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What is "apologetics"? Why are you apologizing?

• An apologist is someone who defends a position or explains it. Apologetics is the branch of theology that defends and explains Christian doctrine.
• To learn more:
  • FAIR FAQ
  • Gary Bowler, "What is FAIR, and Why Are You Apologizing?" PDF link
• If FAIR is not officially representing the church, why not?

Reviews and FAIR projects

• Reviews of DNA Evidence for Book of Mormon Geography (Rod Meldrum)

A series of review papers on a DVD/fireside presentation.

• Questions All Mormons Should Ask Themselves

Another list of questions which anti-Mormon ministries think Mormons haven't asked themselves and can't answer.

• Answers to 50 Anti-Mormon Questions

Answers to 50 questions which anti-Mormon ministries think are difficult for members of the Church to answer.

• Jesus Christ/Joseph Smith: Search for the Truth DVD

Review and resources for anti-Mormon video released on 24 March 2007

• FAIR Journal

Follow this link to receive our free monthly e-mail newsletter for defenders of the restored Gospel of Jesus Christ. You can unsubscribe at any time.

• FAIR Errata:

Updates and corrections for previous FAIR publications.

• FAIR Blog:

FAIR joins the Blogernacle: Check out the newest addition to FAIR's on-line presence, and read up-to-the-minute commentary and discussion on a wide range of apologetic topics.

• FAIR Videos Forthcoming!:

Rough cuts of a forthcoming FAIR video on the Book of Mormon have been uploaded to YouTube! Click the link above for a list.

Contents 1 What is "apologetics"? Why are you apologizing? 2 Reviews and FAIR projects 3 FAIR Wiki Topical Guide 4 Scriptures 4.1 The Holy Bible 4.1.1 Joseph Smith Translation 4.2 The Book of Mormon 4.2.1 Anachronisms? 4.2.2 Authorship 4.2.3 Evidences of authenticity 4.2.4 Geography 4.2.5 Witnesses 4.2.6 Other Book of Mormon topics 4.3 Doctrine and Covenants 4.3.1 Lectures on Faith 4.4 The Pearl of Great Price 4.4.1 The Book of Abraham 4.4.1.1 Evidences of authenticity 4.4.2 Joseph Smith—History 4.4.3 Articles of Faith 5 LDS Church history 5.1 Joseph Smith, Jr. 5.2 Plural marriage 5.3 Mountain Meadows Massacre 5.4 Restoration of the Church and priesthood 5.4.1 Evidences of authenticity 5.5 Temple worship 5.5.1 Evidences of authenticity 5.6 Other Church history 6 Doctrinal questions and controversies 6.1 God 6.2 Jesus Christ 6.3 The Holy Ghost 6.4 Adam 6.5 Grace and works 6.6 Obedience 6.7 Relationships 6.8 Other questions and controversies 6.8.1 Other 7 Mormon culture and attitudes 7.1 Science and the Church 7.2 Statistical claims 7.3 Women and the Church 8 Specific Authors, Works and Ministries 9 Other subjects 10 Reference 11 Templates

FAIR Wiki Topical Guide

• Topical Guide

Scriptures

The Holy Bible

Holy Bible wiki articles

• Bible basics
• "Adding to" or "taking away" from the Bible
• Archeology and the Bible
• Being "born again"—what does the Bible mean?
• Completeness and sufficiency
• Cosmology of the Bible
• Bible says the Christian gospel is "a mystery" not to be known before Christ?
• Flood, global or local
• Genealogy, condemnation of
• Hebrews 7 and the Aaronic Priesthood
• Inerrancy and the Bible
• Isaiah, multiple authors of
• Lost scripture
• Open canon vs. closed canon
• Noah's flood / Noachian deluge
• Textual criticism
• Three degrees of glory not biblical
• Translations

Joseph Smith Translation

Joseph Smith Translation wiki articles

• And the Book of Mormon
• As a restoration of the original Bible text
• As the Church's official Bible
• Discrepancies Between Translations: Book of Mormon, King James Version, Joseph Smith Translation

