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- Official Declaration—1 (23:11, 20 August 2007)
- Reference templates/Journal of Discourses/Volume 2 (09:38, 11 November 2008)
- Brigham Young/Plural marriage (11:04, 25 May 2010)
- Word of Wisdom/Tea morally wrong/quotations (18:51, 14 September 2010)
- Quotes (11:01, 24 October 2010)
- Quotes/Brigham Young (11:31, 24 October 2010)
- Reference templates/Periodicals/D (18:28, 13 November 2010)
- Reference templates/Periodicals/G (18:28, 13 November 2010)
- Reference templates/Periodicals/Q (18:28, 13 November 2010)
- Reference templates/Periodicals/U (18:28, 13 November 2010)
- Reference templates/Periodicals/V (18:29, 13 November 2010)
- Reference templates/Periodicals/X (18:29, 13 November 2010)
- Reference templates/Periodicals/Y (18:29, 13 November 2010)
- Reference templates/Periodicals/Z (18:29, 13 November 2010)
- Mormonism and gender issues/Same-sex attraction/Boyd K. Packer October 2010 conference talk/Table (19:12, 28 November 2010)
- Mormonism and doctrine/Publications/Statements by Church leaders (21:11, 11 April 2011)
- Helps for Church teachers (21:46, 18 May 2011)
- Helps for Church teachers/Seminary (21:47, 18 May 2011)
- Gospel of Judas (11:36, 6 June 2011)
- Book of Mormon geography/Models/Limited/Goble 2004 (03:23, 11 June 2011)
- FAIR Study Aids/Gospel Doctrine (09:44, 10 January 2012)
- FAIR Study Aids/Gospel Doctrine/Gospel Principles (09:48, 10 January 2012)
- FAIR Study Aids/Seminary (09:58, 10 January 2012)
- Joseph Smith/Healings and miracles/Fanny Stenhouse accounts (23:58, 17 January 2012)
- Quote mining/Fawn Brodie (13:32, 18 January 2012)
- Reference templates/Periodicals/E (14:12, 9 February 2012)
- Mormonism and gender issues/Same-sex attraction/Boyd K. Packer October 1978 conference talk/Quotes on legitimacy of self-defense (17:36, 11 March 2012)
- Plan of salvation/Three degrees of glory/Not biblical/Further Reading (14:37, 24 March 2012)
- Mormonism and church leadership/The thinking has been done/Further Reading (12:00, 25 March 2012)
- Mormonism and Wikipedia/Further Reading (12:37, 25 March 2012)
- Plan of salvation/Premortal existence/Further Reading (20:37, 30 March 2012)
- Criticism of Mormonism/Anti-Mormon/Further Reading (15:04, 31 March 2012)
- Plan of salvation/Sons of Perdition/Can women be "Sons of Perdition"/Further Reading (15:21, 31 March 2012)
- Plan of salvation/Three degrees of glory/Progression between kingdoms/Further Reading (15:33, 31 March 2012)
- Plan of salvation/Three degrees of glory/Swedenborg/Further Reading (23:46, 31 March 2012)
- Plan of salvation/When are children capable of sin/Further Reading (23:53, 31 March 2012)
- Mormonism and culture/Preserving diverse cultural traditions/Further Reading (22:42, 3 April 2012)
- Pearl of Great Price/Textual changes/Further Reading (23:17, 4 April 2012)
- Book:Bushman:Rough Stone Rolling:Short (22:38, 4 May 2012)
- Book of Mormon/Geography/Statements/Twentieth century/Joseph Fielding Smith (11:49, 29 May 2012)
- Portal:Test/box-header (19:38, 25 June 2012)
- Portal:Test/box-footer (19:39, 25 June 2012)
- Reference templates/Periodicals/I (19:54, 3 September 2012)
- Reference templates/Periodicals/F (19:55, 3 September 2012)
- Elder's Journal/1 (10:19, 17 November 2012)
- Elder's Journal/1/1 (14:48, 21 November 2012)
- Elder's Journal/1/2 (20:28, 22 November 2012)
- Elder's Journal/1/3 (15:01, 8 December 2012)
- Elder's Journal/1/4 (11:20, 15 December 2012)
- Moroni (15:16, 26 December 2012)
- Ether (15:20, 26 December 2012)
- Mormon (15:22, 26 December 2012)
- 4 Nephi (15:23, 26 December 2012)
- 3 Nephi (15:24, 26 December 2012)
- Helaman (15:26, 26 December 2012)
- Alma (15:27, 26 December 2012)
- Mosiah (15:29, 26 December 2012)
- Words of Mormon (15:30, 26 December 2012)
- Omni (15:31, 26 December 2012)
- Jarom (15:32, 26 December 2012)
- Enos (15:33, 26 December 2012)
- Jacob (15:35, 26 December 2012)
- 2 Nephi (15:36, 26 December 2012)
- 1 Nephi (15:38, 26 December 2012)
