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- ...original ''intent'' and ''clarifying the message'' of the original author of the text in question. We are not entirely sure, but in either case the JST ...e in the JST and whether a particular change was meant to be a restoration of original text.4 KB (737 words) - 16:33, 28 April 2024
- ...s and over what period of time that often dominate secular discussions are of limited interest for Latter-day Saints. <BR><BR> ...te of existence; that an understanding of all the details about the origin of man is not vital to one's salvation, although the matter is related to seve4 KB (701 words) - 15:09, 13 April 2024
- ==Question: What evidence does the Book of Abraham demonstrate to support its own antiquity?== ===The Book of Abraham has a number of evidences to support it===208 KB (32,568 words) - 14:22, 13 April 2024
- ...Did the First Presidency identify the New York "Hill Cumorah" as the site of the Nephite final battles?== ...h?|url=https://knowhy.bookofmormoncentral.org/knowhy/where-is-the-location-of-the-hill-cumorah|number=489}}10 KB (1,611 words) - 15:17, 13 April 2024
- |L=Criticism of Mormonism/Video/Search for the Truth DVD/The Translator ...3b0bf;text-align:left;color:#000;padding:0.2em 0.4em;">Claim: "The Book of Mormon was not translated from the golden plates. According to his scribes the pla12 KB (1,933 words) - 14:19, 13 April 2024
- |link=../../../Book of Mormon/Archaeology/Kinderhook Plates |link=../../../Church history/Martyrdom of Joseph and Hyrum1 KB (172 words) - 15:57, 13 April 2024
- |link=../../Doctrinal issues/Priesthood/Blacks {{Video:Tvedtnes:2003:Racism in the Book of Mormon}}276 bytes (31 words) - 15:55, 13 April 2024
- |L=Specific works/DNA Evidence for Book of Mormon Geography (DVD) |H=DNA Evidence for Book of Mormon Geography (DVD); Introduction to Book of Mormon Evidences (Seminar)9 KB (1,429 words) - 15:47, 13 April 2024
- ...der to provide a useful resource for people to gain a better understanding of Latter-day Saint history and teachings. Further, it is not necessarily corr On many issues, there ''is'' no official Church position, and so there is nothing that an9 KB (1,580 words) - 21:14, 13 April 2024
- |L=Criticism of Mormonism/Books/One Nation Under Gods/Chapter 18 |L=Criticism of Mormonism/Books/One Nation Under Gods/Chapter 1836 KB (5,451 words) - 13:33, 13 April 2024
- |L=Alleged hiding of facts in Church history |H=Alleged hiding of facts in Church history4 KB (578 words) - 00:01, 1 May 2024
- |L=Specific works/DNA Evidence for Book of Mormon Geography (DVD)/Geographical claims |T=DNA Evidence for Book of Mormon Geography (DVD); Introduction to Book of Mormon Evidences (Seminar)32 KB (4,968 words) - 15:47, 13 April 2024
- |L=Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Mormonism 101/Chapter 15 |<=[[../Chapter 14|Chapter 14: The Word of Wisdom]]54 KB (9,084 words) - 22:45, 9 May 2024
- |L=Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Mormonism 101/Introduction ...has "gotten around," and I have been asked to contribute to FAIR's review of McKeever and Johnson's Mormonism 101.48 KB (8,193 words) - 14:14, 13 April 2024
- ...nciple(s) is (are) meant to be taught to modern believers by the existence of violence in the scriptures (and particularly the Old Testament) that is eit ...arsh?|There are crimes for which capital punishment is required]] and some of these can seem quite trivial. Among those crimes are blasphemy, cursing you51 KB (8,337 words) - 21:51, 12 April 2024
- ...s opportunity to speak for the record on a number of issues that have been of immense interest to scholars, Church members, and the general public over t ...f 15 October 1985 were shown to be involved somehow with the sale of early Mormon history documents, the news interest was global. When it was revealed many35 KB (5,664 words) - 14:24, 13 April 2024