The Book of Mormon

Book of Mormon wiki articles

• Archaeology
  • The Hill Cumorah
  • Smithsonian statement on Book of Mormon archaeology
• Book of Mormon basics
• Chronology
• Demographics
• Did Joseph Smith attempt to sell the Book of Mormon copyright?
• DNA evidence
• "Familiar spirit", Book of Mormon as a
• Fulness of the gospel, Book of Mormon and the
  • Why is baptism for the dead not taught in the Book of Mormon?
• Historicity
• Isaiah, multiple authors of
• Joseph Smith Translation and the Book of Mormon
• Lamanite curse
• Most correct book, Book of Mormon as the
• Plain and precious Book of Mormon doctrines
• Book of Mormon/Red skin curse
• Textual changes
  • "the Son of" added
  • "or out of the waters of baptism" added
  • "white" changed to "pure"
  • "Benjamin" changed to "Mosiah"
  • Missing words in Alma 32:30?
• Translation chronology, Book of Mormon
  • Anthon transcript
• Translation method, Book of Mormon
  • Mainly italics altered?

See also: "Anachronisms"•Authorship•DNA issues•Geography issues•Hebraic influence•Witnesses

Book of Mormon and KJV Bible text wiki articles

• Book of Mormon plagiarized from Bible?
  • Mainly altered italics in the KJV?
• Book of Mormon "translation errors" from KJV?
• Book of Mormon translation method
• Book of Mormon and the Dead Sea Scrolls

Joseph Smith Translation wiki articles

• And the Book of Mormon
• As a restoration of the original Bible text
• As the Church's official Bible
• Discrepancies Between Translations: Book of Mormon, King James Version, Joseph Smith Translation

Anachronisms?

Book of Mormon "Anachronisms"

• Anachronisms (summary page)
  • "Adieu"
  • Animals
  • Cement
  • Coins
  • Compass
  • Demographics
  • DNA issues
  • Gadianton Robbers as Masons?
  • "Gold" plates?
  • Holy Ghost
  • Jerusalem as site of Jesus' birth
  • Legal codes and concepts
  • Metals
  • Metal Plates
  • Mulek
  • Names
    • Comoros Islands and Moroni
  • Olive culture
  • Plants
  • Population sizes
  • Red Sea vs Reed Sea
  • Reformed Egyptian
  • Satyrs
  • Serpents and drought
  • Shiz struggles to breathe
  • Snow
  • Sweat and skin pores
  • Synagogues
  • Temple in the New World
  • Three days of darkness
  • Translation errors from the KJV?
    • Lord's Prayer
  • Warfare
    • Swords
  • Windows

Authorship

Book of Mormon authorship theories

• Authorship theories (Summary page)
  • Automatic writing
  • Epilepsy
  • Joseph Smith as "author and proprietor"
  • Joseph Smith, Sr.'s dream and Lehi's vision
  • Seer stones, use of
  • Wordprint studies

Book of Mormon plagiarism accusations—wiki articles

• Plagiarism accusations (Summary page)
  • Apocrypha
  • The King James Bible
  • The Golden Pot
  • The Westminster Confession
  • The Wonders of Nature and Providence Displayed by Josiah Priest
  • The Spalding manuscript
    • Vernal Holley (1983) geography
  • View of the Hebrews
  • North American place names
  • The Comoros Islands and Moroni

Evidences of authenticity

Book of Mormon evidences—wiki articles

• Book of Mormon evidences (Summary page)
  • And it came to pass

Hebrew influences on Book of Mormon text—wiki articles

• Chiasmus
• Hebraisms
• Hebrew and Native American languages
• Kingship and Coronation
• Names
• Poetic forms

A Few Hundred Hints of Egyptian and Northwest Semitic in Uto-Aztecan, Brian Stubbs, 2006 FAIR Conference (YouTube Video)

