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- Main Page (7 interwikis)
- The Bible (6 interwikis)
- Question: What does the Book of Mormon mean when it says that "plain and precious" things have been taken out of the bible? (5 interwikis)
- Book of Mormon (5 interwikis)
- The 8th Article of Faith (5 interwikis)
- Apostasy (5 interwikis)
- Latter-day Saint Temples (5 interwikis)
- The Bible/Biblical accuracy (5 interwikis)
- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and the Bible/Overview (5 interwikis)
- The Bible/Reliability (5 interwikis)
- Question: What can textual criticism tell us about the Bible? (5 interwikis)
- Principles for assessing anachronisms (5 interwikis)
- Book of Mormon/Translation/The interpreters, seer stone, hat and the "gift and power of God" (5 interwikis)
- Plural marriage (5 interwikis)
- The Bible as the word of God (5 interwikis)
- Joseph Smith/Narcissism (4 interwikis)
- Church finances (4 interwikis)
- Emma Smith's reaction to Joseph Smith's plural marriages (4 interwikis)
- Plural marriage as a requirement for exaltation (4 interwikis)
- Plural marriage/Polygamy as practiced anciently (4 interwikis)
- Plural marriage/Relationship to the modern Church (4 interwikis)
- Question: What are the "works of Abraham" and how does this relate to plural marriage? (4 interwikis)
- Joseph Smith's First Vision/Published references (4 interwikis)
- Question: What references to the First Vision exist in published documents from the 1830s? (4 interwikis)
- Joseph Smith/Polygamy (4 interwikis)
- Plural marriage in the Book of Mormon (4 interwikis)
- Plural marriage/Polygamy in the 19th Century (4 interwikis)
- Question: Does the Bible forbid plural marriage? (4 interwikis)
- Plural marriage/Brigham Young said that the only men who become gods are those that practice polygamy (4 interwikis)
- The Bible/Textual criticism (4 interwikis)
- Book of Mormon/Authorship theories/Overview (4 interwikis)
- DNA and the Book of Mormon (4 interwikis)
- Question: What LDS publications between 1840 and 1877 include references to Joseph Smith's First Vision? (4 interwikis)
- Question: Does the Book of Mormon condemn polygamy? (4 interwikis)
- Joseph Smith/Polygamy/Entering into plural marriage (4 interwikis)
- Joseph Smith/Polygamy/Critics' claimed motivations for Joseph's implementation of plural marriage (4 interwikis)
- Plural marriage/The Law of Adoption (4 interwikis)
- Prophetic statements of Joseph Smith (4 interwikis)
- Book of Mormon/Language/Reformed Egyptian/Egyptian too bulky (4 interwikis)
- Joseph Smith/Occultism and magic (4 interwikis)
- Joseph Smith hid polygamy from the general Church membership (4 interwikis)
- Purpose of plural marriage (4 interwikis)
- Joseph Smith/Legal issues (4 interwikis)
- Book of Mormon/Chariots (4 interwikis)
- Question: When and how did plural marriage begin in the Church? (4 interwikis)
- Mountain Meadows Massacre (4 interwikis)
- View of the Hebrews theory of Book of Mormon authorship (4 interwikis)
- Book of Mormon/Basics (4 interwikis)
- Mormon ordinances (4 interwikis)
- Joseph Smith's First Vision/Religious activity in the Palmyra area in 1820 (4 interwikis)
- Joseph Smith's First Vision (4 interwikis)
- Joseph Smith hiding plural marriages from his first wife, Emma (4 interwikis)
- Joseph Smith/Polygamy/Doctrinal issues related to plural marriage (4 interwikis)
- Plural marriage/Early Christians on plural marriage (4 interwikis)
- Relationship between the temple endowment and Freemasonry (4 interwikis)
- Question: Does Doctrine and Covenants 84 say that one cannot see God without holding the priesthood? (4 interwikis)
- The Bible/Inerrancy (4 interwikis)
- Question: What are the differences between the Endowment and Freemasonry? (4 interwikis)
- Plural marriage and the Bible (4 interwikis)
- Plural marriage/19th century attitudes toward plural marriage (4 interwikis)
