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- |L=Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Nauvoo Polygamy/Chapter 1 |L=Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Nauvoo Polygamy/Chapter 158 KB (8,618 words) - 14:14, 13 April 2024
- |L=Criticism of Mormonism/Books/One Nation Under Gods/Chapter 3 |>=[[../Chapter 4|Claims made in "Chapter 4: Smith's Golden Book"]]27 KB (4,316 words) - 13:33, 13 April 2024
- |L=Criticism of Mormonism/Books/One Nation Under Gods/Chapter 4 |H=Response to claims made in "Chapter 4: Smith's Golden Book"33 KB (5,102 words) - 14:15, 13 April 2024
- |L=Criticism of Mormonism/Books/The Kingdom of the Cults (Revised)/Index |H=Index to claims made in ''The Kingdom of the Cults'' (Revised edition)118 KB (18,356 words) - 13:33, 13 April 2024
- |L=Criticism of Mormonism/Books/An Insider's View of Mormon Origins/Use of sources |T=[[../|An Insider's View of Mormon Origins]]4 KB (641 words) - 19:14, 8 May 2024
- |L=Criticism of Mormonism/Books/An Insider's View of Mormon Origins/Chapter 1 |T=[[../../|An Insider's View of Mormon Origins]]24 KB (3,653 words) - 14:11, 13 April 2024
- |L=Criticism of Mormonism/Online documents/A Letter to an Apostle/The Letter |L=Criticism of Mormonism/Online documents/A Letter to an Apostle/The Letter53 KB (8,529 words) - 14:18, 13 April 2024
- ==Question: What is the Book of Mormon?== ...one of four books considered to be scripture by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints===22 KB (3,753 words) - 15:34, 13 April 2024
- |L=Criticism of Mormonism/Websites/MormonThink |H=A FairMormon Analysis of the critical website ''MormonThink.com''17 KB (2,551 words) - 14:20, 13 April 2024
- |L=Journal of Discourses/2/45 |T=Journal of Discourses 2: THE ANCIENT PROPHECIES50 KB (9,359 words) - 14:43, 13 April 2024
- |L=Mormonism and Wikipedia/First Vision/Recorded accounts of the vision |H=An analysis of the Wikipedia article "First Vision"64 KB (9,919 words) - 18:25, 11 May 2024
- |L=Journal of Discourses/5/17 ...POSITION OF MEN AND DEVILS TO THE LATTER-DAY KINGDOM—GOVERNMENTAL BREACH OF THE UTAH MAIL CONTRACT23 KB (4,264 words) - 14:51, 13 April 2024
- |L=Journal of Discourses/5/22 |H=JOSEPH SMITH'S FAMILY—DETAILS OF GEORGE A. SMITH'S OWN EXPERIENCE, ETC.38 KB (7,244 words) - 14:51, 13 April 2024
- |L=Journal of Discourses/7/4 |H=EVIDENCES OF THE BIBLE AND BOOK OF MORMON COMPARED59 KB (10,547 words) - 14:54, 13 April 2024
- |L=Journal of Discourses/7/26 |H=WANT OF GOVERNING CAPACITIES AMONG MEN ELEMENTS OFSACRAMENT—APOSTACY, ETC.21 KB (4,046 words) - 14:54, 13 April 2024
- |L=Journal of Discourses/10/57 ...G THE WORLD—THE RESTORATION OF THE GOSPEL, AND THE ACKNOWLEDGMENT BY GOD OF HIS SERVANTS, ETC.27 KB (5,051 words) - 14:34, 13 April 2024
- |L=Journal of Discourses/21/34 |H=A DOUBLE BIRTHDAY—THE AUTHORITY OF THE PRIESTHOOD, ETC.44 KB (8,052 words) - 14:45, 13 April 2024
- |L=Journal of Discourses/12/16 |T=Journal of Discourses 12: HOW DIVISIONS WERE INTRODUCED INTO THE CHRISTIAN WORLD—THE24 KB (4,511 words) - 14:35, 13 April 2024
- |L=Journal of Discourses/14/36 |H=THE GATHERING—THE RISE OF THE CHURCH—THE BOOK OF MORMON—TRUE CHRISTIANITY43 KB (7,922 words) - 14:38, 13 April 2024
- |L=Journal of Discourses/15/25 ...EW OF GOD'S DEALINGS WITH THE PROPHET JOSEPH—COMING FORTH OF THE BOOK OF MORMON—GATHERING, ETC.44 KB (8,270 words) - 14:38, 13 April 2024
- |L=Journal of Discourses/19/33 ...JARED—HYRUM SMITH'S ENQUIRY—WHAT IS A GENERATION—THE IMMENSE NUMBER OF RECORDS TO BE REVEALED52 KB (9,801 words) - 14:42, 13 April 2024
- |L=Journal of Discourses/20/9 ...ON—THE GREATER THINGS SHOWN TO THOSE WHO RECEIVE THE RECORD—THE VISION OF MOSES—THE CREATION, ETC.52 KB (9,673 words) - 14:44, 13 April 2024
- |L=Journal of Discourses/17/16 |T=Journal of Discourses 17: INTEREST MANIFESTED RELATING TO TEMPORAL AFFAIRS—REVELATIO36 KB (6,613 words) - 14:40, 13 April 2024
- |L=Journal of Discourses/18/42 ...HE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE KINGDOM OF GOD—THE COMING MILLENNIUM AND TRIUMPH OF THE SAINTS46 KB (8,450 words) - 14:41, 13 April 2024
