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- 1835 Apostolic Charge
- 1 Nephi
- 2 Nephi
- 3 Nephi
- 4 Nephi
- Abuse and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
- Abuse and the Boy Scouts of America
- Added quotes on finances
- Adding sections to the Doctrine and Covenants
- Alma
- Animals in the Book of Mormon
- Authorship of New Testament books
- B.H. Roberts: "Joseph Smith was a man of like passions with other men; struggling with the same weaknesses; subjected to the same temptations"
- BYU Studies Article: A Mother There
- Back to top test
- Bisbee, Arizona — Adams abuse case
- Bishop interviews with youth
- Book:Bushman:Rough Stone Rolling:Short
- Book of Abraham in the CES Letter
- Book of Mormon/Archaeology
- Book of Mormon/Early reactions to/No intelligent person
- Book of Mormon/Plagiarism accusations/Benjamin Paddock/Paddock text in context
- Book of Mormon/Translation 2
- Book of Mormon/Warfare/Weapons/Slings
- Book of Mormon/Witnesses/Oliver Cowdery joined the Methodists
- Book of Mormon Central: Why Does the Book of Mormon Mention Cimiters?
- Book of Mormon Translation in the CES Letter
- Book of Mormon geography/Models/Limited/Goble 2004
- Book of Mormon geography/Models/Limited/Sudweeks
- Book of Mormon in the CES Letter
- Brigham Young (1855): "he was an honorable man and dealt justly, we know his true character. But let his enemies give his character, and they will make him out one of the basest men that ever lived."
- Category inclusion test
- Church financial reporting to the SEC
- Church investments and reporting of financial data
- Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
- Church sources discussing issues with Anachronisms in the Book of Mormon
- Church sources discussing issues with B.H. Roberts and the Book of Mormon
- Church sources discussing issues with Blacks
- Church sources discussing issues with Book of Mormon and DNA
- Church sources discussing issues with Book of Mormon authorship theories
- Church sources discussing issues with Book of Mormon geography
- Church sources discussing issues with Changes to the Book of Mormon
- Church sources discussing issues with Changes to the Doctrine and Covenants
- Church sources discussing issues with Changes to the Word of Wisdom
- Church sources discussing issues with First Vision Accounts
- Church sources discussing issues with Isaiah in the Book of Mormon
- Church sources discussing issues with Joseph's 1826 South Bainbridge court appearance
- Church sources discussing issues with Joseph Smith and politics
- Church sources discussing issues with Kinderhook plates
- Church sources discussing issues with Kirtland Safety Society
- Church sources discussing issues with Martyrdom and Joseph's use of a gun
- Church sources discussing issues with Oliver Cowdery's divining rod
- Church sources discussing issues with Origin of the Book of Abraham and Joseph Smith papyri
- Church sources discussing issues with Violence and conflict
- Church sources discussing issues with anachronisms in the Book of Mormon
- Church sources discussing issues with changes to the Word of Wisdom
- Church sources discussing issues with martyrdom and Joseph's use of a gun
- Church sources discussing issues with origin of the Book of Abraham and Joseph Smith papyri
- Church sources discussing issues with polygamy
- Church sources discussing issues with violence and conflict
- CitationAbuse:CES Letter:John Whitmer:Supernatural power
- CitationAbuse:CES Letter:Metcalf Ten Years Before the Mast
- CitationAbuse:Jeremy Runnells' Response and Rebuttal to Brian M. Hauglid's Rational Faiths Essay:B.H. Roberts comment on the Book of Abraham
- Conclusion in the CES Letter
- Could Joseph Smith's theology as described in the Book of Abraham have been influenced by Thomas Dick's book The Philosophy of a Future State?
- Critical claim: LDS scholars such as Dee F. Green have stated that Book of Mormon archaeology is a "myth"
- Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Book of Abraham Apologetics: A Review and Critique
- Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Understanding Mormon Disbelief/Schacter quote
- Criticism of Mormonism/Online documents/Letter to a CES Director/Original version
- Criticism of Mormonism/Video/Robert Ritner
- Criticisms of Brigham Morris Young
- Criticisms of Dallin H. Oaks
- Criticisms of M. Russell Ballard
- Criticisms of Russell M. Nelson
- DavidSmith BOM categorization
- Detailed response to CES Letter, Introduction
- Did Joseph Smith "retrofit" his "treasure seeking" to have a religious explanation
- Did Joseph Smith and his contemporaries believe in supernatural entities with real power
- Did Joseph Smith believe that he was better than Jesus Christ?
