Jan 7, 2024 | Joseph Smith
Question Hey Gramps. I was having a discussion with someone about prophets and how Joseph Smith wasn’t a true prophet because he practiced polygamy. I told him that Joseph Smith was a prophet in a new dispensation and he stated that he wasn’t...
Nov 26, 2023 | Mormon Doctrine
Question Gramps, I realize that the Book of Mormon says that now is the time for the preaching of the gospel to the gentiles. My question is: when did the Jews stop being the “Covenant People?” David Answer David, God, in His dealings...
Nov 4, 2023 | Family, Ordinances
Question Gramps, What does it mean to an individual to be sealed? We always refer to the blessing of sealings to be the opportunity to be a family forever and it is often related to being “linked” together. That’s not what I’m...
Oct 29, 2023 | Jesus Christ
Question Gramps, Hello, I was reading Romans 1:3 (Concerning his Son Jesus Christ our Lord, which was made of the seed of David according to the flesh). The original Greek word for seed is “sperma” (something sown, i.e. seed (including the male...
Oct 22, 2023 | Jesus Christ
Question Gramps, In Mormon 7:5 it says that Christ is the son of God and that he was slain by the Jews. By the power of the Father he has risen again. What does it mean by risen again? Lee Answer Dear Lee, “Rise again” is an idiom in...
Oct 15, 2023 | Priesthood
Question Hi Gramps! On the mount of transfiguration Moses, Elijah, and perhaps others, gave the Priesthood keys to Peter, James, and John. Do we know what keys were restored? Since Elijah holds the sealing power were those sealing keys restored at that time? ...
Oct 4, 2023 | Jesus Christ
Question Gramps, I was reading in Matthew chapter 16 today and read the part where Christ asks His disciples who they believe Him to be. Peter responds that Christ is “the Son of the living God” (verse 16 KJV). In verse 20, Matthew records:...