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Index of MormonThink's Table of Contents to responses in the FAIR Wiki

The following index correlates the Table of Contents on the MormonThink web site with responses in the FAIR Wiki.

Table of Contents

Introduction

• FAIR's response: Website reviews/MormonThink

Moroni's Visitation

• FAIR's response: Moroni's visit
  • Moroni's visit/Joseph reported "a spirit" visiting in him in 1827
  • Moroni's visit/Siblings remained asleep
  • Moroni's visit/Nephi or Moroni

Book of Mormon Translation

• FAIR's response: Book of Mormon/Translation
  • Book of Mormon/Translation/Method
    • Book of Mormon/Translation/The lost 116 pages
  • Joseph Smith/Seer stones

Book of Mormon Problems

• FAIR's response: Book of Mormon/Anachronisms

Could Joseph Have Written the BOM?

• FAIR's response: Book of Mormon
  • Book of Mormon/Plagiarism accusations
  • Book of Mormon/Wordprint studies

Book of Abraham

• FAIR's response: Book of Abraham
  • Book of Abraham/Book of the Dead
  • Book of Abraham/Papyri
  • Kirtland Egyptian Papers
  • Book of Abraham/Plagiarism accusations
    • Philosophy of a Future State by Thomas Dick
  • Things that Joseph got right

Lost 116 Pages

• FAIR's response: Book of Mormon/Translation/The lost 116 pages

Kinderhook Plates

• FAIR's response: Kinderhook Plates

The Witnesses

• FAIR's response: Book of Mormon witnesses
  • Book of Mormon witnesses/David Whitmer told to leave
  • Book of Mormon witnesses/Strangite parallels
  • Book of Mormon witnesses/Hypnotism
  • Book of Mormon witnesses/Recant
    • Cowdery's law partner claims Oliver admitted it was a hoax?
  • Book of Mormon witnesses/Character
  • Book of Mormon witnesses/Spiritual or literal
  • Book of Mormon witnesses/Eight witnesses
    • Book of Mormon witnesses/Eight witnesses/shown to me by a supernatural power
  • Book of Mormon witnesses/Other Book of Mormon witnesses
• FAIR's response: The Hurlbut affidavits
• FAIR's response: Joseph Smith/Occultism and magic
  • The magician Walters as a mentor to Joseph Smith?

First Vision

• FAIR's response: First Vision
  • Methodist camp meetings in 1820
  • Joseph became "partial" to Methodists
  • Religious revivals in 1820
  • Place of residence in 1820
  • First Vision accounts (summary)
    • 1832 account (overview)
      • Early understanding of God?
      • No new dispensation?
      • Different age?
      • Different motivation?
      • No persecution?
      • No revival?
      • Not forbidden to convert?
      • Wicked destroyed?
      • Only one Deity?
      • In heaven or earth?
      • Unconditional salvation?
      • Struggle with Satan?
    • 1835 account (overview)
      • Personages were angels?
    • 1838 account (overview)
      • 1820 Revival?
      • "It commenced with the Methodists"
  • No ref in 1830s publications?
  • Seldom mentioned in LDS pubs bef 1877?
  • No ref in non-LDS pubs before 1843?
  • Taught Joseph saw "God" in 1830 pub?
  • No published ref to Father and Son until 1838?
  • Joseph unsure of God in 1823?
  • Lucy joined Presbyterians in 1823?
  • Joined other churches?
  • All churches wrong?
  • Fabricated to bolster authority?
  • Details added over time?
  • Created to offset leadership crisis?

Polygamy

• FAIR's response: Joseph_Smith_and_polygamy
  • Marriages to young women
  • Lustful motives?
  • Joseph Smith and polygamy/Children of polygamous marriages
    • When did it start?
    • Spiritual witnesses
    • Book_of_Mormon_condemns_polygamy
    • D&C vs. Jacob 2
    • 1835 D&C denial
    • Polyandry
  • Emma Smith
  • Wives already married?
  • Early Christian attitudes
  • Required for exaltation?
  • Brigham in JD 11:269
  • Difficulties?
  • Hiding Brigham's history?
  • Law of Adoption
  • Manifesto & politics?
  • Post-Manifesto marriages
  • Modern Church

Prophets After Joseph

• FAIR's response: Revelation after Joseph Smith, Official Church doctrine and statements by Church leaders, Changing doctrine, General authorities' statements as scripture, and Official Church publications

Blacks & Priesthood

• FAIR's response: Blacks and the priesthood
  • Blessings denied by race?
  • Origins of the ban
  • The "curse of Cain" and "curse of Ham"
  • Understanding pre-1978 statements
  • LDS scripture and the ban
  • Slavery in Utah?
  • Lifting the ban
  • Skin color in LDS thought
  • Social pressure and the ban?
  • Repudiated ideas
• Lamanite curse
• Protestant critics' double standard on race: a case study
• Racist statements by Church leaders
  • Do blacks go to heaven as slaves?
  • Death the penalty for race mixing?

Conflicts With Science

• FAIR's response: Mormonism and science

Testimony & Spiritual Witnesses

• FAIR's response: Burning in the bosom

Greek Psalter Incident

• FAIR's response: Joseph Smith/Translator/Greek psalter

Lying For The Lord

• FAIR's response: "Lying for the Lord"

Tithing

• FAIR's response: Tithing
  • How is tithing calculated?

More Topics

The Name of the Church

• FAIR's response: Name of the Church

Nephi or Moroni

• FAIR's response: Moroni's visit/Nephi or Moroni

Rod of Aaron

• FAIR's response: Oliver Cowdery and the "rod of nature"

Influences on the Book of Mormon - by Tom Donofrio

• FAIR's response: Book of Mormon/Plagiarism accusations
  • Apocrypha
  • The King James Bible
  • Shakespeare
  • The Spalding manuscript

Joseph's Translation of the Bible

• FAIR's response: Joseph Smith Translation
  • As a restoration of the original Bible text?
  • As the Church's official Bible?
    • JST an embarrassment to leaders?
  • Relationship to the Book of Mormon

Zelph

• FAIR's response: Zelph

Other

FAIR reviews MormonThink

• FAIR's response: Website reviews/MormonThink

Personal Stories & LDS Heretics

• FAIR's response: FAIR analyzes Grant Palmer's book An Insider's View of Mormon Origins