I’ve posted a page that contains numerous questions regarding the authenticity of the LDS church. Here is the link to the page.

http://blog.epicswell.com/questioning-mormonism/

Here is the intro I wrote for the page. Let me know if you have any to add. It should be pretty comprehensive, but I’m quite sure I’ve missed plenty.

The following list has been compiled from many different sources as well as from my own questions regarding the authenticity of the LDS church.

Each question provides some insight into why many church members (of the LDS church) question their faith in the gospel and in Joseph Smith and why non-members are reluctant to take the leap of faith required to believe that the Book of Mormon is true scripture and that Joseph Smith was actually a prophet of God.

As I began researching early church history I had some of these same questions come to mind. After so many of these questions surfaced I began to question myself and my faith. Eventually I realized that I could not reconcile my beliefs, everything I had been taught to believe, with what I was reading about the origins of the church. So much of what I had been taught had been fabricated or downright false. I realized that until I could reconcile belief with evidence and fact, I could not continue to believe in the religion I was raised in.