- |L=Journal of Discourses/25/3 ...TISM FOR THE DEAD—BOOK OF MORMON—RESTORATION OF THE PRIESTHOOD—CAUSE OF PERSECUTION—NO SURRENDER—PLURAL MARRIAGE.32 KB (5,896 words) - 14:48, 13 April 2024
- |L=Journal of Discourses/25/22 ...NOT DUE TO MAN'S WISDOM—REMARKABLE CHARACTERISTIC OF MANY EARLY MEMBERS OF THE CHURCH—SALVATION FOR THE DEAD33 KB (6,131 words) - 14:48, 13 April 2024
- |L=Mormonism and Wikipedia/Golden plates/Significance |H=An analysis of claims made in the Wikipedia article "Golden plates" - Significance9 KB (1,335 words) - 13:34, 13 April 2024
- |L=Mormonism and Wikipedia/Golden plates/Sealed portion |H=An analysis of claims made in the Wikipedia article "Golden plates" - "Sealed" portion18 KB (2,780 words) - 13:34, 13 April 2024
- |L=Mormonism and Wikipedia/Golden plates/Composition and weight |H=An analysis of claims made in the Wikipedia article "Golden plates" - Described composition and weight8 KB (1,025 words) - 13:34, 13 April 2024
- |L=Mormonism and Wikipedia/Golden plates/Witness accounts |H=An analysis of claims made in the Wikipedia article "Golden plates" - Witness accounts19 KB (2,893 words) - 13:34, 13 April 2024
- |L=Mormonism and Wikipedia/Golden plates/Returning the plates ...is of claims made in the Wikipedia article "Golden plates" - Returning the plates7 KB (1,089 words) - 13:34, 13 April 2024
- |L=Mormonism and Wikipedia/Golden plates/Finding ...ysis of claims made in the Wikipedia article "Golden plates" - Finding the plates25 KB (3,946 words) - 13:34, 13 April 2024
- |L=Mormonism and Wikipedia/Golden plates/Background |H=An analysis of claims made in the Wikipedia article "Golden plates" - Background13 KB (2,022 words) - 13:34, 13 April 2024
- |L=Mormonism and Wikipedia/Golden plates/Origin and historicity |H=An analysis of claims made in the Wikipedia article "Golden plates" - Origin and historicity16 KB (2,463 words) - 13:34, 13 April 2024
- |L=Mormonism and Wikipedia/Golden plates/Introduction |H=An analysis of Wikipedia article "Golden plates" - Introduction11 KB (1,805 words) - 16:36, 11 May 2024
- |H=An analysis of the Wikipedia article "Three Witnesses" |<=[[../Testimony|Testimony of the Three Witnesses]]46 KB (7,051 words) - 20:14, 11 May 2024
- =An analysis of Wikipedia article "Joseph Smith, Jr." (Version 19 May 2009)= ...youth, he did read the Bible and was also influenced by the folk religion of that time and place.15 KB (2,282 words) - 13:35, 13 April 2024
- =An analysis of Wikipedia article "Joseph Smith, Jr." (Version 19 May 2009)= ====Book of Mormon====18 KB (2,870 words) - 13:34, 13 April 2024
- ...ism of Mormonism/Books/Losing a Lost Tribe: Native Americans, DNA, and the Mormon Church/Chapter 11 |T=[[../../|Losing a Lost Tribe: Native Americans, DNA, and the Mormon Church]]9 KB (1,409 words) - 13:33, 13 April 2024
- |L=Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Becoming Gods/Chapter 2 |L=Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Becoming Gods/Chapter 244 KB (6,755 words) - 14:11, 13 April 2024
- ===LDS-authored publications which discuss various accounts of the First Vision (1969-1978)=== '''1978 ''' Dean Jessee, "The Spirituality of Joseph Smith", Ensign Sept 1978, 14-20. Jessee writes:12 KB (1,858 words) - 14:31, 13 April 2024
- |L=Book of Mormon/Translation/Method/1836-1840 |H=Statements on the Book of Mormon Translation method: 1836-184018 KB (3,012 words) - 14:06, 13 April 2024
- |S=[[Category:Primary sources]]Source document in ''Mormon Publications: 19th and 20th Centuries'' online archive: [http://contentdm.l ...world, before the Lord shows his naked arm to the nations, if the children of men would read and understand.77 KB (14,090 words) - 14:59, 13 April 2024
- |S=[[Category:Primary sources]]Source document in ''Mormon Publications: 19th and 20th Centuries'' online archive: [http://contentdm.l ...tle time to answer your 3rd letter, addressed to me in the December number of the Messenger and Advocate. Passing your apology, I come at once to the gre86 KB (15,726 words) - 14:59, 13 April 2024