• Part 1: A Few Hundred Hints of Egyptian and Northwest Semitic in Uto-Aztecan
• Part 2: A Few Hundred Hints of Egyptian and Northwest Semitic in Uto-Aztecan
• Part 3: A Few Hundred Hints of Egyptian and Northwest Semitic in Uto-Aztecan
• Part 4: A Few Hundred Hints of Egyptian and Northwest Semitic in Uto-Aztecan
• Part 5: A Few Hundred Hints of Egyptian and Northwest Semitic in Uto-Aztecan
• Plain and Precious Book of Mormon doctrines

Geography

Book of Mormon Geography

• Book of Mormon geography
  • Statements made by LDS leaders
    • First Presidency Letter
  • Old World
  • New World
    • Hemispheric geography theory (HGT)
    • Limited geography theory (LGT)
      • Plates to New York
      • Great Lakes geography?
        • Vernal Holley (1983) geography
      • DNA and geographic issues
        • Haplotype X2a?
    • Demographics and Population sizes
    • Lamanites in the Doctrine and Covenants
    • Borders of the Lamanites
    • Book of Mormon and the Mound Builders
    • Zarahemla near Nauvoo?
    • Zelph
    • Place names from Joseph's environment?
      • Comoros Islands and Moroni
• New World geography models in table form
• Historicity of Book of Mormon
• Archaeology and the Bible

Witnesses

Book of Mormon witnesses wiki articles

• Book of Mormon witnesses (Summary page)

Three Witnesses

• "Mass hypnosis" of the witnesses?
• Character and mental stability of witnesses
• Faithfulness of witnesses to testimony
  • Did Oliver Cowdery admit to a hoax?
• "Eye of Faith"/"Spiritual Eye" statements by Martin Harris
• Literal nature of witness experience
• Strangite parallels for witnesses?
• David Whitmer told to leave the Church?

Eight Witnesses

• Eight witnesses
  • "shown to me by a supernatural power"

Other Witnesses

• Other witnesses

Other Book of Mormon topics

Slaying Laban wiki articles

• Book of Mormon anachronisms:Holy Ghost
• Legal codes in Book of Mormon
• Nephi's killing of Laban
  • Could Satan deceive Nephi?

Other Book of Mormon

• Amerindians as Lamanites
• Moroni as an angel of Satan
• Moroni or Nephi?
• Sami Hanna on the Book of Mormon
• Stick of Ephraim

Doctrine and Covenants

D&C Wiki articles

• Contradiction between D&C 132 and Jacob 2
• Independence temple to be built "in this generation"
• Lamanites in the Doctrine and Covenants
• Official Declaration—1 the result of political pressure
• Revelation after Joseph Smith
• Rod of Aaron / Rod of nature / Working with the rod
• Textual changes

Lectures on Faith

• The Father: A Spirit vs. Embodied
• God a personage of spirit?
• Lectures on Faith removed from Doctrine and Covenants

The Pearl of Great Price

• Textual changes ^{[needs work]}

The Book of Abraham

FAIR Book of Abraham wiki articles

• Frequently-asked questions
• Book of Abraham papyri (summary)
  • Book of Abraham papyri (full-length version)
• Book of Joseph
• Hiding Book of the Dead connection?
• Book of Abraham/Size of missing papyrus
• Kirtland Egyptian Papers
• Why would Abraham lie?
• Was Joseph Smith's theology influenced by the writings of Thomas Dick?

