• 17 Chapters - by 16 authors - on 12 controversial or questionable topics - on 11 similar essays published by the Church on lds.org - compiled and edited by Laura Hales.
• The 12 topics: Money Digging, First Vision, Book of Mormon, Priesthood Restoration, Book of Abraham, Kinderhook Plates, Polygamy, Freemasonry/Endowment, Race/Priesthood, DNA, LDS Women in 21st century, Homosexuality/Gospel, Science & Religion.
• The book was published by Deseret News.
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• Joseph Smith
• Hebrew
• Greek
• Hierglyphics
• King James Version compare with the Book of Mormon
  • BM 2 Nephi 22:2 vs KJV Is 12:2 vs Hebrew
• JS statements "translated by the gift and power of God"
• KJV Is 7:14 contrast with Hebrew & LXX & BM

• Trinity?
• Christians?
• The the Godmakers
• Ed Decker
• Modern Prophets
• One true Church, many more...

• Masonry: history past and present
• Problems about Masonry and Mormons at Nauvoo
• Situations in early Utah and now
• Religion and Politics
• Beliefs
• Satanic?

• Brigham Young ordered the massacre through George A. Smith
• His purpose was to murder and steal always accepted by Mormons
• He knew all about the wagon train
• The upcoming 1857 Utah War did not concern his interest in the MMM
• He declared independence from the U.S. on August 24, 1857 celebration
• BY was guilty but was given a pardon by the President
• Denied that John D. Lee reported to BY in September

• Joseph Smith claimed all authority and live beyond any gospel laws and principles
  • Commit adultery
  • Kill the husband 
  • Common consent
  • Church covenants

• Lee contrasting D&C 132:39 (that is using only a portion of v. 39) with Jacob 2:24 (leaving out verse 23 & 30).
• Lee claimed that D&C 132 was not printed until 1876. My point was that it was first published by the Deseret News in September 1852, by Orson Pratt in Washington, DC 1853 and that it was the topic hundreds of times from 1852 to 1876. He would not acknowledge this.
• D&C 1835 ed. was a topic which would have been worthwhile. He has maintained that the Church is hiding this from LDS. I was attempting to claim that Deseret Book has been selling the D&C 1835 ed. from 2011, but my explanation did not materialize. A meaningful discussion on the article Marriage also did not materialize. I will pursue this another time.
• Lee wanted to talk about the Joseph Smith Translation. This was a very good topic. He wanted to discuss Gen 17 about JS's change. I wanted to tie this in with Moroni 8, Acts 15, the writings of the Apostolic Fathers (95 AD - 150 AD) and the 1611 KJV translators spin on a number of OT passages. This would be a good topic.
• We went around and around about a phrase in the Teachings of the Presidents: Joseph Smith manual in chapter 43 and JS, many times, declaring that he is fallible, committed sin etc. mentioned in the D&C and in the JS manual, which Lee denied. See chapter 46 in the manual.

• Born with sexual desire?
• Does sexual desire primarily urge procreation or sex relationship?
• Only for procreation - married or not - homosexual or heterosexual?
• Do, or soon will, LDS accept Same Sex Marriage?
• Marriage - a major focus of the Church 
  • With or without sex  
  • Satisfaction 
  • Continence
  • Increase or decrease sex drive
  • Many, probably most, in the resurrection will be single
  • Some LDS do not want marriage
  • Some LDS are married, but do not want children
  • Some LDS are divorced and do not to remarry
  • Some sex problems
  • Who is considered to ultimately make marital decisions, Church policy, the wife or the husband?  
• Same Sex issues
• Birth control
• Old Testament
• New Testament
• Celibacy
• Eunuchs
• Fornication or homosexual - which is the greater sin?
• Statements from the First Presidency

• Old Testament
• Jehovah
• Holy Ghost

• Statistics on men and women
• Recent questions about Mormons and Catholics at Nauvoo
• Indian War 1853
• Ideas about Book of Mormon geography
• 1954 issue about Blacks involving Pres. McKay, Africa, Brazil, Elders Peterson, Clark and others
• Wilford Woodruff's diaries and the question of the future of his letters written from 1831-1898

• Religious Studies Center at BYU in is 40th anniversary 
• The project of Jeffrey Holland and BYU President Dallin Oakes 
• Bold new venture publishing the works of BYU's religion faculty
• 2014 more than 100 articles published in many journals and 14 books published
• 3 upcoming symposia this year at BYU
• Two periodicals BYU Religious Education Review and the Religious Educator

Discussion with two callers on the question, Is religious scripture history? 

• Common Mormon and non-LDS Christian views about the OT
• Are our beliefs and doctrines today the same as when our religion began several thousand years ago?
• What are the sources for many portions of the OT?
• Christian translators in the 1611 KJV introduced Christ into the OT by adding many notations in the many chapter summaries.
• How do Mormon views about Elohim and Jehovah compare with what we find in the OT?
• There are different views about the Joseph Smith Translation of the OT.
• Joseph Smith's interest in Hebrew and the OT is very interesting.
• Some thoughts on Book of Abraham, Book of Mormon, OT and history.

• Elder Holland about creation
• The claim that Jesus did not use hairspray
• How can you believe if doctrine changes?
• Martin Harris was only interested in money
• A caller maintains that the US should follow the OT, thus executing homo-sexuals
• Ancient sources explain black skin

• From JS to the present - revelation is considered available for all
• Are there reasons for testing claimed revelation?
• Authority of Church membership
• Have all JS's revelations been accepted?
• Questioning David Whitmer's 1887 pamphlet
• Discussing translation of the BM with a caller
• Discussing with 2 callers: JS's view of the future in 1828-1830

• Revelations
• Visions
• Book of Mormon translation
• Changes in the Book of Mormon & published revelations
• Human errors
• Possibility of Error
• Canada Revelation?
• Is revelation perhaps the process of development
• Search deeper and deeper into the mysteries of Godliness
• Joseph Smith's study of Hebrew
• Joseph Smith Translation
• King Follett Discourse
  
  

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• Atheist claims that the LDS Church has been dramatically altered from its original foundation
• One Claims no evidence that anyone has seen the Golden Plates
• Comments on John Dehlin's being disfellowshipped
• This claim that LDS are not to quote the past Prophets
• A non-Mormon told of his study with the Book of Mormon it leads one to pursue the life and teachings of Jesus
• Another claims that Elder McConkie placed homosexuality close to murder; that Jesus placed one who should lust in his heart, is an adulterer, but that Pres. Hinckley's position was a far different point of view.

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• One purpose of the Book of Mormon
• The failure of the first 116 pages
• What happened
• Could Joseph fail?
• Could he succeed?
• What was a part of his Plan beyond the Book of Mormon?
• Who would be involved in the project?
• Could the project succeed after Martin Harris' blunder?
• It is most remarkable to consider many of Joseph's initial aspects of the Plan

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