- Introduction, Title Page, Witnesses' Testimonies; Historical Studies of its Coming Forth; and Miscellaneous Items of Interest (15:39, 26 December 2012)
- JBMRS list (22:51, 2 February 2013)
- Forgeries related to Mormonism/Bat Creek Stone/Further Reading (18:04, 21 April 2013)
- Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Understanding Mormon Disbelief/Schacter quote (16:37, 23 July 2013)
- FAIR Does Not Speak for the Church/FAIR in the News (13:46, 12 August 2013)
- FAIR Study Aids/Book of Mormon Resources by chapter and verse/Introduction, Title Page, Witnesses' Testimonies; Historical Studies of its Coming Forth; and Miscellaneous Items of Interest (09:36, 27 August 2013)
- Book of Mormon/Plagiarism accusations/Benjamin Paddock/Paddock text in context (23:26, 28 August 2013)
- Holy Ghost/Problems with revelation (07:27, 6 September 2013)
- Forgeries/Burrows Cave artifacts/Further Reading (21:21, 23 September 2013)
- Book of Mormon/Anachronisms/Temple in New World/Further Reading (13:41, 24 September 2013)
- Moroni's visit/Nephi or Moroni/Later Nephi copies (23:28, 29 January 2014)
- Book of Mormon/Translation/The interpreters, seer stone, hat and the "gift and power of God"/Further Reading (13:47, 14 May 2014)
- Book of Mormon/Nephi's killing of Laban/Was it "cold blooded murder"/Further Reading (13:37, 15 May 2014)
- Plan of salvation/Pre-mortal existence/Further Reading (05:24, 29 May 2014)
- The Seer/Further Reading (21:24, 3 June 2014)
- Specific works/DNA Evidence for Book of Mormon Geography (DVD)/DNA and religious claims/Further Reading (13:49, 7 June 2014)
- Specific works/DNA Evidence for Book of Mormon Geography (DVD)/DNA science error and misrepresentation/Further Reading (13:52, 7 June 2014)
- Specific works/DNA Evidence for Book of Mormon Geography (DVD)/Joseph had revelation/Further Reading (13:53, 7 June 2014)
- The Mormon understanding of Satan/Can Satan read our minds/Further Reading (22:21, 15 June 2014)
- MormonFAQ/Church Discipline (14:05, 17 June 2014)
- Why it's great to be a Mormon: the benefits (12:31, 24 June 2014)
- Book of Mormon/DNA evidence/Responding to critical claims/Further Reading (08:59, 25 July 2014)
- Question: Which sources which mention Nephi as the angelic visitor who told Joseph Smith about the gold plates?/Later Moroni labels (14:15, 2 December 2014)
- Question: Are General Authorities paid more than $300,000 per year? (18:36, 30 December 2014)
- FAIR Study Aids/Gospel Doctrine/Old Testament (11:39, 13 January 2015)
- FAIR Study Aids/Church History (19:55, 21 February 2015)
- FAIR Study Aids/Gospel Doctrine/Doctrine and Covenants (20:16, 21 February 2015)
- Critical claim: LDS scholars such as Dee F. Green have stated that Book of Mormon archaeology is a "myth" (15:34, 8 June 2016)
- Word of Wisdom/Further Reading (13:14, 20 June 2016)
- Book of Mormon geography/Models/Limited/Sudweeks (19:11, 22 June 2016)
- Reference templates/Periodicals/H (22:53, 29 June 2016)
- Mormonism and apologetics/"ad hominem"/Case study/John Dehlin (11:57, 22 August 2016)
- Mormonism and apologetics/"ad hominem"/Case study/Robert Ritner (11:57, 22 August 2016)
- Book of Mormon/Translation 2 (21:13, 3 March 2017)
- Source:Roper:The Mythical "Manuscript Found":Subsequent variants of this hypothesis have been published from time to time (15:53, 5 June 2017)
- Source:LDS Newsroom:Belief in prophets and apostles at the head of the Church does not mean that members blindly follow their leaders (20:01, 7 June 2017)
- CitationAbuse:CES Letter:Metcalf Ten Years Before the Mast (18:14, 8 June 2017)
- CitationAbuse:CES Letter:John Whitmer:Supernatural power (18:14, 8 June 2017)
- Reference templates/Old style (23:25, 8 June 2017)
- Reference templates/Old style/Page 1 (23:30, 8 June 2017)
- Reference templates/Old style/Page 2 (23:30, 8 June 2017)
- Reference templates/Old style/Page 3 (23:30, 8 June 2017)
- Reference templates/Old style/Page 4 (23:31, 8 June 2017)
- Reference templates/Periodicals/Anon (23:31, 8 June 2017)
- Reference templates/Reference works/T (23:32, 8 June 2017)
