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VIDEO REPLIES
Book of Mormon
1769 KJV Errors
17th Century Italics
Red Sea
Mistranslations
DNA
Anachronisms
Archaeology
Proposed Locations
Geography
View of the Hebrews
The Late War
First Book of Napoleon
Excerpt Comparison
FBN Comparison
Trinitarian view
Book of Mormon Translation
Rock in a Hat
Translation Art
Translation Accounts
First Vision
The Book of Abraham
Papyrus Found
Common Pagan Funerary Text
Joseph & Translation
Joseph & Translation Pt. 2
26 Facsimile #2 Infographic
Facsimile 1
Facsimile 2 – Egyptian God Min
Facsimile 3
28 Facsimile 3 response
Egyptologists
Cosmology
King James Version Text
Ananchronisms
Light from Kolob
The Philosophy of a Future State
Elder Holland BBC Interview
Egyptologist Quotes
Conclusion
Polygamy-Polyandry
Polygamy
Young Brides
Promises of Salvation
Polyandry
Marinda Johnson Hyde
Elder Jensen Quote
Foster Daughters
Helen Mar Kimball
D&C 132
D&C 132 vs Joseph
Destroyed
The Law of Sarah
Fanny Alger
Public Denials of Polygamy
Carefully Worded Denials
Secrecy & Denials
Refuting John C. Bennett
Topics Addressed Elsewhere
D&C 1835 Edition
Warren Jeffs
Left out Emma’s Four Approvals
Prophets
Yesterday’s Doctrine
Blood Atonement
Adam God
Spencer W. Kimball Quote
Bruce R McConkie Quote
Blood Atonement of Christ
Polygamy
New and Everlasting Covenant
President Hinckley Quote
Blacks Ban
Mark Hofmann
Conclusion
Kinderhook Plates & Translator Claims
Kinderhook Plates and the Book of Abraham
Testimony & Spiritual Witness
Same Claims
Outsider Test for Faith
Outsider Test for Faith (Pt. 2)
Is the Holy Spirit Inefficient?
First Vision Contradictions?
Book of Mormon Copyright Revelation
Discrepancy
Apostle Counsels
How Reliable is the Spirit?
Real vs. Not Real
Real vs. Not Real (Pt. 2)
Priesthood Restoration
Bushman on the Priesthood Restoration
Before 1832 & David Whitmer
Backdating & Retrofitted
Absence in BOC & Ordained by Lyman Wight
Witnesses
Introduction
Magical Worldview
Oliver Cowdery’s Rod & Gift of Aaron
51 comparing BC and D&C
52 no whitewashing
Witnesses
Witnesses Shared Worldview
Three Witnesses Individual Accounts
Martin Harris
David Whitmer
Oliver Cowdery
Second Sight + Metcalf Quotes 1 & 2
55 Accounts of Book of Mormon Witnesses Master
Martin’s Experience
Eight Witnesses – Quotes Not Included
56 EIGHT WITNESSES Accounts
James Strang
James Strang’s 7 Witnesses
LDS Followers of Strang
No Document of Actual Signatures
Stephen Burnnett-Quote Again
Legality of Witnesses Testimonies
Conclusion
Unsavory Characters
Signatures
Duped
Shakers
Martin Harris and the Shakers
Temples & Freemasonry
7 Weeks After
True Masonry
Same Masonic Version
Zero Links to Solomon’s Temple
Temple Changes
Secret Tokens & Signs
Separate Families?
Science
Introduction
Death Before the Fall
Discredited Claims
Literal Reading of the Bible
Other Concerns
Church’s Dishonesty, Censorship, and Whitewashing Over Its History
Priesthood Ban Start
Zina Huntington
Church Finances
City Creek Mall
Paying Tithing
Tithing Before Rent
Names of the Church
Anti-Intellectualism
Conclusion
80 Don’t panic
80 grieving
80 Joseph Smith
81 1890 Manifesto
81 treasure digging
81 continuous revelation
82 Do what is right
82 repeated references
83 Rembrandt vs. Picasso
83 Stay Tuned
VIDEO REPLIES
Book of Mormon
1769 KJV Errors
17th Century Italics
Red Sea
Mistranslations
DNA
Anachronisms