- Did Joseph Smith sacrifice a dog while treasure seeking
- Differences in First Vision accounts
- Discrepancies Between Translations: Book of Mormon, King James Version, Joseph Smith Translation
- Do Latter-day Saints believe that Christ suffered on the cross
- Doctrinal completeness of the Bible
- Eleven official witnesses to the Book of Mormon
- Engravings on and sealed portion of the gold plates
- Enos
- Ether
- Evaluating Plagiarism Accusations
- Examples of changes to the Doctrine and Covenants
- FAIR Does Not Speak for the Church/FAIR in the News
- FAIR Study Aids/Book of Abraham
- 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
- FAIR Study Aids/Church History
- FAIR Study Aids/Gospel Doctrine/Doctrine and Covenants
- FAIR Study Aids/Gospel Doctrine/Gospel Principles
- FAIR Study Aids/Gospel Doctrine/New Testament
- FAIR Study Aids/Gospel Doctrine/Old Testament
- Faith crisis draft 1
- First Vision in the CES Letter
- Gold plates and the translation process
- Gospel Topics: Our theology begins with heavenly parents. Our highest aspiration is to be like them
- Gospel Topics: There are other, more consistent ways of seeing the evidence
- Gospel of Judas
- Helaman
- How do we know the Quorum of the Twelve were the divinely appointed successors?
- Indian Student Placement Services program
- Intelligent life on other worlds
- Introduction, Title Page, Witnesses' Testimonies; Historical Studies of its Coming Forth; and Miscellaneous Items of Interest
- Introduction in the CES Letter
- Isaiah and the Book of Mormon
- Jacob
- Jarom
- Jesus Christ/Jesus as the Jewish Messiah
- John C. Bennett and plural marriage at Nauvoo/John C. Bennett Prior to Nauvoo
- Joseph Smith's marriages to young women
- Joseph Smith's witness of Jesus Christ
- Joseph Smith/Healings and miracles/Fanny Stenhouse accounts
- Joseph Smith/Polygamy/Did women turn Joseph down/Further Reading
- Joseph Smith: "I frequently fell into many foolish errors, and displayed the weakness of youth, and the foibles of human nature"
- Joseph Smith (1834): "during this time, as is common to most, or all youths, I fell into many vices and follies"
- Kinderhook Plates & Translator Claims in the CES Letter
- Latter-day Saint history
- Latter-day Saint scripture/Biblical Figures
- Latter-day Saint teachings
- Latter-day Saint teachings/Clarifying Latter-day Saint Teachings
- Latter-day Saint teachings/Obedience
- Latter-day Saints and the environment
- Latter-day Saints and the symbol of the cross
- Mandatory reporting of abuse
- Modern Witnesses
- Money spent on temples
- Mormon
- MormonFAQ/Church Discipline
- Mormonism and Latter-day Saints
- Mormonism and disability
- Mormonism and disability/Statements from Latter-day Saint leaders regarding disability
- Mormonism and doctrine/Publications/Statements by Church leaders
- Mormonism and gender issues/Same-sex attraction/Boyd K. Packer October 1978 conference talk/Quotes on legitimacy of self-defense
- Mormonism and gender issues/Same-sex attraction/Boyd K. Packer October 2010 conference talk/Table
- Mormonism and gender issues/Transgenderism
- Mormonism and history/Censorship and revision/LDS histories over many years omit plural marriage
- Mormonism and priesthood/Evidence for Possession of Priesthood Authority
- Mormonism and racial issues/Latter-day Saint and Native American Relations
- Mormonism and racial issues/Latter-day Saint and Native American Relations/The Indian Student Placement Program
- Mormonism and racial issues/Removing racial prejudice
- Mormonism and the environment/Quotes from Church leaders
- Moroni
- Mosiah
- Not Before the World
- Old Question: Why should Latter-day Saints not wear crosses?
- Omni
- Other Resources on Brigham Young and the Mountain Meadows Massacre
- Other animals in the Book of Mormon
- Other in the CES Letter
- Others and Mountain Meadows: Captain Stewart Van Vliet
- Others and Mountain Meadows: Colonel Thomas Kane
- Others and Mountain Meadows: George A. Smith
- Others involved in the Mountain Meadows Massacre
- Overview of baptism for the dead
- Overview of the CES Letter
- Pauline teachings
- Plagiarism in General Conference
- Plural marriage/The First Manifesto
- Polygamy and Polyandry in the CES Letter
- Portal:Test/box-footer
- Portal:Test/box-header
- Practice TOC page
- Priesthood Restoration in the CES Letter
- Primary sources/Eugene England
- Primary sources/Eugene England/Why the Church Is As True As the Gospel
- Primary sources/Mark E. Petersen
- Primary sources/Mark E. Petersen/Race Problems - As They Affect the Church
- Prophets in the CES Letter
- Question: Are General Authorities paid more than $300,000 per year?
- Question: Are Latter-day Saints really commanded to avoid r-rated movies?
- Question: Are chariots an anachronism for the Book of Abraham?
- Question: Are slings anachronistic to the Book of Mormon?
- Question: Are the scriptures mysoginistic/sexist?
- Question: Are we allowed to pray to our "Heavenly Mother"
- 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?
- Question: Could the list of items on Joseph's person at the time of his death have been incomplete
- Question: Did Adam Clarke's Bible Commentary significanly influence the JST?
- Question: Did B.H. Roberts state that it was possible for Joseph Smith to have come up with the Book of Mormon on his own
- Question: Did Brigham Young block prosecution of the individuals responsible for the Mountain Meadows Massacre?
- Question: Did Elder Richard G. Scott teach that victims of abuse are responsible for their abuse?
