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.
Defending the Faith
Careful responses to cult labels, race and priesthood, prophetic fallibility, and other recurring criticisms.
Apostasy & Restoration
The biblical and historical case for apostasy, restoration, priesthood authority, and modern revelation.
Nature of God
Divine embodiment, God's attributes, and the Latter-day Saint doctrine that His children may become like Him.
Joseph Smith
Test the strongest claims about Joseph Smith against the surviving record, including translation, revelation, character, and prophetic authority.
Epistemology & Testimony
Spiritual witness, reason, evidence, testimony, and the limits of certainty in religious knowledge.
Sola Scriptura
Questions about the Bible as the sole rule of faith, living prophets, apostolic authority, canon formation, and tradition.
Salvation & Grace
Grace, covenant obedience, baptism, moral agency, perseverance, and predestination.
Plural Marriage
A careful account of Nauvoo plural marriage that distinguishes kinds of sealings, weighs testimony, and faces age, consent, secrecy, and sexuality directly.
Trinity & Godhead
How the Bible describes the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, and where Latter-day Saint and Nicene readings differ.
Comparative Religion
Side-by-side treatment of Latter-day Saint, Catholic, Orthodox, Protestant, Calvinist, and Islamic claims where their premises overlap or diverge.
Plan of Salvation
Premortal life, the spirit world, resurrection, degrees of glory, the Second Coming, and final judgment.
Biblical Infallibility
The difference between inspiration, infallibility, and inerrancy, including the Bible's textual history.
Priesthood & Authority
Why priesthood authority must be conferred, how it functions, and why Latter-day Saints believe it was restored.