Jan 1, 2011 | Bible, Current issues, Doctrine & Covenants, Satan
Dear Gramps, Since one of the purposes of our coming to earth is to be tested to see whether we will choose right or wrong how will those who live during the millenium be tested if Satan is bound and there is no temptation to test them? Kristen, from California Dear...
Dec 31, 2010 | Current issues, Doctrine & Covenants
Hello Gramps… My question to you has to do with the scripture in Psalms 8:4-5. “What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visiteth him? For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory...
Dec 30, 2010 | Current issues, Divorce, Family, Love, Marriage, Missionary Work
Dear Gramps, I am not a teen anymore, but I do have a question. After divorcing a member who was excommunicated, I met someone who has proposed to me. He is not a member of the church and I have a friend that insists on telling me that it is a sin and I will lose my...
Dec 25, 2010 | Book of Mormon, Current issues, Doctrine & Covenants, Holy Ghost, Pearl of Great Price
Dear Gramps, I have just prepared and taught lesson eight, “The Holy Ghost”. I found it to both instructive and inspiring. Particularly, gaining an understanding how Peter could have denied the knowing of the Saviour and the apostles losing heart following...
Dec 24, 2010 | Bible, Current issues, God
Gramps, I have a friend in my business who thinks that it is ludicrous that we can grow to become like our Father in Heaven and attain to the state of Godhood as He is now if we are faithful. He wants me to prove it to him with the Bible. I quote him Psalm 82:6, and...
Dec 22, 2010 | Bible, Book of Mormon, Current issues, God, Jesus Christ
Dear Gramps, Recently I heard someone ask a question about Judas Iscariot and his free agency which I would like to hear your opinion about since I couldn’t give this person a satisfying answer. Since Jesus Christ already knew in the pre-existence that it was...
Dec 21, 2010 | Current issues, Doctrine & Covenants, Forgiveness
Gramps, I realize that when the Savior said that we are to forgive seventy times seven, the number is not as much realistic as it is symbolic, meaning a limitless amount of times. However, I have heard that the Lord has placed a limit to the number of times we should...
Dec 20, 2010 | Bible, Current issues, Doctrine & Covenants, Jesus Christ, Second Coming
Gramps, In 2 Thess 2:3, it talks about a falling away before a restoration of the gospel. Before each dispensation, there has been a falling away before a new prophet was delivered. If Christ is going to usher in the 7th dispensation, does there have to be another...
Dec 19, 2010 | Current issues, Doctrine & Covenants
Dear Gramps, Is it true that the resurrected world will be as a sea of glass? Will there be no mountains or valleys? Karen, Coarsegole, California Dear Karen, There will occur two major great changes in the earth in times to come. The first change will occur at the...
Dec 18, 2010 | Current issues
Question Gramps, In the second addition of Mormon Doctrine by Bruce R. McConkie, he writes under the heading of Salvation that “If it had not been for Joseph Smith and the restoration, there would be no salvation. There is no salvation outside The Church of...
