May 30, 2007 | Current issues
Question Gramps, What is the answer to the statement made by detractors of The Church who say that much of the temple ceremonies were stolen from the Masons? Michael Answer Dear Michael, You might tell them that they don’t know what they are...
May 27, 2007 | Current issues
Question Gramps, People can hear about the Gospel and refuse to accept it and may not believe it to be true. They can also decide that they are just not interested. I was curious – will this be the case in the Spirit World? Can people still accept or deny the...
May 26, 2007 | Current issues
Question Dear Gramps, I desperately want to pay my tithing again. I have £28,000 debt and after paying my debt there is no money left for enough food for me and my children. I am told to pay your tithing first but if I do that then I will get into more debt...
May 24, 2007 | Current issues
Question Gramps, Hello. I am an eighth grade student at Falcon Creek Middle School in Aurora, Colorado. I’m currently working on a project about the discrimination against Mormons and their historical struggle for equality with the other religions of the...
May 23, 2007 | Current issues
Question Gramps, How can Alma the Younger repent if he remembered his father’s lectures when growing up when he actually murdered and flattered many others (don’t tell me the story, just help me to understand the situation). What if I did the same thing Alma...
May 21, 2007 | Current issues
Question Dear Gramps, What does living in captivity mean in the Book of Ether? How can men live in captivity and still sire children and raise up armies? Also, what set of rules do the Jaredites follow? They lived before the Law of Moses. Elizabeth ...
May 20, 2007 | Current issues
Question Gramps, In a question to Gramps about firearms in the US, Gramps says that hunting is now a sport, not a necessity, and that it is “a sport that is frowned on by the Mormon Church.” I was not aware that the Mormon Church had a stance on hunting. Where...
May 14, 2007 | Current issues
Question Gramps, We learn by modern revelation and especially in the Temple, that in addition to repenting and receiving essential ordinances, we need to be cleansed “from the blood of this generation”(see D&C 88: 75, 85, 138, 122:33). My question is: How...
May 10, 2007 | Current issues
Question Dear Gramps, My sister recently asked me a question which I’m going to refer on to you: In the Old Testament many righteous men had wives and concubines. If the concubines were considered lesser wives, were their off-spring children “not of...
May 9, 2007 | Current issues
Question Hey Gramps, After a long break in study, I am developing a very strong testimony of the Book of Mormon. A lot of this came from reading the discourses of the prophets and some of the famous works on the book. I have been trying to get this testimony...
