revisions)
- Question: Do Latter-day Saints believe that they were the only ones with a "legitimate right to be stewards" of all property on the earth? (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)
- Source:Daniel C. Peterson:Ensign:Jan 2000:But the region of Mesoamerica—particularly southern Mexico and Guatemala, where many suggest that much of the Book of Mormon story may have happened (5 revisions)
- Question: What does not fall within the scope of Church discipline? (5 revisions)
- Reference templates/Interpreter/Volume 50 (5 revisions)
- Question: Did historian Thomas Alexander claim that "the Indians" forced Mormons to commit the Mountain Meadows Massacre? (5 revisions)
- Question: What examples exist of writing on gold or other metal plates from around the ancient world? (5 revisions)
- Missionary responds to critic (1843): "I contend that it is North and South America both that includes the promised land to the branches of Joseph" (5 revisions)
- Evening and the Morning Star (Jun 1833): "Lehi was guided by the matchless power of God to this continent" (5 revisions)
- Reference templates/Interpreter/Volume 23 (5 revisions)
- Question: Did the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the Mormons) invest more money in Proposition 8 than in all of its combined humanitarian efforts? (5 revisions)
- George A. Smith (1864 - quoting Joseph Smith): "When the light rested upon me I saw two personages, whose brightness and glory defy all description...'This is my beloved son, hear him'" (5 revisions)
- Question: What "plain and precious" teachings does the Book of Mormon provide regarding the requirements for baptism? (5 revisions)
- George A. Smith (1868): "revealed to Joseph by the ministration of angels, the true condition of the religious world" (5 revisions)
- Source:Stephen E. Robinson:1998:an often misunderstood concept: the great and abominable church of the devil (5 revisions)
- Question: Do the Late War and the Book of Mormon describe "burned martyrs" in a similar way? (5 revisions)
- George Albert Smith (Oct 1940): "They will find that it contains, in addition to what the Bible has told us about the world, what the Lord has said about this Western Hemisphere" (5 revisions)
- Source:Revelations in Context:The Word of Wisdom:it required time to wind down practices that were so deeply ingrained (5 revisions)
- J. Reuben Clark (1940): "Thus the hemisphere – Zion in its full area –was becoming “a land of liberty" (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)
- George F. Richards (1922): "The land of North and South America is a very much favored portion of our Father's footstool" (5 revisions)
- Evening and the Morning Star (March 1833): "The continent of America is a choice land above all others" (5 revisions)
- Source:Stewart W. Brewer:JBMS:8:1:1999:Professor M. Wells Jakeman...claimed that the scene carved in bas-relief on the stone was a representation of Lehi's vision of the tree of life (5 revisions)
- Heber J. Grant (1937): "I am a firm believer that this country, both North and South America, is the choice land of the world" (5 revisions)
- Reference templates/JBMS/Volume 19 (5 revisions)
- Question: Did Joseph own 144 acres of land in Kirtland? (5 revisions)
- Source:Morrise:Simile Curses in the Ancient Near East, Old Testament, and Book of Mormon:The simile curse is a type of curse that appears in ancient Near Eastern, Old Testament, and Book of Mormon texts (5 revisions)
- Reference templates/Interpreter/Volume 34 (5 revisions)
- Question: Do the Late War and the Book of Mormon share a similarity in describing women as "tender"—prey to the lusts of men? (5 revisions)
- Reference templates/JBMS/Volume 17 (5 revisions)
- Question: What portions of the image were missing from Facsimile 1? (5 revisions)
- Source:Millennial Star:2 Jul 1841:Canada on the north, Oregon on the West, Mexico on the south, together with all the tribes in central and South America (5 revisions)
- Mormonism/Atheism/Epistemic Responsibility (5 revisions)
- Spencer W. Kimball (Feb 1977): "There are probably sixty million Lamanites in America" (5 revisions)
- Question: What specific transgressions might result in Church discipline? (5 revisions)
- Marion G. Romney (6 Apr 1963): "I have for the past two years been supervising the Latin American missions...the Lamanites, many of whom live in these missions" (5 revisions)
- Source:Gospel Topics:Decisions about birth control and the consequences of those decisions rest solely with each married couple (5 revisions)
- Reference templates/Reference works (5 revisions)
- Question: How reliable is the testimony of Bishop Philip Klingensmith with regard to the Mountain Meadows Massacre? (5 revisions)
- Oliver Cowdery reaffirmed his published testimony of the Book of Mormon (5 revisions)
- Question: How should we understand the concept of worthiness? (5 revisions)
- Ezra Taft Benson (Apr 1955): "the Promised Land, the land of Zion, includes all of North and South America" (5 revisions)
- Parley P. Pratt (Aug 1840): "excavating in the neighbourhood of Bahia, in Brazil...bearing a strong architectural resemblance to the ruins existing in the northern parts of Norway, in Iceland, and in Greenland" (5 revisions)
- Question: Why did George Q. Cannon say that Joseph Smith was visited by an "angel" during the First Vision? (5 revisions)
- Question: What might the witnesses to the Book of Mormon have gained if they had denied their testimonies? (5 revisions)
- Reference templates/Interpreter/Volume 41 (5 revisions)
- Reference templates/Interpreter/Volume 1 (5 revisions)