Jan 9, 2007 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Afterlife, Baptism
Question Dear Gramps, In Doctrine & Covenants131 it doesn’t state that you will have to be baptized to get into the lower two levels of the celestial kingdom. So do you have to be a Mormon or not? Tyra Answer Dear Tyra, Section 131 of the...
Jan 8, 2007 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Word of Wisdom
Question Dear Gramps, I know many Mormon’s do not drink caffeinated drinks. I have heard no prophet has ever said anything against it. Is this true? What is the Church’s stance on caffeine? Justin Answer Dear Justin, It is not true that no prophet...
Jan 8, 2007 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Jesus Christ
Question Dear Gramps It is difficult to comprehend worlds without number created by Jesus, son of God. Is he the only Savior of all those worlds and do they all have to wait for his resurrection and God was once as we are and Jesus is his Son and so are we. Can...
Jan 7, 2007 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Miscellaneous
Question Dear Gramps, When I was a student at BYU I remember reading that our sun is a celestial world. If I remember correctly it was a quote by a prophet. Have you ever heard anything about this? Thank you very much. Lisa Answer Dear Lisa, A...
Jan 7, 2007 | AAAA AskGramps Website, LDS Scriptures
Question Gramps, We have received the anti-Mormon video “The Lost Book of Abraham” which claims that the scrolls of Abraham are from the Egyptian Book of the Dead and, according to modern Egyptologists, have a totally different translation than...
Jan 7, 2007 | AAAA AskGramps Website, LDS Scriptures
Question Dear Gramps; Can you please explain how the “descendants of the Priests of Noah…were as numerous, nearly, as were the Nephites” (Alma 43:13-14) (About 74 B.C.), when “among the Lamanites who were slain were almost all the seed of Amulon and his...
Jan 7, 2007 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Health, Natural Phenomena
Question Hi Gramps, I’m wondering about something that happened to me on two different occasions; a couple of years ago, several months apart. Both times I was laying in bed trying to sleep. On the first occasion, I laid down with my youngest child, trying to...
Jan 7, 2007 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Premortal Life
Question Dear Gramps, I just read the question about why Eve was taken from Adam’s rib and not another body part, to which you answered that it is allegorical. Next, you stated that Adam and Eve were born as we are born (which I take to mean a physical birth)....
Jan 6, 2007 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Prophets
Question Dear Gramps: Are the words of Gordon B. Hinckley given the same weight and consideration as the words of Moses and the other Prophets of the Old Testament? This speaks to my earlier question to you regarding solo scriptura and the doctrine of...
Jan 6, 2007 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Church History
Question Dear Gramps, I have a further question, this time concerning Joseph Smith. In the earlier versions of the Doctrine and Covenants Joseph Smith is referred to by the name “Barak Ale”. What is the significance of this name? Is it in any way related to his...