- Question: Did Harold B. Lee state that a person’s economic status or disability were the result of less valiance in the premortal existence?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith's family and other Book of Mormon witnesses support James Strang's movement after Joseph's death?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith, Sr. practice "divination"
- Question: Did Joseph Smith actually teach and practice polygamy?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith contradict Jesus’ commandment in the Book of Mormon to not add to nor take away from Jesus' Gospel?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith derive his religious ideas in part from a mysticism called Kabbalah
- Question: Did Joseph Smith engage in "land speculation" in Nauvoo
- Question: Did Joseph Smith have a Jupiter talisman on his person at the time of his death
- Question: Did Joseph Smith plagiarize sources from the American Revolution?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith really tell Orrin Porter Rockwell 'it was right to steal'
- Question: Did Joseph Smith riff off of Hebrews 7 to produce the material discussing Melchizedek in Alma 12 and 13?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith use Paul as a template for the character Alma in the Book of Mormon?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith use entheogens to effectuate the founding of the Church?
- Question: Did Russell M. Nelson exaggerate his story about being in a falling airplane?
- Question: Did early members of the "Mormon" Church believe in witchcraft
- Question: Did the Church achieve its objectives with the City Creek Center project?
- Question: Did the Church use tithing funds to finance the purchases and buildings?
- Question: Do Joseph Smith's personality and temperament indicate that he was not a true prophet of God
- Question: Do Latter-day Saints believe in a female divine person, a "Heavenly Mother" as counterpart to God, the Heavenly Father
- Question: Do Latter-day Saints claim to be the only ones that can experience the fullness of happiness on this earth?
- Question: Do Latter-day Saints have to "buy their way into heaven" since the Church requires that you be a full-tithe payer to enter the temple?
- Question: Do the changes in the Book of Mormon Isaiah passages reflect a better translation of the underlying Hebrew?
- Question: Does Lehi contradict Jeremiah 27 and prove himself a false prophet?
- Question: Does Lucy Mack Smith's mention of the "faculty of Abrac" and "magic circles" evidence that "magick" played a strong role in the Smith family's early life
- Question: Does The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints prohibit its members from using playing cards?
- Question: Does the Book of Mormon’s reference to “slippery treasures” stem from Joseph Smith’s involvement in money digging and the occult
- Question: Has The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints deceived its members regarding controversial issues about its origins, history, and/or scripture?
- Question: How can Latter-day Saints reconcile having other people receive spiritual experiences that motivate them to believe in and become part of other religions?
- Question: How can a Latter-day Saint approach responding to criticism of the Church on biblical grounds?
- Question: How can a Latter-day Saint reconcile alleged failed prophecies made by prophets of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints?
- Question: How can a Latter-day Saint reconcile claimed theological anachronisms in the scriptures?
- Question: How can a Latter-day Saint reconcile the opinions of biblical scholars who say that certain figures of the Bible are not historical?
- Question: How can one reconcile the patriarchal blessings given to blacks during the priesthood and temple bans?
- Question: How can you know if an answer to prayer, a personal revelation, is true?
- Question: How could the plate text actually fit on the plates of the Book of Mormon?
- Question: How did Joseph Smith use his seer stones as a youth
- Question: How do Latter-day Saints understand the concept of love?
- Question: How do the witnesses of the Book of Mormon compare to the witnesses of Philemon Stewart's ''A Holy, Sacred and Divine Roll and Book; From the Lord God of Heaven, to the Inhabitants of Earth''?
- Question: How may criticism of the Church over LGBT issues become fiercer in the future and how can members respond?
- Question: How should we collectively view the concept of harm?
- Question: How should we collectively view the concept of judgement?
- Question: How should we interpret Ezekiel 37 regarding the Book of Mormon?
- Question: How should we understand the concept of worthiness?
- Question: How should we view the concept of shame?
- Question: If gender is “enforced”, is it true that it can’t be immutable?
- Question: Is Heavenly Mother not talked about more because the prophets are sexist
- Question: Is Heavenly Mother not talked about more because the prophets are sexist?
- Question: Is Jacob 2:30 actually not saying that polygamy is an occasional exception to monogamy?
- Question: Is Jesus the promised Messiah of the Old Testament?
- Question: Is an evangelist really a patriarch?
- Question: Is belief in the Book of Mormon’s historicity essential to Latter-day Saint theology?
- Question: Is gender a social construct?
- Question: Is it true that little is known about our Heavenly Mother because she is "protected"
- Question: Is polygamy sexist?
- Question: Is same-gender sexual attraction immutable?
- Question: Must Joseph Smith approve anyone who gets into heaven
- Question: Must we turn to Joseph Smith to gain salvation
- Question: Should Latter-day Saints eat fruit seasonally?
- Question: Should there be archaeological evidence for the Book of Mormon?
- Question: Should “the plains” of Moreh in the Book of Abraham actually be “the oak” of Moreh?
- Question: Was Joseph Smith's family lazy, shiftless and seeking to make a living without performing any labor?
- Question: Was Joseph Smith’s only mission to bring forth the Book of Mormon?
- Question: Was Wilford Woodruff actually inspired to end polygamy?
- Question: Was a "magic dagger" once owned by Hyrum Smith