- Reference templates/Old style/Periodicals (23:36, 8 June 2017)
- Reference templates/Periodicals/J (23:37, 8 June 2017)
- Reference templates/Videos (23:44, 8 June 2017)
- Reference templates/Videos/FAIR Conference/2003 (23:44, 8 June 2017)
- Reference templates/Videos/FAIR Conference (23:44, 8 June 2017)
- Reference templates/Videos/FAIR Conference/2004 (23:44, 8 June 2017)
- Reference templates/Videos/FAIR Conference/2005 (23:44, 8 June 2017)
- Reference templates/Videos/FAIR Conference/2006 (23:45, 8 June 2017)
- Reference templates/Videos/Olive Wood (23:45, 8 June 2017)
- Reference templates/Videos/FAIR (23:45, 8 June 2017)
- Reference templates/Wikipedia (23:46, 8 June 2017)
- Mormonism and prophets/Revelation after Joseph Smith/David Whitmer/Brigham Young ordination blessing (10:02, 5 July 2017)
- Book of Mormon/Anachronisms/Weapons (12:27, 19 July 2017)
- FAIR Study Aids/Book of Abraham (17:53, 18 September 2017)
- FAIR Study Aids/Gospel Doctrine/New Testament (17:53, 18 September 2017)
- Source:Sorenson:Seasonality of Warfare in the Book of Mormon and in Mesoamerica:war was normally carried on by the pre-Columbian inhabitants during a short annual period (18:08, 18 September 2017)
- Mormonism and Wikipedia/First Vision/Interpretations and responses to the vision (16:49, 15 October 2017)
- The Joseph Smith Papers: "The historical preamble to the 1830 'articles and covenants,'...appears to reference JS’s vision in speaking of a moment when 'it truly was manifested unto this first elder, that he had received a remission of his sins'" (22:09, 17 October 2017)
- "Recognizing the Voice of the Spirit" (Podcast): "How can I come to know that spiritual experience is not just a product of chemical processes in the brain?" (19:00, 18 October 2017)
- Woodruff (1894): "Both the Father and the Son presented themselves unto him in the clouds of heaven" (17:16, 20 October 2017)
- Plagiarism in General Conference (15:29, 16 May 2018)
- Gospel Topics: There are other, more consistent ways of seeing the evidence (20:20, 12 August 2018)
- Praying about other books (21:45, 5 December 2018)
- Question: Are the scriptures mysoginistic/sexist? (23:25, 6 January 2019)
- Book of Mormon Central: Why Does the Book of Mormon Mention Cimiters? (22:54, 22 March 2019)
- Source: K. Codell Carter: "Epistemology" in Encyclopedia of Mormonism (15:15, 29 October 2019)
- Rappleye: In Maya Classic Art (16:17, 22 November 2019)
- "Masonry," Church History Topics: "There are different ways of understanding the relationship between Masonry and the temple" (18:56, 22 November 2019)
- William J. Adams Jr. (1994): "These incidences raise the question: Did others in Lehi's Jerusalem inscribe records on metal plates?" (12:14, 3 December 2019)
- William Smith (Jan 1837): "a remnant of the branches or seed of Joseph are represented as crossing the sea, and settling this continent of North and South America" (12:25, 3 December 2019)
- A critic of the Book of Mormon (1843): "the ruins of Central America...the existence of such ruins were known long before the publication of the Book of Mormon" (15:56, 3 December 2019)
- Wilford Woodruff (27 Aug 1843): "the Book of Mormon...it gave a history of all those cities that have been of late discovered by Catherwood & Stephens, that it named those cities" (15:58, 3 December 2019)
- Book of Mormon/Warfare/Weapons/Slings (01:55, 4 August 2021)
- Mormonism and priesthood/Evidence for Possession of Priesthood Authority (21:31, 23 August 2021)
- Latter-day Saint scripture/Biblical Figures (14:48, 26 August 2021)
- Latter-day Saint teachings (15:23, 10 September 2021)
- Latter-day Saint teachings/Obedience (15:24, 10 September 2021)
- Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Book of Abraham Apologetics: A Review and Critique (14:26, 24 September 2021)
- Source:Saints: Vol. 1 (2018): The Church's official history does not name the hill in which Joseph found the plates (01:19, 26 January 2022)