- |S=[[Category:Primary sources]]Source document in ''Mormon Publications: 19th and 20th Centuries'' online archive: [http://contentdm.l ...alled the foundation, or starting point of the church of Christ, or church of latter day saints.80 KB (14,517 words) - 14:59, 13 April 2024
- |S=[[Category:Primary sources]]Source document in ''Mormon Publications: 19th and 20th Centuries'' online archive: [http://contentdm.l ...pon this western continent, it unfolds as plainly, as the bible does those of the Israelites on the eastern continent.—Having such a view before me, I70 KB (12,830 words) - 14:59, 13 April 2024
- |S=[[Category:Primary sources]]Source document in ''Mormon Publications: 19th and 20th Centuries'' online archive: [http://contentdm.l ====To the Elders of the Church of the Latter Day Saints.====72 KB (13,069 words) - 14:59, 13 April 2024
- |S=[[Category:Primary sources]]Source document in ''Mormon Publications: 19th and 20th Centuries'' online archive: [http://contentdm.l ...most serious enquiry, and to do it calls for the most diligent application of all our powers.69 KB (12,602 words) - 14:59, 13 April 2024
- |S= [[Category:Primary sources]]Source document in ''Mormon Publications: 19th and 20th Centuries'' online archive: [http://contentdm.l '''Note:''' ''Some headings and bracketed texts are editorial and not part of the original text.''90 KB (16,997 words) - 15:49, 13 April 2024
- |S=[[Category:Primary sources]]Source document in ''Mormon Publications: 19th and 20th Centuries'' online archive: [http://contentdm.l '''Note:''' ''Some headings and bracketed texts are editorial and not part of the original text.''84 KB (15,425 words) - 15:49, 13 April 2024
- |S= [[Category:Primary sources]]Source document in ''Mormon Publications: 19th and 20th Centuries'' online archive: [http://contentdm.l |L1=THE WORD OF WISDOM78 KB (14,093 words) - 15:51, 13 April 2024
- ...true prophet, why did he fail to realize that “Elias” is the N.T. form of the name “Elijah”? (D & C 110:12,13 and 1 Kings 17:1 and James 5:17) Ho ...issouri when the Pearl of Great Price declares that it was in the vicinity of Assyria and had the Euphrates and Hiddekel Rivers in it?"51 KB (8,385 words) - 19:04, 8 May 2024
- |L=FAIR Study Aids/Gospel Doctrine/Book of Mormon/Lesson One |H=FairMormon Study Aids: Gospel Doctrine, Book of Mormon, Lesson One13 KB (1,953 words) - 14:23, 13 April 2024
- ...ory/CriticalSources ||[[Template:Critical sources box:Alleged whitewashing of Church history/CriticalSources|edit]] ...n of/CriticalSources ||[[Template:Critical sources box:Apostasy/Prediction of/CriticalSources|edit]]167 KB (22,691 words) - 13:53, 11 May 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
- ...ation of the Book of Mormon|T=[[../|MormonThink/Translation of the Book of Mormon]] ...amon Interview with Joseph Smith III, February 1879, cited in Vogel, Early Mormon Documents, Vol. 1. p. 541.101 KB (17,238 words) - 14:20, 13 April 2024
- ...of Mormon|T=[[../|MormonThink/Could Joseph Smith have written the Book of Mormon]] ...quaint, old-fashioned sound and structure of our King James's translation of the Scriptures; and the result is a mongrel—half modern glibness, and42 KB (7,433 words) - 14:20, 13 April 2024
- |H=An analysis of "Why People Leave the LDS Church" (2008)—Historical and doctrinal iss |H=An analysis of "Why People Leave the LDS Church" (2008)—Historical and doctrinal iss61 KB (9,677 words) - 15:01, 13 April 2024
- ===The Plates and the Three, Eight, and Other Witnesses=== *Robert L. Marrott, "Law of Witnesses" [http://maxwellinstitute.byu.edu/publications/books/?bookid=51&c47 KB (6,269 words) - 15:39, 26 December 2012
- ===The Plates and the Three, Eight, and Other Witnesses=== *Robert L. Marrott, "Law of Witnesses" [http://maxwellinstitute.byu.edu/publications/books/?bookid=51&c57 KB (7,530 words) - 09:36, 27 August 2013
