Sep 16, 2019 | Current issues
Question Dear Gramps, In 2 Nephi 26:16 it says in part, “…the Lord God will give unto him power…” Just who is the “him” referenced in this scripture? We have read this verse over and over again, along with the verses that come before and after and cannot come...
Sep 12, 2019 | Current issues
Question Gramps, Comment on baptism for the dead. No documents of the early Christian congregation testify to the practice of baptism for the dead. The Bible principle is clearly stated: each person is answerable for his/her own deeds. Who are the dead one must...
Sep 10, 2019 | Current issues
Question Gramps, When I was a full time missionary in the MTC in Provo (January-March ’82), we were taught to keep our left arms and hands at our side. That is, we were specifically told not to bend our left arm behind our backs, as do some worldly...
Sep 1, 2019 | Current issues
Question Gramps, I regularly hear members and leaders refer to baptism as a covenant, which is a formal promise made by a coventantor to a covenantee before witnesses. Yet at a baptismal ceremony, the person being baptized makes no promises nor do they signal...
Aug 27, 2019 | Current issues
Question Gramps, What does it mean that God is a jealous god in Mosiah 11? Brian Answer Brian, As used in the scriptures, the word jealous has two meanings: (1) to be fervent and to have sensitive and deep feelings about someone or something, and...
Aug 21, 2019 | Current issues
Question Gramps, Lucifer is often heard being described as Heavenly Father’s “Left Hand” in a way; which leads to the possible assumption that Lucifer’s name quite reasonably once held an equal level of reverence to that of Jesus’...
Aug 18, 2019 | Current issues
Question Gramps, The strongest spiritual impression I ever had was that my boyfriend “would wait for me” during my mission. I heard a voice and felt so peaceful. Fast forward 18 months and he’s married. Was my “revelation” simply...
Aug 13, 2019 | Current issues
Question Dear Gramps, The owner of the gym where I work out has become a friend with my husband and me. He shared with me a dream he had about what “hell” was like. He said it was not fire and brimstone but total darkness. He felt that “hell” was the absence of...
Aug 11, 2019 | Current issues, Repentance
Question Dear Gramps, I am currently waiting on a mission call but lately I feel the need to talk to my bishop about something that happened about 6 months back that I thought I had cleared up with my bishop. I think I might have said the wrong thing or worded...
Aug 6, 2019 | Current issues
Question Hi Gramps, Would working as a bartender be against the word of wisdom. I was discussing it with a friend and you wouldn’t have to drink the concoctions but you would be enabling other to do so. Boomer Answer Dear Boomer, I’m going...