- Joseph Smith and money digging (4 interwikis)
- Joseph Smith/Early Smith family history (4 interwikis)
- Joseph Smith/Politics and government (4 interwikis)
- Joseph Smith/Polygamy/Implementation of plural marriage (4 interwikis)
- Did Joseph have lustful motives for practicing polygamy? (4 interwikis)
- Plural marriage/In Latter-day Saint scripture (4 interwikis)
- Joseph Smith/Seer stones (4 interwikis)
- Question: How did the mainstream Christian view that God created the universe out of nothing originate? (4 interwikis)
- The Bible/Mormons revere the Holy Bible (4 interwikis)
- Brigham Young's statements regarding plural marriage (4 interwikis)
- Plural marriage in early Christianity (4 interwikis)
- Mormonism and racial issues/Blacks and the priesthood (4 interwikis)
- Book of Mormon/DNA evidence (4 interwikis)
- Joseph Smith (4 interwikis)
- Joseph Smith/Polygamy/Children of polygamous marriages (4 interwikis)
- Joseph Smith/Martyrdom (4 interwikis)
- Topical Guide/Church organization/Finances (4 interwikis)
- Joseph Smith/Polygamy/Emma Smith (4 interwikis)
- Question: Do Latter-day Saints consider the Bible to be untrustworthy? (4 interwikis)
- Question: Was the apostasy predicted by the Bible not complete? (4 interwikis)
- Joseph Smith's First Vision/Fabricated to give "Godly authority" (3 interwikis)
- Question: What religious excitement was occurring in Palmyra in 1820? (3 interwikis)
- Jesus Christ/Atonement (3 interwikis)
- Joseph Smith's First Vision/Persecution after the vision (3 interwikis)
- Question: Is there any Biblical evidence that the apostasy began? (3 interwikis)
- The Doctrine and Covenants and Book of Mormon geography (3 interwikis)
- Doctrine and Covenants/Lectures on Faith (3 interwikis)
- Kinderhook Plates (3 interwikis)
- Personages who appeared to Joseph Smith (3 interwikis)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith father any children through polygamous marriages? (3 interwikis)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith have a Jupiter talisman on his person at the time of his death? (3 interwikis)
- Topical Guide/Doctrinal issues/Revelation/Failed Prophecies (3 interwikis)
- Mormonism and prophets (3 interwikis)
- Latter-day Saint Temples/Baptism for the dead (3 interwikis)
- Mormonism and science/Global or local Flood (3 interwikis)
- The Bible/Scripture interpretation (3 interwikis)
- Question: Does the fact that the Bible states that nothing should be "added to" or "taken away" from the book mean that the Book of Mormon is false? (3 interwikis)
- Mormonism and the nature of God/Deification of man (3 interwikis)
- Question: Does the belief by the witnesses that the experience had visionary qualities contradict the claim that the Book of Mormon plates were real? (3 interwikis)
- Mormonism and the nature of God/Heavenly Mother (3 interwikis)
- Question: Why don't Mormons use the "Joseph Smith Translation" as its official Bible? (3 interwikis)
- Mormonism and the nature of God/Theodicy (3 interwikis)
- Question: Did Nephi commit "cold blooded murder" when he killed Laban? (3 interwikis)
- Question: What is the "Law of Adoption" practiced among 19-century Mormons and why has it changed? (3 interwikis)
- Neuenschwander (2009): "Joseph's vision was at first an intensely personal experience...it became the founding revelation of the Restoration" (3 interwikis)
- Improvement Era (January 1968): "Often the funerary texts contained passages from the 'Book of the Dead,' a book that was to assist in the safe passage of the dead person into the spirit world" (3 interwikis)
- Source:Gospel Topics:The Manifesto and the End of Plural Marriage:Joseph F. Smith broke the law (3 interwikis)
- Question: Who wrote the Lectures on Faith? (3 interwikis)
- Seminary Teacher Resource Manual: "We have no knowledge that plural marriage will be a requirement for exaltation" (3 interwikis)