- ===LDS-authored publications which discuss various accounts of the First Vision (1984-1989)=== [NOTE: This is part of a series, Sources of American Spirituality, published by a Catholic Press]15 KB (2,244 words) - 14:31, 13 April 2024
- ===LDS-authored publications which discuss various accounts of the First Vision (1910-1968)=== ...d version interchangeably: 44-45. Quotes both versions again later in the book, again interchangeably (“another account”): 426-7.16 KB (2,380 words) - 14:31, 13 April 2024
- ...put it simply, absolutely nothing. Any connections are only in the minds of the people responsible for publishing these papers=== ...h Papers or the Nemenhah People have to do with The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints?4 KB (721 words) - 15:50, 13 April 2024
- ==Question: What have past and present Mormon leaders taught about why some people are attracted to the same sex?== ...xuality, not same-sex attractions in general. (See [[Mormonism and gender issues/Same-sex attraction/Origin/Masturbation|Origin/Masturbation]]).28 KB (4,663 words) - 15:33, 13 April 2024
- ===The Church does not have a stance on the causes of same-sex attraction=== ...sex attraction. Whether it is genetic, environmental, or some combination of the two does not affect Church doctrine. Elder Oaks and Elder Wickman disc11 KB (1,639 words) - 22:03, 30 April 2024
- ...ill greatly amuse most Latter-day Saints. Nevertheless, we respond to each of these "facts" here. ...ian creeds are abomination to God, and your pastor or Priest is a hireling of Satan"46 KB (7,585 words) - 14:22, 13 April 2024
- |L=Criticism of Mormonism/Websites/MormonThink/25 items that would allegedly "make the Chur |H=''MormonThink's'' list of 25 items that would allegedly "make the Church true"45 KB (7,307 words) - 14:20, 13 April 2024
- |L=Criticism of Mormonism/Websites/MormonThink/Polygamy |L=Criticism of Mormonism/Websites/MormonThink/Polygamy69 KB (11,303 words) - 14:20, 13 April 2024
- |L=Criticism of Mormonism/Websites/MormonThink/The First Vision |>=[[../The Book of Abraham|The Book of Abraham]]53 KB (8,534 words) - 14:20, 13 April 2024
- ...Mormonism/Websites/MormonThink/Could Joseph Smith have written the Book of Mormon |H=Response to MormonThink page "Could Joseph Smith have written the Book of Mormon?"56 KB (9,377 words) - 13:33, 13 April 2024
- ...ponse to "Why People Leave the LDS Church" (2008)/Historical and doctrinal issues ...of "Why People Leave the LDS Church" (2008)—Historical and doctrinal issues61 KB (9,677 words) - 15:01, 13 April 2024
- ...ysis of "Why People Leave the LDS Church" (2008)—Social and cultural issues |<=[[../Historical and doctrinal issues|Historical and doctrinal issues]]10 KB (1,639 words) - 15:01, 13 April 2024
- ...rally “rendered” by the “Singing Mothers” and the sober sustaining of the stake No Liquor-Tobacco Committee. ...are no longer boring. Thus, one of the earliest and most important pillars of my faith came not through some great insight into the gospel but through an36 KB (6,144 words) - 15:17, 13 June 2022
- |L=Criticism of Mormonism/Websites/FutureMissionary.com |H=A FairMormon Analysis of the critical website ''FutureMissionary.com''9 KB (1,309 words) - 14:20, 13 April 2024
- |L=Criticism of Mormonism/Online documents/Letter to a CES Director/Other Concerns & Questi ...missions while leaving members confused and hanging with a bizarre version of Mormonism."44 KB (6,907 words) - 14:21, 13 April 2024
- |L=Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Understanding Mormon Disbelief |H=A review of "Understanding Mormon Disbelief"50 KB (7,519 words) - 14:18, 13 April 2024
- |L=Joseph Smith/Polygamy/Doctrinal issues related to plural marriage |H=Doctrinal issues related to plural marriage1 KB (150 words) - 19:57, 1 May 2024
