Connected assumptions

Follow the assumption behind the claim

A claim about grace often rests on a claim about authority. A claim about God often rests on a creed. Browse the clusters instead of treating each objection as isolated.

27 responses

Apostasy & Restoration

The biblical and historical case for apostasy, restoration, priesthood authority, and modern revelation.

20 responses

Joseph Smith

Why Latter-day Saints recognize Joseph Smith as a prophet: the Book of Mormon, witnesses, ancient-world evidence, fulfilled prophecy, restored doctrine, and biblical standards.

19 responses

Defending the Faith

Careful responses to cult labels, race and priesthood, prophetic fallibility, and other recurring criticisms.

11 responses

Plural Marriage

A careful account of Nauvoo plural marriage that distinguishes kinds of sealings, weighs testimony, and faces age, consent, secrecy, and sexuality directly.

10 responses

Nature of God

Divine embodiment, God's attributes, and the Latter-day Saint doctrine that His children may become like Him.

9 responses

Sola Scriptura

Questions about the Bible as the sole rule of faith, living prophets, apostolic authority, canon formation, and tradition.

6 responses

Epistemology & Testimony

Spiritual witness, reason, evidence, testimony, and the limits of certainty in religious knowledge.

4 responses

Priesthood & Authority

Why priesthood authority must be conferred, how it functions, and why Latter-day Saints believe it was restored.

4 responses

Salvation & Grace

Grace, covenant obedience, baptism, moral agency, perseverance, and predestination.

3 responses

Trinity & Godhead

How the Bible describes the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, and where Latter-day Saint and Nicene readings differ.

3 responses

Biblical Infallibility

The difference between inspiration, infallibility, and inerrancy, including the Bible's textual history.

3 responses

Plan of Salvation

Premortal life, the spirit world, resurrection, degrees of glory, the Second Coming, and final judgment.

2 responses

Comparative Religion

Side-by-side treatment of Latter-day Saint, Catholic, Orthodox, Protestant, Calvinist, and Islamic claims where their premises overlap or diverge.