Evidences of authenticity

• Book of Abraham:Hits

Joseph Smith—History

First Vision wiki articles

• First Vision accounts (Summary and index page)
  • Do Greek scholars solve the discrepancies in Paul's vision accounts?
• Religious revivals in 1820
• Conflation of 1824-25 revival?
• Early Smith family history
• Lazy Smiths?
• Contradiction about knowing all churches were wrong
• Joseph Smith did not know if God existed in 1823
• Joseph Smith joined other churches
• 1830 statement about seeing "God"
• First Vision fabricated to give "Godly authority"
• D&C 84 says God not seen without priesthood?
• No reference to First Vision in 1830s publications?
• First Vision story became more detailed and colorful after 1832?
• Controversy Concerning D&C 121:28
• The Father: A Spirit vs. Embodied
• No mention in non-LDS literature before 1843?
• Seldom mentioned in LDS publications before 1877
  • Longer version (timeline)

Claims about the 1832 First Vision account

• Only one Personage appears in the 1832 account
• 1832 account doesn't mention new dispensation
• 1832 account doesn't mention a revival
• 1832 account doesn't forbid joining a church
• 1832 account doesn't mention persecution
• Motivation in 1832 account is different
• Different age provided in the 1832 text
• Struggle with Satan not in the 1832 account
• 1832 says wicked will be destroyed but 1838 doesn't
• 1832 vision set in heaven or on earth?
• Eternal life regardless of church affiliation in 1832 text?

Claims about the 1835 First Vision account

• The "Angels" of the 1835 account

Claims about the 1838 First Vision account

• Lack of contemporary Father and Son vision until 1838?
• 1838 account modified to offset leadership crisis?

Claims about other members and the First Vision

• George Q. Cannon referred to "angels"
• Oliver Cowdery not aware of First Vision in 1834-35
• Orson Hyde referred to "angels"
• Andrew Jenson called personage an "angel"
• Heber C. Kimball denied the Father appeared
• Orson Pratt confused about "angel" or Father-Son
• Parley P. Pratt only said that "God" appeared
• George A. Smith said First Vision was an "angel"
• Lucy Mack Smith claimed "angel"?
• William Smith said First Vision was an "angel"?
• Orson Spencer said an "angel" was the first manifestation?
• John Taylor's understanding of the First Vision
• Wilford Woodruff spoke of an "angel"
• Brigham Young said the Lord didn't appear
• Brigham Young never mentioned the First Vision

Joseph Smith other visionary issues wiki articles

• Joseph Smith's early conception of God
• Moroni as an angel of Satan
• Did Nephi or Moroni appear in 1823?
• Personages who appeared to Joseph Smith
• Swedenborg and three degrees of glory  ^{[needs work]}

God wiki articles

• The Father: A Spirit vs. Embodied
• Corporeality of God
  • God is "not a man"?
• Unchanging Nature of God
• Creatio ex nihilo / Creation out of nothing
  • Creation in Colossians 1:16
  • Creation of spirits
• Downplaying the King Follett discourse?
  • Do Mormons believe they will be "gods of their own planets"?
• Elohim and Jehovah
• Foreknowledge of God
• God is a Spirit
• Godhead and the Trinity
• Heavenly Mother?
  • Latter-day Saints believe in Celestial Sex?
• Infinite regress of Gods?
• Kolob
• "No God beside me" - (includes Isaiah 43-46 issues)
• No man has seen God
• Polytheism - Are Mormons polytheists?
• Spirit bodies for humans and 1 Cor 15
• Theosis or human deification
  • Do Mormons believe they will be "gods of their own planets"?
  • Latter-day Saints believe in Celestial Sex?
  • Primary sources/Theosis

Video

Revised or Unaltered?: Joseph Smith's Foundational Stories, Matthew Brown, 2006 FAIR Conference

• Part 1: Revised or Unaltered?: Joseph Smith's Foundational Stories
• Part 2: Revised or Unaltered?: Joseph Smith's Foundational Stories
• Part 3: Revised or Unaltered?: Joseph Smith's Foundational Stories
• Part 4: Revised or Unaltered?: Joseph Smith's Foundational Stories
• Part 5: Revised or Unaltered?: Joseph Smith's Foundational Stories
• Part 5: Revised or Unaltered?: Joseph Smith's Foundational Stories

Articles of Faith

• Differing versions of the Articles of Faith

LDS Church history

Joseph Smith, Jr.

