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Category:One Nation Under Gods
These pages respond to issues raised in the book One Nation Under Gods, by Richard Abanes.
Pages in category "One Nation Under Gods"
The following 114 pages are in this category, out of 317 total.
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- Question: Was the Latter-day Saint periodical The Evening and Morning Star claiming that Missouri "rightfully belonged to Mormons?"
- Question: Was the original head of the priest in Book of Abraham Facsimile 1 actually the jackal head of Anubis?
- Question: Was the priest depicted in Book of Abraham Facsimile 1 holding a knife or was it some other object?
- Question: Was the priesthood ban lifted as the result of social or government pressure?
- Question: Was the young Joseph Smith a teller of "tall tales"?
- Question: Was there an oath in a former version of the Mormon temple endowment that required vengeance upon the government of the United States?
- Question: Was there no mention of revival activity in 1820 in the newspaper?
- Question: Was Thomas Stuart Ferguson an archaeologist?
- Question: Was Utah's second governor, John W. Dawson, beaten by Latter-day Saints?
- Question: Were apostates secretly put to death by "blood atonement" during the administration of Brigham Young?
- Question: Were Joseph Smith's spiritual experiences originally products of magic and the occult?
- Question: Were the names "Moroni" and "Cumorah" available on maps accessible to Joseph Smith?
- Question: Were William Parrish and his son murdered as they attempted to leave Utah because leaving Utah was "forbidden"?
- Question: What are the "curse of Cain" and the "curse of Ham"?
- Question: What are the Hurlbut affidavits?
- Question: What are the Nephite interpreters?
- Question: What are the reasons for the changes to the Doctrine and Covenants?
- Question: What are the similarities and differences between ''View of the Hebrews'' and the Book of Mormon?
- Question: What caused William Law to apostatize from the Church and turn against Joseph Smith?
- Question: What changes were made to the Doctrine and Covenants?
- Question: What criticisms are associated with the temple ritual and its relationship to Freemasonry?
- Question: What criticisms are raised with regard to Book of Mormon archaeology compared to that of the Bible?
- Question: What criticisms are related to Oliver Cowdery's 1834-1835 history of the Church?
- Question: What did B.H. Roberts say about ''View of the Hebrews'' and the Book of Mormon?
- Question: What did early Mormon leaders think of Christians?
- Question: What did Isaac Hale claim about Joseph Smith in the Hurlbut affidavits?
- Question: What did Joseph Capron claim about Joseph Smith in the Hurlbut affidavits?
- Question: What did Joshua Stafford claim about Joseph Smith in the Hurlbut affidavits?
- Question: What did Orson Pratt state about Joseph Smith's First Vision?
- Question: What did the husband of Sarah Ann Whitney know about her sealing to Joseph Smith for eternity?
- Question: What did William Stafford claim about Joseph Smith in the Hurlbut affidavits?
- Question: What do critics of Mormonism say about the "White Horse Prophecy"?
- Question: What do the Hurlbut affidavits say about Joseph Smith claiming that he was "as good as Jesus Christ"?
- Question: What events resulted in Joseph Smith's 1826 court appearance in South Bainbridge?
- Question: What happened to Josiah Stowell? Did he conclude he had been defrauded after the court hearing?
- Question: What have Latter-day Saint leaders actually said about the method of procreation in the afterlife?
- Question: What is "blood atonement"?
- Question: What is "reformed Egyptian"?
- Question: What is baptism for the dead?
- Question: What is Joseph Smith's 1826 South Bainbridge "trial" for "glasslooking"?
- Question: What is Joseph Smith's 1832 prophecy of the Civil War?
- Question: What is the "White Horse Prophecy"?
- Question: What is the Anthon transcript?
- Question: What is the distinction between belief in "folk magic" and a religious belief in the supernatural?
- Question: What is the history of name changes of the Church?
- Question: What is the origin of the modern horse in the New World?
- Question: What is the probability that Joseph Smith possessed items related to "magic"?
- Question: What is the source of the story about Joseph Smith possessing a Jupiter talisman?
- Question: What is the Strengthening Church Members Committee?
- Question: What names did the Church go by prior to the revelation which established the correct one?
- Question: What role do horses ''not'' play in the Book of Mormon?
- Question: What was Brigham Young's attitude toward the Mountain Meadows Massacre in 1861?
- Question: What was Gordon B. Hinckley's opinion about the King Follett Discourse?
- Question: What was John C. Bennett's role in the events leading up to the death of Joseph Smith?
- Question: What was Joseph Smith's motivation for going to the grove to pray in 1820?
- Question: What was the Council of Fifty?
- Question: What was the Lamanite curse?
- Question: What was the real purpose of the letter written by Joseph Smith to the parents of Sarah Ann Whitney?
- Question: What were the attitudes of Joseph Smith and his contemporaries toward "magic"?
- Question: When Brigham Young talked of "cutting off" from the earth, was he using a euphemism for killing?
- Question: When did a biblical curse become associated with the "Hamites?"
- Question: When did the "mark of Cain" become associated with black skin?
- Question: When was Lucy Mack Smith baptized?
- Question: When was the Danite band formed and why?
