Aug 15, 2008 | Current issues
Question Dear Gramps, In the Book of Mormon chapter 8 verses 8 and 20, I find these verses very confusing. Could you explain them to me? I cannot find it anywhere that I have searched. Thank you so much. I love your site. Nancy Answer Dear...
Aug 14, 2008 | Book of Mormon, Scriptures
Gramps, All during the Book of Mormon, there is continuous warfare. Right from the beginning, with Nephi and Laman and Lemuel’s grandkids. It always says a few years with peace then years with wars- actually saying how many of thousands died in the separate wars. I...
Aug 14, 2008 | Current issues
Question Dear Gramps, In 2 Nephi 6:6-7, it says that Kings will be their nursing fathers and Queens will be their nursing mothers. It also says that they will bring thy sons in their arms; and thy daughters shall be carried upon their shoulders. What is this...
Aug 14, 2008 | Book of Mormon, God, Jesus Christ, LDS Scriptures, Scriptures
Dear Gramps, I have always had a hard time really understanding Mosiah 15:1-5. How do I explain those verses to someone and make it clear that it is not saying that the Savior and the Father are the same being? The wording is really confusing. Thank you so much for...
Aug 13, 2008 | Church History, Pearl of Great Price
Gramps I have a friend that is all up in arms over the anti-Mormons saying that Joseph Smith was wrong in his translation of the Pearl of Great Price. How do I help him get passed this. It has becomes a stumbling block to him. Don Dear Don, If I understand your...
Aug 13, 2008 | Current issues
Columnist, Larry Barkdull, has graciously allowed AskGramps.com to link to some of his fantastic articles. Here is the first in the series: Rescuing Wayward Children by Larry Barkdull The prophet Mormon foresaw an epidemic of latter-day wayward children, and he had an...
Aug 12, 2008 | Pearl of Great Price
Question Dear Gramps, This is my second time sending you this question, and either last time I did this wrong, or you couldn’t answer. So I am writing again. This is something that has really been bothering me for a long time. About four months ago I started...
Aug 12, 2008 | Bible, Miscellaneous
Dear Gramps, This past Sunday I taught Gospel Doctrine Lesson #38 where we learn that Paul apparently yields to the pleadings of his brethren and goes to the temple to participate in the prescribed ceremony for personal cleansing as a show of support for the Law of...
Aug 12, 2008 | Current issues
Dear Gramps, I have two questions regarding different men in the New Testament. First, we don’t hear much about Joseph, Mary’s husband. Other members of Jesus family are mentioned but not Joseph. Was Joseph present when Jesus was crucified. Also, I love...
Aug 12, 2008 | Current issues
Dear Gramps, At the time Joseph Smith received the record of Abraham, which was subsequently translated into what we now know as the Book of Abraham in the Pearl Of Great Price, he also received the record of Joseph. That record was apparently translated, but not...
