Jan 5, 2007 | Premortal Life, Satan
Question Dear Gramps, After the split of the spirits where 1/3 were sent to earth and 2/3 stayed, were any of the 2/3 borderline in their decision and able to change there mind or come to earth for a body and be disruptive here? This was a discussion I had with...
Jan 4, 2007 | Bible, Joseph Smith, LDS Scriptures
Question Hi Gramps, I’m a convert of some 42+ years now and am still excited about being a member. I’ve recently read the book ‘The Bible Code.’ I was very impressed with the apparent accuracy of the incidents noted therein. I was...
Jan 4, 2007 | Current issues
Question Gramps, I know people who would like to trap LDS people by asking questions that they might not know the answers to. One man said he had an original Book of Mormon. He asked a sister if there had been any changes in the Book of Mormon over the years....
Jan 4, 2007 | Book of Mormon
Question Gramps, I don’t understand why some of the original witnesses (of the plates) of the Book of Mormon left the Church, but never recanted their testimony. If they saw the plates, and knew they were authentic, how could they leave? If this is too...
Jan 4, 2007 | Book of Mormon, Church History, Joseph Smith
Question Dear Gramps, I had a question in relation to the translation process. I have read many accounts that when the 116 pages were lost that the Urim Thummim were taken away and that the remainder of the translation process was done with the use of Joseph’s...
Jan 4, 2007 | Current issues
Question Gramps, My family, including children and grandchildren, watched the General Conference of the Mormon Church last weekend together. It seemed to me that many of the talks emphasized senior couples going on missions. I absolutely do not want to go on a...
Jan 4, 2007 | Children, Love
Question Dear Gramps, We have an amazing teen daughter. All her life she has loved living the gospel. In the last month a romantic relationship has made definite moves toward the inappropriate. She felt the Spirit tell her to end the relationship. Within a day...
Jan 4, 2007 | Current issues
Question Gramps, What does it mean when the Savior said that it is easier for a camel to fit thru the eye of a needle than it is for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of Heaven? Curtis Answer Dear Curtis, The example given by the Savior, that It is...
Jan 4, 2007 | Current issues
Question Dear Gramps, I was stunned reading Nephi the other day where Jesus Christ destroyed entire towns, women and children. I asked my Mormon neighbor, who rhetorically asked about Sodom and Gomorrah. But I was shocked that the Savior of the World, the...
Jan 4, 2007 | Current issues
Question Dear Gramps, I’m hoping that you can clear up a matter between a co-worker and myself. He say’s that women are not to be teaching in church according to the bible. 1 Corinthians, chapter 14, verses 34 & 35. I say he is mis-interpreting this. He...