- Question: Which sources mention Nephi as the angelic visitor who told Joseph Smith about the gold plates?
- Question: Who is the author of ''History of the Church''?
- Question: Who made the changes to the Doctrine and Covenants?
- Question: Who was Paul H. Dunn and what happened to him?
- Question: Who was the "angel" in the First Vision that Andrew Jenson was referring to?
- Question: Why are horses considered an anachronism in the Book of Mormon?
- Question: Why did Bruce R. McConkie say that polygamy would be practiced again before the Second Coming?
- Question: Why did Elder Dunn exaggerate elements of these stories?
- Question: Why did Joseph describe the United Order in revelation as "everlasting" and "immutable and unchangeable" until Jesus comes?
- Question: Why did Joseph prophesy that the wicked "of this generation" would be swept from the face of the land and the Lost Ten tribes would be gathered?
- Question: Why did Joseph Smith claim that Thomas B. Marsh, who later apostatized, would be "exalted," and that he would preach "unto the ends of the earth"?
- Question: Why did Joseph Smith say "I had not been married scarcely five minutes...before it was reported that I had seven wives"?
- Question: Why did Joseph Smith say that David Patten would serve a mission when he was killed only six months later?
- Question: Why did Joseph Smith say that the Book of Mormon was the "most correct book"?
- Question: Why did Orson Hyde say: "Do I believe that the United States will be divided? yes, I do; and the prayers of all the Saints throughout the world should be to that effect"?
- Question: Why did the 1835 Doctrine and Covenants include a statement of marriage that denied the practice of polygamy at a time when some were actually practicing it?
- Question: Why did the Nauvoo City Council feel it was necessary to destroy the ''Nauvoo Expositor''?
- Question: Why didn't Gordon B. Hinckley say more about the King Follett Discourse in the TIME Magazine interview?
- Question: Why didn't the newspapers in Palmyra take notice of Joseph Smith's First Vision?
- Question: Why does '''TIME''''s report make it appear the Pres. Hinckley is downplaying Joseph Smith's statements in the King Follett Discourse?
- Question: Why does Joseph Smith state in his 1832 First Vision account that he was in his "16th year" of age?
- Question: Why does Joseph Smith's 1832 account of the First Vision not mention two personages?
- Question: Why does the account of Sidney Rigdon's 'trial' recorded in the Times and Seasons differs markedly from the version available in the History of the Church?
- Question: Why does the Book of Abraham state that it was written by Abraham's "own hand upon papyrus" if the papyri date to after the Abrahamic period?
- Question: Why does the Book of Mormon mention "synagogues" when they were not present among the Jews until after the Babylonian captivity?
- Question: Why don't potential pre-Columbian horse remains in the New World receive greater attention from scientists?
- Question: Why is ''History of the Church'' written in first-person, as if Joseph Smith himself wrote it?
- Question: Why is the French word "adieu" in the Book of Mormon?
- Question: Why was Joseph fined if he wasn't found guilty of anything?
- Question: Will the U.S. Constitution eventually "hang by a thread"?
- Questions: Are there contemporary witnesses that confirm that Joseph Smith didn't join any church after the First Vision?
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- Sorenson: "The Miami Indians, for example, were unfamiliar with the buffalo and simply called them 'wild cows'"
- Source:Charles Penrose:Improvement Era:September 1912:Do you believe in "blood-atonement"?
- Source:Gardner:The Gift and the Power:it’s stone that becomes the trigger that allows the seer to do what the seer does
- Source:Gospel Topics:Book of Mormon Translation:According to these accounts, Joseph placed either the interpreters or the seer stone in a hat
- Source:Gospel Topics:The Manifesto and the End of Plural Marriage:Joseph F. Smith broke the law
- Source:Gospel Topics:The Manifesto and the End of Plural Marriage:Reed Smoot hearings
- Source:Gospel Topics:The Manifesto and the End of Plural Marriage:The Second Manifesto
- Source:Marcus B. Nash:Joseph Smith Memorial Devotional:June 2013:This was dictated, word by word, as he looked into instruments the Lord prepared for him, using a hat to shield his eyes from extraneous light
- Source:Nelson:A Treasured Testament:Ensign:July 1993:The details of this miraculous method of translation are still not fully known. Yet we do have a few precious insights
- Source:Nicholson:The Spectacles, The Stone:This essay focuses primarily on the methods and instruments used in the translation process
- Source:Penrose:Peculiar Questions Briefly Answered:Improvement Era:Sept 1912:We do not know anything about Jesus Christ being married
- Source:Webb:BYUS:2011:12:Mormons are not Arians
- Source:Webb:BYUS:2011:19:Vastness of Joseph Smith's theology - it is not pagan
- Source:Webb:BYUS:2011:21:Joseph Smith's theosis does not supplant God or veer into polytheism
- Source:Webb:BYUS:2011:9:Mormon trinitarian views are not polytheistic
- Stephen H. Webb: "Evidence That Demands Our Amazement... Joseph Smith was a remarkable person"
- Stephen Robinson: "In the case of the Jupiter coin, this same extrapolation error is compounded with a very uncritical acceptance of the artifact in the first place"