- Source:The Church also addressed issues of Book of Mormon geography in the Gospel Topics essays available on the Church's official website (01:23, 26 January 2022)
- Criticism of Mormonism/Video/Robert Ritner (14:12, 3 February 2022)
- Mormonism and the environment/Quotes from Church leaders (21:15, 13 February 2022)
- Question: Why did the Church get involved in a shopping center? (15:49, 21 February 2022)
- Question: Did the Church use tithing funds to finance the purchases and buildings? (15:51, 21 February 2022)
- Question: Why would the Church put tithing into investment portfolios? (15:54, 21 February 2022)
- Question: Did the Church achieve its objectives with the City Creek Center project? (16:02, 21 February 2022)
- Mormonism and racial issues/Removing racial prejudice (09:02, 25 March 2022)
- Mormonism and Latter-day Saints (17:16, 3 April 2022)
- Test3 sandbox DavidSmith (18:20, 25 April 2022)
- Primary sources/Mark E. Petersen/Race Problems - As They Affect the Church (00:23, 14 May 2022)
- Primary sources/Mark E. Petersen (00:27, 14 May 2022)
- Primary sources/Eugene England (04:30, 19 May 2022)
- Mormonism and gender issues/Transgenderism (03:46, 13 June 2022)
- Primary sources/Eugene England/Why the Church Is As True As the Gospel (15:17, 13 June 2022)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith contradict Jesus’ commandment in the Book of Mormon to not add to nor take away from Jesus' Gospel? (22:36, 23 June 2022)
- Mormonism and racial issues/Latter-day Saint and Native American Relations (23:06, 25 July 2022)
- Latter-day Saint teachings/Clarifying Latter-day Saint Teachings (22:16, 26 July 2022)
- Mormonism and racial issues/Latter-day Saint and Native American Relations/The Indian Student Placement Program (10:48, 7 August 2022)
- Question: Does Lehi contradict Jeremiah 27 and prove himself a false prophet? (03:26, 11 August 2022)
- Mormonism and politics/Abortion (16:13, 18 August 2022)
- Mormonism and disability (13:20, 11 October 2022)
- Mormonism and disability/Statements from Latter-day Saint leaders regarding disability (13:22, 11 October 2022)
- Question: Is belief in the Book of Mormon’s historicity essential to Latter-day Saint theology? (22:31, 7 November 2022)
- Question: If gender is “enforced”, is it true that it can’t be immutable? (00:24, 10 November 2022)
- Question: What does the Lord intend by commanding that we refrain from “loud laughter”? (13:32, 16 November 2022)
- Jesus Christ/Jesus as the Jewish Messiah (16:36, 16 November 2022)
- Faith crisis draft 1 (22:19, 21 November 2022)
- Question: Did Russell M. Nelson exaggerate his story about being in a falling airplane? (20:54, 11 December 2022)
- Question: How may criticism of the Church over LGBT issues become fiercer in the future and how can members respond? (20:32, 21 December 2022)
- Question: Is Jesus the promised Messiah of the Old Testament? (00:20, 25 December 2022)
- Question: Did Harold B. Lee state that a person’s economic status or disability were the result of less valiance in the premortal existence? (13:29, 17 January 2023)
- Sarah Allen CES Response Posts (16:21, 31 January 2023)
- Category inclusion test (13:29, 1 March 2023)
- Template test 1 (17:06, 1 March 2023)
- DavidSmith BOM categorization (23:24, 4 March 2023)
- Back to top test (18:17, 5 March 2023)
- Old Question: Why should Latter-day Saints not wear crosses? (22:40, 23 March 2023)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith use entheogens to effectuate the founding of the Church? (18:26, 26 March 2023)
- Topical Scriptural Concordance/Sexual Behavior (23:35, 5 April 2023)
- Question: Should “the plains” of Moreh in the Book of Abraham actually be “the oak” of Moreh? (21:09, 9 April 2023)
- Question: Is gender a social construct? (21:25, 4 May 2023)
- Topical Scripture Concordances (23:34, 11 May 2023)
- Topical Scriptural Concordance/Fulness of the Gospel (01:51, 12 May 2023)
- Question: Was Joseph Smith’s only mission to bring forth the Book of Mormon? (02:35, 17 May 2023)
- CitationAbuse:Jeremy Runnells' Response and Rebuttal to Brian M. Hauglid's Rational Faiths Essay:B.H. Roberts comment on the Book of Abraham (03:20, 18 May 2023)