- ...was written and endorsed by all members of the First Presidency and Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. ...ish to claim that the ''Proclamation'' is not official are either ignorant of these teachings, or are seeking to deceive their audience.28 KB (4,291 words) - 23:16, 1 May 2024
- {{Navigation:Book of Mormon}} ...{CriticalWork:Palmer:Insider|pages=10, 83}}; {{CriticalWork:Martin:Kingdom of the Cults|pages=205}}; La Roy Sunderland, “Mormonism,” ''Zion’s Watch198 KB (31,143 words) - 20:57, 12 April 2024
- ==Question: Did B.H. Roberts lose his faith in the Church and the Book of Mormon?== ...im that B.H. Roberts abandoned the Book of Mormon can be found in his last book, which he considered his masterwork===27 KB (4,505 words) - 15:11, 13 April 2024
- ...rical record, but are included here as written as a reference for the type of discussions which continued regarding plural marriage. Eliza R. Snow, ''Biography of Lorenzo Snow'', 69 [Joseph Smith teaches plural marriage to Lorenzo Snow]522 KB (89,579 words) - 15:17, 30 April 2024
- ==Question: Do the Book of Abraham and the Book of Mormon link a person's skin color to their behavior in the pre-existence?== ===The Book of Mormon does not appear to have been used in a justification for the priesthood ban5 KB (819 words) - 17:55, 30 April 2024
- ...dies maintains a [https://byustudies.byu.edu/resources/dclessons.aspx list of resources relating to the Doctrine and Covenants Gospel Doctrine curriculum ==Past Impressions Podcast (from the Mormon Channel)==10 KB (948 words) - 19:55, 21 February 2015
- ==Question: Do Mormons ignore the doctrine of grace at the expense of "works"?== ...at Church leaders do not teach this doctrine, and as a result most members of the Church do not expect to be saved, since they are not "good enough."9 KB (1,470 words) - 15:18, 13 April 2024
- |>=[[../Book of Mormon Culture|Book of Mormon Culture]] ...the Bible cover to cover and ask God to reveal to you that it contains all of God's message to man"24 KB (4,078 words) - 14:10, 13 April 2024
- ...s. There are a number of other scriptures that affirm this equality. A few of the more popular ones include: ...obvious that the Lord has a high view of women and their role in the Plan of Salvation.37 KB (6,055 words) - 15:10, 13 April 2024
- *Authorship (Authorship of the Book of Mormon) under Did Joseph Smith create... **View of the Hebrews3 KB (396 words) - 23:24, 4 March 2023
- ...Hawaii in response to legal concerns the Church had over the legalization of gay marriage?== ===The main concern of Church leaders, and the only one that they seem to have had in consciousnes24 KB (3,625 words) - 15:27, 13 April 2024
- ...st, McKay, as president, believed divine intervention necessary regardless of the restriction's origins, something he reportedly sought but did not recei However, it became even clearer that a century of precedent was difficult to reverse without a revelation, especially when so8 KB (1,157 words) - 15:31, 13 April 2024
- ...s Christ of Latter-day Saints deceived its members regarding controversial issues about its origins, history, and/or scripture?== ...anti-Mormon literature is today's mainstream history" or "Yesterday's anti-Mormon literature is today's [https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/manual/gos46 KB (7,292 words) - 16:24, 26 April 2024
- ...does The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints consider the practice of masturbation sinful?== ...tent/english/pdf/ForTheStrengthOfYouth-eng.pdf?lang=eng ''For the Strength of Youth''] (2011) has said to "not do anything…that arouses sexual106 KB (16,248 words) - 21:51, 12 April 2024
- == Church sources discussing issues with Polygamy== ===The practice of plural marriage during Joseph's lifetime===12 KB (1,846 words) - 23:50, 30 April 2024