Joseph Smith, Jr. wiki articles

• The Council of Fifty
• Did Joseph boast of keeping the Church intact?
• Joseph Smith's narcissism
  • Did Joseph boast of keeping the Church intact?
  • Did Joseph claim to be "better than Jesus"?
• Greek psalter
• Healings and miracles?
• Holy Ghost, Joseph Smith is the
• Kinderhook Plates
• King of the world, anointed
• Joseph Smith land speculation
• Lazy Smiths?
• Lucy Mack Smith and Joseph's "amusing recitals" of Ancient Americans
• Was Joseph Smith a martyr?
  • Martyrdom in Christian history
  • Was the Nauvoo Legion to come rescue Joseph?
• Masonic cry of distress
• Money digging/treasure seeking
  • Joseph Smith's "treasure hunting" trip to Salem
• Moonmen
• Occult activities or "magick"?
• Personal failings
  • Lazy?
• Political activities
• Seer stones, use of
• Status in LDS belief
• Teller of tall tales?
• As translator

Joseph Smith and legal issues wiki articles

• Joseph Smith and legal trials
  • 1826 trial
• Kirtland Safety Society
• Nauvoo city charter
  • Habeas corpus
  • Usurpation_of_power?
• Nauvoo Expositor
  • Nauvoo Expositor Full Text

Prophecy wiki articles

• Joseph Smith prophecies
  • Can't be killed within 5 years of August 1843
  • David Patten to serve a mission?
  • Government to be overthrown and wasted
  • Independence temple to be built "in this generation"
  • Prophetic test in Deuteronomy
  • Second Coming in 1890 (56 years)
  • Zion redeemed by September 1836?
• Official doctrine: what is it?
• LDS prophets don't prophesy?
• Prophetic inerrancy?
• Revelation after Joseph Smith

First Vision wiki articles

• First Vision accounts (Summary and index page)
  • Do Greek scholars solve the discrepancies in Paul's vision accounts?
• Religious revivals in 1820
• Conflation of 1824-25 revival?
• Early Smith family history
• Lazy Smiths?
• Contradiction about knowing all churches were wrong
• Joseph Smith did not know if God existed in 1823
• Joseph Smith joined other churches
• 1830 statement about seeing "God"
• First Vision fabricated to give "Godly authority"
• D&C 84 says God not seen without priesthood?
• No reference to First Vision in 1830s publications?
• First Vision story became more detailed and colorful after 1832?
• Controversy Concerning D&C 121:28
• The Father: A Spirit vs. Embodied
• No mention in non-LDS literature before 1843?
• Seldom mentioned in LDS publications before 1877
  • Longer version (timeline)

Claims about the 1832 First Vision account

• Only one Personage appears in the 1832 account
• 1832 account doesn't mention new dispensation
• 1832 account doesn't mention a revival
• 1832 account doesn't forbid joining a church
• 1832 account doesn't mention persecution
• Motivation in 1832 account is different
• Different age provided in the 1832 text
• Struggle with Satan not in the 1832 account
• 1832 says wicked will be destroyed but 1838 doesn't
• 1832 vision set in heaven or on earth?
• Eternal life regardless of church affiliation in 1832 text?

Claims about the 1835 First Vision account

• The "Angels" of the 1835 account

Claims about the 1838 First Vision account

• Lack of contemporary Father and Son vision until 1838?
• 1838 account modified to offset leadership crisis?