- |L=FAIR Study Aids/Book of Mormon Resources by chapter and verse/1 Nephi *Journey of Faith [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bztOlbUU2Uw&list=PL8E749B3D3C753A96&51 KB (6,760 words) - 14:22, 13 April 2024
- | colspan="3" style="font-size:150%" | OF THE CHURCH OF LATTER DAY SAINTS ...we are enabled to present this Journal, to the patrons, with the prospect of being able to continue it in time to come, without interruption.74 KB (13,606 words) - 15:01, 8 December 2012
- OF THE BOOK OF MORMON. ...res this work circulated as much as possible, and will grant the Privilege of reproduction to any reliable house that will make application to him.234 KB (43,989 words) - 15:09, 13 April 2024
- |next=[[../The Book of Abraham|The Book of Abraham]] ==A FairMormon Analysis of FutureMissionary page "The Prophet Joseph Smith"==9 KB (1,396 words) - 14:20, 13 April 2024
- ...aim: "What are 1769 King James Version edition errors doing in the Book of Mormon?"]] (Letter to a CES Director: Why I Lost My Testimony, April 2013) ...the translation process actually enhances the likelihood that the Book of Mormon is a fraud"]] (Debunking FAIR's Debunking, July 2014)87 KB (13,652 words) - 14:21, 13 April 2024
- ...reason or motive for seeking divine help – bible reading and conviction of sins, a revival, a desire to know if God exists, wanting to know which chur ...the following accounts in their list showing just how “consistent” all of the First Vision accounts are?"]] (from Debunking FAIR's Debunking, July 2053 KB (8,277 words) - 14:21, 13 April 2024
- |S= [[Category:Primary sources]]Source document in ''Mormon Publications: 19th and 20th Centuries'' online archive: [http://contentdm.l |L5=THE BOOK OF MORMON.67 KB (12,035 words) - 15:51, 13 April 2024
- |L=Criticism of Mormonism/Online documents/Letter to a CES Director/Citation abuse ...ent "citations" instead of a single one. In other cases, only the portions of the citation that support the author's position are extracted and displayed15 KB (2,337 words) - 14:19, 13 April 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
- ...milarities and differences between ''View of the Hebrews'' and the Book of Mormon?== ===Examples of parallels and differences===7 KB (1,103 words) - 15:31, 13 April 2024
- ==Question: What did the Book of Mormon witnesses mean when they used the word "supernatural" to describe their exp An early hostile account of the three witnesses' testimony from February 1830 is instructive:6 KB (969 words) - 15:32, 13 April 2024
- ...e testimony of the author of the "Letter to a CES Director" than any "anti-Mormon" source?== ...e and the hat, then reverses himself by stating that FairMormon's "version of Mormonism" is "alien and foreign"===7 KB (1,092 words) - 15:13, 13 April 2024
- ==Question: Why does the Book of Mormon match the King James Version (KJV) of the Bible so closely?== ...ned a Bible and copied those chapters when he came to material on the gold plates that he recognized as being from the Bible===3 KB (496 words) - 15:39, 13 April 2024
- ==Question: What did contemporary witnesses have to say about the Book of Mormon translation process?== ...the bible were plates of gold, about 8 inches long, 6 wide, and one eighth of an inch thick, on which were engraved characters or hyeroglyphics. By placi35 KB (5,522 words) - 15:31, 13 April 2024
- ==Quotations from Martin Harris which demonstrate the literal nature of the Three Witness experience== {{Epigraph|"He believes in the visitation of angels '''in bodily form''', for he has seen and conversed with them, as he11 KB (1,922 words) - 15:43, 13 April 2024
- ==Martin Harris statements as one of the Three Witnesses== ...yed in glorious light, [who] ascend [descended I suppose] out of the midst of heaven. Now if this is human juggling—judge ye."<ref>Oliver Cowdery and M14 KB (2,478 words) - 15:45, 13 April 2024
- ==David Whitmer statements as one of the Three Witnesses== ...agent would have it in safe keeping.{{CriticalWork:Reflector:19 March 1831:Gold Bible 6|pages=126–27}}36 KB (6,431 words) - 15:44, 13 April 2024