- Mormonism and racial issues/Blacks and the priesthood/The "curse of Cain" and "curse of Ham" (3 interwikis)
- Question: How was the doctrine of creation altered to "creatio ex nihilo"? (3 interwikis)
- Question: Was the First Vision fabricated to give Joseph Smith "Godly authority?" (3 interwikis)
- The Book of Mormon as history (3 interwikis)
- The killing of Laban in the Book of Mormon (3 interwikis)
- The Mormon understanding of Satan (3 interwikis)
- Book of Mormon/Textual changes/"white" changed to "pure" (3 interwikis)
- Apostasy/Reasons for (3 interwikis)
- The Church of Jesus Christ and plural marriage today (3 interwikis)
- Joseph Smith/Polygamy/Keeping plural marriage a secret (3 interwikis)
- Joseph Smith/Miracles (3 interwikis)
- Joseph Smith's First Vision/Early knowledge of the nature of God (3 interwikis)
- Question: Did Oliver Cowdery ever deny his Book of Mormon witness because he thought that Joseph Smith was a fallen prophet? (3 interwikis)
- Question: Have edits to the revelations been discussed in the present day? (3 interwikis)
- Joseph Smith/Seer stones/"Rock in hat" used for Book of Mormon translation (3 interwikis)
- Doctrine and Covenants/Lectures on Faith/Removed (3 interwikis)
- Joseph Smith/Narcissism/Boasting (3 interwikis)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith institute polygamy because he had a "voracious sexual appetite"? (3 interwikis)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith use his own seer stone to translate the Book of Mormon? (3 interwikis)
- Mormon women refusing offers of plural marriage (3 interwikis)
- Question: What is the source of the story about Joseph Smith possessing a Jupiter talisman? (3 interwikis)
- Joseph Smith/Accusations of false prophecies (3 interwikis)
- Mormonism and racial issues (3 interwikis)
- Question: Could Moroni have been an "angel of Satan"? (3 interwikis)
- Baptism for the dead in early Christianity (3 interwikis)
- Mormonism and other religions (3 interwikis)
- Mormonism and the nature of God (3 interwikis)
- Mormonism and the nature of God/Early teachings (3 interwikis)
- Question: Why were the gold plates needed at all if they weren't used directly during the translation process? (3 interwikis)
- Mormonism and the nature of God/Interaction with God (3 interwikis)
- Question: Why do Mormons use the Aaronic Priesthood, since Hebrews 7 states that the Aaronic/Levitical Priesthood was "changed" to the unique priesthood "after the order of Melchizedek" held by Jesus Christ? (3 interwikis)
- Mormonism and the nature of God/Theodicy/Death of innocents (3 interwikis)
- Question: What does it mean to Mormons when Jesus is declared to be the "alpha and omega"? (3 interwikis)
- Moroni's visit/Nephi or Moroni (3 interwikis)
- Question: What is the Book of Mormon? (3 interwikis)
- Question: What is "Polyandry?" (3 interwikis)
- Question: What are modern Church leaders' views on the Lectures on Faith? (3 interwikis)
- Question: What evidence demonstrates that the Bible has been altered? (3 interwikis)
- The Joseph Smith Papyri (3 interwikis)
- Source:Gospel Topics:Bible, Inerrancy of:As the Bible was compiled, organized, translated, and transcribed, many errors entered the text (3 interwikis)
- Book of Mormon/Language/"Adieu" (3 interwikis)
- Question: How can we tell if a modern revelation comes from God or Satan? (3 interwikis)
- Book of Mormon/Money (3 interwikis)
- "Approaching Mormon Doctrine," LDS Newsroom (May 2007): "Not every statement made by a Church leader, past or present, necessarily constitutes doctrine" (3 interwikis)
- Question: How do Latter-day Saints reconcile scriptural accounts of the Flood of Noah with scientific evidence of continuous human habitation on the earth? (3 interwikis)
- Mormonism and racial issues/Blacks and the priesthood/Understanding pre-1978 statements (3 interwikis)