- Question: Could Joseph Smith have acquired the names “Moroni” and “Cumorah” from stories he read as a youth, maps that he would have had access to, or other people within his local vicinity? (01:18, 19 May 2023)
- Elias and Elijah at the Kirtland Temple/Further Reading (18:48, 19 May 2023)
- Sarah Allen's Response to Letter For My Wife (13:00, 22 May 2023)
- Criticisms of Brigham Morris Young (12:14, 27 May 2023)
- Criticisms of Russell M. Nelson (14:08, 24 September 2023)
- Plural marriage/Lamanites to become "white and delightsome" through polygamous marriage/Further Reading (14:44, 24 September 2023)
- Plural marriage/The First Manifesto (14:44, 24 September 2023)
- Terms prophets, seers, revelators (13:08, 29 September 2023)
- Pauline teachings (12:37, 25 October 2023)
- Latter-day Saints and the environment (16:11, 7 November 2023)
- Authorship of New Testament books (16:51, 30 November 2023)
- The Bible/"Adding to" or "taking away from"/Further Reading (17:12, 30 November 2023)
- The Bible/Born again translation/Further Reading (17:12, 30 November 2023)
- The Bible/Condemnation of genealogy/Further Reading (17:12, 30 November 2023)
- The Bible/Cosmology/Further Reading (17:12, 30 November 2023)
- The Bible/Old Testament practices/Cursing of enemies/Further Reading (17:12, 30 November 2023)
- The Bible/On-going divine revelation not necessary/Further Reading (17:12, 30 November 2023)
- The Bible/Inerrancy/Further Reading (17:12, 30 November 2023)
- The Bible/Textual criticism/Further Reading (17:12, 30 November 2023)
- The Bible/Translations/Further Reading (17:12, 30 November 2023)
- Examples of changes to the Doctrine and Covenants (15:31, 1 December 2023)
- Adding sections to the Doctrine and Covenants (15:33, 1 December 2023)
- Revelation (15:58, 1 December 2023)
- Indian Student Placement Services program (22:14, 3 December 2023)
- Question: Were Joseph and Hyrum killed by John Taylor and Willard Richards? (17:07, 4 December 2023)
- Criticisms of M. Russell Ballard (17:30, 8 December 2023)
- Rebutting Top Ten Lies by Current LDS Apostles (14:06, 5 February 2024)
- Detailed response to CES Letter, Science (14:57, 5 February 2024)
- Criticism of Mormonism/Online documents/Letter to a CES Director/Original version (17:53, 5 February 2024)
- Criticisms of Dallin H. Oaks (22:59, 17 March 2024)
- Reference templates/Reference works/Anon (22:37, 22 March 2024)
- Reference templates/Periodicals (12:21, 23 March 2024)
- Climate in the Book of Mormon (01:44, 26 March 2024)
- References header (13:42, 26 March 2024)
- Reference templates/FAIR Conferences (14:08, 26 March 2024)
- Reference templates/Specific works/All (14:39, 26 March 2024)
- Mormonism and history/Censorship and revision/LDS histories over many years omit plural marriage (18:42, 26 March 2024)
- Main Page (18:24, 27 March 2024)
- Reference templates/Interpreter (19:04, 27 March 2024)
- Reference templates/FARMS Review (19:05, 27 March 2024)
- Reference templates/JBMS (19:05, 27 March 2024)
- Reference templates/Scripture Central KnoWhys (19:06, 27 March 2024)
- Joseph Smith's use of seer stones as a youth (13:11, 12 April 2024)
- Identifying ancient DNA related to Book of Mormon people (13:15, 12 April 2024)
- The witness of Oliver Cowdery (13:15, 12 April 2024)
- Eleven official witnesses to the Book of Mormon (13:15, 12 April 2024)
- The Book of Mormon as an ancient text (13:15, 12 April 2024)
- Joseph Smith and the translation process (13:15, 12 April 2024)
- Artistic depictions of the translation (13:15, 12 April 2024)
- Moroni's promise of the Book of Mormon (13:15, 12 April 2024)
- Other animals in the Book of Mormon (13:16, 12 April 2024)
- Isaiah and the Book of Mormon (13:16, 12 April 2024)
- Freemasonry and the Book of Mormon (13:16, 12 April 2024)
- Plants in the Book of Mormon (13:16, 12 April 2024)
- Legal codes in the Book of Mormon (13:16, 12 April 2024)
- Jesus Christ bled from every pore (13:16, 12 April 2024)