- ==Question: What is the Spalding Theory of Book of Mormon authorship?== ...f Mormon authorship was that Joseph plagiarized the unpublished manuscript of a novel written by the Reverend Solomon Spalding===6 KB (936 words) - 15:35, 13 April 2024
- ==Question: Are all swords mentioned in the Book of Mormon made of metal?== ===The Book of Mormon does indicate that at least some swords were made of metal===6 KB (975 words) - 15:09, 13 April 2024
- |>=[[../Book of Mormon Culture|Book of Mormon Culture]] |L1=Response to claim: "Why did the angel take Nephi Plates back to heaven?"24 KB (4,078 words) - 14:10, 13 April 2024
- ...t ministries/The Interactive Bible/Difficult Questions for Mormons/Book of Mormon Races |H=Response to "Difficult Questions for Mormons: Book of Mormon Races"5 KB (848 words) - 14:10, 13 April 2024
- ===Whitmer here endorses his printed testimony, and insists that the Book of Mormon was true and that he saw the angel=== ...sion and not an actual visitation by an angelic person" (Martin, ''Kingdom of the Cults'', 204).3 KB (593 words) - 15:12, 13 April 2024
- |S= [[Category:Primary sources]]Source document in ''Mormon Publications: 19th and 20th Centuries'' online archive: [http://contentdm.l |L1=A FAC-SIMILE FROM THE BOOK OF ABRAHAM. NO. 1.69 KB (12,301 words) - 15:52, 13 April 2024
- |S= [[Category:Primary sources]]Source document in ''Mormon Publications: 19th and 20th Centuries'' online archive: [http://contentdm.l |L1=EPISTLE OF THE TWELVE.75 KB (13,434 words) - 15:51, 13 April 2024
- |S= [[Category:Primary sources]]Source document in ''Mormon Publications: 19th and 20th Centuries'' online archive: [http://contentdm.l |L2=HISTORY OF JOSEPH SMITH.75 KB (13,380 words) - 15:51, 13 April 2024
- |S= [[Category:Primary sources]]Source document in ''Mormon Publications: 19th and 20th Centuries'' online archive: [http://contentdm.l |L1=AN EPISTLE OF THE TWELVE.75 KB (13,445 words) - 15:51, 13 April 2024
- |S= [[Category:Primary sources]]Source document in ''Mormon Publications: 19th and 20th Centuries'' online archive: [http://contentdm.l |L2=HISTORY OF JOSEPH SMITH.76 KB (13,652 words) - 15:51, 13 April 2024
- |S= [[Category:Primary sources]]Source document in ''Mormon Publications: 19th and 20th Centuries'' online archive: [http://contentdm.l |L1=History of Joseph Smith81 KB (14,291 words) - 15:52, 13 April 2024
- ==Question: What scriptures might challenge the view of a limited geography and the Nephites not being alone on the continent or ot ...ted, written upon gold plates, giving an account of the former inhabitants of this continent, and the source from whence they sprang…</blockquote>17 KB (2,737 words) - 15:35, 13 April 2024
- ...at there be only three witnesses to the gold plates from which the Book of Mormon was translated?== ...es that there be only three witnesses to the plates from which the Book of Mormon was translated. The text reads as follows:26 KB (4,296 words) - 15:19, 13 April 2024
- |L=Book of Abraham/Publications on the Book of Abraham |H=Publications Mentioning/Addressing Book of Abraham Controversies25 KB (3,600 words) - 14:02, 13 April 2024
- ==Question: Is belief in the Book of Mormon’s historicity essential to Latter-day Saint theology?== ...portant?|url=https://knowhy.bookofmormoncentral.org/knowhy/why-is-the-book-of-mormons-historical-authenticity-so-important|number=480}}10 KB (1,491 words) - 22:31, 7 November 2022
- [[File:Captain William Kidd.jpg|200px|thumb|right|'''Figure 1.''' Portrait of Captain William Kidd.]] ...iam_Kidd Captain William Kidd], or local Palmyra whalers that told stories of their journeys to places where Captain Kidd is also known to have operated.57 KB (9,248 words) - 01:18, 19 May 2023
- |H=An analysis of the Wikipedia article "Martin Harris (Latter Day Saints)" |link=http://www.fairblog.org/2013/01/23/wikipedias-deconstruction-of-martin-harris/44 KB (6,505 words) - 18:31, 11 May 2024