Claims about other members and the First Vision

• George Q. Cannon referred to "angels"
• Oliver Cowdery not aware of First Vision in 1834-35
• Orson Hyde referred to "angels"
• Andrew Jenson called personage an "angel"
• Heber C. Kimball denied the Father appeared
• Orson Pratt confused about "angel" or Father-Son
• Parley P. Pratt only said that "God" appeared
• George A. Smith said First Vision was an "angel"
• Lucy Mack Smith claimed "angel"?
• William Smith said First Vision was an "angel"?
• Orson Spencer said an "angel" was the first manifestation?
• John Taylor's understanding of the First Vision
• Wilford Woodruff spoke of an "angel"
• Brigham Young said the Lord didn't appear
• Brigham Young never mentioned the First Vision

Joseph Smith other visionary issues wiki articles

• Joseph Smith's early conception of God
• Moroni as an angel of Satan
• Did Nephi or Moroni appear in 1823?
• Personages who appeared to Joseph Smith
• Swedenborg and three degrees of glory  ^{[needs work]}

God wiki articles

• The Father: A Spirit vs. Embodied
• Corporeality of God
  • God is "not a man"?
• Unchanging Nature of God
• Creatio ex nihilo / Creation out of nothing
  • Creation in Colossians 1:16
  • Creation of spirits
• Downplaying the King Follett discourse?
  • Do Mormons believe they will be "gods of their own planets"?
• Elohim and Jehovah
• Foreknowledge of God
• God is a Spirit
• Godhead and the Trinity
• Heavenly Mother?
  • Latter-day Saints believe in Celestial Sex?
• Infinite regress of Gods?
• Kolob
• "No God beside me" - (includes Isaiah 43-46 issues)
• No man has seen God
• Polytheism - Are Mormons polytheists?
• Spirit bodies for humans and 1 Cor 15
• Theosis or human deification
  • Do Mormons believe they will be "gods of their own planets"?
  • Latter-day Saints believe in Celestial Sex?
  • Primary sources/Theosis

Video

Revised or Unaltered?: Joseph Smith's Foundational Stories, Matthew Brown, 2006 FAIR Conference

• Part 1: Revised or Unaltered?: Joseph Smith's Foundational Stories
• Part 2: Revised or Unaltered?: Joseph Smith's Foundational Stories
• Part 3: Revised or Unaltered?: Joseph Smith's Foundational Stories
• Part 4: Revised or Unaltered?: Joseph Smith's Foundational Stories
• Part 5: Revised or Unaltered?: Joseph Smith's Foundational Stories
• Part 5: Revised or Unaltered?: Joseph Smith's Foundational Stories

"Magic" wiki links

• Joseph Smith and legal trials
  • 1826 trial
• Joseph Smith and money digging
• Joseph Smith and the "occult" or "magick"
  • Early members believed in "witchcraft"
  • Book of Mormon recovered on autumnal equinox
  • Joseph influenced by Kabbalah?
  • Lucy Mack Smith on "faculty of Abrac" and "magic circles"
  • Jupiter talisman
  • Magick parchments
  • Mars dagger
• Seer stones, use of

Plural marriage

Plural marriage wiki links

Scriptural and doctrinal issues

• Book of Mormon Condemns Polygamy
• Contradiction between D&C 132 and Jacob 2
• 1835 Doctrine and Covenants denies polygamy
• Plural marriage is not Biblical?
  • No biblical mandate for plural marriage?
  • Early Christians on Plural Marriage
• The Law of Adoption
• Purpose of plural marriage
• Brigham Young 8 October 1861 discourse on plural marriage
• Polygamists are to go beyond normal "bounds"?

Joseph Smith

• Joseph Smith and polygamy (Summary article)

Youth

• Youthful struggles with immorality?
• Was Joseph an early womanizer?
  • Eliza Winters
  • Marinda Nancy Johnson

Beginnings

• Polygamy book/Initiation of the practice
• Eternal marriage—introduction of the doctrine
• Divine manifestations to plural wives and families

Emma

• Emma Smith
  • Emma to be "annihilated"?
  • Emma, Eliza, and the stairs

Wives

• Fanny Alger—affair or marriage?
• Fanny Alger—William McLellin account
• Helen Mar Kimball
• Sarah Ann Whitney
• Zina Huntington Jacobs
• Mismanagement of the Lawrence estate?