- Question: How would a statement that "God is a spirit" be interpreted in ancient Judasism? (3 interwikis)
- Question: Where did 19th-Century Latter-day Saints believe that Freemasonry came from? (3 interwikis)
- Plants in the Book of Mormon (3 interwikis)
- Word of Wisdom (3 interwikis)
- Question: Did David Whitmer ever deny his Book of Mormon witness because he thought that Joseph Smith was a fallen prophet? (3 interwikis)
- Elephants in the Book of Mormon (3 interwikis)
- Question: Does the Bible teach that individual works are unnecessary? (3 interwikis)
- Articles of Faith (3 interwikis)
- Accounts of Joseph Smith's First Vision/1832 (3 interwikis)
- Latter-day Saint Temples/Endowment (3 interwikis)
- Joseph Smith/Translator (3 interwikis)
- Apostasy/Patristic evidence of (3 interwikis)
- Question: Is prayer the only element required in the determination of truth? (3 interwikis)
- Jesus Christ/Atonement/The importance of the atonement of Jesus Christ to the Latter-day Saints (3 interwikis)
- Events leading to the First Vision (3 interwikis)
- Mormonism and church integrity (3 interwikis)
- Doctrine and Covenants/Criticism (3 interwikis)
- Mormonism and doctrine (3 interwikis)
- Joseph Smith/Narcissism/Pride (3 interwikis)
- Mormonism and Christianity (3 interwikis)
- Question: Could Joseph Smith have hypnotized the witnesses to the Book of Mormon? (3 interwikis)
- Question: Did Joseph ever place the Nephite interpreters ("Urim and Thummim") into his hat? (3 interwikis)
- Plural marriage and the law (3 interwikis)
- Mormonism and priesthood (3 interwikis)
- Question: Is plural marriage required in order to achieve exaltation? (3 interwikis)
- Question: What is Moroni's promise? (3 interwikis)
- Question: Why do Mormon's believe that ongoing divine revelation is necessary? (3 interwikis)
- Question: Are the ''Lectures on Faith'' not made available through Latter-day Saint sources? (3 interwikis)
- Question: What happened to Joseph Smith's seer stones? (3 interwikis)
- Question: What are the reasons for the changes to the Doctrine and Covenants? (3 interwikis)
- Question: Which method of translation was more "believable": seer stone or Nephite interpreters? (3 interwikis)
- Book of Abraham/Joseph Smith Papyri/Church disclosure of "Book of the Dead" (3 interwikis)
- Gospel Topics: "The various accounts of the First Vision tell a consistent story, though naturally they differ in emphasis and detail" (3 interwikis)
- Question: How do dinosaurs fit into God's plan? (3 interwikis)
- Question: Is there any mention of the First Vision in non-Mormon literature before 1843? (3 interwikis)
- Understanding revelation (3 interwikis)
- The Spalding Theory of Book of Mormon authorship (3 interwikis)
- Mormonism and racial issues/Blacks and the priesthood/Social pressure (3 interwikis)
- The Book of Mormon and the fulness of the gospel (3 interwikis)
- Question: Was there no mention of revival activity in 1820 in the newspaper? (3 interwikis)
- Question: Did Martin Harris ever deny his Book of Mormon witness because he thought that Joseph Smith was a fallen prophet? (3 interwikis)
- Question: When the Bible talks about being "born again," what does this mean? (3 interwikis)
- Horses in the Book of Mormon (3 interwikis)
- Plural marriage/Did President Gordon B. Hinckley state that polygamy was not doctrinal (3 interwikis)
- Question: How did the authors of the Bible view the earth and the universe? (3 interwikis)
- Plural marriage/Lorenzo Snow's statements about polygamy during the Temple Lot case (3 interwikis)
- Accounts of Joseph Smith's First Vision/1835 (3 interwikis)
- Apostasy/Not complete (3 interwikis)
- Joseph Smith's First Vision/Joining other churches (3 interwikis)
- Question: Is there evidence that the Smith family was in the Palmyra area in 1820? (3 interwikis)
- Jesus Christ/Atonement/Location (3 interwikis)
