May 9, 2020 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Personal Searching
Question Gramps, An RM entered back into my life from youth, and left me questioning my own mission call. I have prayed and studied to receive the answer that it’s up to me. I decided to stay and prayed over that as well. When I broke the news to my parents...
May 7, 2020 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Doctrine & Covenants, Jesus Christ
Question Gramps, I read in D&C 50:42 “And none of them that my Father hath given me shall be lost.” The cross references in the footnotes are verses that say a similar thing. How does one become one of those that the Father gives to the Son? ...
May 5, 2020 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Bible
Question Gramps, We were just reading Hebrews 3 where it says that the Lord has sworn in His wrath that those who sinned in the wilderness – and were made to wander forty years – will not enter into His rest. Does this mean they cannot obtain the...
May 3, 2020 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Mormon Doctrine
Question Gramps, I’ve always learned about the doctrine that matter cannot be created nor destroyed. Our universe was organized, not ex nihiloed, but I’ve recently come across something that really has affected my testimony. Scientists say that matter can be...
May 1, 2020 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Afterlife
Question Gramps, I waited my whole life to get married, and ended up marrying a divorced man. I’m his third sealing. Our marriage is cold and full of conflict because his family, his past, and his inability – or refusal – to deal with the...
Apr 30, 2020 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Second Coming
Question Gramps, We know that there is to be a millenia or 1,000 years of peace after Christ returns. My question is simply why 1,000 years instead of say 2,000 or some other number of years before Satan is loosed again? Do you think that’s the amount of...
Apr 26, 2020 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Baptism
Question Was baptism for the dead part of the Law of Moses or did Christ initiate it during his ministry? Cynthia Answer Cynthia, No, it was not a part of the Law of Moses. No vicarious work for the dead was performed prior to the Atonement of...
Apr 25, 2020 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Tithing
Question Gramps, Can I pay tithing for another person? As in a person who neglects paying tithing? Richard Answer Dear Richard, This is an interesting question. In the Sunday morning session of the April 2002 General Conference, Elder Earl C....
Apr 23, 2020 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Mormon Policy
Question Hello gramps, I’m newly wed and my wife and I have agreed on not having kids just yet. We have been considering birth control, but what types of birth control are acceptable? As we researched different types, many simply prevent conception from...
Apr 21, 2020 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Bible
Question Gramps, We name the years before Christ as in 2000 BC, 1500 BC, 600 BC, and so on. But how did those people at that time count their years? They couldn’t have used BC in any of their calendars. Or as time passed, did they even label or keep...