Archaeology
Proposed Locations
Geography
View of the Hebrews
The Late War
First Book of Napoleon
Excerpt Comparison
FBN Comparison
Trinitarian view
Book of Mormon Translation
Rock in a Hat
Translation Art
Translation Accounts
First Vision
The Book of Abraham
Papyrus Found
Common Pagan Funerary Text
Joseph & Translation
Joseph & Translation Pt. 2
26 Facsimile #2 Infographic
Facsimile 1
Facsimile 2 – Egyptian God Min
Facsimile 3
28 Facsimile 3 response
Egyptologists
Cosmology
King James Version Text
Ananchronisms
Light from Kolob
The Philosophy of a Future State
Elder Holland BBC Interview
Egyptologist Quotes
Conclusion
Polygamy-Polyandry
Polygamy
Young Brides
Promises of Salvation
Polyandry
Marinda Johnson Hyde
Elder Jensen Quote
Foster Daughters
Helen Mar Kimball
D&C 132
D&C 132 vs Joseph
Destroyed
The Law of Sarah
Fanny Alger
Public Denials of Polygamy
Carefully Worded Denials
Secrecy & Denials
Refuting John C. Bennett
Topics Addressed Elsewhere
D&C 1835 Edition
Warren Jeffs
Left out Emma’s Four Approvals
Prophets
Yesterday’s Doctrine
Blood Atonement
Adam God
Spencer W. Kimball Quote
Bruce R McConkie Quote
Blood Atonement of Christ
Polygamy
New and Everlasting Covenant
President Hinckley Quote
Blacks Ban
Mark Hofmann
Conclusion
Kinderhook Plates & Translator Claims
Kinderhook Plates and the Book of Abraham
Testimony & Spiritual Witness
Same Claims
Outsider Test for Faith
Outsider Test for Faith (Pt. 2)
Is the Holy Spirit Inefficient?
First Vision Contradictions?
Book of Mormon Copyright Revelation
Discrepancy
Apostle Counsels
How Reliable is the Spirit?
Real vs. Not Real
Real vs. Not Real (Pt. 2)
Priesthood Restoration
Bushman on the Priesthood Restoration
Before 1832 & David Whitmer
Backdating & Retrofitted
Absence in BOC & Ordained by Lyman Wight
Witnesses
Introduction
Magical Worldview
Oliver Cowdery’s Rod & Gift of Aaron
51 comparing BC and D&C
52 no whitewashing
Witnesses
Witnesses Shared Worldview
Three Witnesses Individual Accounts
Martin Harris
David Whitmer
Oliver Cowdery
Second Sight + Metcalf Quotes 1 & 2
55 Accounts of Book of Mormon Witnesses Master
Martin’s Experience
Eight Witnesses – Quotes Not Included
56 EIGHT WITNESSES Accounts
James Strang
James Strang’s 7 Witnesses
LDS Followers of Strang
No Document of Actual Signatures
Stephen Burnnett-Quote Again
Legality of Witnesses Testimonies
Conclusion
Unsavory Characters
Signatures
Duped
Shakers
Martin Harris and the Shakers
Temples & Freemasonry
7 Weeks After
True Masonry
Same Masonic Version
Zero Links to Solomon’s Temple
Temple Changes
Secret Tokens & Signs
Separate Families?
Science
Introduction
Death Before the Fall
Discredited Claims
Literal Reading of the Bible
Other Concerns
Church’s Dishonesty, Censorship, and Whitewashing Over Its History
Priesthood Ban Start
Zina Huntington
Church Finances
City Creek Mall
Paying Tithing
Tithing Before Rent
Names of the Church
Anti-Intellectualism
Conclusion
80 Don’t panic
80 grieving
80 Joseph Smith
81 1890 Manifesto
81 treasure digging
81 continuous revelation
82 Do what is right
82 repeated references
83 Rembrandt vs. Picasso
83 Stay Tuned

Topics Addressed Elsewhere

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The Book of Abraham

The Kinderhook Plates

The Book of Mormon

Multiple First Vision accounts

Priesthood restoration

Polygamy

Polyandry

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