- Question: Do Latter-day Saints believe in a female divine person, a "Heavenly Mother" as counterpart to God, the Heavenly Father? (3 interwikis)
- Mormonism and church integrity/Accusations of lying and hypocrisy on the part of the Church (3 interwikis)
- Question: Do the Latter-day Saint "Three Degrees of Glory" have a basis in the Bible? (3 interwikis)
- Question: Why did Joseph describe the United Order in revelation as "everlasting" and "immutable and unchangeable" until Jesus comes? (3 interwikis)
- Mormonism and doctrine/Repudiated concepts (3 interwikis)
- Question: When and how often did Brigham Young refer to elements of Joseph Smith's First Vision in his discourses? (3 interwikis)
- Mormonism and Christianity/Grace and works (3 interwikis)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith simply conflate elements of the 1818 and 1824-25 revivals in his story of the First Vision? (3 interwikis)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith begin his prophetic career with a "trinitarian" idea of God? (3 interwikis)
- Question: What is known about possible children through Joseph Smith's polygamous marriages? (3 interwikis)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith say that viewing the gold plates would result in death? (3 interwikis)
- Mormonism and the internet (3 interwikis)
- Mormonism and the nature of God/"Celestial sex" (3 interwikis)
- Mormonism and the nature of God/Worship of God (3 interwikis)
- The Holy Ghost in the Book of Mormon (3 interwikis)
- Question: How many times was Joseph Smith involved with legal issues? (3 interwikis)
- Question: What does the Church teach investigators and members regarding the method by which the Book of Mormon was produced? (3 interwikis)
- Question: What are the Nephite interpreters? (3 interwikis)
- Question: What purposes could plural marriage possibly serve? (3 interwikis)
- The Kirtland Egyptian Papers (3 interwikis)
- Question: Is the Book of Mormon reference to windows that can be "dashed in pieces" an anachronism? (3 interwikis)
- Reformed Egyptian and the Book of Mormon (3 interwikis)
- Question: Do the Book of Abraham and the Book of Mormon link a person's skin color to their behavior in the pre-existence? (3 interwikis)
- Source of the temple endowment (3 interwikis)
- Question: Were revivals and religious excitement too common to be noticed in the newspapers? (3 interwikis)
- The Apocrypha and the Book of Mormon (3 interwikis)
- Testimony of the gospel (3 interwikis)
- Book of Mormon/Wordprint studies (3 interwikis)
- Question: Was Parley P. Pratt murdered because he stole another man's wife? (3 interwikis)
- Joseph Smith's First Vision/Multiple accounts of the First Vision (3 interwikis)
- Question: Was Joseph Smith found guilty of being a "con man" in 1826? (3 interwikis)
- Oliver Cowdery and the "rod of nature" (3 interwikis)
- The witness of Hyrum Smith (3 interwikis)
- The Hurlbut affidavits (3 interwikis)
- Question: Did Brigham Young believe that one could not enter the Celestial Kingdom unless they were a polygamist? (3 interwikis)
- Question: Was Joseph Smith's prophecy that the Independence, Missouri temple "shall be reared in this generation" a failed prophecy? (3 interwikis)
- Mormonism and doctrine/Official or core doctrine/What is it? (3 interwikis)
- Question: Is the Father embodied or a spirit in the first edition of the Doctrine and Covenants? (3 interwikis)
- Question: Is a "burning in the bosom" simply a subjective, emotion-based, unreliable way to practice self-deception? (3 interwikis)
- Joseph Smith's 1826 trial (3 interwikis)
- Mormonism and priesthood/Criticisms by traditional Christians (3 interwikis)
- Question: Does Joseph Smith fail the "prophetic test" found in Deuteronomy 18? (3 interwikis)
- Mormonism and science (3 interwikis)
- Question: Do Latter-day Saints diminish the importance of Jesus Christ and His atonement? (3 interwikis)