Mar 29, 2014 | Current issues
Question Gramps, A young man was made a priest the other day. His father did the ordination and stated it was performed by the authority of the Melchizedek priesthood and then stated as is customary,which we hold. Now my question is: We had another priest in his...
Mar 28, 2014 | Current issues, Sabbath Day
Question Gramps, Our granddaughter’s birthday is on the same Sunday as the upcoming General Conference. I am uncomfortable for a few reasons in going to the party. It is on the Sabbath Day It is General Conference The party is at an amusement environment My...
Mar 27, 2014 | Current issues
Question Gramps, This is in regards to your post about those not paying tithing being burned. I learned in institute that this was a commonly misunderstood scripture. Because the revelation was given to Joseph while the law of consecration was being practiced (Sept....
Mar 24, 2014 | Current issues
Question Gramps, In Sunday school, we were taught that the gospel is constant, that it is unchanging and it cannot change, then bashing of other churches for bowing to political pressure like adding women to the priesthood . But to my way of thinking the gospel has...
Mar 21, 2014 | Current issues
Question Hi Gramps, We recently had an investigator visitor in our Elders Quorum class. He was asking whether tithing was strictly enforced by Jesus during his ministry. He specifically asked us to quote from the New Testament. Can you help out? Regards. Alex...
Mar 19, 2014 | Current issues
Question Gramps, Why does Satan do what he does when he know he will lose? Is it just that he wants to get as many brothers and sisters to be as unhappy as him? Shadow Answer Shadow, I would like to start this answer by asking you a question. Why...
Mar 16, 2014 | Current issues
Question Hi Gramps, I have a concern. Apparently a worthy priesthood holder is not bishopric”material” if he has gone through a divorce and remarried in the temple! I have never heard such nonsense and if it was not for my testimony built upon a solid...
Mar 15, 2014 | Current issues
Question Gramps, The piercing of the Savior by the Roman soldier allowed blood and water to come out. Somewhere I read that this proved he was 1/2 god and 1/2 man. Blood from his mother and celestial fluid or (water)blood from his father. Do you know where this...
Mar 14, 2014 | Current issues
Question Gramps, Our son in law committed suicide a few months back, a non member and a bit on the agnostic side. He had a problem with alcohol, raised in a family of alcoholics. He was a good man, hard working, loved his family, sacrificed so much for them and...
Mar 13, 2014 | Current issues
Question Gramps, The scriptures say many worlds have come and passed away. This implies that people on these other worlds have been resurrected and the earths have received their paradisical glory. If Christ is the creator and savior for these other worlds how...