Controversies

• John C. Bennett
• "Censorship" and "revision" of LDS history?
  • Wilford Woodruff criticizes publication of polygamists
  • LDS histories over many years omit plural marriage
• Lustful motives?
• Ohio marriages illegal?
• Polygamy/Remarrying without civil divorce
• Women locked in a room?
• Polygamous marriages to young women
  • Polygamy book/Age of wives
• Polyandry
  • Polygamy book/Polyandry
  • Zina and Henry Jacobs
  • Children by Presendia Buell?
• Children by plural marriage?
  • Polygamy book/Children_of_polygamous_marriages
• "Love letters?"
• Did some women turn Joseph down?

Other Nauvoo period

• John C. Bennett
• William Clayton and plural marriage
• Sarah Pratt
• Nancy Rigdon
• Sidney Rigdon

Utah period

• Prevalence of polygamy
• Brigham Young 8 October 1861 discourse on plural marriage
• Brigham Young: hiding history?
• Required for exaltation?
  • Brigham Young in JD 11, page 269
  • First Presidency Counselor on the Polygamy / Exaltation Question
  • Is God the Father a polygamist?
  • Was Jesus a polygamist?
• Polygamy/Parley P. Pratt's marriage and murder
• Polygamy/Remarrying without civil divorce

Cessation of plural marriage

• The Manifesto the result of political pressure
• Post-Manifesto plural marriages

Reviews and theories

• In Sacred Loneliness Book Reviews
• The modern Church and polygamous groups

Mountain Meadows Massacre

Mountain Meadows Massacre wiki articles

• Mountain Meadows Massacre
  • September Dawn film (2007)
• Blood atonement
• Oath of vengeance in the temple endowment

Restoration of the Church and priesthood

FAIR Priesthood wiki articles

• Bible teachings about priesthood
• Christians don't need a mediating priesthood?
• Elias and Elijah at the Kirtland Temple
• Jesus is the only Melchizedek priesthood holder
• Location of the organization of the Church
• No Paid Ministry
• Priesthood non-transferable?
• Need for priesthood restoration
• Date of the restoration of the Melchizedek priesthood
• Women and the priesthood
• Resurrection as a Priesthood Ordinance
• Is There a "Priesthood of All Believers"?

1978 Priesthood revelation wiki articles

• Blacks and the priesthood (summary)
  • 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
  • Lifting the ban
  • Social pressure and the ban?
  • Repudiated ideas
• Fallibility of prophets
• Lamanite curse
• Racist statements by Church leaders
  • Do blacks go to heaven as slaves?
  • Death the penalty for race mixing?

Evidences of authenticity

Temple worship

Vicarious baptism for the dead wiki articles

• Baptism for the dead
• Baptism for the Dead not in Book of Mormon?
• Refusing baptism for the dead
• Temple work for Holocaust victims

Wiki temple articles

• Adam-God and the "Lecture at the Veil"
• Baptism for the dead
• Christians wouldn't build temples
• Do LDS temples always face east?
• Why does the Church build expensive temples?
• Marriage, eternal
• Mosaic temple in the New World?
• Oath of vengeance
• Penalties in the endowment
• Symbols on the Nauvoo Temple
• Temple endowment and Freemasonry
  • All Seeing Eye
• Temple endowment changes
• Temple garments = "magic underwear"?
• Temple obsolete after Christ

Evidences of authenticity

Other Church history

Emma Smith wiki articles

• Emma Smith and Brigham Young
• Emma Smith and plural marriage
• Prophetic inerrancy?

Forgery wiki articles

• Christopher Marc Nemelka
• Forgeries
• Kinderhook plates
• "Lost 116 pages"?
• Mark Hofmann
  • Church reaction to forgeries
  • Known forged documents
• James Strang

Hugh Nibley wiki articles

• Hugh Nibley ^{[needs work]}
  • Charges of abuse
  • Faked footnotes?

Political issues in Church history wiki articles

• Authoritarianism and Church leaders?
  • Quotes on authoritarianism
• Churc